We will not surrender. The struggle will continue until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, the end of the zionist genocide regime, and the punishment of war criminals. The answer to brutality and genocide is not surrender, but more steadfastness and resistance.
Despite the fires of genocide and the moaning of wounds, the message of Palestine remains present, from the Gaza of Dignity, West Bank, occupied interior, and Al-Quds, carrying the voice of our heroic prisoners, including the leader Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, and the voice of the families of martyrs, the wounded, and the displaced, children and women, and those remaining steadfast in tents and shelters, or standing firm on the rubble of their homes.
We meet at a pivotal historical moment when the attack on Palestine and the peoples of our nation intensifies, and our national responsibility to protect the nation’s identity and its liberation project grows, and we meet to renew the covenant on the will for struggle and resistance against the zionist enemy, which was, still is, and will remain an enemy of every Arab person, and against the war criminals and those who align with them.
The battle is not over, and it is premature to declare victory before its conditions are met; despair and the option of defeat are rejected as long as the people resist with steadfastness and valor.
Your tanks may stand near Damascus today, but we are still fighting you and confronting this historical path in Al-Quds through a century of resistance and steadfastness.
Al-Quds, Gaza, Nablus, and Jenin have not fallen; their people and their sons raise the banner of Arab identity with their will, sacrifices, and civil, political, and cultural resilience. The difference between a nation rooted in its land and the campaigns of invasion that have repeatedly broken against the rock of its determination has not yet been understood.
We call for the issuance of a clear position and commitment to a program of action with all Arab forces, rejecting any retreat or surrender in the face of the new colonial aggression, and adherence to our right and duty to resist in all its forms, and to defend our nation and its first trench, represented by the cause of Palestine and its people, and to mobilize all energies for this duty.
We reject of the American and colonial plan to liquidate the cause of Palestine, and the commitment of all Arab forces to highlight this position. We also reject the plans of tutelage over the people of Palestine. We demand the Arab National Congress make efforts for recovery and reconstruction.
We called for launching a unified Arab and international legal campaign to document war crimes and prosecute their perpetrators before the International Criminal Court, and building a unified Arab media front to confront zionist propaganda and reframe the global discourse on justice in Palestine.
Pressure by all means is necessary to establish a comprehensive ceasefire, lift the siege, force the occupation to withdraw from all of Gaza, stop violations in the West Bank, release all prisoners, and implement its obligations.
The struggle today is a battle of identity and existence between an Arab liberation project and a colonial replacement project. Therefore, an Arab strategic doctrine must be built that redefines the struggle as comprehensive liberation, strengthens coordination between the Arab resistance, peoples of the region, and the international solidarity movement, and confronts normalization with militant, political, cultural, media, and economic plans.
We must not start from scratch, but from a long legacy of struggle and sacrifices. But, the challenge today is greater, and the responsibility is deeper. Let this be a new phase of organized national action that restores the nation’s self-confidence and unites its energies around Palestine, the essence of Arabism, its beating heart, and the measure of our dignity.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Deputy Secretary-General, Jamil Mezher
34th Session of the Arab National Congress in Beirut