The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine saluted the position of Bolivia in cutting its diplomatic relations with the occupation state of Israel on January 14, 2009. The PFLP issued a statement calling upon Arab countries to follow the lead of the people of Venezuela and Bolivia in ejecting the presence of the occupation on their land.

Noting that the people of the Arab world have risen in fury and rejection of the occupier and its crimes, the PFLP called upon the regimes to implement the decision of the people to eject the occupier and its emissaries from Arab land.

Paying tribute to the people and the government of Bolivia, the PFLP saluted the courage, solidarity and strength of Bolivia, noting that in the face of U.S. imperialism and the crimes of the Zionist occupier, Bolivia is expressing a vital, critical and much-needed solidarity with the people of Palestine.

The PFLP also saluted Bolivian President Evo Morales, who has continuously struggled for justice and against oppression and for the rights of native people facing colonialism, from Bolivia to Palestine. President Evo Morales announced Wednesday he was breaking relations with Israel over its invasion of the Gaza Strip and said he will ask the International Criminal Court to bring genocide charges against top Israeli officials.

Morales told the country's diplomatic corps that the Israeli attack "seriously threatened world peace" and he called for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Cabinet to face criminal charges.

Morales chided the United Nations' "Insecurity Council" for its "lukewarm" response to the crisis and said the U.N. General Assembly should condemn the invasion. He also said Israeli President Shimon Peres should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize for failing to stop the invasion.

The PFLP paid tribute to the people of Latin America and their struggle for justice and liberation, noting that the Latin American nations of Venezuela and Bolivia - and Ecuador, where Parliament recently officially condemned Israel, and Cuba, which has repeatedly expressed its solidarity with our people - are leading the way in the international isolation of Israel for its crimes, massacres and genocide. The PFLP saluted the ongoing revolutionary and progressive process in Latin America that is casting off US imperialism and IMF dictates, and is presenting an alternative for the world that stands hand in hand with the Palestinian people and our resistance.

The PFLP statement concluded with saluting our sisters and brothers in Bolivia and calling upon all international progressive forces to repeat the actions by the Bolivian people and expel, boycott, sanction and isolate Israel diplomatically, militarily, economically, culturally and politically.