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150 Palestinian and Arab Intellectuals and Activists Urge the Continuation
of ALL Forms of Resistance and Condemn the Call to Desist from the Human Bombs Tactic

                                                     Amman, Ramallah, Damascus
                                                           June 26, 2002


In an open statement published in several Arab papers today, dozens of
Palestinian and Arab notables called for the continuation of the Palestinian
resistance while denouncing calls to put an end to human bomb attacks
against "Israel".  The signatories of the statement titled "With the
Resistance in ALL its Forms" said that any people whose land is occupied has
no other choice but to resist in every possible way.  What follows is the
text of the statement:

WITH THE RESISTANCE IN ALL ITS FORMS

The belligerent Zionist occupation raping Palestine is the reason for the
suffering of our people, and is what threatens our Arab nation today.

Having always rejected international resolutions, most recently the one to
investigate the massacre in Jenin Camp, and having relentlessly pursued its
policies of occupation and death in our camps, towns, and villages, the
Zionist entity bears full responsibility for all that has passed.
Therefore, it is the culprit pushing our young men and women to stand up to
such brutal practices with their very blood and souls.

Moreover, the Oslo Agreement has brought upon our people more pain and did
not save the land from the demonic policies exercised by the successive
governments of the Likud, Labor, and Likud/Labor combined.  Since the Madrid
Conference in 1991, and the Oslo Agreement signed in the lap of the White
House in 1993, our land has been plundered more and the aggression on our 
people has not ceased.  What former Prime Minister Shamir had said after Madrid
about dizzying Palestinians in negotiations for ten years until the land has
been all confiscated was actually accomplished by the governments of Rabin,
Peres, Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon (with his ally who happens to be holding
the Nobel Peace Prize).

Thus, the task ahead for our Palestinian Arab people of all stripes,
wherever they may be, indeed, the task ahead for the Arab people, is to
resist the occupation and sweep it off our land by all available means.
Foremost among those means is the armed struggle, with the benefit of any
weapon within reach.  Such is the natural and necessary response to a Zionist
military machine that is armed to the teeth with American armor and a blatant
American bias against our people and its cause, indeed, an American bias against 
all the causes of the Arab people.

Yet right after European Foreign Ministers classified Palestinian
organizations fighting the Zionist occupation, such as the Al Aqsa Brigades,
the PFLP, and the PFLP-General Command, as terrorist - just like Hamas and
the Islamic Jihad were classified before them as terrorist - we find the
European Union involved in a media campaign in the local Palestinian press.
But now it is the very voices that came up recently with the "call" in the
local Palestinian press to desist human bombs, in the campaign being
financed fully by the European Union, who espouse a line which has
repudiated the right of return of Palestinians to their cities and villages.
  Let it be known then that the right of return is what Palestinians have
been sacrificing for one generation after another, and it is that right which
the Palestine Liberation Organization and all the organizations of the
Palestinian resistance were established for.

It is those who helped promote Oslo and Madrid, those who helped prepare
this poisoned dish, and those who have been receiving funds from European,
Canadian, and American donors under the bracket of non-governmental
organizations (NGO's) whose names have shown up under this "call".  They
have re-surfaced today to imply that there is some Palestinian controversy
about the HEROIC human bombs.  In fact, many parties in this world have
proclaimed their understanding of these human bombs, even though these
parties are not necessarily friends of the Palestinian people or supporters
of its cause.   But with their "call", the signatories are effectively
obscuring the urgent demands of our people to fight corruption and to build
a FIGHTING patriotic Palestinian movement that is the antithesis of what the
U.S. administration and the rapist Zionist enemy are working for.

With their "call", the group of the fully-paid advertisement are effectively
exonerating Sharon, Peres, Mofaz, and the rest of them Zionist murderers
from their crimes that they have been committing daily against our people.

The signatories of the fully-paid "call" renounce the resistance in all its
forms even in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.  That's why they have
not taken part in any militant act against the occupation even after its
assaults on Palestinian cities, villages, and camps there.  Hence, the
signatories, albeit an isolated minority within our people, merely seek to
suggest that there are divisions within the ranks in order to cover up more
concessions to be extended to the U.S. and the Sharon governments by those
in cahoots with them.

By bestowing upon this clique titles and augmented characters as
intellectuals, leaders, and what have you, this charade only serves to
mystify their real characters as OPPORTUNISTS growing in the shadow of the
mirage of peace that is yet to show after fifty years.   The U.S.
administration has escalated its efforts to liquidate the Palestinian cause
in a campaign targeting the Palestinian armed struggle, including the human
bombs tactic.  Palestinian officials, as well as some Arab ones, have caved
in before these U.S. government efforts.  Hence projects renouncing the
essence of the Palestinian cause: the right of return and liberation, reared
their ugly head.  Implementation on the ground began with drying up
financial resources and popular donations so as to starve and deprive the
Palestinian Arab people of material support in an attempt to bring it down
to its knees.  In conjunction with that, grass-roots movements,
demonstrations, sit-ins, and campaigns in support of the Intifada in the
Arab street were oppressed by the regimes.  [It is only within this
political context that the "call" to halt human bombs can be understood].

Any people whose land is occupied has no choice but to resist with all the
means imaginable.  That's what our Palestinian Arab people have been doing
for the last one hundred years in the face of the settler-invader campaign
that has sought to occupy our land and destroy our existence.  THOSE WHO WERE
BROUGHT IN FROM THE FAR CORNERS OF THE EARTH TO INVADE OUR LAND CANNOT
POSSIBLY LOVE PEACE AND WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THE RHETORIC OF TRUTH AND
JUSTICE WITHOUT RESISTANCE.  And our people refuses to COEXIST with the
plunderers of the land and the killers of the children.

Such we were taught by Ezz Eddin Al Qassam, Abdul Qader al Husseini, and
Saied Alass.

None of our contemporary heroes and heroines of the human bomb martyrs seek
to kill or be killed.  They only seek to secure a better future for the
coming generations.

For the defense of national rights should take precedence over the interests
of an impotent and disintegrating Authority which merely links itself in an
unholy alliance with the "Israeli" right when it adopts the latter's
description of legitimate resistance operations as "terrorism".

150 signatories.
For the names, see Arabic statement.