Palestine must continue struggle

In many cases throughout history, a protracted people's war, fought guerilla-style, has been the only way for an oppressed nation to find liberation. It happened in Vietnam, when the Viet Mihn peasant army pushed out the French and then fought the opportunistic Americans attempting to fill the colonial vacuum.

The pattern repeated in China, where from the 1920s to the 1940s the people simultaneously fought foreign imperialism, Japanese invasion and China's well-established oligarchy.

In Cuba too, a long overdue people's rebellion successfully overthrew a corrupt and brutal oppressor.

In each case the wars took years of fighting and hiding, running rings around better equipped armies by mobilizing the masses' passion, ingenuity and knowledge of their home terrain.

The so-called peace process will never return what the Palestinians have lost. The best they can hope for via peace talks is a Palestinian state on fifth the size of Palestine before 1948.

Land and resources stolen from the Palestinians will never be repaid, the way a thief rarely returns stolen materials to his victim. Remuneration and compensation for lives lost under Israeli occupation will never willingly be offered, at least not by the right wing Israeli government that is in power now.

The Palestinians are falling back on their one option: fight to take back what is theirs. Let America - which has interests only in Middle East oil, not human lives - condemn the Palestinians. History will support the Palestinians.