2/15/2010 07:47:00 PM Posted by Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir
Rally against Israel6/3/2006
It was in a continued strategy of robbing the Palestinian people and struggle of its brain-power by killing and assassinating intellectuals especially those conducting revolutionary work on behalf of the cause of liberation of Palestine but it was also an attempt to rob the generations to come of their history.
The list is long but amongst it is yet another, one of the most important historic writers of Palestine’s history Abdul Wahab alKayyali who wrote the most important of books on the modern history of Palestine, completing the first part before the hand of treachery of the Zionist enemy assassinated him in his office in Beirut ahead of him writing his part two of the modern history of Palestine.
Kanfani as well as Kayyali had one main aim of writing their books and that is to historically document the heroic and self-less continued armed struggle tradition of the resistance of the Arab people of Palestine against the war machine of the Zionist enemy supported by the war machines of imperialist Britain and later imperialist America.
If it were just for the people of Palestine they would have most probably driven out the Zionist settlers-invaders, but the conspiracy against Palestine had never ever been a purely Palestinian issue.
Rather the regional comprador of traitor kings and selling-out Arab leaders with the help and support of British and American imperialism had always been an instrument of destruction and sabotage of the Palestinian cause and still are.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that we should divert our attention to the defeat of world imperialism as well as Arab reaction when we embark upon the honorable mission of liberating our homeland as Arab Palestinians.
Not for an instance was the cause of the Palestinians isolated from the Arab struggle for independence and reunification on a national (Qawmi) level, nor has it ever been de-linked from the internationalist dimension to our struggle and that is of the necessity of instilling a decisive defeat on world imperialism particularly American imperialism.
If just for the record we must ask this question: would have Iraq been encircled like it was if it weren’t for regional (Iqlimi) treachery in its invasion and occupation and if it weren’t for the imbalance of the international scene in favor of American and British imperialism!
So within this understanding we present to the reader the short documented history of war against imperialism that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched along-side the Arab people which is a history kept unknown to many especially in the Arab world and through Arab reaction and imperialist hiding of the facts of this history.
When imperialists and Jewish world power control the world, like they do now, it is easy for them to commit historical forgery. Their capacity for hiding facts of history is well documented in the big myths they spread of the hollowcause, but they are even more sinister and deliberate than that targeting and killing historians such as Kanfani and Kayyali to present their own deformed version of history a history forged and deceiving.
And as many now he who controls history controls the present and the future.
Many generations of Arabs will remember the great Arab victory of crossing the Suez Canal on October 6th 1973, but very few know the role the north Koreans played when they stood shoulder to shoulder with their Arab comrades to fight Zionism and spent their precious Korean blood doing so and without hesitation.
They were not fighting for Korean soil but Arab soil and they understood that where imperialism was anti-imperialists must be there to crush the head of the imperialist snake and its comprador agents. They were not fighting in Korea but in Arabia though in reality they were really fighting for Korea.
So when we fight for Korea we are fighting for Arabia and vice versa!
It was these Koreans who helped make that Arab victory against Zionism with humble quietness and not much flare that we must commemorate today but more importantly follow in their footsteps and learn the important lessons of how to confront imperialism-Zionism in our time.
The DPRK had dispatched its men and women in a show of international unity with the Arab people, fighting “Israel” in the 1973 Arab attack against the Zionist enemy that culminated in the crossing of the Suez Canal in October of that year.
A notable Korean figure of the October 6th 1973 war was general Cho Myong Rok(1) who was dispatched by great leader Kim Il Sung commanding (after the appeal for help by then Egyptian president Sadaat) a force of 1500 army members of the Korean People’s army (battle experienced veterans from the Vietnam and Korean wars), where general Rok along with Husni Mubarak led surprise attacks against Zionist airfields and the Koreans helped the Egyptian army cross the Suez canal on that famous crossing that landed “Israel” its first Arab military defeat. At the same time DPRK missiles were positioned to protect beloved Cairo of any retaliatory attack.
Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung without hesitation dispatched the heroes of Songun and Juche to the holiest of grains in Egypt and Syria where they with smiles on their faces gave their blood to the Arab people and in that glorious war of confronting Zionism and Western imperialism, drawing heroic model examples as they did that the current generations must learn from and emulate.
It was also at the same time in 1973 that beloved leader Kim Il Sung sent DPRK fighters to defend Syria and to mix the blood of Syrian and Korean fighters in the glorious war against “Israel”!
Here is an excerpt from the Association of Asian Affairs (2):
North Korea sent 25 pilots to Syria during the 3rd Arab-Israeli war of 1966 and 30 pilots to Egypt and Syria during the 4th Arab-Israeli war of 1973. In 1976, North Korea sent more than 40 pilots to Syria.
How can the Arab people ever forget the sacrifices of the DPRK soldiers and Beloved President Great Leader Kim Il Sung? How can we glance over these acts and be implicated in the historical cover-up of this great noble and historical act of internationalist solidarity and joint combat?
When the war was over, in return for this act the Egyptian president Awar Saadat, as a show of appreciation, sent the DPRK six scud missiles. This served as a profoundly thankful gesture in appreciation of General Rok’s heroism in service of the Arab people.
It was out of these scud missiles that the DPRK took apart, by which the DPRK missile program was kick-started, and out of which the DPRK learned how to build its own missiles, becoming a world exporter of missiles to the Arab nation for years to come.
The dialectical relationship of anti-imperialists in joint struggle is one that benefits all!
Western leftists of today who rally around Korea of Songun do not read this history of resolve against Zionism and how Korean blood was spent defending Arab lands against “Israel”. In their rush to appease their Zionist masters they want to erase or ignore these facts of history. We shall not let them commit this act of historical treason!
Likewise, reactionaries as well as liberals in the Arab world want to dissociate from this history. They want to ignore the DPRK sacrifices to the cause of the Arab people and to disaffiliate from communism. This is because they do not understand or do not want to understand the imperialist dimension of the fight against “Israel” and US imperialism.
They want to ignore the dialectical relationship of our joint struggle against imperialism!
That to successfully defeat “Israel” the Arabs must successfully defend the DPRK and that for the DPRK to defend itself it must safeguard the Arab cause against Zionism. The enemy is one! The cause is one!
This dialectical internationalist relationship and understanding of the Arab struggle is what I wish to emphasize in this article. In the process, I also wish to give tribute to the heroes of Juche and Songun for having watered with their holy blood the soil of Arabia fighting Zionism.
Every now and then the imperialists and the Arab misguided ask us: why is an Arab interested in the DPRK cause, in response we must proudly and loudly say:
Long live DPRK-Arab internationalism and together for the destruction of “Israel” and American imperialism!
References:
1. Korea Web-weekly: http://www.kimsoft.com/kor
2. Association for Asian Research(AFAR):http://www.asianresearch.o
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