Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:24
The historic mission of the Israeli peace movement has always been to guarantee the security of the Jewish state through an accommodation with the ruling classes of the region.
This was as opposed to the hawks alternative policy of maintaining an Iron Wall of overwhelming military superiority and an alliance with US imperialism against popular movements and radical nationalist regimes.
In other words, the peace movement has aspired to be the proponent of a pragmatic Israeli foreign and security policy and not to be the ally of the oppressed Palestinians.
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:23
The Workers Liberty group is notorious on the Britsh left for its support for Zionism. It seeks to marry the right of the Palestinians to their own state with the right of Israel to exist within secure borders.
Like most of the Zionist left in Israel they start not from the Palestinians need for peace with justice but from Israels need to have peace with security. Their latest pamphlet thus argues for a two states solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.1
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:21
During and after the establish-ment of the state of Israel in 1948, almost 800,000 Palestini-ans were ethnically cleansed. They were turned from citizens into refugees. These refugees and their descendants are the largest and most persistent refugee group in the world with over 3.7 million registered by the United Nations and about 2 million others not registered.
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:20
Among the many reasons for the start of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, the massive expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza must count as the most important.
The 1993 Oslo Accords signed by the PLO and Israel were meant to reconcile Palestinian aspirations for self-determination and statehood and the existence of Israel. In fact, an aggressive policy of settlement expansion and consolidation took place over the following seven years. More Arab land was taken over and more Palestinian homes were bulldozed, more exclusively Jewish roads were built through Palestinian areas and more natural resources, such as water, were seized for the exclusive use of settlers.
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:19
Zionism, as a colonial settler movement during the first part of the 20th century, had to be strategically allied to one imperialist power or another. Not only did these powers provide the funds for settlement but more importantly they controlled the Middle East. British imperialism was hegemonic there from 1918 until 1947-53 when it was supplanted by the USA.
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Tue 05, September 2006 @ 00:18
On 29 March Israel launched a full-scale invasion of areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) with the intention of destroying the PNA infrastructure, killing or detaining hundreds of Palestinian fighters and terrorising the civilian population, especially in the refugee camps. It was a war waged with the same ferocity as Israels invasion of the Lebanon in 1982 and the force used to subdue the first intifada ten years ago
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