To the Progressive Movements
From my archive
By Ibrahim Ebeid, December 18, 2004
Unfortunately, some people of the “progressive movements” who claim to be progressive anti Imperialists are very sensitive to the question of Zionism and its entity. They pretend to be anti-Imperialists and at the same time, they justify the racist act of this illegal state that exists on usurped land that belongs to the Palestinian people. These “progressive anti-Imperialists” are Zionist at heart disguised in “progressiveness’ we should be aware of and watch.
If the movement wants to progress and be more effective it should come right in the open in condemning Zionism and its illegal entity. The movement should support the Palestinian people in their struggle to liberate their occupied Palestine, which lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
I would like here to stress that the United States Imperialism and Zionism are aligning themselves against the Palestinians and Iraqis at the same time in order to subdue the spirit of resistance that was born in these two occupied Arab countries. This resistance is destined to win and fulfill the Arab dream of realizing Freedom, Democracy, and Unity.
As we have stated before, the Zionists were given the task to destroy Palestine and its society, and the American Imperialists were entrusted to destroy Iraq and its institutions.
Destruction in Iraq and Palestine became overwhelming and displacing the Palestinians and Iraqis became the tyrannical policies of this unholy alliance.
On the second week of December 2004, the news came out of occupied Baghdad, that the American invading forces attacked Hay Al-Baladiyat, a section in east Baghdad, where displaced Palestinians live. The cowards used helicopters, tanks, personnel carriers, armored vehicles, and infantrymen on a large scale to attack this section and destroy the Haifa Sports Club, a children’s nursery, and fifty computers in a learning institute. Even the Palestine Red Crescent was attacked, the clinic and the medical equipment were not spared, and several people were arrested and taken away from their homes to an unknown destination. Children in the center were panicking. The Palestinian Study and Research Center was destroyed.
We view this terrorist attack on the Palestinians and their institutions in Baghdad as part of the daily attacks on the Palestinians in occupied Palestine. Indeed it was launched on behalf of the Zionist entity. It is unjustifiable and should be condemned by all the progressive people in the entire World. The daily terror against the Palestinian and Iraqi people must come to an end and the progressive movement should act without any hesitation to help stop such barbaric acts.
Halfway support will do no good for the Palestinians or for the Iraqis, Halfway support means fifty percent support for the Zionists and Imperialists and will leave the victims and aggressors on an equal level. The progressive movements cannot be wished- washy, they must take a very clear, progressive, and un-wavered stand.
We thank the progressive movement for the job well done in leading large demonstrations around the World against the war and against the occupation of Iraq, but we would like our friends in the peace and progressive movements to fully support the liberation of Palestine and Iraq. And to support the restoration of the legal government of Iraq whose members are in captivity.
Democracy is not granted by invading foreign powers. We have experienced “Democracy” by Sykes-Picot, by the British, the French, the Italians, and the Americans. This “Democracy, brought us divisionism, and fragmentation and made us twenty-two occupied states under the control of Imperialism and Zionism. Our wealth became in the hands of the occupiers, dictators were
imposed upon us and very few were left to share the wealth with their masters who are controlling them. The majority of our people have succumbed to the poverty level because our wealth is not in our hands.
The Palestinians are not terrorists, they were living in peace and security until the Zionists came and expelled them from their country, they were forced to live in concentration camps, in the “West Bank” and abroad, their villages and cities are surrounded, heavy guns and helicopters are storming them with bombs and missiles inflicting death and heavy casualty upon them. The
Palestinians did not go to Europe or to America to kill and expel people from their homes and towns; foreigners invaded their land and forced the majority into exile. Don’t they have the right to resist? Would you call them “terrorists” and hate promoters? Don’t they have the right to resist in order to return to the homes and towns from which they were evicted by force?
Don’t the Iraqis have the right to resist and restore their sovereignty and their legal government whose members are in captivity?
