Alternative Information Center
The Alternative Information Center, founded on values of internationalism, humanism and democracy, strongly rejects and condemns the terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York City that happened on September 11, 2001.
While the surviving victims of the attack have not yet been rescued, the bodies of the dead have not yet been buried and there is no indication of who is responsible for the attack, the process of creating a second group of victims has begun.
Just a few days after the World Summit against Racism ended, this terror attack is being used to incriminate Arabs and Muslims as terrorists without any evidence. Former Israeli Prime Ministers Barak and Netanyahu paraded in front of the world’s media drawing from the events the need to apply extra force against Middle East ‘terrorism’.
We recall that Arabs and Muslims were targeted and blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing that had nothing to do with Arabs or Muslims, but with the US far right.
In Israel, the government, the army and the media are using this catastrophe to oppress the rightful struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and independence. The immediate danger that the events in the USA will allow further aggressive actions by Ariel Sharon and his administration presents a real threat to the people of Palestine.
Israeli policies of extra-judicial executions, displacement and the besieging of the civil population are not part of a struggle for a safer world but acts state terrorism. As such they endanger the legitimate right of all humanity to live in a safe and secure planet.
The attacks in the US threaten to mark a change in relations between Western hegemony and the oppressed nations and represents a further milestone in the re-arrangement of the world order under the globalization project. This change in relations will fortify the Israeli State policy in the Middle East in the intensification their military campaign and will legitimise greater repressive acts against the Palestinian people.
The AIC believes that justice and security for humanity cannot be achieved by social, economical and political oppression of the weakest nations and communities.
Freedom and justice for all can only be achieved by securing for all human beings the "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights".
The AIC sees those principles as the only secure base for "the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world", as is affirmed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The greed of colonialism and imperialism, the inhuman exploitation of non-white nations and the war over the control of the planet has led humanity to an age of barbarism and indiscriminate violence.
Today, more than ever, it is urgent that democratic forces in the world join hands in the struggle for social justice, freedom and democracy.