JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES - Palestine

[Mirrorsonic]

JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES

The massacre at the expense of the people of Palestine must end now

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We, the communist and workers’ parties which sign this Joint Statement condemn the barbaric and criminal assault of the state of Israel against the Palestinian people.
We express our full solidarity with the people of Palestine and we call on the workers all over the world to mobilize in order to strengthen the wave of condemnation against Israel, in order for solidarity with the Palestinian people to be expressed in a practical way.
The USA also bears an enormous responsibility for these bloody developments, which is supporting Israel in every way in the continuation of the oppression and massacre of the Palestinian people.
The EU also bears responsibility, as it follows the line of keeping an “equal distance” between the victim and the persecutor and is simultaneously developing cooperation with Israel at a military and economic-political level.
The communist and workers’ parties that sign this statement demand:
That the crime against the Palestinian people be condemned.
The continuing air raids against the Palestinian people must cease immediately and a ground offensive must be prevented.
The Israeli occupation armies must withdraw.
The immediate liberation of all political prisoners from the Israeli prisons.
The tearing down of the unacceptable wall of division and the lifting of every form of blockade against the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The immediate end to the settlements and the withdrawal of all the settlers that have settled beyond the 1967 borders.
The right of return of all the Palestinian refugees to their homes, on the basis of the relevant UN decisions.
All joint military exercises and all the agreements of military cooperation with Israel must be cancelled.
A Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

CP of Albania
PADS, Algeria
CP of Australia
Party of Labour of Austria
DPT, Bahrain
CP of Bangladesh
WP of Bangladesh
CWP of Belarus
CP Britain
NCP of Britain
SWP of Croatia
CP in Denmark
PRCF, France
CP of Greece
Hungarian WP
CP of India (Marxist)
Tudeh Party, Iran
CP of Ireland
CP Italy
Jordanian CP
CP of Luxembourg
CP of Mexico
NCP of Netherlands
CP of Norway
Palestinian CP
Palestinian People’s Party
Peruvian CP
Phillipine CP (PKP-1930)
CP of Poland
CWP of Russia
NCP of Yugoslavia, Serbia
CP of Slovakia
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Party of the Communists of Catalonia, Spain
CP of Sudan
Syrian CP
Union of Communists of Ukraine

The Statement is still open for signatures.

[Patrice O'neal]

Even when Israel did not occupy the territories their surrounding neighbors invaded them, why would the Israeli population support their government relinqueshing occupied territories when the civillians of Israel have had 1500 rockets fired at them over the last few months?

Don't get me wrong, I am an anarchist and I do not support, critically or otherwise any state, but the stance on this from communist parties just seems so far from reality.

In history name one time where a state would not engage and crush military opposition, especially one that openly targets civillians? The singling out of Israel which has has all its neighbors team up to destroy it, for criticism and ignoring Hamas and their crimes is not a revolutionary position.

And as for the constant numbers game about how many more civillians Israel have killed, well of course, when you have huge ammounts of people in tiny urban areas any military action taken by israel in response to rocket fire on its civillian centres will result in palestinian innocent loss of life.

All sides in this are reactionary and both people in both places are being fucked, but this championing of palestine has nothing to do with communism.

Our thoughts should be with people who have been killed or lost loved ones through all this bullshit. It is always horrific when people die but when kids die it is just soul destroying.