To the masses of our heroic people,
The 23rd anniversary of the martyrdom of the national, pan-Arab, and international leader, Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa, comes amidst the ongoing, intense, and brutal campaign of genocide waged by the international colonial system through its arm, the zionist entity. From its inception, this entity was established as a project and system aimed at eradicating the Palestinian people and imposing armed colonial repression on the entire region.
Today, we remember the glorious history of the bloodshed, struggle, and lessons embodied by our great martyr leaders who paved the way for our people’s struggle from the pillars of tents and exile. They ignited the spark of resistance and the flame of the contemporary Palestinian revolution, armed struggle, and the Palestinian national liberation project. They fought, struggled, and sacrificed their lives in defense of our people’s existence, their just cause, and their legitimate rights. Today, we recall the spirit, thought, and approach of a leader who remained a beacon of love, passion, and a living example:
Firstly: Abu Ali Mustafa is a national model who embodied the connection between leadership and heroism, words and actions. A true leader possesses culture, awareness, behavior, courage, and an unwavering commitment to resistance. His life of giving is a history of struggle that encapsulates the spirit of the people and the history of the Palestinian national movement. This was reflected in his famous saying on the land of Palestine: “We have returned to the homeland to resist, and we will not compromise on our principles.” He said this to root us deeper in our homeland to resist the project of genocide, displacement, and liquidation of the cause, to preserve our existence and the legitimacy of remaining, and to strengthen the steadfastness of our people in Gaza and the West Bank against massacres, sieges, starvation, and destruction. The school of resistance is a towering and comprehensive force, confirming that we face an enemy that understands only the language of resistance and targets the entire Palestinian community. Therefore, it is our duty to form a national resistance front to sustain the historical field confrontation and comprehensive resistance against the occupation, within Palestine and alongside supportive fronts against the brutal aggression.
Secondly: Abu Ali Mustafa is a model of the Palestinian school in both word and deed, where the homeland stands above all factional or personal considerations. For him, national unity was neither a luxury nor empty talk, but has become a national necessity in the era of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, representing a liberating awareness that shook the pillars of the zionist entity, exposing its weakness and our people’s ability to defeat it. This drove it to resort to a frenzied colonial campaign to suppress the resistant consciousness. We renew our call to repel the aggression with popular and national unity and the unity of our heroic resistance, based on a broad national front, a unified national vision, and strategy that unleashes our people’s latent energies and engages them in the existential battle, leading our people in this struggle and providing the requirements for their steadfastness, in support of the critical epic that our people and resistance forces are fighting in all their locations and on various Arab and international fronts.
Thirdly: Abu Ali Mustafa, the visionary leader, teaches us how to hold onto goals and rights, placing the right before the solution, the goal before the means, and the permanent over the temporary. National priorities should be set based on shared objectives and essential needs dictated by the historical moment. We may find ourselves facing the main task of re-evaluating and conducting a comprehensive national political review, resulting in a new national Palestinian vision.
Today, the national priority lies in implementing the “Beijing Declaration” by calling for the temporary leadership framework and immediately beginning the work of rebuilding national institutions, foremost among them the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Procrastination, wasting time, and waiting will not serve the national interest but will instead contribute to the liquidation projects and benefit those who bet on the Americans, zionists, and their accomplices among the reactionaries and Arab normalizers.
Fourth: Abu Ali Mustafa was filled with confidence in the inevitability of victory, building a culture of hope in the face of a culture of despair and pessimism, maintaining optimism in times of pessimism, and nurturing a positive spirit against negativity. We face systematic attacks on our existence in Gaza, the West Bank, and everywhere, with attempts to dry up our camps through policies of displacement, killing, and destruction—an organized aggression on the existence of the Palestinian people, in Palestine and its surroundings, aimed at scattering the Palestinian people and leading them to deadly and destructive individual choices from Gaza to Al-Quds and the West Bank. Our collective and national duty is to protect Palestinian existence and preserve the Palestinian national identity from being diluted, thwarting the military, political, and strategic goals of the aggressors.
Fifth: Abu Ali Mustafa, a founding leader, viewed the struggle between us and the zionist enemy as a historical, comprehensive, and open struggle, tied to the nature and essence of the enemy and its goals of denying the physical and spiritual existence of the Palestinian people in their homeland, and establishing the so-called “Jewish state”, fully supported by global imperialist powers, primarily the United States.
Given its role as the advanced base in the Arab world, Comrade Abu Ali’s vision of the struggle was not limited to viewing it as merely between the Palestinian people and the “israeli” occupation. He fundamentally saw it as a struggle between the entire Arab nation, along with its vital forces, and the zionist enemy, which seeks to dominate and control the entire region, its resources, and its wealth, subjecting it entirely to its imperialist and colonial ambitions. The scope of this struggle touches all the peoples of our nation, as it is a defense of their existence, which is threatened by the collaboration of normalization regimes with the zionist project and their readiness to accept its dominance over the entire region. These regimes are betting on the defeat of the Palestinian people and their resistance, which remains the first line of defense for the Arab nation, its peoples, states, and the security of the Arab individual and the Arab nation in all its dimensions and meanings. The free people of the world, especially in the Western colonial center, must reject and condemn the brutal war of genocide and the Western partnership in it, intensifying the struggle against the war criminals and those who support the genocide, while supporting the just cause of our people, their struggle, and their legitimate resistance with all available tools.
Pledge, loyalty, and glory to you, our martyr General Secretary Abu Ali Mustafa, son of the school of Al-Hakim, Al-Wadie, Guevara of Gaza, and Ghassan Kanafani.
Glory to the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades and to the makers of the great October 17th. Immortality to the martyrs,
Freedom to our leader Ahmad Sa’adat and all our brave prisoners,
Victory to the resistance.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Office
August 27, 2024
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