[NYTr] Annapolis Meeting: Palestine Is Not for Sale!

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Free Palestine Alliance (FPA) - Nov 26, 2007
http://www.freepalestinealliance.org


Palestine is Not for Sale!

While the Free Palestine Alliance (FPA) condemns  in the strongest
possible terms the wholesale of Palestine at the upcoming Annapolis
Conference; we recognize well that condemnation alone is no 
longer of any real value.  The time is now for a  clear alternative to
emerge in place of this hopelessly corrupt leadership.

Annapolis, like Camp David, Madrid and Oslo before, is the natural
outcome to the path of surrender that Abbas and others have  taken.
Although this upcoming conference itself  may not be a terminal one, it
is nonetheless a stepping stone to the gallows, if we allow it, where
Palestine is intended for execution by the United States and Israel in
full collaboration with their Arab and Palestinian functionary minions.

We have warned before that we can no longer trust  this treasonous
leadership.  Starting with Abbas and passing through Abed Rabbo,
Dahlan, Mansour, Malki, Irakat, Qurei, and a host of others too 
long to be named here, the US government has now  added yet another
parasitic group of functionary Arabs that can only survive if they
deliver the defeat of Palestine on a silver platter.

As was the case following the Nakba of 1948, when the Palestinian
movement was reclaimed from the corrupt minions of Britain and the
United States, and pan-Arabism emerged in opposition to despotic 
monarchs and colonial rule, it is once again our  role to put an end to
this ongoing charade of shame.

"Palestine is Not for Sale," we must all announce loud and clear.  And
all those participating in its butchery must be tried for their crimes,
despite the passage of time.

At this critical stage, the Palestinian people must openly challenge
the false claim of representation by Abbas and his minions.  We must 
organize away from all those providing cover and  legitimacy for this
path of surrender.  We must challenge them wherever they are - in every 
living room, in every mosque and church, and in  every political
setting.  No one should be able to pull the wool in front of our eyes
anymore by using the old cliché of "unity".  There can be no unity
with those defending treason.  And certainly there can be no unity with
those extinguishing our existence and burying alive our history.

Treason and surrender can never be acceptable alternatives to our
people.  Never!

What we need now is a popular and principled unity in the form of a
front to oppose this path to disaster.  This is the time to organize
for a long term political alternative and strategy,  starting from
every camp, town, and community in Palestine and throughout exile.
There are hundreds of thousands of trade unionists, political
organizers, professionals, and activists with decades of experience who
have arrived at the same conclusion worldwide.  Countless meetings are
being held in every corner of this globe where our people are 
systematically rejecting the treason of this  corrupt and imposed
leadership.  A popular and democratic alternative is, therefore,
inevitable, and the time is now.

Meanwhile, it is our duty here in the US to expose the likes of
Mansour, Asali, Ibish and so many others like them who are benefiting
from this silent butchery.  If we accept treason and surrender as a
"difference in opinion," and give cover and legitimacy to institutions
and organizations that serve first and foremost the interest of
corrupt despotic regimes, we would be making a mistake of historical
proportions.

Enough is enough!  This absurdity must stop.

It is time for an alternative to emerge.  

Details  of the Los Angeles meeting will be announced soon.

The Free Palestine Alliance, 
California, USA