Charlotte Kates Of Canada-designated terrorist entity Samidoun, who recently attended the Beirut funeral of Hezbollah Secretary-General Nasrallah: As 'martyred' hamas military leader Muhammad Deif said, 'October 7 changed the world'.
In a February 9, 2025 Sunday Morning Marxist Forum video call, Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator of Samidoun, which is recognized by the U.S. and Canada as a terrorist entity, quoted Hamas military leader Muhammad Deif in an Al-Jazeera documentary, who had said that October 7 would "change the world."
She said that the hostage release deal, which she referred to as a "prisoner exchange," and Tufan Al-Ahrar [the Flood of the Free], has demonstrated the "ethics of the resistance" and its military strength and increased its ranks.
Kates, an American citizen, said that there is a reason why PFLP founder George Habash had referred to the United States as the "head of the snake."
She said that in a "post Al-Aqsa Flood era of anti-imperialism," activists in the "imperial core" have the responsibility to do whatever they can to build and escalate the "international popular cradle of the resistance" and not simply call for a ceasefire.
She discussed the 1985 Jibril Agreement where the PFLP brokered a prisoner exchange deal with Israel, and she stated that the released prisoners from the deal were central to the breakout of the Intifada.
Therefore, the hostage deal in which Palestinian prisoners were released should be seen as "times of great potential for the Palestinian struggle."
Source: Online Platforms - "ICSS Marxist on YouTube"