IMRA Newsletter
Cairo Conference 2003 warns of the American-Zionist Domination
GAZA, December 14, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2003/2003-12/050.html [Official PA website]
The International Campaign Against U.S. and Zionist Occupations (ICAUZO) inaugurated Saturday the Second international Cairo Conference for two days, in the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate headquarters, under the banner of "Yes to Resistance in Iraq & Palestine, No to Capitalist Globalization and U.S. Hegemony".
More than 150 senior figures, representing 30 states worldwide as well as more than 1,000 Egyptian figures participated in the conference.
The second Cairo conference will focus on three main points: the imperial structure, global and domestic manifestations of hegemony; popular movements against capitalist globalization; and imperialism and support of resistance in Iraq and Palestine.
Jalal Aref, the chief of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, addressed participants by saying that the conference banner is an alarm to the live and conscience people to confront the American and Zionist global domination and subjugation that is detriment of the lives of the majority of the world's people under the American fascism and extremism.
He also commended the Al Aqsa Intifada, which truly exposed to the entire world the aggressive militarism which the Palestinian people face today.
The British politician and the ex-minister Tony Bin said that the history will inscribe the deadly bloody face of both Sharon and Bush. He viewed the setting forth of the "Road Map" peace plan is to dissuade the world's attention regarding the eventual incidents in Iraq.
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark heeded attention that there is a wide crack between the American government, people and mass media.
"We have a peace movement in America, organizing much of the demonstrations against the American hegemony and demanding to realize peace worldwide," Clark assured.
He described the current Iraqi and Palestinian peoples' situations as getting worse than the past decades, accusing the American administration of pursuing antagonist strategy against the world's nations.
Former senior UN representative, Denis Halliday, piercingly rebuked the United States, confirming that it disdains the United Nations and monopolize political, economic and military power within the framework of capitalist globalization to dominate the world.
Osama Hamdan, Hamas representative in the conference, focused on the effective necessity to boycott the Israeli commodities and refusal of normalization with Zionist entity