[fse-esf] 40 years after 1967 – Boycott Israel

[Yannis Almpanis]

	INTIFADA Solidarity Association
to the Palestinian People

Website: http://www.intifada.gr  http://greece-palestine.blogspot.com
e-mail: victory at intifada.gr



40 years after 1967 – Boycott Israel

On 7:10 of the 5th June 1967 Israel unleashes an unannounced attack against 
Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Within a few hours the Israeli air force demolishes 
almost the entire Egyptian airplanes before they even manage to take off. 
The destruction of the Egyptian air force opens the road for the onward 
march of the Israeli army. The next 6 days, until the 10th of June, Israel 
will crush the Arab armies. The intervention of the Security Council of the 
United Nations and the diktat of the ceasefire will find Israel having 
annexed the West Bank of Jordan river and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the 
Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from 
Syria. Hundred millions Palestinians are forced to become refugees for the 
second time after 1948, when in the Arab-Israeli war the 40% of the 
Palestinian land was occupied.

Forty years after 1967 the only thing that has changed is that after the 
Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt (guaranteed by the USA of 
course), the Israeli army has withdrawn from the Sinai Peninsula.

In the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of the Israeli army and the settlers, 
though is righteously granted to the victories of the resistance, has turned 
the area in one vast concentration camp. Without having the control of the 
borders and freedom of movement, in the face of constant Israeli raids, the 
people of Gaza are condemned to annihilation and starvation.

Today the Palestinians still live under the barbarian Israeli occupation and 
the exertion of their expulsion from the West Bank continues on 
unrelentingly. The construction of the Wall of Shame and the perpetual 
expansion of the Israeli settlements are fragmenting it into an archipelago 
of Bantustans and drive the Palestinians into a new refugee wave. At the 
same time the final annexation of East Jerusalem is attempted. The Golan 
Heights are still under the Israeli occupation, but it is Syria that is 
reproached as a pariah state and as a terrorist.

The depositaries of the international law are demonstrably in the 
Palestinian side, plethora of resolutions call Israel to withdraw to the 
1967 borders, to dismantle the settlements, to respect the right of return 
for the refugees in their homeland and to demolish the illegal Wall. In the 
ground, the same depositaries hobble the Palestinian people and sacrifice it 
to the altar of the American-Israeli interests in the region.

The institutions of imperialism may forbear and spark injustice, but the 
peoples of the world do not forget, do not surrender and do honor their 
solidarity to the oppressed and occupied nations.

This May and June we urge every association, local group, union of workers, 
student association, every thinking human being, to undertake and support 
initiatives all over Greece that will highlight, educate and cry “Freedom to 
Palestine – Boycott Israel” and will honor the steadfast resistance of the 
heroic Palestinian people.

We urge every entity to adopt in its resolution the call of the Palestinian 
society for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. We call 
every person separately not to buy Israeli products –“I don’t buy 729” (the 
initial barcode for the Israeli products) – and that is a small something 
everyone can do.

The peoples were victoriously united in the boycott against the Apartheid 
regime of South Africa. 40 years after 1967, they should do the same for 
Palestine.



								Athens, 10 May 2007

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