Arab National Congress -- Continue Armed Struggle Until Destroy Israel

2005-04-18

16th 'Arab National Congress (ANC)' Supports Reclaiming of Palestinian Legal Inalienable Rights

Algiers, April 6-9, 2005

www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp? cat=2&id=880 [Official PA website]

The Palestinian question

On the Palestinian question, the ANC recalled its national position vis-a-vis the Israeli Zionist entity, as a resettling colonial project organically linked to global colonialism and exploitation, its national position on the Arab-Zionist conflict as a conflict for existence, not of borders. ANC reaffirmed its belief, based on the experiences of national liberation wars throughout history, that the will to resist and steadfastness is the crucial factor in this struggle. In this context it declares:

1 - The ANC reaffirms its commitment to the full national and religious rights of the Arabs in the Arab-Zionist conflict; supports the right of the Palestinian people for self-determination and for the establishment of the Democratic State of Palestine on all Palestinian territory; supports the reclaiming of its legal inalienable rights, including the right of return for all Palestinian refugees to their homes and their right to reclaim fully their properties. The ANC, in this context, calls for an Arab-international conference to support and affirm those rights; restates its rejection of projects of settling Palestinian refugees outside of their homeland; and calls upon host countries to furnish them with civil liberties, naming Lebanon in particular and calling upon its government and political and spiritual forces to do the same.

2 - The ANC reminds all that states adopting the Zionist project kept proposing so-called initiatives for "settlement" and "reconciliation" that aim mainly at enabling the project and reinforcing it while weakening the Arab position on both its Palestinian and national levels; thus ANC restates its rejection of those settlement initiatives as demeaning to the national rights of the Palestinian people.

3 - The ANC affirms its conviction that it was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's failure at suppressing the Palestinian Intifada (Uprising) that forced him to reluctantly offer the so-called plan for "unilateral withdrawal." His aim being to gain time, he needed to expand resettlement on the occupied West Bank before returning and to re-occupying the Gaza Strip, that is assuming a real withdrawal would take place. Therefore, the ANC emphasizes the importance of the continuation of the Intifada and the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people in all its forms, including armed struggle, which is a legal right stipulated in international conventions and norms. The ANC also condemns U.S. and European pursuit aiming at putting Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the National Liberation Front of Palestine on the list of terrorist organizations. It sees this pursuit as an intentional attempt to reinforce Zionist occupation and legalizing the terrorism of the Zionist state, in flagrant violation of international laws and norms and in contradiction with the people's historical experiences.

4 - The ANC values the well-intentioned steps taken by the Third Conference on Palestinian Dialogue, held in Cairo and attended by representatives of all resistance formations, that ended in agreement on affirming national unity and activation and developing of the Palestinian Liberation Organization through the participation of all Palestinian forces. The ANC calls upon all vital forces of the Arab nation and Islamic world to support that unitary orientation warns against turning the pacification agreed upon into a constant truce - a development sure to be utilized by the Zionist enemy to strengthen its settlement and Judaization activities, as its current practices reveal.

5 - The ANC affirms that national and Islamic duty requires supporting the Palestinian people's struggle facilitating speedy financial support to those who stand heroically in defense of this nation and never to submit to U. S. dictations calling for what is called "drying - up resources." It also calls upon Arab states with peace treaties and with normalized relations with the Zionist entity to reconsider their positions to abrogate agreements with it and recommit themselves with popular anti-normalization position.

In the same context, the ANC warns against falling into the U.S. and Zionist trap aiming at breaking the psychological barriers in this existential conflict through contracts, visits or shaking hands with enemy officials, gests that the enemy is used to utilizing to weaken the Arab positions of rejection and resistance.

6 - The ANC emphasizes the necessity of confronting Zionist actions aiming at the Juduzation of Al-Quds and intensifying settlement in and around the city, confiscation of lands through erecting the racist separation (in fact the merging) wall and tightening the noose around the Palestinian citizens in Al-Quds and its suburbs. It also emphasized the importance of taking all actions necessary to protect Palestinian institutions in Al-Quds, drew attention to the threats to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and re-establish the Temple in its place. The ANC considers the vital forces of the Arab nation and the Islamic world responsible for warding off that danger.

In this context, the ANC declares its support for the position taken by the militant Father Bishop Dr. Atalla Hanna, member of this Congress, and his colleagues on this issue. The ANC, while it condemns the irresponsible act taken at the Orthodox Church Waqfs in Al-Quds, reaffirms deep conviction that sacred places and Christian Waqfs not only in Al-Quds, but all over Palestine, are properties of Arab Christians, untransferable by any means to others. The ANC calls upon the Palestinian Authority and all Arab governments and vital forces to endeavor to protect these religious sacred assets and properties and draws the attention to the necessity of taking into consideration and making benefit of the International Court of Justice advisory resolution to the effect that the racist separation wall is illegal and all harmed by its erecting should be compensated.

7 - The ANC values the steadfastness and militancy of all Palestinian and other Arab P. O. W.'s and detainees in Zionist prisons and camps, including those who are members of this Congress; it calls upon all Arab and international institutions concerned with human rights to launch a wide campaign of solidarity with them and to apply pressure for their release and to financially support the fund for legal support to help P. O. W.'s and detainees in Israeli prisons. The Congress appeals to the Palestinian National Authority to release all militants detained in its prisons, considering the continuation of their detention a submission to world and Zionist pressures, which is in contradiction with the commitment to the liberation of Palestine, both the people and the land.

8 - The ANC hails the steadfastness of the Palestinian people since their country was occupied in 1948. These people have shown throughout the years of oppression an insistence on maintaining their national identity and their Arab and Islamic culture in the face of pressures and temptations. The ADC would like to expresses its pride for Arab Palestinian people and reaffirms its full solidarity with those put in occupation prisons, calling upon all Arab states to reconsider the ways they treat the 1948 Palestinians and embrace them dearly.

Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis