All support for the struggle of the Palestinian people against the annexation of the West Bank to Israel
ByGustavo Giménez
On July 1, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government should have begun an ambitious plan to annex territories in the occupied West Bank that would arrive, following the pacts made in January of this year with Trump in the so-called “Deal of the Century”, until the incorporation of a 30% of this region where three million Palestinians live, all areas where they are located 140 illegal settlements of Zionist Jews and the fertile and strategic Jordan Valley, which occupies the entire strip bordering the border of Jordan.
Due to different factors, like last-minute pressure from ally English Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the delays in agreeing on the steps to follow with the North American government, different positions of European imperialism and differences with some Arab governments, like the protest of the king of Jordan against the occupation of the lands bordering his border, amid a strong resurgence of Covid-19 infection in the country, Netanyahu resolved to postpone the application of the annexation plan.
These differences are just tactical disagreements of governments and bourgeoisies that have interests in the region and that fear that their businesses will become complicated., so postponement can in no way create expectations in a long postponement, On the contrary, we must be prepared so that at any moment the announced annexations begin to be carried out and for this reason it is necessary to immediately launch a great campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle repudiating this annexation plan of the Zionist gendarme.. International solidarity is an essential tool to strengthen the Palestinian struggle and defeat the genocidal advance.
The final solution
The agreements made with Trump, They abandon the Oslo Pacts and the “two states” policy and constitute a kind of “final solution” imposed by methods of state terrorism typical of the Nazi regime against the Jewish people..
First was the massacre of thousands of Palestinians to displace them from their lands and the forced exile of five million who are refugees in neighboring countries., as a consequence of the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. After years of persecution, the military occupation of the West Bank, in which they illegally settled thousands of Zionist settlers violating international treaties, to which we must add the conversion of the Gaza Strip into an open-air concentration camp.
Finally, the constitutional modification that only recognizes as citizens those who profess the Jewish religion, the declaration, with support from Trump, of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the decision to extend Israeli sovereignty over territories inhabited mostly by Palestinians in the West Bank, They complete a bloody escalation that seeks to subsume the Palestinian population to small ghettos without sovereignty, security, nor own access to the most basic rights.
This dispossession plan was already applied in Galilee
According to Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's chief political analyst (1), when the plan for the partition of Palestine dictated by the UN in 1947 which envisaged much of Galilee becoming part of a future Palestinian state, The war broke out and the Israeli military occupation of the following two decades outlined a plan similar to that now being implemented in the West Bank.. On that occasion, the best fertile lands were occupied with Jewish settlements, displacing the Palestinian population and preventing them from returning., to then create a settlement system that would break Palestinian contiguity to block their national unity and prevent any secessionist uprising..
After the Six Day War in 1967, Bishara points out that“Israel carried out similar confiscations of Palestinian land to build Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including in and around East Jerusalem. In both regions, Israel established three main Jewish centers in the south, center and north to break the Palestinian contiguity of the newly occupied territories: Nazareth Illit, Carmiel and Maaloth in Galilee, Gush He didn't, Ma’aleh Adumim and Ariel in the Bank of the West.”He then connected these rich and expansive settlements with ring roads and left the original Palestinian population marginalized in poor outlying towns., thus creating a system of apartheid.
The plan that would begin with the annexation of the large Jewish settlements of the Jordan River Valley would then be extended to the smaller settlements scattered throughout the West Bank., guaranteeing military presence, generating small segregated Palestinian state units that as “compensation” would have assistance from the rich Arab bourgeoisies of the region.
The complicit role of the leaderships and the mobilizations of the people
The deceitful “two-state” policy enshrined in the Oslo agreements between the Zionist leadership and that of the Palestinian National Authority is thus abandoned. (ANP), with the blessing of the UN, all world powers and Stalinist currents. This solution, conceived with the mediation of Yankee imperialism, had the objective of stopping the Palestinian struggle materialized in the heroic intifadas.. It constituted a trap to demobilize behind small concessions and gain time to continue consolidating the genocidal state., continue expelling the Palestinian people, subjecting those left under its dominion to an apartheid regime.
Now, This new and brutal advance of Zionism is possible not only because of the determined support of the ultra-reactionary President Trump, but for the complicity of those who, from the UN, EU spokespersons, passing through the regimes inherited from Stalinism and the Arab bourgeoisies, They say they repudiate this outrage, but they do not take any action to stop it, as they have not made any effective sanctions against a terrorist state that has violated all international conventions on human rights and UN resolutions favorable to the rights of the Palestinian people. They are more afraid of the mobilization of the Palestinian and Arab people than of the bravado of the Israeli government..
The ANP that governs the occupied West Bank has indicated that these annexations invalidate the Oslo agreements and will end all collaboration with the Israeli state.. These statements from the traditional leaderships that have put a stop to the Palestinian mobilizations, They are not going to stop the advances of the genocidal monster. Only the mobilization of the Palestinian people together with the Arab peoples of the region and with the solidarity of the rest of the peoples of the world can stop the imperialist beast..
In this sense, it should be noted that, even in the face of the limitations imposed by the Covid pandemic, In early June, thousands of Israelis mobilized in Tel Aviv against the annexations and there were many other protests in Ramallah and the occupied territories.. And facing the imminence of annexation, the Hamas that runs the Gaza strip, He stated that if it materialized it would be a declaration of war, 10.000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip took to the streets and there were various protests in the West Bank in the last few hours. Actions to which we must also add the resurgence in the regional context of mobilizations that, with the Lebanese people at the head, They resume those carried out in the pre-pandemic period by the people of the Middle East against imperialist aggression and the adjustment plans of the bourgeoisies and governments of the countries of the region., in which the defense of the Palestinian cause was expressed very strongly.
These struggles, which add to a long tradition of struggle by the Palestinian people and the Arab peoples of the region, mark a path that disqualifies those skeptics who think that the state of Israel cannot be defeated and thereby justify agreements and negotiations that are always unfavorable to the palestinians. Unlike, hand in hand with the economic crisis and its worsening due to the pandemic, which has led to the unemployment of a 4% of a 25% in mid-april, the Zionist gendarme suffers a significant social deterioration, that weakens it and creates internal contradictions.
A call for international mobilization in support of the Palestinian people
From the LIS we call for the broadest unity to mobilize against this new attack by the genocidal state on the Palestinian people. At the same time that we call for the broadest unity of action to stop the gendarme, We are convinced that there will be no solution for the Palestinian people without the dismantling of that genocidal imperial enclave that is the state of Israel.. We need a new democratic state, secular and non-racist, in which the Palestinians can live in peace with the peoples who want to inhabit those territories.
The revolutionary socialists of the LIS are convinced that this single Palestinian state can only be achieved by fighting against capitalist structures., since the current Arab leaderships have given up this fight. The enormous mobilizations against racism and xenophobia that the movement“black lives matter” has unleashed in the US and other nations, They have shown how capitalism needs racism, of xenophobia and apartheid, like what the Palestinians suffer today, as a fundamental tool for capital accumulation.
Because, the task of eradicating apartheid and reconquering the lands and democratic rights that the Palestinians demand, It is closely linked to the fights against capitalist superexploitation and oppression in the region.. Today, more than ever, We must fight together with the Palestinians for a Palestine without racist oppression, exploitation and misery, a Socialist Palestine.
- Article titled“Hubris: the end of Israel's game in Palestine" published on Al Jazeera on 30/06/2020
