Luis Jalandoni, Chief International Representative
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
The National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) joins all patriotic and democratic peoples and
organizations around the world in extending solidarity with the
Palestinian people, specifically the people in Gaza, as they intensify
their armed resistance against the imperialist-backed occupation forces
of Israel.
For
more than a century since the Balfour statement in 1917, the
Palestinian people have endured endless waves of ethnic cleansing,
blockades, land grabs, the destruction of Palestinian towns, desecration
of sacred sites, and daily raids into their homes. The escalating
attacks and ruthless occupation of Israeli forces have pushed the
Palestinian people to fight back and take up arms. Their armed
revolutionary resistance against Israel as well as both US and European
aggressors is therefore just and righteous.
The
US provides $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel, making the
Zionist state the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance
since World War II. The Pentagon has also positioned stockpiles of arms
and ammunition throughout Israel in addition to the military backing it
receives as a major NATO ally. Despite the inferior weapons of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces against the US-imperialist-supplied
arms of Israel, the Palestinian people have admirably remained steadfast
and determined to end their oppressive and illegal occupation by
Israel.
In
this context, the intensification of the Palestinian armed resistance
therefore becomes an even more powerful act of assertion of their right
to self-determination and self-defense against the intolerable and
brutal invasion and genocide of Israel. The recent offensives launched
by the Hamas is a manifestation of the indomitable longing of the
Palestinians for freedom and dignity. They deserve the long-standing
solidarity of all democratic and freedom-loving peoples all over the
world.
Like
the Filipino people's armed resistance against the exploitation and
oppression of the US-puppet Marcos fascist regime, the Palestinian
people are resisting a Zionist regime abetted and supported by US and
European imperialists. US imperialism in particular, is using its puppet
state of Israel to maintain hegemony and control of oil in the Arab
region. Thus, Israel has operated with impunity as far as its aggression
and hostility against the Palestinian people and other Arab nations are
concerned. It acts as a mad dog of the US in the Middle East, abetting
US imperialist aggression and interventionism in the region.
Israel's
genocide of the Palestinian people, occupation of Palestinian lands and
terrorist bombings of Palestinian communities must stop. Israel's
Nazi-like pogrom in the Gaza and West Bank must stop immediately. The
Palestinian people's armed resistance deserves the strongest solidarity
from all national liberation movements and all exploited, oppressed and
working peoples of the world | 
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