In Caracas, Venezuela, on a recent encounter with the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Palestinian Ambassador Linda Ali thanked Maduro and the people of Venezuela for supporting the struggle of the Palestinians. Amid the crowd chanting “Palestine, stand strong! People of the world are rising up! Palestine stand strong! People of the world are with you!” and unable to hold back her tears, the Ambassador presented to Maduro a Palestinian keffiyeh and said: “Thank you for being so humane and for standing with us, with our struggle. You and the people of Latin America have shown us more support than some of our Arab brothers. Thank you.”
Calling on the people of Venezuela to join the solidarity actions for Palestine, Maduro then gave a short speech to the crowd: “Your slogan is the right one. Palestine, stay strong…do not crumble…resist. The people of the world are waking up and the common scream of the people will soon dominate the world.
“As I said before, I am saying it again: The people of Israel, you need to stand against the massacre of the people of Palestine, you need to say ‘No’… Do not stay silent.
“We hope with all hearts that the murderers of the people of Palestine will be brought to justice, that they will receive the punishment they deserve and justice will be served.
“The people of Israel, put an end to this massacre, do not watch it in silence. There is no justification, no explanation for this massacre. At this point, this is a genocide.
“And we call on to all the Muslim people, Arab people, peoples of America, all the peoples of the world: the struggle of the people of Palestine is the purest, the most just, the most humane struggle, it is a struggle we all need to support. It is the right to live, the right to live on our lands in peace. This is the most just struggle.”
The link to the video of the speech can be found here.
