The People\u2019s Right to Resistance<\/p>\n
In order to transform the historic victory achieved by the Lebanese resistance against the Israeli aggression which targeted the Lebanese population on the 12th of July 2006, into an incentive for reinvigorating the struggle for comprehensive Arab liberation and to direct it against the Zionist and Imperialist project and to consolidate global solidarity with the resistance of the Arab people in addition to their national resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq within the framework of supporting the people\u2019s right to resistance, the \u201cInternational Conference in Support of the Resistance\u201d\u009d was held in Beirut from the 16th-19th of November 2006, in response to an invitation from: Hizbullah, the Lebanese Communist Party, The People\u2019s Movement, The National Unity Forum, and al-Leeqa\u2019. Approximately 400 representatives from all over the world participated on behalf of tens of political, trade-unionist, civil, anti-globalization, anti-war and anti-imperialist movements that support the people\u2019s right to freedom and progress.<\/p>\n
The participants in the conference dealt with the various dimensions of the aggression to which the Arab and Islamic world was exposed and the sum-total of implications of the aggressive American trend which is threatening the independent development of people around the whole world, which in addition, is threatening future prospects for world peace.<\/p>\n
After extensive serious debates, participants in the conference came up with conclusions and principles of a shared vision towards the dangers threatening the area and the whole world in addition to methods for facing these threats and challenges, and mechanisms for unifying the vital forces contending with these threats. The participants also placed mechanisms for elevating the degree of their networking and coordination on various levels in order to ensure victory over the American-Zionist project targeting the region and the whole world.<\/p>\n
The participants agreed to the following –<\/p>\n
On the general political level:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThe greater or new Middle East projects are considered aggressive U.S. initiatives aiming at Balkanizing the area and inundating it in conflicts and wars in order to continuously control it and pillage its resources.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tRejection of the \u201cClash of Civilizations\u201d\u009d ideology which is propagated by the American administration and directs aggressive war and hegemony policies towards a trend establishing the basis for a new world war.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tContinuing work aiming at the establishment of an inclusive and universal solidarity framework comprising all resistance movements and the forces supporting them within the Arab and Islamic world and worldwide; so that it can constitute one of the links within the chain of the existing worldwide frameworks and not be a parallel or substitute framework.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWorking towards developing more and greater relations between leftist, democratic and nationalist currents and Islamic and resistance movements, in order to consolidate and strengthen inclinations that oppose the Imperialist-Zionist alliance within the area and worldwide and in response to current and future challenges.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCrystallizing the theoretical and intellectual premises for reconciling leftist and nationalist currents with resisting Islamic ones, in order to propel liberation movements within the Arab and Islamic area and all over the world, forward.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tDeveloping a revolutionary intellectual vision that comprises the aims of liberation, development, unity and democracy.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tPresenting an innovative concept of Arab nationalism that is more in tune with the necessities of regional integration and grants greater respect for diversity and pluralism within the Arab nation.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tDisseminating the resistance culture and rejecting naturalization and subservience to the American – Zionist alliance.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tExposing the American plot against Iraq and reiterating support for the Iraqi resistance against the American occupation and its projects, repercussions and tools.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tExpressing solidarity with the Jordanians\u2019 struggle within the framework of rejecting normalization projects and for revocation of the Wadi Araba agreement and its results.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCalling for and working towards unifying the efforts of all forms of resistance on the level of each Arab country and on the regional and world-wide levels and working for the crystallization of an Arab resistance project that includes the various resistance forces in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq with the aim of toppling the American and Zionist occupations in the area.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsidering the victory of the struggle against the American -Zionist offensive on all levels, calls for intensifying the peaceful struggle against their policies for hegemony in the Arab and Islamic world and worldwide.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tAdopting a policy of creating wide fronts on both the national and regional scales and on the basis of shared aims and objectives, while granting due respect to the special conditions within each and every society and country.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tLinking solidarity with Arab and worldwide resistance to the various forms of democratic and social struggles.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tForming a network that would support or include the various political and social Arab bodies involved in resistance. This network of activities will be supervised by a combined local and regional coordinating committee, which will activate a communication process between its national frameworks using various methods (regular meetings, correspondence, the Internet) , in addition to organizing wide popular actions and activities on a regular basis throughout the year in order to express solidarity with Arab resistance movements:- a day in solidarity with the Lebanese people and their resistance on the 12th of July; with the Iraqi people and their resistance on the 20th of March and with the Palestinian people on the 28th of September of each year, in support of their resistance in order to liberate their country and to implement their right to return to their homeland.