Israel/Palestine

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Stop the slaughter! Israel out of Lebanon! Stop rocket attacks on Israeli civilians!

The hundreds of civilian casualties and the vast destruction of the infrastructure of Lebanon's economic and social life by the Israeli armed forces is provoking world-wide indignation and anger. And so it should! Does Israel have a right to defend itself from those whose stated political and military objective is to wipe out the Jewish nation? Yes, it has. But, apart from any other considerations, the disparity of power as between Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinians, is such that the reckless destruction and slaughter in Lebanon can not be justified in terms of Israel's need...

Israel should get out of Gaza and West Bank!

By Mark Osborn The Israeli government plans to withdraw 9,000 settlers and the troops that protect them from the Gaza Strip in mid-August. Israel will maintain control of Gaza’s borders, coastline and airspace. As the pull-out nears Ariel Sharon’s Israeli government is facing mobilisations from right-wing settlers who oppose the withdrawal. A mass protest began on Monday 18 July and ended on 20 Wednesday 20. They wanted to march into the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip, via the Kissufim border crossing, but were stopped by police. The protesters are, as we write, heading home. The...

The Israel-Hizbollah war and left-wing anti-semitism now

Anti-semitism in Britain is at its worst for decades: attacks on Jews, on the streets and on college campuses, have become endemic. Ninety-two such attacks were reported in July.....The role of the kitsch-left is creating the culture in which anti-semitism is now beginning to thrive, has been recorded over many years in “Solidarity” -------------------------------------------------------------------- Anti-semitism in Britain is at its worst for decades: attacks on Jews, on the streets and on college campuses, have become endemic. Ninety-two such attacks were reported in July, after the recent...

What we said: the Oslo Accords, 1993

Breakthrough for the PLO: Socialist Organiser editorial, issue no. 572, 9 September 1993 In our opinion, the Israel-PLO deal is, despite everything, a breakthrough for the Palestinians. Let us consider the objections to it. On the Arab side, there are two sorts of objections. The first is an objection on principle to any deal that leaves Israel in existence. The second is an objection is on the grounds of the scope and details of the deal. There are many good grounds for objections to the scope and details of the upcoming agreement. It gives the Palestinians too little now; it does not commit...

Hamas-Fatah unity?

By Dan Katz Palestinian Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh says a deal to form a Palestinian national government is close. That government will be led by Hamas, which has a parliamentary majority, with the nationalist Fatah organisation as a junior partner. Haniyeh says the government will be based on the “Prisoners’ Document” which calls for a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza, and which would restrict action against the Israeli occupation to those areas. The cocument was drawn up by leaders of Hamas and Fatah who are currently in Israeli jails. The document presents a political...

Le Liban: Arrêtez le massacre!

Déclaration de l’Alliance for Workers Liberty (Alliance pour la liberté des travailleurs) sur la guerre du Liban Les forces armées israéliennes ont infligé une immense destruction aux infrastructures de la vie économique et sociale libanaise. Elles ont tué des centaines de civils. La différence entre le massacre délibéré des civils, la marque de commerce de toutes les organisations clérico-fascistes, et les victimes civiles « collatérales » est embrouillée par l’imprudence et l’indifférence d’Israël pour les victimes civiles. Le fait que le Hezbollah (et le Hamas) situent délibérément leurs...

Draft text for motions in trade union branches on Lebanon

Draft text for motions in trade union branches on Lebanon. Please adapt as seems best. We condemn the recent Israeli bombing and invasion of Lebanon, and call for the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon. We believe: That the only workable political basis in the Middle East for peace, and for the cross-border workers' unity necessary for the fundamental solution to the region's sufferings, a socialist federation of the Middle East, is the right of every nation to self-determination - including both Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. That means the right of the Palestinians to...

Paris anti-war demo - August 12

Took a few days break in Paris, amongst other things, to go on the demo in Paris on August 12 against the Israeli attack on Lebanon. Images and short video of LCR and LO contingent below.

I give a superficial impression below(as my French is not good so conversations were very limited) but it seems...

Stop the slaughter!

The Israeli armed forces have inflicted a vast destruction on the infrastructure of Lebanese economic and social life. They have killed hundreds of civilians. The difference between the deliberate slaughter of civilians, the trade-mark of all the clerical-fascist organisations, and “collateral” civilian casualties in a military operation is blurred by Israel’s recklessness and indifference to civilian casualties. The fact that Hizbollah (and Hamas) deliberately site the rocket-launching bases, from which they bomb Israeli civilians, amidst dense civilian populations cannot justify Israel...

Against two states

By Paddy Dollard Socialist Worker has come out against a two-state solution to the Jewish Arab conflict (Alex Callinicos, SW 5 August). Calinicos argues that two states would not be a solution because compared with Israel a Palestinian state would be very weak. He lists a range of problems, difficulties and obstacles in the way of two states being a solution. In the very last paragraph he announces the solution — “The only way out — lies in… a single secular and democratic Palestinian state, in which Jews and Arabs, Christians and Muslims live together on the basis of equality” — but gives no...

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