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A Call for Solidarity with Palestine and the World’s Oppressed
By Noura Khouri
Source: teleSUR English
December 1, 2015
Today the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, comes at a time of intensified aggression by occupation forces and violence in Palestine and throughout the region. As conditions on the ground continue to deteriorate globally, the situation is amongst the worst facing Palestinians since 1948.
In Palestine, Zionist settlement expansion continues to usurp more land unabated in the West Bank, while settler and soldier violence has reached relentless levels in all of historic Palestine. Meanwhile, Gaza has experienced three devastating assaults by Israel since 2008 — which according to a recent UN report will render the strip uninhabitable within five years.
In Palestine, Zionist settlement expansion continues to usurp more land unabated in the West Bank, while settler and soldier violence has reached relentless levels in all of historic Palestine. Meanwhile, Gaza has experienced three devastating assaults by Israel since 2008 — which according to a recent UN report will render the strip uninhabitable within five years.
Author Noura Khouri being assaulted by Israeli occupation forces in Nablus, Palestine in 2003 while doing nonviolent direct action with the International Solidarity Movement to confront the illegal occupation. Source: Noura Khouri
The current struggle is the uprising of a new generation of Palestinians, united with those everywhere around principles of dignity, justice and the liberation. It is a conflict between native Palestinian community and a settler colonial invading community that has been supported from the beginning by Western imperial powers who also succeeded in creating states and leaders in the region complicit with their interests.
Let us create an alternative, inclusive vision that is in solidarity with indigenous peoples and sovereignty rights globally, that challenges settler colonial practices, and violations of civil rights and military occupation and militarization, including the criminalization of the U.S. borders, mass incarceration and all forms of oppression. To remain silent in the face of injustice and violence that any and all people are subjected to, is to side with the oppressor.
Let us create an alternative, inclusive vision that is in solidarity with indigenous peoples and sovereignty rights globally, that challenges settler colonial practices, and violations of civil rights and military occupation and militarization, including the criminalization of the U.S. borders, mass incarceration and all forms of oppression. To remain silent in the face of injustice and violence that any and all people are subjected to, is to side with the oppressor.
Full article: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-call-for-solidarity-with-palestine-and-the-worlds-oppressed/
