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In today’s age of information, history is not written by those in power. The powerful international consortium that orchestrated Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians might be able to push through the first drafts of history, but broader truths are inevitably uncovered through research and subsequent analysis.

The phrase “history is written by the victors” still carries weight as the victors censor, burn, “discredit” and slash, but it is muddied in this situation by the fact that the true victors are not the powerful, but rather the oppressed whose power, in the words of Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh, is born of dreams.

As the buzz about the temporary halt to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza escalates, and gets more “complicated,” we need to hold on firmly to the broader truths. These were expressed in a simple and eloquent statement by Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which has faced significant discreditation efforts, primarily from governments (the US, Canada and Germany) and organizations (Jewish and Zionist) that accuse it falsely of “supporting terrorism” and endangering “national security and stability” … i.e., the national security and stability, not of the United States, not of Canada, not of Germany, but that of an apartheid settler state created in Palestine in 1948 through terror and imperialist machinations.

Samidoun’s statement, published on January 15, 2025, emphasizes the following broad truths associated with the ceasefire agreement in Doha, Qatar:

First and foremost, the statement credits Palestinian Prisoners as being at the heart of the struggle for liberation: “Throughout this great struggle against genocide, the prisoners have been at the heart of the cause and the resistance, with the Palestinian people committed to achieving the freedom of the prisoners and continuing to struggle in the most horrendous of circumstances.”

It credits the Palestinian armed resistance led by the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, joined with Saraya al-Quds of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and together with multiple resistance forces including the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the PFLP, the National Resistance Brigades of the DFLP, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades of the resisting sectors of Fatah, and their fellow resistance fighters in Palestine — who “continued to fight and to strike severe blows against the Zionist soldiers, the genocidal occupiers, until the last moment.”
 
It credits the heroic resistance forces in Lebanon led by Hezbollah and in Yemen, its people, government, armed forces and Ansarallah movement, joined by all of the forces of resistance in the region, stretching from Iraq to Iran, and the world:

“This resistance has held the most oppressed in Gaza under siege, in the prisons under torture, at the center, and its achievements, its persistence, its refusal to back down despite everything, defeated the genocidal billions of dollars of weapons deployed against its people at the behest of imperialism and zionism.”

It explains why genocide is inherent in Israel’s zionism and the United States’ imperialism.

Most importantly, the statement is a rallying cry to strengthen

“efforts to build the international popular cradle of the resistance… Accountability must be imposed upon all those responsible for the genocidal assault on Gaza, and upon the people of Palestine and the region. Their crimes will neither be forgotten nor forgiven; from the engineers and architects of genocide in the halls of power to the occupation soldiers who broadcast their torture and abuse on social media to the propagandists who lied to the world to market a genocidal regime, we must work at all levels to impose true accountability and justice upon the perpetrators of these horrendous crimes.”

As Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator of Samidoun, states,

“The attempt to ban, smear, discredit and criminalize Samidoun is reflective of a broader attack on the Palestinian movement and the Palestine solidarity movement as a whole. In the case of Samidoun, it is also specifically targeted in an attempt to terrorize the public from expressing their solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, tortured in Zionist jails, whose freedom and liberation has been a central part of this battle.”

Samidoun is not a front for the PFLP or any other organization. It is a front for the idea, the dream come true, that the Palestinian people and their resistance are capable of “liberating Palestine, and that despite its technological and military resources, the Zionist regime [has] nothing but racism and imperialist interests to hold it together; and, indeed, that the regional forces of resistance [are] capable of liberating the Arab nation and the entire region from US imperialism.”

This cradle, “the cradle of the Palestinian resistance,” will not fall.

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Rima Najjar is a Palestinian whose father’s side of the family comes from the forcibly depopulated village of Lifta on the western outskirts of Jerusalem and whose mother’s side of the family is from Ijzim, south of Haifa. She is an activist, researcher, and retired professor of English literature, Al-Quds University, occupied West Bank.

She is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Samidoun’s poster for the article: Gaza: The Resistance Lives, The Prison Doors Open — On the Road to Liberation and Return

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