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- Subject: Long Live Palestine!
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- LONG LIVE PALESTINE!
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- This month marks the fifth anniversary of the Intifada, the mass
- Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- and the Gaza Strip.
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- The Palestinian struggle is one of the most difficult national
- liberation struggles in the world. The Palestinians are a people
- whose state was taken away. They have no rear base from which to
- organize, and they're up against formidable enemies: U.S.
- imperialism and its garrison state Israel. For these reasons, the
- whole world took notice when this rising of the entire
- Palestinian population began.
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- What has happened in the past five years? Israel used its
- billions of dollars in U.S. aid to isolate the West Bank and Gaza
- economically, take away the Palestinian people's source of
- livelihood, confiscate their land, club them into submission, and
- jail as many as possible. Yet the Intifada continues.
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- In the past five years the socialist camp, which gave much-needed
- aid to the Palestinian struggle, collapsed. Washington organized
- its imperialist allies to invade Iraq, inflicting a body blow on
- all the oppressed people of the Middle East, especially the
- Palestinians. Yet the Intifada continues.
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- This Arab people's struggle for self-determination and
- sovereignty not only goes on, but a joint leadership and tighter
- coordination between Palestinian groups has helped raise the
- level of the struggle in recent months.
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- Many in the progressive movement have responded to the collapse
- of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp by losing faith in the
- struggle for social change. But the Intifada stands as an
- inspiration and a beacon, shedding light on the fact that
- oppression always breeds resistance. And a determined people can
- and will fight until they win.
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- This fifth anniversary of the Intifada is a good time for
- progressive and working people here to renew their support for
- the Palestinian cause and demand that the U.S. get out of the
- Middle East and stop funding Israel.
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