Sunday 20 September 2009

PFLP denounces US support for occupation massacres and demands international accountability for war crimes

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounced the U.S. position supporting the Israeli massacre in Gaza and the U.S. condemnation of the United Nations fact-finding report on Gaza. The PFLP noted in its statement on September 19, 2009 that the U.S. is exhibiting once again its strategic alliance with the occupation state and its war crimes.

The PFLP statement noted that the U.S. is a model of blindness to "human rights" when it comes to explicit war crimes and violations committed daily by the occupier against the Palestinian people and land and holy places, which are condemned by the vast majority of peoples around the world. The PFLP demanded that the international community take action to bring the occupier to justice, calling upon the Arab League and the PLO leadership to call for the UN Security Council to adopt the recommendations of the fact-finding mission against the occupier, and for the International Criminal Court to prosecute the occupation officials for war crimes. The PFLP demanded an end to the official international silence and complicity with occupation crimes and demanded that these institutions exercise their responsibilities to punish war criminals whose crimes are visible to all.

A spokesperson for the PFLP further noted that the Goldstone report, issued by the United Nations, only once again makes clear the extent of the brutality, war crimes, racism and massacres committed by the occupier. The spokesperson stated that it was the responsibility of the United Nations to take action to hold the occupier accountable for its crimes. Furthermore, the spokesperson commented that the section of the report that attempts to label Palestinian resistance operations, including the launching of missiles against the occupier, as war crimes, is an unacceptable attempt to limit the right of the occupied people to resist their occupier, and to place the occupier and the occupied on a level playing field where no such reality exists. The PFLP spokesperson stressed that there is no equality between occupier and occupied and that the rockets are part of the just and legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people seeking to free ourselves from ongoing occupation and oppression.

Comrade Leila Khaled, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP, commented also on the visit of U.S. official George Mitchell to the region in an attempt to produce normalization and so-called "negotiations," commenting that the visit comes "within the framework of the U.S. policy that puts Israel's security above all other considerations and treats the occupier as a victim in need of protection and security while it continues to violate our rights."

Comrade Khaled said that there is no difference between the policy of the current U.S. administration under President Barack Obama and previous administrations, noting that policy towards the Arab world is driven by imperial interest. She pointed out that Mitchell's visit comes as part of Washington's attempt to promote normalization with Israel and the resumption of the Oslo-like so-called "peace process."

She warned against any reliance on the United States' position, saying that Obama's position has not changed at all, and noting that Palestinians are being pressured to enter into yet more fruitless "peace talks" that are designed to provide a cover of "negotiations" for the ongoing settlement of the West Bank and Jerusalem. She confirmed that such "negotiations" are useless for Palestinians and that the current balance of power ensures that any such negotiations would provide benefits and cover only to the occupier as it continues its crimes of settlement, building of the segregation wall, and kidnapping of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.

A PFLP statement about Mitchell's visit noted that the U.S. is seeking to replace international legitimacy and UN resolutions with so-called "negotiations," noting that Obama's speech in Cairo is part of a new U.S. approach that attempts to deceive Arabs and Palestinians to participate in U.S. plans in service of U.S./Israeli strategic interests that will ensure normalization, Israeli security and U.S. economic and political hegemony over the region, its people and their resources, as well as holding the people of the region hostage to a cycle of underdevelopment and dependency.

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