The following statement in defense of Palestine and encouraging
people to join the BDS campaign has been signed by Bolivian president
Evo Morales, former Honduran president Mel Zelaya, Nobel peace prize
winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, Cuban
musician Silvio Rodríguez and many more (see list below) To add your
name email
endefensadepalestina@gmail.com
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In defense of Palestine
Faced with the tragic events our Palestinian brothers and sisters are
living through in Gaza, the Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH)
assumes our responsibility and expresses the following :
We take up as our own the words of compañero Evo Morales, a founder
of the Network in Defense of Humanity and President of the Plurinational
State of Bolivia, who has declared Israel to be a terrorist state.
We express our absolute repulsion at the genocide being carried out
against the Palestinian people by a state founded on dispossession and
the colonial occupation of Palestinian territories.
We pay recognition to, and express our solidarity with the
Palestinian people and its resistance organizations, especially in Gaza,
in their heroic struggle against Israeli attempts to exterminate them
and seize the small pieces that remain of what was once their homeland.
We condemn the imperialist role of the United States that
politically, financially and militarily sponsors and backs Israel, in
the face of the extraordinary inaction of the UN Security Council whose
resolutions on the question of Palestine are systematically violated
with complete impunity by Washington. The United States is once again
demonstrating the hypocrisy and cynicism with which it has acted
throughout history, threatening sanctions and interventions against the
peoples of Latin America, Africa and Eurasia who defend their
sovereignty at the same time as its backs the actions of Israel.
We denounce the complicity in what is occurring, by default in some
cases, of the governments that make up the European Union, as well as
the unconditional subordination of the media oligarchs to Washington’s
dictates. Enough of calling it a war when in fact it is a genocide being
perpetrated by one of the best equipped armies in the world against a
people whose defensive resources are infinitely inferior in quantity and
quality !
We encourage you to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
campaign against the terrorist state of Israel, as it is time for active
and creative solidarity that goes beyond statements of condemnation. We
have failed the more than 1600 people killed in Palestine over the last
few weeks, as well as the more than 9000 injured since the start of the
terrorist operation hypocritically named “Protective Edge”.
We demand an end to apartheid and genocide, as well as to the walls
and illegal settlements. We call on the governments of the world to
demand that Israel complies with UN Security Council resolutions that
oblige it to withdraw from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
return to the borders that existed prior to the “Six Day War” (1967) and
guarantee the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as per Security
Council Resolution No. 242, November 22, 1967, a resolution that has
been consistently ignored by the state of Israel.
We call for a real political solution to the conflict in Palestine on
the basis of dialogue, negotiation and the existence of two states with
equal rights and delineated borders that are internationally
recognized. We believe this solution must begin with the immediate
lifting of the blockade on Gaza and the liberation of all Palestinian
political prisoners. We congratulate the governments of ALBA [Bolivarian
Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas], Mercosur [Common Market of
the South] and other governments of the South for their position of
solidarity against the barbaric actions of Israel in Gaza.
We adopt as our own the words of the revolutionary, Nelson Mandela :
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of
the Palestinians.” We affirm that Israel has morally and politically
lost this battle in the face of the brave Palestinian people and the
growing condemnation by the peoples of the world of a “criminal” state
that violates international law. The unbreakable Palestinian resistance
will be rewarded, sooner rather than later, with the smiles of their
children in a free homeland.
Against Israeli terrorism and US imperialism, in defense of the right
to self-determination for Palestine and all the peoples of the world !
Initial signatories : Evo Morales, Bolivia ; Adolfo
Pérez Esquivel, Argentina ; Pablo González Casanova, México ; Eduardo
Galeano, Uruguay ; Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuba ; Federico Mayor
Zaragoza, España ; Silvio Rodríguez, Cuba ; Luis Arce Catacora,
Bolivia ; Gianni Vattimo, Italia ; Gabriela Rivadeneira, Ecuador ;
Istvan Meszaros, Hungría/Reino Unido ; Samir Amin, Egipto ; Alfonso
Sastre, País Vasco ; Nardi Suxo, Bolivia ; Enrique Dussel, México ;
Marta Harnecker, Chile ; Carmen Bohorquez, Venezuela ; Cesar Navarro,
Bolivia ; Miguel Barnet , Cuba ; Franz Hinkelammert, Alemania ; Héctor
Arce Zaconeta, Bolivia ; Piedad Cordoba, Colombia ; Reverendo Raúl
Suarez, Cuba ; Martin Almada, Paraguay ; Fernando Rendón, Colombia ;
Graziella Pogolloti, Cuba ; Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia ; Ana Esther Ceceña,
México ; Luis Britto, Venezuela ; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rico ;
Atilio Boron, Argentina ; Theotonio Dos Santos, Brasil ; Alfredo Rada,
Bolivia ; Piedad Cordoba, Colombia, Farruco Sesto, Venezuela ; Ángel
Guerra, Cabrera, Cuba/ Mexico, Juan Carlos Trujillo, Bolivia ; Mel
Zelaya ; Honduras ; Hildebrando Pérez Grande, Perú ; Patricia Villegas,
Colombia/Venezuela ; Maria Nela Prada, Bolivia ; Stella Calloni,
Argentina ; Omar González, Cuba ;; Hugo Moldiz, Bolivia ; Pascual
Serrano, España ;; Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador ; Obispo Raúl Vera,
México ; Joao Pedro Stedile, Brasil ; Boaventura de Sousa Santos,
Portugal ; Rodrigo Álvarez Cambras, Cuba ; Socorro Gomes, Brasil ; Katu
Arkonada, País Vasco/Bolivia
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