Ahmed Jibril: “We will never bring our hands up as a symbol of surrender and will resist to the end”

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Jibril Reiterates Palestinians’ Continued Resistance TEHRAN (FNA)- Palestinians will never surrender and will continue resistance against aggressors to the last drop of their blood until their country is set free, Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmad Jibril said on Tuesday.

Addressing an international conference on support for Palestine in Tehran, Jibril referred to the crimes committed by the Israelis in the recent 22-day war on Gaza, and said, “Today we witness war crimes against humanity and we want to try these criminals.” “The question is who issues the permission for them to do such massacres,” he asked. Israel’s recent military operation in Gaza killed some 1,400 Palestinians. Over 50,000 people were also left homeless in the enclave of 1.5 million. Israel’s casualties in the conflict were put at 13, including 10 military personnel, while over 5,500 Palestinians have been wounded. “While hundreds of people are dying in Gaza due to the lack of water, food and medicine which started before the Zionist regime’s aggression, we witness that humanity is trampled upon in Sharm-al-Sheikh (the international donors’ conference for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip) under the pretext of supporting Palestine and reconstruction of Gaza,” Jibril, who is currently the PFLP Secretary General, added. Referring to Hamas government which was elected by the Palestinian people, Jibril reiterated that although “some people want to resist against the Palestinian’s will and choice and insist that Palestine should recognize Israel, these are the Palestinian people who decide their fate”. “We will never bring our hands up as a symbol of surrender and will resist to the end,” he noted, urging the countries which have economic relations with Israel to hold such conferences to support Palestine and make efforts to inform everyone of the Zionist regime’s notorious acts. Calling Zionists “irreligious people”, the head of the PFLP General Command in Damascus underlines that if they were not pagans they didn’t commit such crimes. ———————————- Al-Masakin News Agency http://almasakinnewsagency.wordpress.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Al-masakinNewsAgency http://almasakinnewsagency.wordpress.com/feed/ http://twitter.com/AlMasakin

Ahmed Jibril (PFLP-GC): “Israel can hear the critical voice of world people against its crimes”

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Palestinian leader says world is in support of Palestine

Tehran, March 3, IRNA – Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) General Command Ahmed Jibril said on Tuesday that world nations support Palestinians, “this is the issue that the Israelis must know.”

 

He made the remarks at a day-long conference on violation of human rights by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip being held at the Esteqlal Hotel, northern Tehran, attended by a large number of domestic and international lawyers, judges and university professors.

Jibril said the Palestinians have great honor of witnessing such conferences being held in support of the oppressed Palestine.

He added: “In this way, Israel can hear the critical voice of world people against its crimes.”

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PFLP-GC demands end to Palestinian in-fighting, affirms support for the PLO

PFLP-GC urges end to incitement among Palestinian groups

Date: 09 / 02 / 2009  Time:  15:08

Ramallah – Ma’an – Isma’il As’ad, a political official with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), urged Palestinian political factions to end incitement against one another. The PFLP-GC said that dialogue is the only solution to the current political split. As’ad made this pronouncement during a press conference at Ramattan Studio in Ramallah on Monday, also attended by attended by PFLP-GC officials Shawkat Hammad and Ziad Ash-Shouli. The PFLP-GC is one of the smaller Palestinian factions. As’ad said on Monday that his movement is united both within Palestine and in exile, denying any disagreements within the group. He said the General Command in the West Bank maintains contact with its Secretary General, who is in exile. “Despite ongoing blockade and aggression and despite continuation of wall construction, still resistance is one of our people’s rights as decided by the UN and international laws, as long as occupation continues,” said As’ad. The PFLP-GC also called on President Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the PLO Executive Committee to reactivate the institutions of the PLO, which it said was an irreplaceable organization for Palestinians.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with 8 Palestinian factions in Damascus

President al-Assad to Leaders of Palestinian Factions: It is Important to Invest Politically the Victory of the Palestinian People to Consolidate Rights, Including the Right of Return

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DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 27 (SANA)—President Bashar al-Assad discussed on Tuesday with leaders of the Palestinian factions in Damascus the developments in Palestine following the victory of the Palestinian people and the resistance in Gaza Strip in the face of the brutal Israeli aggression, affirming the need for continuing work to lift the siege and open all crossing points permanently.