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tForming an Arab Conscience Court in order to bring war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice, due to their role in exposing both the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples to these crimes. And also bringing those responsible for all the crimes against members of the resistance, and political prisoners and especially those within Israeli prisons to justice.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsolidating and expanding the scope of efforts aiming at facing and confronting the campaigns launched, especially within Western circles and that aim at blemishing the image of the resistance within the framework of the so called \u201cwar against terrorism\u201d\u009d by deceivingly confusing the image of resistance and freedom fighters with one of members of fanatic and violent movements.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCalling upon Arab and Islamic states and forces and all the regional states to participate effectively in the preservation of the unity of Iraq, it\u2019s Arabism and its liberation from the occupation.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSupporting the Palestinian people\u2019s struggle for the achievement of all their national rights.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSupporting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to obtain all their legal and humanitarian rights.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsidering American-Zionist threats against all peoples in the region and their states as an incentive for the formation of a strategic Arab \/Iranian agreement which can partake in unifying all vital forces against the American-Zionist project.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsidering the yardstick of political standpoints the main component of the resistance front challenging the Imperialist project in the area in opposition to any consideration related to religion, creed or race.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCondemning American and Israeli threats against countries in the area and the vital forces within them and preparing for popular mobilization against any attacks.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsidering the fact that Israel owns nuclear power and weapons, as a continuous threat to both regional and international peace and security; and requesting a firm stand by all the peoples of the world in order to disarm nuclear weapons from the region, whilst emphasizing all the regional states\u2019 rights to own nuclear capabilities for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n
On the legal level:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tEstablishing an international forum for Human and people\u2019s rights including lawyers and human rights activists from all over the world in coordination with the Arab Lawyers\u2019 Union and the Arab Human Rights Association.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tEstablishing an international Internet website in order to exchange legal experiences in the field of suing Israel and bringing Israeli war criminals to court.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCoordinating efforts to collect documents, affidavits and evidence related to the effects of aggression within the framework of \u201cThe Arab Center for Documenting War Crimes and Legal Litigation\u201d\u009d in the field of the following war crimes, aggressive acts and crimes against humanity:<\/p>\n
o\tkilling civilians, uprooting them and destroying civil edifices, bridges, roads, electric plants, ports, airports and shelling other various forms of transport depots.<\/p>\n
o\tDestroying the environment and especially polluting the Lebanese shoreline, which will have repercussions on all the countries within the Mediterranean Basin.<\/p>\n
o\tDestroying the media apparatus and broadcasting stations of al-Manar T.V. and many others, on purpose.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tRecommending support of the Court of Conscience which will be held in Geneva to take the Israeli war criminals to court for their perpetrations within Lebanon under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell Foundation upon the first anniversary of the war.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCalling upon the Lebanese government to work for the establishment of an ad hoc International Court for the same purpose.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCalling upon European lawyers and human rights activists to work with their citizens with the aim of placing pressure upon their governments in order to sue Israel and force it to compensate for its war crimes and pay for the cost of dismantling the cluster bombs, which the UNIFIL forces are currently carrying out.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tDocumenting the legal violations perpetrated since the establishment of the State of Israel until the present and working for Israel\u2019s litigation.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tAppealing to the peoples of the world and all governments and civic bodies to support the Palestinian refugees\u2019 right to return to the whole of their homeland in compliance with international laws and conventions.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tPreparing for holding an international conference in solidarity with the Lebanese people and their resistance on the first anniversary of the war i.e. – 12th July 2007.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCompelling the Lebanese government to submit complaints and to file law suits against Israel and the perpetrators of war crimes within various specialized international bodies, the most important of which are:<\/p>\n
o\tThe International Court of Justice<\/p>\n
o\tThe International Criminal Court<\/p>\n
