Maine Green Independent Party Statement in Support of Ceasefire in Gaza
January 17, 2025
We, the Maine Green Independent Party, are steadfast in our solidarity with the Palestinian people and remain vigilant, counting the hours until the anticipated ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas goes into place this Sunday, the 19th of January.
In addition to an end to genocide, we continue to demand an end to ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and occupation. For without it, there can be no justice, nor lasting peace. Inherent in these demands is the recognition of Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
Further, Israel must provide restorative justice to the Palestinian people, whose neighborhoods, homes, hospitals, educational and religious institutions have been obliterated, whose olive groves have been razed and whose lands have been desecrated by the environmental fallout from the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs that have been levied against Gaza over the past 15 months.
We view the 6-week temporary ceasefire, slated to be instituted on the last day of the current US Administration, as a shameful attempt to rewrite history; but we will not forget who is responsible. We urge the world to bring the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his cohorts before the International Court of Justice to be tried for Crimes against Humanity.
We recognize that Israel’s crimes were aided and abetted by the Biden Administration, in providing Billions in weapons of war which are still being used by Israel to annihilate men, women, and children abroad, while further impoverishing the American people at home, who struggle to get their most basic needs met.
We also want to take this moment to recognize the complexity of emotions that are being experienced by the people of Gaza, who remain under siege, with 80 martyred these last 24 hours alone. We grieve with the Palestinian people for so much incomprehensible loss, and will continue in the struggle for liberation.
We will not stop. We will not rest. Free Palestine.