President al-Assad praised the Palestinian people’s resistance, the cooperation among resistance factions during the aggression, and the people of Gaza’s support for the resistance, all of which led to achieving victory and foiling the plans and goals of Israel. He called for investing politically in this victory to consolidate the Palestinian rights, including the right of return.

In turn, leaders of the Palestinian factions and groups thanked Syria’s leadership and people for the support they continue to provide to the Palestinian people and the

resistance, affirming that Syria is a partner in this victory. They also affirmed their determination to continue with the resistance until they achieve victory and establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The delegation included Head of the Hamas Politburo Khaled Meshaal, Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) Ahmad Jebril, Secretary General of the Popular Liberation War Vanguard Mohammad Khalifa, Secretary of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fath-Intifada Abu-Moussa, Secretary General of the Palestinian Public Struggle Front Khaled Abdul-Majid, Secretary General of the Palestinian Revolutionary Communist Party Arabi Awad, Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Front Abu-Nidal al-Ashkar, and Assistant Secretary General of the PFLP-GC Dr. Talal Naji.

President al-Assad previously met Head of the Hamas Politburo Khaled Meshaal on Saturday and members of the Politburo. During the meeting, President al-Assad congratulated the Palestinian people on the victory of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza Strip.

President al-Assad also affirmed that the failure of Israel to achieve its goals in Gaza despite using the deadliest weapons proves that the Palestinian people are committed to their rights and to their land, and that it also shows their deep faith in their inevitable victory over occupation and aggression.

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President al-Assad Awards Algerian Freedom Fighter Jamila Bouhired the Syrian Order of Merit of Excellent Degree

DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 27 (SANA)—President Bashar al-Assad received on Tuesday Algerian freedom fighter Mrs. Jamila Bouhired and awarded her with the Syrian Order of Merit of Excellent Degree in recognition of her honorable participation in the struggle to achieve Algeria’s independence during the French occupation, and also in appreciation of her current stances in support of resistance to restore the rights and liberate the occupied Arab lands.

Mrs. Bouhired expressed pride for receiving this distinction, voicing her high appreciation of Syria under the leadership of President al-Assad due to Syria’s constant support to the resistance and the just Arab causes.

Jamila Bouhired was born in Algiers in 1935, joining commando brigades in her twenties. She was among the first volunteers for planting bombs on the routes of French colonial patrols, becoming the most wanted woman by the French before her arrest in 1957 when she was shot in the shoulder.

She was tortured at the hands of the French to testify against her comrades to no avail, and the French sentence her to death. The public outcry forced the French to reduce the sentence. She spent three years in prison in Algeria, and two years in France before being released in 1962 following the independence of Algeria.

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Syrian doctors talk about the horrible scenes of the Israeli aggression in Gaza

HOMS and QUNAITERA, Syria, Jan. 27 (SANA)—Members of the Syrian medical team who returned back from Gaza underlined Tuesday that the Israeli aggression on the strip has targeted everything through using international prohibited weapons that made the bodies of children and women as a field of experiments.

“The Syrian doctors did their best and rushed with big enthusiasm to relive the families and wounded in Gaza who offered sacrifices to confront the aggression,” the doctors said during two meetings with al-Qunaitera and Homs governors.

The doctors briefed the governors on the shocking scenes they saw in Gaza as a result of the Israeli inhuman brutality which used weapons that exceed all ugliness and indicate to the meanness and immorality of the Israeli occupation which threw aside all human norms and values.

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PFLP-GC allegedly stepping-up military activities in Lebanon

150 Fighters from Jibril’s PFLP-GC Smuggled to Beddawi, Naameh About 150 fighters from Ahmed Jibril’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command have reportedly been smuggled to the northern refugee camp of Beddawi and the coastal town of Naameh south of Beirut. The daily Al Balad on Sunday said the PFLP-GC — which has bases in barren terrains in east Lebanon’s towns of Qossaya, Hilweh, Sultan Yaqoub, and Deir el-Ghazal — had smuggled around 150 fighters to Beddawi camp and a tunnel in Naameh. The newspaper, citing a security report, said the fighters were smuggled via the northern town of Talbira in the Akkar province. It reported “unusual” PFLP-GC activity, including setting up rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and planting anti-personnel mines and anti-vehicle mines around its bases.

