[Marxism] IRSP: Zionists Wall Up the Living, Pile Up the Dead

[Danielle Ni Dhighe <danielle@xxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Irish Republican Socialist Party
22 March 2004

Zionists Wall Up the Living, Pile Up the Dead

The International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
today condemned the assassination of Hamas founder and leader, Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin. Sheikh Yassin was killed along with his son and two
Hamas fighters when the Zionist military occupying Palestine blew up
the car they were driving in with an air-to-ground missile.

"While the Irish Republican Socialist Party has made no secret of
its support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as
the Palestinian revolutionaries most similar to itself in seeking to
wed the national liberation struggle in Palestine with the struggle
of the working class for socialism," said a spokesperson of the IRSP's
International Department, "and disagreed with Hamas on many
programmatic issues, we nonetheless salute the resolve demonstrated by
Sheikh Yassin consistently in resisting the Zionist occupation of
Palestine."

"Sheikh Yassin sought a sectarian, religious state, whereas the IRSP
remains strongly secularist and anti-sectarian. Sheikh Yassin was a
life-long opponent of the secular, pan-Arabist, and socialist views
that once informed many anti-imperialist movements throughout the
Arab Nation, beginning with his opposition to the anti-imperialist
regime of Gamal Nasser. These are not views we share and we do not
wish to misrepresent ourselves on these matters. That having been
said, however, we recognise that the Zionist occupation of Palestine
also represents a sectarian, religious state, one that exists to
provide a surrogate for the imperialist powers of Europe and North
America. The Israeli Zionists enslave and murder the people of
Palestine, destabilise the entire region, and help to perpetuate some
of the most reactionary regimes existent today in the Middle East
through their presence.

"Despite our differences, we salute the courage and determination of
Sheikh Yassin in resisting the Zionist occupation, as well as
resisting the false 'peace' talks though which Israel sought to
entrap the Palestinian nation. There is only one kind of peace that
Israel seeks for the nation of Palestine, and that is the peace of
the dead. The wall they are presently constructing is intended to
serve as a tomb for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian
nation. This cannot and will not be allowed to happen.

"For many throughout Palestine, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was an
incarnation of the militant resistance to the Zionist occupation."

In closing, the spokesperson said, "The IRSP express our solidarity
with them in this hour of their grief and salute the unwavering
resistance they and the whole of the Palestinian people have
waged."

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Republican Socialist Publicity Bureau
392 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6DH, Ireland
Tel/Fax: 028 90 330786
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html



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