Resist US-Led War Movement salutes the steadfast resistance of the Palestinian people, who fought unceasingly against the most vicious genocide waged by the Zionist regime for over 455 days. Their sacrifice and relentless perseverance forced the regime to finally agree to the current ceasefire deal. This is one step forward in the century-long struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
Until Palestine is free, the struggle will continue, and all who strive for genuine peace must also continue to act in solidarity with the Palestinian people. This means we must continue to build the anti-war movement that has been reinvigorated by the heroic Palestinian resistance and reawakened by the barefaced brutality that $17.9 billion in unconditional US military aid over the past 15 months has rained down on Gaza. We must continue the campaigns pressuring cities, universities and other institutions to divest from weapons transnational corporations that have seen their stock values leap over 10 percent and the sales of their arms soar after the war on Gaza began in October 2023. These campaigns have mushroomed over the past 15 months, as more people learned of the direct connection between top weapons producers, the tens of billions of dollars they rake in annually from US military contracts, and the atrocities being committed in Gaza, such as the Lockheed Martin Corporation's Multiple Launch Rocket System, Longbow Hellfire missiles, and 75 F-35 fighter jets favored by the IOF; the Apache helicopters, F-15 fighter jets, and literally thousands of "smart" and "precision" bombs made by the Boeing corporation used in massacres including that of over 100 refugees sheltering at Al-Tabeen school in Gaza City; and the Tomahawk cruise missiles, GBU-53/B "Storm Breaker" bombs, and GBU-12 Paveway II guided bombs made by RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) that have targeted civilians in Palestine and Yemen. We must continue to condemn the IOF's "battle-testing" and experimentation with new weapons through the mass killing of Palestinians and incineration of entire communities and generations of families. We must continue to expose the role of new technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, "multi-domain" warfare, satellite imaging, and other unknown weapons that have been reported to "vaporize" people's bodies, technology being developed in workplaces, universities, and publicly-invested research institutions around the world. We must continue to call for the release of all Palestinian prisoners, even as we celebrate those who are released as part of the ceasefire deal. We must fight to end the deadly exchange of detention and torture tactics shared between the Zionist state and other states such as the US to use against their own people at home and around the world. We must continue to fight against the silencing of students, teachers, tech workers, and others who speak in support of Palestinian resistance and against the war and genocide being committed with their tuition dollars and labor. We must continue to oppose the censoring of journalists who dare to report the truth of the war crimes being committed by the IOF. We must continue to expose the hypocrisy of every US president who has given and will attempt in the future to give unequivocal support to the zionist occupation and killing machine while pretending to broker peace in Palestine. We must fight to end all US military, financial and diplomatic support to Israel. We must continue to build an anti-war movement that promotes the understanding that genuine peace can never be bestowed by entities like the US and Israel whose existence relies on colonialism, occupation, and fascist repression. We must build an international anti-war movement that recognizes that a durable and just peace must be fought for and won by the people themselves struggling for self-determination, sovereignty and freedom from reactionary aggression and violence.
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