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5 nations sever ties with Israel over Gaza atrocities: Qatar and Mauritania join Venezuela, Bolivia, and Jordan, Arab leaders meet in Doha

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Qatar and Mauritania reported that they severed political and economic ties with Israel in protest of the three-week-old assault on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported on Friday.

According to the Qatar-based network Al-Jazeera, the move was announced on Friday at an emergency meeting of Arab leaders in Doha.

Those among the VIPs at the summit were, inter aliios, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, senior Hamas leader Khaled Mesha’al, PFLP-GC Secretary General Ahmed Jibril, and Islamic Jihad’s Ramadan Shallah, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani, Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh.

Conspicuously absent from the talks were the representatives of the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and Kuwait.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that Chairman of the Hamas Politburo Khaled Mesha’al stressed on Friday the need for stopping the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip, withdrawing occupation forces, lifting the siege and opening all crossing points, primarily the Rafah crossing point.

DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 16 (SANA)—President Bashar al-Assad said Friday that during these crucial moments, and as Arab leaders, it seems that our responsibilities are serious in presenting a decisive and active response to the puzzled inquires in the mind of each Arab citizen of how to rescue the Palestinian people from the talons of this brutality.

In a speech at the emergency Arab Summit on Gaza, the President added “as an Arab nation… how could we give a suitable response to the occupation crimes as we watch the bodies of the children and their remnants disperse in each place.”

President al-Assad affirmed that Israel, which has been existed on massacres, consecrated its continuity on violation and destruction and built its future on genocide, is an enemy that knows only the language of blood… and thus knows only the language of Arab blood that has been flowing since Israel was established.

“These massacres and acts of violations and destruction are fuel for the Israeli war machine in the process of building a pure Judaic state, which cannot be achieved without the forced displacement or extermination of the remaining non-Jews in Palestine.” President al-Assad said.

“We have talked in previous summits about plans that were being put, but today we are talking about plans that are being carried out… we warned against approaching the danger zone, but today the holocaust didn’t just start, but it is on its way to move to the next level which will include all Arabs if we don’t extinguish it immediately.”

The President added that the message sent by the Arab people through their unprecedented reactions require us to respond to it seriously, pointing out that it differs from previous messages as it says “walk with us… don’t go along with us,” which indicates that Gaza’s fate isn’t only the fate of its people, but is the fate of all Arabs, and Gaza’s battle is the battle of every Arab citizen.

President al-Assad stressed that the emergency summit aims to support Gaza, not to seek settlements at the expense of Gaza to appease Israel or those who support it, and that the people who set the standards to differentiate between these two are the people and resistance of Gaza as they are decision makers, and the Arabs’ role is to support them without hesitation in any way that bolsters their resilience, alleviates their suffering and leads to the solution that guarantees their safety and dignity.

“If the basis of our decision today is our support to the people of Gaza in the face of the new Israeli Nazi holocaust, and in addition to our convictions of the righteousness of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people’s rights, then this cannot be complete without understanding the essence of the problem, which isn’t only about the occupation itself but also the nature of the enemy which we are confronting, based on decades of various experiences with it that vary from wars to failed peace attempts.”

“For our part as Arab countries, and in line with initiatives and in addition to verbal support, we must take a number of active steps, primarily the closing of Israeli embassies immediately, severing all direct and indirect relations with Israel, and brining the boycott into effect,” President al-Assad said, pointing out that at the beginning of the aggression, Syria decided to cease the indirect peace talks indefinitely after consulting with Turkey.

Regarding the Arab peace Initiative, President al-Assad said “we consider the Arab Initiative dead, as the circumstances of approving it and the following events show that the more we present evidence of our serious desire to achieve peace, and the more concessions we make, the more Israel goes too far in its arrogance and disregard for our just rights.”

“The Arab Initiative is based on peace, and peace wasn’t achieved, so the initiative doesn’t really exist… Sharon killed it on the first day after announcing the initiative at the Arab Summit in Beirut in 2002… on the very next day Sharon invaded Jenin and murdered hundreds of Palestinians. That response was a direct answer and a declaration of the Initiative’s death… but we insisted that it’s alive… the Initiative was withdrawn by Israel, and what is left for us as Arabs is to transfer it from the record of the living to the record of the dead.”

