RCP's Bob Avakian Father Judge Avakian Dead at 88 (tags)
Appointed a Superior Court Judge of Alameda County in 1964, he made a landmark ruling abolishing the Alameda County jury selection test that effectively barred African Americans from serving on juries. After retirement from the bench in 1980, he took various Judicial Council assignments.
Military Statement Issued by the Brigades of Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa (tags)
"Let the terrorist Sharon and his criminal gangs know that the Palestinian blood is not cheap and that those who target leaders and strugglers of the Palestinian people cannot live in peace and cannot run away from being targeted and assassinated. From now on, the whole Zionist political level will be target to our special groups which will teach you painful lessons as retaliation to the assassination crime against the leader and teacher Abu Ali Mustafa."
Opinion Poll Proves Palestinians Support Intifada, Wish to Liberate the Land (tags)
The following poll suggests that a current "revolutionary situation" now exists in Palestine and that the Palestinian citizens intend not only to liberated Judea, Samaria and Gaza [West Bank and Gaza], but ultimately the whole land, from the river to the sea. The Palestine that we now have is not the whole Palestine.
Hezbollah: Israel Security to be Rocked, Support Palestinian Resistance (tags)
Sheikh Qassem said, " the continuation of the intifada worries Israelis and the security of 'Israel' must be rocked from within and outside Jerusalem, Palestine must be completely liberated." He also said Hezbollah "will place its gun alongside of the Palestinian resistance and it will act to liberate all Palestine though all human and material means".
Fatah: Sharon wants Arafat to be another Antoin Lahd (tags)
"It is the Palestinian people alone, and no body else, who will chose their leader. And he must say a big 'NO' to Zionist terror and expansionism. A Palestinian leader who would surrender to the Zionists or collude with them against his own people will be killed even before he is born."
DFLP: Demonstrators mark 84 years since Balfour Declaration, 2 Nov. 01 (tags)
The DFLP and other Palestinian organizations staged a rally at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp and another in front of the UN House in downtown Beirut to protest the creation of the State of Israel after British promises for a Jewish homeland during World War I.
Palestinians Commemorate the 1948 Massacre of Dawaymeh, 28 Oct. 01 (tags)
According to the Israeli paper, Alhamishmar (ceased pub.), "the children they killed by breaking their heads with sticks. There was not a house without dead. One commander ordered a sapper to put two old women in a certain house and to blow up the house with them.