A free Palestine will indeed be primarily up to the Palestinians who are suffering and dying for for basic human rights in the West Bank,Jerusalem and ,still, in Gaza.
But the Palestinian people can use all the internationalist help they can get...hence the role of the International Solidarity Movement in supporting those residents who have seem their homes bulldozed around them.
Hence the role of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign which organised a big rally in London two weeks ago to highlight the continuing plight of the victims of the Nakba and the inequities of the apartheid wall.
The Stop The Wall Coalition also took the political decision to place the issue of a FREE PALESTINE at the heart of the anti war movement .
In Egypt some of the political dead weight of the past few years is beginning to shift which could well effect events elsewhere in the region.
When the people of Palestine are being daily pulverised in their homes by shells and warplanes the raising of international solidarity is important ....or do we turn our backs and say its nothing but a dead end struggle for national liberation.
Finally, Piers.... you sound like a sad old sectarian......
ifor