Palestina Resisteix has followed with deep interest the election process, outcome and aftermath in the post 67 occupied Palestinian Territories and reasserts itself in its committment with the Palestinian cause for self-determination.

Palestina Resisteix is linked to no particular faction in Palestine and it is not our intention as a group to interject ourselves into the internal debates of Palestinian politics. It will be up to the Palestinian voters themselves to confirm or overturn the present results in a future election.

Winning party Hamas has been subject to harsh criticism and pressure for not admitting to Israel’s existence. While we question the legitimacy of a colonial state bent on ethnic cleansing, discrimination and expansion at the expense of a native people, we consider it is sleight of hand to waffle against the wish of some Palestinians to see the State of Israel dismantled in the future while Israel itself is actually engaged in a wholesale and daily campaign to destroy the organised existence of the Palestinian people.

We also have to point out at the threat to deny the Palestinian Authority tax money withheld by Israel and promised US and EU funding until Hamas yields to these demands. This blackmail brings inlight as to what little “sovereignty” the Western powers are ready to relinquish to the Palestinians.

International pressure should be directed at Israel instead as a reply to its continued failure to international lawfulness.

We renew our call to the Catalan society and institutions to side overtly and unreservedly for the Palestinian people’s rights and security.