The Anti-War and Anti-Globalization Meeting Supports the One Million Trees Project and Calls for an End to Israeli Occupation of Palestine

The International Strategy Meeting of Anti-war and Anti-globalization movements held in Beirut on 17-19 of September has called for the unconditional withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Iraq and demanded an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The meeting brought together delegates from social movements, organizations, political parties, networks and coalitions from 54 countries who are struggling for global peace and justice and who are committed to equality, solidarity and diversity.
The “Arab Group for the Protection of Nature” was invited to the meeting which came on the 22nd anniversary of the Lebanese people’s resistance and the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
A final declaration issued by the meeting said Iraq and Palestine are two critical focal points of aggression and resistance and that the liberation of the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples is crucial to build global justice.
The declaration supported the right of the people of Iraq and Palestine to resist the occupations. It also demanded that the right of return for Palestinian refugees be fulfilled. The delegates denounced in the declaration the racist and colonial character of Zionism, Israel’s State ideology, demanded the dismantlement of the Apartheid Wall and all Jewish settlements and called for the release of all Palestinian and Iraqi political prisoners.

The declaration saluted the Lebanese resistance and expressed solidarity with the continuing resistance in southern Lebanon.
The meeting adopted the ‘One Million Trees’ project implemented by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature as one of the tools to support the Palestinian people. The project aims at replanting trees in areas levelled by Israeli bulldozers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.