Political Declaration of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, The Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas, and The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the Madrid Middle East "peace" conference. DOCUMENT
T HE political aftermath of the Gulf
War, preceded by America's victory in the Cold War on the global scale, which has made her in fact the only hegemonic great power in the world, has meant that the US is now striving, followed by the dependent and servile regimes of the Arab world, to liquidate our cause and wipe it out of the minds of the Arab and Islamic masses. This is because they know that this open wound incites our Palestinian people, as well as reignty of Jordan, serving as a cover for the maintenance and hardening of the occupation through a military and police presence in certain zones of the West Bank and Gaza. 4. To strike at and abort the Islamic and Arab liberation movements struggling against American imperialism and its interests in the region, to consecrate the absolute hegemony of America and Israel and to preserve and root its pliable instruments in the region with all that this implies in terms of the destruction of our nation's identity on the cultural, economic and military levels.
To our militant and resistant Palestinian people!
To all free and honourable men in the
Although the reality and the aims of the new American plot are clear, since Amercessions and the submission to American pressures have continued and have led to a new unrequited concession that does grave harm to our national rights. This amounts to a blow to the jihad and the struggle of our people, to its decades of sacrifice, to the martyrs it has laid down on the altar of its faith in the justice of its cause and its attachment to its rights, and to the pain and suffering of the wounded, the prisoners and those who have been forcefully expelled from their country.
Starting from what all this represents as a threat to our jihad, our struggle and our rights we — the Popular Front, the Hamas Movement and the Democratic Front -affirm the following:
1. While respecting freedom of belief, opinion and difference in thought, we do not see in this affront to our historic, religious and national rights, a simple exercise in freedom of political opinion, but the embezzlement of our sacred and nonnegotiable national rights. We proclaim
Arrests in Tunisia the Arab and Islamic nation, to strive to recover their dignity and cast down the
ON OCTOBER 13, 1991, six youth were arrested In Sidi Bouzid In centhrones of those who have been bought, tral Tunisia while distributing a leaflet signed "revolutionary Marxist nation.
whose yoke weighs on the high schools students calling for the formation of a high schools stu
Although America is opposed to the aspidenta' union. The six were physically attacked by the police and are rations of the Palestinian masses, has being kept in detention. They have been charged under two headings:
encouraged and supported Zionist intranillegal association and illegal meeting. Among them are to be found two sigence, and given military and material students, Ayache Ammami and Saleh Ammaml as well as a teacher, Milsupport to its state, the US is now pretendad Ammaml.
ing that it is working to resolve the Arab-
The first hearing of their case took place on Tuesday October 22, with
Israeli conflict on its terms, by means of out conclusion, the next is set for November 13. The charges carry a the American liquidationist plot which possible sentence of five years in jail. At the court exit, Sadri Khiara, a aims to:
well-known militant of the Tunisian left, who had come from Tunis for
1. Consecrate American imperialistthe trial, was held. He was released, but his papers were kept by the colonialist hegemony in the region, by setting up a regional alliance tied to it politicommissariat at Sidi Bouzid cally, economically, militarily and
At a time when the Tunisian authoritles are undertaking a huge offenculturally, of which the Zionist state will sive against the Ennahdha fundamentalist movement (See International be the hard core and the dominant strike
Vlewpoint, no. 208, June 10, 1991) which is accused of wanting to overforce in the region.
throw the regime, intimidation and repression against any democratic
2.To consolidate the Zionist cancerous expression seem bound to Increase. Thousands of arrests have taken presence in the body of our nation and on
Place on campuses.
our land by the normalization of its relations with the Arab regimes and recognition of a sort that gives it an economic as well as a military function. This state will thus grow in strength, security and stability above all after the opening up of the
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