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Another of the sponsors of the March 17th anti-Israel, anti-America and anti-war protest is Waleed Bader, the founder of the Arab-Muslim Federation of New York. Bader spoke at the al Awda convention in New York City in 2004. Here’s some interesting information contained in a “final communique” from the event:

MESSAGE TO POLITICAL PRISONERS

Al-Awda, noting the plight of our comrades in Zionist and imperialist jails, and believing that their struggle for freedom and honorable treatment is part and parcel of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and return, expresses solidarity with all Palestinian and Arab prisoners awaiting trial or presently on trial, and those serving terms of imprisonment.

The people they call their “comrades in Zionist and imperialist jails” are people that we’d consider terrorists. I’ll give them this much: they’re good at spinning things. Here’s more information from that communique:

Al-Awda 2003 Convention opposes the US sponsored Road Map, which aims at suppressing the human and national rights of the Palestinian people. The Convention expresses support for the struggle of the Palestinian people, currently spearheaded by the Intifada, to achieve national resistance goals including, but not limited to, ending Zionist colonization, implementing the right of return, and achieving self-determination. Al-Awda Convention does not recognize any self-proclaimed Palestinian leadership, elected or appointed, in compromising any Palestinian national rights, especially the right of return.

Here’s what President Bush said in a speech describing the Road Map:

The Palestinian state must be a reformed and peaceful and democratic state that abandons forever the use of terror. The government of Israel, as the terror threat is removed and security improves, must take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable and credible Palestinian state, and to work as quickly as possible toward a final status agreement. As progress is made toward peace, settlement activity in the occupied territories must end. And the Arab states must oppose terrorism, support the emergence of a peaceful and democratic Palestine, and state clearly that they will live in peace with Israel.

I’m betting that al-Awda, and therefore Bader, objects to the demandment of a Palestinian state being “a reformed and peaceful and democratic state that abandons forever the use of terror.” I’m also fairly certain that they’d object to the section that demands that “the Arab states must oppose terrorism, support the emergence of a peaceful and democratic Palestine, and state clearly that they will live in peace with Israel” because that would be asking them to stop being who they really are. They can no more enact true reforms or stop terrorist attacks or live in peace with Israel than a leopard can change its spots. Al Awda, by saying that it rejects the Road Map, essentially admits that they will continue being terrorists. They’re also saying that they’ll fight with everything that they’ve got to keep the Middle East a terrorist region.

Al-Awda 2003 Convention demands the immediate termination of the use of the term “Israel/Palestine”, and any of its combinations, in all and any Al-Awda related documents.

I’ve posted the map called the Topography of Palestine, which explains why they’re opposed to the use of the name Israel. They see the Jews as occupiers of Palestinian territory.

Here’s what Resolution 1 says:

Resolution 1

Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, in its Second International Convention, hereby calls for the full national unity of all Palestinian National and Islamic forces, civil organizations, and institutions, in the collective struggle against military occupation and Zionist apartheid, and for the right of return.

We join the Palestinian people in calling for national unity amongst National and Islamic forces and reviving the PLO institutions, inside and outside of Palestine, on a democratic basis utilizing proportional representation in its structure, leadership and decision making, and including all factions.

It is critical that all Palestinian National and Islamic forces join hands in a common national front and unified national leadership, expressing the democratic will of the Palestinian people and rejecting all such attempts to negotiate or undermine any and all of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.

By saying that they reject any “attempts to negotiate” away “the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people”, they’re saying that they reject any peaceful settlement of what the world calls “the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict”.

By aligning himself with such groups, Bader has shown that he isn’t bashful about aligning himself with terrorists.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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