o\tA special court set up according to a decision by the Security Council; and in case this does not take place they should resort to the General Assembly so that it will establish such a court according to resolution 50\/377 (The Union for Peace).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCalling upon European and International movements to adopt and support the Lebanese\u2019 resort to national courts within their countries of residence.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tContacting human rights committees and sub-committees of the UN such as the: – Children\u2019s Rights, Women\u2019s Rights, and Environment sub -committees and the Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWidening litigation to include Britain and the U.S. for their participation in the offensive.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCarrying out an international legal media campaign to explain the Israeli violations of international laws and conventions.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCarrying out an international media campaign to disseminate information about the resistance in Lebanon and the rest of the Arab resistance movements in Palestine and Iraq against the Israeli and American occupations explaining their aims, the fairness of their cause and the legitimacy of their struggle in light of general international and humanitarian law.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tDistinguishing between terrorism and peoples\u2019 struggles for their liberation, freedom and self-determination.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tStruggling for the establishment of a Middle East void of weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tExposing the partial nature of resolution 1701, which places the UNIFIL forces on one side of the borders and struggling against its interpretation in a form that threatens its entrapment into facing the Lebanese resistance.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tEncouraging Arab countries to sign the bylaws of the International Criminal Court and other human rights conventions.<\/p>\n
On the media level:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tConsidering the media an essential arena for the imposed struggle in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and the whole area.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tAdopting a media confrontation policy based on building complete conceptual, value and linguistic systems aiming at facing the groups solicited by the aggressor and through which it practices hegemony.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tClarifying the intersection between the struggles of all peoples and striving to establish a worldwide network against the American-Zionist project which does not only target the area but also humanity.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tForming a working body of media personnel and writers who can participate in focal work so as to:<\/p>\n
o\tCreate a discussion group (blog) on the Internet.<\/p>\n
o\tCall on interested journalists and writers to join the blog.<\/p>\n
o\tSuggest a definition and framework for its work and make it accountable within the media.<\/p>\n
o\tPrepare a worldwide list of journalists and writers who are ready to cooperate or who hold standpoints that correspond to ours and work towards contacting them and making their writings known through publication.<\/p>\n
o\tHold a meeting after two or three months to evaluate its work and make the appropriate decisions.<\/p>\n
o\tEstablish a media watch that can survey journalists and writers who are enemies, monitoring all that is published and organizing responses in a highly professional and methodological fashion, which will allow us to move towards expanding the circle of building an international media apparatus supportive of the choice of resistance and that can stand up to opposing media.<\/p>\n
On the level of reconstruction:<\/p>\n
The participants in the conference agreed upon describing the results of the Israeli aggression against the southern suburbs of Beirut and Lebanese towns and villages as an act of \u201chabitat annihilation\u201d\u009d as the aggression targeted residential areas that were populated and incurred damages to colossal numbers of homes and economic installations reaching over 130,000 all over Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The conference also alluded to the role of the resistance and its institutions on the level of reconstruction and removing the effects of the aggression in addition to the support of the Lebanese society\u2019s steadfastness during and after the Israeli offensive and it calls for: –<\/p>\n
\u2022\tAdopting a social development vision for reconstruction which takes the needs of the population into consideration as they are stated by them, which will allow the improvement of the destroyed areas and will meet the various humanitarian needs.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tDirecting the greatest possible amount of support towards Lebanese civil institutions concerned with aid and reconstruction and especially the resistance institutions as they have carried out and are still carrying out an essential role in support of Lebanese society to face the Israeli offensive. This requires overcoming the legal and financial obstacles which have been placed by the international financial and legal systems in the face of the overflowing amounts of aid arriving under various pretexts.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIn this aspect the conference calls for the creation of committees to support societies in each of the targeted countries and their task would be to support the Lebanese to face the offensive.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tGranting attention to the situation within the destroyed Lebanese villages and rebuilding them in a manner that will guarantee and conserve their special rural heritage,<\/p>\n
\u2022\tLaunching an initiative for discussion rounds at the international level, with bodies and experts in the field of reconstruction who are interested in participating in order to develop construction in a way that will ensure the humanitarian, social and developmental objectives of this process.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThe conference recommends, within this framework, that those supervising the reconstruction process should maintain the symbolism of the event according to the three aspects of: victory, steadfastness and sacrifice.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tOrganizing Arab and international campaigns to rebuild the cultural, social and heritage locations that form the essential landmarks in the area and play a role in producing culture and knowledge.<\/p>\n
In mid-November, 400 delegates from every continent met in Beirut to demonstrate their solidarity with resistance against US imperialism and Israel and to discuss future perspectives for the anti-imperialist struggle. Michael Proebsting reports. More…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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