Palestine: The Resistance Rises toward Revolution, Return and Liberation
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As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.
The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt reclaimed the occupied Sinai from Zionist occupation, and is set to alter the direction of the struggle in occupied Palestine, moving from resistance toward revolution and liberation.
The resistance operation comes in response to the ongoing stream of crimes against the Palestinian people, the daily murder of Palestinians on the streets of the West Bank of occupied Palestine, the siege on Gaza, the theft of land for settlements, the denial of refugees’ right to return, imposing exile for over 75 years, the torture and attacks on the Palestinian prisoners, the ongoing invasions of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the 75 years of Zionist occupation and over 100 years of imperialist domination and colonialism throughout occupied Palestine.
It also comes to bring about the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, as part and parcel of the Palestinian people and land. The occupation has repeatedly dragged its feet in conducting a prisoner exchange with the resistance, and now the resistance has announced that it has taken a significant number of prisoners from among the occupation soldiers and settlers in order to liberate the 5,250 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prions, including the 1350 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, 39 women and 170 children. The resistance is taking new steps to liberate Palestinian land, to confront the settlement project and to liberate the prisoners from a position of power.
News is developing rapidly; however it is clear that the Palestinian resistance is determined to reset the status quo in the region and uncover the reality that the Zionist regime can no longer rely on its technological strength and imperialist weaponry to impose its domination on the Palestinian people. In particular, coming as it does on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war, it is a decisive rebuke to the entire path of Oslo and normalization imposed upon the Palestinian and Arab people for the past 50 years, indicating a new path forward with a clear goal: liberation, and nothing less. It builds upon the liberation of south Lebanon from occupation by the Lebanese resistance, led by Hezbollah, in 2000, and the defeat of the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 2006, as well as the successive heroic battles waged by the Palestinian resistance throughout occupied Palestine and especially from its base area of resistance land in Gaza.
In his statement announcing the operation, Deif said: “Starting from today, security coordination ends. Today, the people reclaim their revolution, correct their path, and return to the march of return.” He called upon all to participate in the resistance, and specifically to all the forces of resistance in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen, and all of the Arab peoples from the Gulf to the ocean, to join in this battle, which is their battle for freedom, dignity and liberation, declaring, “it is time for the forces of Arab resistance to unite.”
Samidoun joins the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, in calling “the masses of our Palestinian people, supporters of the resistance in exile and diaspora, allies from the liberation forces and movements, and solidarity committees with the Palestinian people everywhere, to express their support for the heroic Palestinian resistance, raise the flag of Palestine and the banners of resistance, and organize popular, political and media demonstrations and events to expose the Zionist crimes against our people in occupied Palestine….The heroic Palestinian resistance has opened a chapter of battles of dignity and pride at the dawn of October 7, 2023, and it is now responding to decades of continuous and repeated Zionist, American and European aggression against the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation from the ocean to the Gulf, and in the face of the wars of starvation and siege that the United States and its agents have engineered against our peoples in the region, especially in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.”
As the Palestinian resistance confronts occupation forces, it is critical that internationalists everywhere speak out, mobilize and act to confront the U.S.-led imperialist system, including the EU states, Britain and all complicit powers to end their ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, and to defend the resistance. These crimes are reflected not only in the Balfour Declaration and the $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid to the occupation regime annually, but in the racist assaults on the Palestinian people in exile and diaspora throughout Europe, and especially in Germany, for speaking out and organizing to take up their role in the cause, for their return to Palestine and the liberation of their land.
Imperialism is the primary enemy of the Palestinian cause, creating the Zionist project and arming it to the teeth as a mechanism of attack against the Arab and Iranian peoples, alongside Zionism, the “Israeli” occupation regime and reactionary, complicit Arab forces.
Today, the resistance is making clear that despite the weaponry and brutality of the occupier, the promise of liberation is closer than ever before.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
We recommend following Resistance News Network on Telegram, https://t.me/PalestineResist for up-to-the-minute news updates in English.
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#JusticeForMusaab: Palestinian organizer Musaab Abu Atta subjected to political ban in Germany
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The repression against Palestinian voices in Germany is mounting. On Friday, 29 September, German police arrived at the home of Musaab Abu Atta, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, member of Samidoun Germany, member of the executive committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement; artist and student, where they issued a political ban, prohibiting him from attending any political and social events and activities until 31 October 2023 or “until you leave the country.” Not only do the German immigration authorities ban Musaab from attending events with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Masar Badil, they explicitly forbid him from events being organized to #StandWithZaid and challenge anti-Palestinian repression in Germany.
The immediate aim of the ban was to forbid Musaab from attending the 30 September speak-out for Palestine and against German repression in Berlin, where 6 people were arrested for chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” By banning him from #StandWithZaid events — named for Zaid Abdulnasser, fellow Samidoun Germany organizer who is facing the stripping of his refugee status for his political activism for Palestine — the Berlin immigration authorities are making clear that they are specifically suppressing Palestinians’ freedom of speech, expression and association and denying them the ability to even speak about the repression they face.
The German authorities state that Musaab is a Palestinian born in Syria, of “unclear” nationality — when it is, in reality, quite clear that he is a Palestinian refugee, denied, with his family, the right to return home to Palestine for the past 75 years. Musaab is 26 and he has, all his life, been denied his most fundamental rights due to the Zionist colonization of Palestine and its unmitigated backing by the Western imperialist powers, including and particularly Germany. Since he arrived in Germany in 2015, he has been subjected to state racism, criminalization, surveillance and stigmatization; the German authorities actually criminally prosecuted him for making posts on Facebook as a teenager in support of Palestinian resistance, mimicking similar prosecutions in occupied Palestine. Like other Palestinians, his status has been stripped from him and he lives under a “duldung” status, “toleration.” He cannot be deported, and at the same time is denied access to basic rights and fundamental needs — and is now being stripped of his fundamental civil and political rights.
The attack on Musaab Abu Atta is an attack on him as a Palestinian refugee, youth organizer and artist; it is also an attack on Samidoun and on the Masar Badil. More broadly, however, it reflects a general attack against the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian people as a whole, specifically Palestinian refugee youth organizing their community to speak out for justice and take action for Palestinian liberation. Instead, Germany is lining up alongside the Israeli regime to label Palestinian identity, expression and organizing as criminal and terrorist.
We also note that this political ban on Musaab comes shortly after Zionist ambassador Ron Prosor denounced the posters on the streets of the Neukolln neighbourhood in Berlin, stating that it “looks like Gaza,” calling for Samidoun to be banned. Musaab is the artist and designer of many of these posters, and a political ban against him seems precisely targeted to silence his images as well as his words, as demanded by the Israeli ambassador’s racist calls.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls for #JusticeForMusaab and the broadest support for Musaab Abu Atta, Zaid Abdulnasser, and all Palestinians and Palestine activists targeted for repression in Germany and around the world. Musaab’s organizing reflects the role of Palestinians in diaspora claiming their role in the liberation movement – and that role is now under sustained attack by the Zionist regime, the German state and other imperialist powers. Now is the time to speak out against these political bans – and for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!
Take action:
To financially support the legal defence of Musaab, Zaid and other Palestinians in Germany bearing the brunt of the state’s repressive measures against Palestine, you can make a donation to the following account: Name: Rote Hilfe e.V. IBAN: DE55 4306 0967 4007 2383 17 BIC: GENODEM1GLS Note: Palaestina gegen Repression
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