Yasser
Arafat will continue to inspire the Palestinian people to struggle for
their liberation
Communist Party of the Philippines
November 12, 2004
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The Communist Party of the Philippines
(CPP) expresses its profound solidarity with the Palestinian people as
they grieve over the passing of Chairman Yasser Arafat, leader of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and president of the Palestinian
state.
For the past four decades, Chairman
Arafat worked hard to unite the Palestinian people under the banner of the
PLO, participated in their guerrilla war, represented and defended the
Palestinian cause in the field of international diplomacy, and served as a
symbol and inspiration of the Palestinian people's militant struggle for
liberation against US-Israeli occupation and oppression.
Chairman Arafat's passing will not at
all signal the decline of the Palestinian people's ardent desire for
freedom. Neither does it weaken their capacity to carry out an all-out
armed revolution against the US-supported Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In fact, Chairman Arafat's death, which was a direct consequence of his
detention at his Rammalah office during a prolonged siege by Israeli
forces, is now firing up the anger of the Palestinian people and
militating them to further intensify their struggle.
The need to wage militant struggle is
underscored by the escalation of violent attacks by Israeli forces against
the Palestinian people in the hope of driving them away from their
homeland. At the prodding of US imperialism, the Israeli state has swung
further and further to the right, with the most rabid reactionaries at the
helm of power. They launch attacks against the Palestinian people with
impunity, emboldened by increased military and financial aid from the Bush
government.
In intensifying their struggle for
liberation, the Palestinian people will always draw inspiration from
Chairman Arafat, as well as from the memory of the thousands of
Palestinian martyrs who have valiantly fought to realize their dream to
liberate their homeland.
Bulatlat
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