On May Day we express our solidarity with freedom fighters all over the world, and reassert the fact that we share similar values of human dignity, justice and freedom. Those are values that are embedded both in our Arab culture and Islam.
On May Day we salute the workers movement in its struggle against the globalization of injustice and oppression and we know that they share our fight against Zionism and that they also know that Zionism is an ugly form of racism.
On May Day we also declare that the fight against the far-right in Europe is our fight too, and that we will never allow neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis to jeopardize the life or security of our Arab community in Europe or of any other community or group.
On May Day we grieve for the adults and children that Israel executes on daily basis. The history of Israel is that of committing atrocities. Genocide and ethnic cleansing are its two strongest pillars, and the history of the international reaction to Israeli atrocities is that of silence and complicity.
In Europe today, voices are being raised for a balanced position towards the struggle between occupier and occupied. Europe wants to be neutral and not pro-Israeli and we are supposed to welcome neutrality. Maybe because we are used to the unconditional Western support of Israel, they expect us now to cheer the fact that Europe is equating the murderers and the murdered, the butchers and the victims, the F-16 and the Kalashnikov, the tank and the Molotov cocktail.
Neutrality in Jenin is a crime against humanity, neutrality in Jenin is complicity. But Europe has a history in saying, "WE DIDN'T KNOW".
The massacre of Jenin is the strongest argument that Israel is putting nothing on the table. No one will understand us better than we understand ourselves, and no one will fight our fights for us, and no one should be allowed to do so. We welcome solidarity but we are fed up of waiting for it, and we will not watch our children be slaughtered and comfort ourselves with the tears of few European sympathizers.
Our comfort is when the resistance hits back and when the will of freedom conquers the hearts of our people from Baghdad to Rabat. Those who criticize our approach should understand one thing, we are not a lobby. You can lobby for a company or for the dolphins, but you do not lobby for freedom, you fight for freedom.
Our European friends can lobby, they can try to develop techniques to alter the public's image of the conflict, to bring about a better understanding to our position or to that of our people, but we have other important tasks to fulfill.