The President said “we have to stand by Gaza and its resistance materially and morally with all possible means and without any exception, and to do our best to support the Palestinian struggle in the face of the aggression, particularly opening crossing-points for individuals, aid and relief as soon as possible.”

President al-Assad underlined support of establishing a fund to rebuild Gaza, calling for an international conference on this purpose…

“Legal procedures have to be taken to try Israel and its leaders in spite of our non-confidence in the justice of international relevant sides, and in order to let the history record them that they are not only racists but they are the most dangerous form of Nazis in the modern age,” the President said.

“The difference between resistance and terrorism is that the first is Arab and the second is Israeli… the first wants peace and the second wants war… the first is forced to fight to defend its rights and the second is based on murder and aggression.”

President al-Assad stressed that resistance has become a basic element of peace, and that those who want to achieve peace must support the resistance, adding “this is the difference between peace and surrender… peace without resistance in the face of a brutal, criminal enemy will definitely lead to surrender.”

President al-Assad stressed that what is going on in Gaza isn’t merely a response to rockets, and that if there were no rockets they would have created them and launched them to create a justification, adding “this is one link in a long chain that aims to reach Palestine, which they imagined or claimed to be a land without people after other countries settle these people or find an alternative homeland for them.”

“If we don’t read causes carefully then we can only produce incomplete, temporary solutions that will collapse quickly… this is why the peace process was a mere attempt that never developed into real peace, since Israelis have a true phobia of peace… those who make crimes cannot be good at making peace, and thieves usually don’t return what they stole voluntarily… they return rights only if they are forced to do that… this is the essence of resistance which is understood by resistance fighters, making resistance their path to peace through reclaiming rights from an enemy that only understands the language of power.”

“What is clear is that Israel hasn’t learned from history’s lesson… this is obvious since who doesn’t own the land doesn’t own history… and who has no history has no memory… Israel has based most of its schemes and plots on the thought that time, Zionist media and its supporters, and the constant frustrations will change the viewpoint of the coming Arab generations towards Israel,” President al-Assad said.

The President noted that a quick look to the events since the occupation of Palestine shows a gradual awakening and a growing awareness in the Arab people towards its causes and a stronger determination in younger generations to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors.

“There can be no neglect, leniency, relinquishment or weakness… the peace of the strong isn’t given to the weak… the peace of the brave isn’t given to the cowardly… peace that isn’t given will be taken… rights that are seized are liberated… this means that time, which they counted on, has failed them just as their massive military machine failed them in Lebanon, which is also failing them today in Gaza regardless of the scale of destruction and the amount of their crimes.” President al-Assad said.

He pointed out that willpower changed the concept of Israel expansion into retraction, beginning in Lebanon, then continuing in Gaza, and later in the West Bank and the occupied Syrian Golan, adding “this willpower changed the concept of immigration in Palestinians to deep-rooted adherence to their land… this leaves Israel with no option other than submitting to peace and its requirements, which cannot be achieved as long as Israelis pride themselves on who can stain their hands with more Arab blood.”

President al-Assad stressed that peace cannot be achieved unless Arabs change it with their willpower, and that this peace will begin in Gaza, which is “small in size, grand in resistance, great in resilience,” adding that this peace begins by stopping the aggression, achieving ceasefire, withdrawing invading forces, and lifting the unjust siege which constitutes a non-military was and leads to a slow death to the Palestinians, noting that “people who are confronted with death cannot be blamed for anything.”

“We are a nation of peace, and our human, Arab and national morals have been based on peace… and because of this fact, we tried to forget the Israeli massacres of Dir Yassin, Kafr Qassem, Jenin, Qana and other massacres carried out against the Arabs… but Israel insists on reminding us with those realities,” the President added.

President al-Assad underlined that what is being committed by Israel of war crimes will give birth to nothing but new Arab generations with more hostility to Israel… and this means by reality that with each Arab killed children, scores of resistant children are born and the Israelis are digging by their own hands tombs for their sons and grandsons.

