WESPAC STATEMENT ON THE KILLING OF TWO ISRAELI DIPLOMATS
Two Israeli diplomats were killed on Wednesday in DC. The suspect shouted “Free
Palestine” when he was apprehended after the crime. WESPAC’s guiding principle is nonviolent resistance to oppression and firmly and always rejects violence and murder as a response to injustice.
The struggle for a free Palestine is about ending the violence of occupation, apartheid and genocide, not about the killing of more innocents. Violence only begets more violence.
We are heartbroken that two people lost their lives; we grieve for them and their families over their senseless death. In Gaza, entire families are being wiped out –
— tens of thousands maimed, killed, starved, continually displaced and buried in silence. We grieve for them. The suffering is real and is overwhelming, and all this violence has to stop. We yearn for a future built on justice, dignity and peace for all.
