2023-07-07 22:49:08
The recent massacre carried out by Israel in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the West Bank, has once again shown without masks the usurping nature of Israel in Palestine and its violent and aggressive nature against the Palestinians. It also showed that the Palestinian people do not give up and resist heroically, especially the young[1].
As the vanguard of this struggle, Palestinian youth are increasingly advancing in their political awareness of the essence of the conflict and in their methods of struggle. This is confirmed by an extensive BBC report[2].
Among the various topics covered by this article, we want to refer especially to his rejection of the supposed solution of the “two states” that would divide the territory of Palestine: a Jewish one (Israel) and a Palestinian one. It was the conception with which the UN created Israel, in 1948, legalizing the usurpation of the majority of the Palestinian territory, and today it continues to be defended by many international leaders, an important part of the world left and by the PNA (Palestinian National Authority) and its political mainstream (Al Fatah). About this supposed “solution”, the BBC informs us:
“International leaders have spent decades advocating for the peaceful coexistence of two states: one Israeli and one Palestinian. But data obtained by the BBC show that this idea has less and less support, mainly among young Palestinians, who also seem not to believe in their own leaders. These exclusive data indicate that Palestinian youth are increasingly rejecting the idea of a two-state solution to the conflict.”. Janna Tamimi, 17, showed “disdain” when asked about this: “The two-state solution is a cliché thought up by the West that does not consider the real situation”.
For decades, the Morenista current and the IWL-FI have been debating that the “two states” do not represent any solution against the sectors of the world left and the Palestinian organizations that defend them.
Among many other articles, we mention one by Alejandro Iturbe published in the magazine Marxismo Vivo, in 2011, recently reproduced on this page.[3]. The text referring to the two states is as follows:
Despite its restricted nature, after so many years of suffering and not having their own country, this proposal is seen, even by sectors of the Palestinian people themselves, although not as the “ideal and fairest solution”, as less, as a step forward that the Israeli government opposes, a foothold for further progress.
In this sense, it is nothing more than the continuity of the UN resolution of 1947. It would once again internationally sanction and legalize the theft and usurpation that the creation of Israel meant, even if it were adopted on the basis of the borders prior to the war of 1967. At the same time, the Palestinian people would be definitively divided into three sectors, much weaker.
The first of these, the million and a half Palestinians who live inside Israel, will be increasingly condemned to endure isolated attacks by Israeli governments that want to erase their memory and history (for example, the ban on remembering the Nakba). ; stripping away Israeli nationality from those who do not swear allegiance to Israel and Zionism; and finally, as is Lieberman’s plan, to expel them outright or leave them in untenable conditions like those living in East Jerusalem.
The three and a half million people from Gaza and the West Bank, inhabitants of the future “independent” mini-State, will have to live in a fragmented country, without any viability of economic autonomy and, even, if the commitments that Abbas is accepting are fulfilled, without armed forces. and with its borders patrolled by NATO troops. In other words, a little more than the current PNA, equally hemmed in by Israel and its military boot, only formally more “independent.”
Finally, the five million who live outside Palestine will see their right of return definitively liquidated. That is the de facto content of the creation of the “two states”: by accepting this resolution, it is accepted that the stolen and usurped lands from which they were expelled are definitively and legally Israeli. And the Palestinian mini-state will not offer any objective possibility (neither economic nor land) for them to settle there.
With their policies, the leaderships of Al-Fatah and Hamas basically express the interests of the bourgeois sectors of the West Bank and Gaza, for whom the creation of the Palestinian mini-state could bring some benefit. But they do so at the cost of sacrificing the other two sectors. Essentially the exiles who, as we saw, would lose any chance of returning.
And this is reflected in the recent mobilizations, where the vanguard became the Palestinian youth living in Syria, Lebanon or Jordan, and also those from more distant countries. For them, as expressed by Soraya Misleh (a Brazilian journalist of Palestinian origin) in an interview published in the magazine International Mail No 5, the right of return is non-negotiable, and the mobilizing axis is: Let’s go back to our land![1]
This opens deep contradictions with the leaderships of Al-Fatah and Hamas and, as we have already pointed out, based on the mobilizations, the possibility of building a new Palestinian leadership that is an alternative to the old leaders and organizations, responsible for so many years of defeats and frustrations. Therefore, Abbas and Al-Fatah began to attempt a relocation. They signed the “reconciliation agreement” with Hamas and submitted to the UN, against the opinion of Israel and imperialism, the request for recognition of the Palestinian state. The move is beginning to pay off, at least in the West Bank: thousands of Palestinians celebrated this request in the streets and, upon his return, Abbas was received with great enthusiasm. In other words, in order to continue being an agent of Israel and imperialism, with a certain popular weight, and not be swept away by the mobilization, Abbas needed to make a tactical move that confronts him on the diplomatic ground.
However, even with all the limitations that Abbas’s claim has, today US imperialism and Israel are not in a position to grant it and are strongly opposed to it. For such a vote to take place at the UN would be a political defeat for them. For this reason, without changing our position on the “two states” or on the character of the UN, we defend the democratic right of the Palestinian people to demand that vote in the UN General Assembly, and we will support any mobilization of that town for that demand.
The only true solution: the construction of a single, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine, and the destruction of Israel. Faced with the proposal of the “two states”, we claim that the only true solution to the “Palestinian question” is the one formulated in the founding program of the PLO: the construction of a single, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine. .
A Palestine without walls or concentration camps, to which the millions of refugees expelled from their land can return, and the millions who remained and today are oppressed recover their full rights. A country where all Jews who are willing to live in peace and with equality can remain. A proposal that was abandoned by the PLO but which is claimed by thousands of young Palestinian activists around the world, and who was present at the recent mobilizations in memory of the Nakba.
But this proposal cannot be carried out, and there will be no peace in Palestine until the State of Israel is definitively defeated and destroyed. That is, until the imperialist cancer that corrodes the region is completely and definitively eradicated. We call on the Jewish workers and people to join this fight against the racist state and policeman of Israel.
However, we must be aware that, due to the character of the Jewish-Israeli population that we have analyzed, it is most likely that only a small minority will accept this proposal, while the vast majority of them, including the old Ashkenazi Zionist base, will surely defend tooth and nail “their State” and its privileges and, therefore, we must fight against them to the end.
The destruction of Israel and the construction of a new Palestine is a historic task, equivalent to the destruction of the German Nazi state or the South African apartheid state. It is a difficult task that can take many years.
But the Arab revolution and the mobilization of the Palestinian people, added to the defeat of the Zionist troops in Lebanon and the crisis of the Zionist State and society, pose as possible and present a unified political and military struggle of the Palestinian people and masses. of the whole of the Arab masses that allows victory”.
[1] This text is the final part of the article “The ‘Palestinian question’, central point of the Arab revolution” published in the magazine Living Marxism New Epoch No 2, in 2011. It was written after a large mobilization of young Palestinians in exile to Israel who “penetrated” Israel’s borders and managed to enter its territory. Currently, as Soraya Misleh recounts in a recent article, the vanguard of the Palestinian resistance has become young Palestinians from the West Bank, in the pockets that she calls “lions dens”.
[1] The new massacre in Jenin and Palestine that does not surrender – International Workers League (litci.org)
[2] Majority of young Palestinians are against two-state solution, says exclusive poll
[3] The Palestinian mini-state is not the solution – International Workers League (litci.org)
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