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PFLP-GC SG Ahmed Jibril calls Egyptian initiative a “political decoy,” assassination of political leaders cannot eliminate resistance movements because resistance movements in modern era do not depend on leaders–Editor-in-chief Egyptian Karamah newspaper Abdelhalim Qandil

Jibril: Israel failed to achieve its objective of eliminating resistance

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DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Ahmed Jibril, the secretary-general of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine-the general command (PFLP-GC), stated that Israel failed to achieve its stated objectives of stopping rocket attacks and eliminating the resistance. In an exclusive press statement to the PIC, Jibril said the Palestinian resistance achieved a victory over the Israeli aggression, but not a complete one because there are still political decoys which were entrusted to Egypt to place in the way of the resistance in Gaza, warning the resistance of falling into these traps. The Palestinian leader also underlined that the first part of the security council’s resolution which demanded Israel to stop its military aggression, withdraw from Gaza and open all crossings before humanitarian aid is a victory for the Palestinian resistance. He expressed his belief that the IOF troops would withdraw from Gaza because if they did not, the Palestinian resistance would wage a war of attrition forcing them to return to where they came from. For his part, editor in chief of the Egyptian Karamah newspaper Abdelhalim Qandil ruled out in a press statement to the Quds Press that Israel could eliminate the Hamas Movement, describing the Israeli military operations as a primitive failed method in fighting resistance movements. Qandil underscored that there are Arab and international parties which are colluding with the Israeli goal to eradicate Hamas either because of their differences with Hamas as the PA in Ramallah or because of their fears of the growing political Islam’s influence in the region. The editor in chief noted that the assassination of leaders of resistance movements could not lead to their elimination because the resistance movements in modern times are not affected by the death of their leaders. He also pointed that the Israeli aggression on Gaza revived the Palestinian cause in the Arab conscience and pushed forward toward a change in the Arab political scene.

Iranian MP Ali Larijani calls Egyptian-French initiative: “honey injected with poison”

 Iranian MP Ali Larijani calls Egyptian-French initiative on Gaza fighting: “honey injected with poison”
Larijani Slams Western Proposals on Gaza

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TEHRAN (FNA)—A senior Iranian politician described proposals put forward by Middle Eastern and European states to end the Gaza conflict as “honey injected with poison” that would not protect Palestinian rights.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, a major figure in the Islamic Republic, was apparently referring to ideas put forward by Egypt and France to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group, Hamas.

“These plans were called plans to deal with massacres in Gaza. Some of these plans were proposed by some of the states in this region and some of them were put forward by some of the European states,” Larijani told reporters in Beirut on Thursday.

“We agree that these proposals do not protect the rights of the Palestinian people. These proposals are proposals … resembling honey injected with poison,” he said after talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Larijani met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Wednesday. No details emerged from their deliberations.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili also met Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials in Damascus this week.

Larijani was visiting Lebanon together with the parliament speakers of Syria and Indonesia. “As a troika, we are looking for logical and reasonable solutions,” he said.

Israel, Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have entered talks with Egypt to try to agree terms of a ceasefire in Gaza, where more than 800 people have been killed since Israel began its offensive against Hamas on December 27.

At the United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday the United States, Britain and France had dropped objections to a binding UN resolution on Gaza and are talking to Arab states about one urging an immediate ceasefire.

Before Thursday, the United States vetoed several proposed Security Council resolutions which called on Israel to immediately hold fire and stop the massacre in Gaza.
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Palestinian Factions meet in Damascus: Hamas, PFLP-GC, Islamic Jihad meet Islamic delegation

The World Assembly of Islamic Scholars meets Palestinian factions in Damascus

Jan 05, 2009 DAMASCUS, (SANA)-The World Assembly of Islamic Scholars, headed by Sheikh Yusuf al Qardawi on Monday reiterated full support to the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza Strip.

The Islamic delegation met a delegation of the Palestinian resistance factions in Damascus, headed by Khaled Mesha’al, Chairman of HAMAS politburo in the presence of Syria’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- General Command -Ahmad Jibrel and Secretary General of Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah.

During the meeting, Mesha’al expressed appreciation of the role played by the Islamic delegation in mobilizing the nation’s people and their interaction with the Palestinian issue, stressing the importance of continuing this active role.

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