The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU), is at the moment dumbfounded at the criminal aerial bombardment of Israel on the innocent Palestinian and Lebanese populations and on the civil infrastructures of Palestine and Lebanon. Millions of African Workers, under the OATUU ask, until what time can the Occupied Arab Territories support the blockage, the extermination and the vandalism perpetrated by Israel?

The OATUU continues to ask the question to know or to find the whereabouts of the uncountable International Organizations concerned with Human Rights that exist throughout the world? Why does the International Community remain so quiet in the face of the present martyrdom of the Peoples of Palestine and Lebanon? Why are they silent in the face of the massacre and genocide perpetrated against the martyred people of Palestine, whose only aspiration is recognition of their legitimate and inalienable rights to peace and national sovereignty?

For us in the OATUU, we shall never stop to repeat, that the Palestinian Problem is the epicentre of the conflict in the Middle East, and the only condition that can bring a just, comprehensive and durable peace to the Middle East is the withdrawal of Israel from the Occupied Palestinian territories and from South Lebanon and the Golan Heights of Syria.

Could we also know the reason why the United Nations and the International Community always shut their eyes on the pursuit of Israeli policy of extension and colonization in flagrant violation of the pertinent resolutions of the United Nations, in particular, Resolution 1402 of the UN Security Council demanding the withdrawal of Israel from Palestinian territories?

In OATUU, our firm conviction is that the Palestinian State will come into existence, and it will be a viable state with internationally recognized frontiers with Jerusalem as capital.

We strongly demand that Israel puts an end to aerial bombardments against the friendly Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine. We launch an urgent appeal to the United Nations and the International Community to compel Israel to put an end to its aggression against Palestine and Lebanon.

We cannot accept the fallacious argument that people unjustifiably resisting illegal occupation of their land are terrorists. We recall that the African National Congress was also called a terrorist organization during their noble struggle against apartheid.

Without Justice, there can be no Peace