April 7, the Baath and the Resistance
Ibrahim Ebeid
April 7, 2006 is the fifty ninth anniversary of the establishment of the Baath Party. It is also the third anniversary of the birth of the Iraqi Resistance against the Anglo-American invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. Baathists, Arab progressive and Nationalist Movements across the Arab Homeland celebrate and salute this dear occasion.
AL-Moharer, its staff and friends pay tribute to this great party which is leading the Resistance in Iraq against the aggressors and the enemies of humanity whether Imperialist invaders, sectarians or Zionist racists.
The Arab Baath is a nationalist movement that addresses itself to Arabs of all religions and sects and looks at all religions and faiths with equal respect. It regards all Arabs as being part of one Nation both in the cultural and spiritual sense. The reunification of the Arab Homeland under freedom and social justice is its aim.
This great party is not alien to the Arab masses. It sprang from them and its roots are very deep in Iraq and all over the Arab Homeland. This movement represents the hopes and aspirations of all the Arabs and those who live on Arab lands or identify themselves with the Arab cause.
The De-Baathification –uprooting of the Baath- Bill introduced by George W. Bush will not work. It might work only by killing every Arab that exists across the Globe, this is impossible to achieve. It is impossible to annihilate an entire nation while most of its sons and daughters are not born yet. It is impossible to eradicate the Baath because Baath means resurrection and resurrection means rebirth, life for ever. Baath is against death, it is life, and it is continuity.
The Acting Commander in Chief of the Resistance, Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, made the voice of the Resistance clear and loud to the American People and other nations: we tell the American people and all the peoples whose governments joined the aggression against us that, we the people of Iraq, who taught Humanity what it didn't know, and whose civilization history goes back to ten thousands years, when half of this world was plunged into oblivion, though we appreciate everyone, honest peoples, their interests and their right to live in a secure and peaceful environment! Rather we are on their side against tyrants, despots and against injustice, against aggressors, against terrorists and against terrorism. Our hope is big in these peoples to see them wake up, press their governments and force them to get out from our soil and stop the bloodshed which struck the innocents, sick people, elderly, children and women and which destroyed the very foundations of every day human life, otherwise this proud and dignified country will be a furnace and a graveyard for their children and death will reach them if the Occupation is due to last longer… for if the aggression continues, it will destroy its people wherever they are.
On this dear occasion Al-Moharer hopes that the Anti War Movements recognize the Iraqi National Resistance that is led by the Baath as the sole representative of the Iraqi people.
Those Organizations that were established under occupation are illegitimate and represent the occupation interests only and not those of the Iraqi people.
The leadership of Iraq, whose most of its members are in captivity, must be recognized, supported and released, they are the ones along with the leadership of the Resistance that are able and capable to restore security and progress to Iraq.
Also we demand our friends in the World to lend their support to the hundreds of thousands of Prisoners of war held in the occupation jails and in the sectarian militia secret prisons and work seriously for their release.
The Anti War Movement, especially in the United Sates, must work harder to force Washington to bring the troops home immediately and unconditionally.
Since the Palestinian struggle is inseparable part of the Arab National struggle we call upon all honest people in the World, especially in the United Sates, to take a firm stand in supporting the Palestinian people in their struggle to liberate their land from the grips of Zionism.
The Palestinians have the right to fight the Zionist invaders, liberate their historic land, return to their homes and establish their state on the entire land of Palestine.
Finally, on this dear occasion, we salute the International Anti War Movements for their heroic and noble stand for justice and peace but we expect them to do more.