Statement: Our freedom is that of Palestine and Palestine’s freedom is of ours

Our freedom is from Palestine’s and Palestine’s freedom from ours

Glory to the Gaza resistance and the resilience of the Palestinian people

Shame and disgrace on the Arab regimes and the traitorous Egyptian authority

For several weeks now, the Israeli war machine has continued its bombardment and ground operations against Gaza, committing one massacre after another, while the so-called “international community” complacently looks on. This “World Order” or “international community”–from the United Nations, its Security Council and General Secretary, to other international institutions–have remained largely silent, if not complicit, about the atrocities of the latest Israeli war. The vast majority of these global powers are keeping up their depraved blame of the Palestinian resistance in this war–a usual occurrence in the logic of our current world, where resistance and revolutions are condemned as terrorism and State terrorism is given legitimacy under the guise of self-defense.

More significantly, in midst of this shameful spectacle, the Palestinians face yet another siege, an Arab siege instigated by regional regimes, both the “moderates” and the “moumanaa“. The Egyptian government, through the counter-revolutionary apparatus represented by Sisi’s treacherous government, has kept Egypt’s borders closed in the face of Palestinians and reassured the Zionist regime by destroying the tunnels. Sisi’s government continues to push forward ceasefire agreements, which are complicit with occupation and Zionism, at the very least, and contributes to the systematic destruction of Palestinian society.

On the other hand, the Jordanian authority consecrates this betrayal by maintaining its peace agreement with the Israeli regime and systematically represses all political movements in support of Palestinian resistance to occupation. Jordan also actively assists the Zionist entity to overcome the heroic resistance by opening Amman airport to Israeli planes after the rockets fired from Gaza led to the closure of Ben Gurion airport.

The wretched Gulf monarchies, in their daily validation of their regimes’ loyalties to world imperialism and implicit allegiance to Israel, strangle the Resistance, through their alliance and supplying all forces hostile to the Palestinians, globally, with oil and logistical, political, and intelligence support.

On the other side, Syria–a regime of the mumanaa axis–carries on with its bloody war against its people, displacing millions and detaining tens of thousands of peaceful protestors demanding their freedom and dignity. In the meantime, it has persistently demonstrated its unwillingness to confront the Zionist State and its massacres of Palestinians (refraining from replying to Israeli aggressions on Syria).

The Syrian regime, and its allies in Iran and other countries in the region, including Lebanon, participate actively, in one way or another in this siege on Palestine (the situation of Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria, particularly Yarmouk, attest to this), through the brutal repression of their citizens and attempts to paralyze and disable popular support to Palestine.

This applies in particular to the Lebanese regime and all its political forces and parties, which have shown no hesitation in enforcing a political, economic, and military siege on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Palestinian camps–from Tal el-Zaatar and Jisr el-Basha, to Sabra and Shatilla, to Nahr el-Bared–stood witness to the complicity of the Lebanese regime. Its feuding bourgeoisie, currently divided between March 8 and March 14, participates in manufacturing the ongoing crisis facing Palestinians. While Israel continues its massacres, we see Hezbollah, which has long chanted “Jerusalem, here we come” gladly willing to cross the borders into Syria and Iraq to support its sectarian allies, while keeping the southern borders tranquil.

For these reasons we protest today in front of the Embassy of the Camp David Accords, the embassy of the treacherous Egyptian regime, which represents, in its criminal insolence, the model of Arab regimes that need to be overthrown, from the Ocean to the Gulf!

The Egyptian regime is today the spearhead in strangling the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. It represents the main pillar of support to the Zionist occupation and has chained the Egyptian people with the Camp David Accords. The downfall of the Egyptian regime can allow Palestine to breathe and the Arab masses to break their chains and rise, once again, for their freedoms, and the freedom of Palestine.

The liberation of Palestine will only be born out of the ashes of the Arab regimes, starting with the one in Egypt, through the process of collective emancipation of the people of the region, from imperialism, dictatorship, capitalism, and reactionary forces.

For this reason we stand here in Beirut to announce, in all modesty, our solidarity with the people of Palestine in resisting occupation by all means necessary. We also stand in tribute to those martyred by the bullets of Arab and Zionist regimes and in solidarity with prisoners from Palestine to Syria, and those in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and all the people whose uprisings could give the Resistance a broader depth. Our collective movement in resisting Zionist occupation and our own rotting and reactionary regimes will bring us closer to Palestine.

Victory to the Resistance, Down with occupation

Down with dictatorships, imperialism, and reactionary forces

Freedom for Palestine

Signatories:

The Socialist Forum – Lebanon

Sawt al’Niswa

Beirut Walls