In 1947-48 the Zionists grabbed most of Palestine from the Arab population by force and terror, and then set up the Jewish State of Israel. Most of the Palestinian Arabs were kicked out into the refugee camps.
The international community, apart from the Arab and Moslem states, recognized Israel. We were told that it was only the Jewish people that made the desert blossom like a rose. Actually, Palestine was always a fertile land. Only the ownership of the land changed. The Arab Jaffa oranges became now the Jewish Jaffa oranges.
In 1964, the Palestinian Liberation Organization demanded that all Jews who live illegally settled themselves in Palestine after the Second World War, leave Palestine and let the Palestinian Arabs return to their homeland.
Nobody took any notice. The PLO then watered down its demands, to one for a secular state in the whole of Palestine where Jews and Arabs would live together in peace.
Nobody took any notice. The PLO watered down again its demand, only to establish a mini-Palestine State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, this is just one fifth of historic Palestine.
The Israelis responded by establishing many Jewish fortified settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In September of 2000, Ariel Sharon and 1000 Israeli troops invaded the Al Aqsa Mosque area of Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has now attacked the whole of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Part of the Arab League has responded by offering to let Israel keep all of its ill-gotten gains and to recognize Israel, in return for a Palestinian mini-state on what is left of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s response has been to make the West Bank and the Gaza Strip unlivable for the Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs are obviously against the wall. They must fight or get out and live in perpetual degradation.
There are 200,000,000 Arabs living between the Gulf and the Atlantic. This Arab nation was partitioned artificially into many ridiculous countries by the British and French imperialists, the divide and rule program of imperialism. The rulers of these present Arab countries are either traitors, cowards or just windbags. The growing pressure by the people will build up to get rid of them. Israel may eventually be very sorry that it did not settle for the Arab League’s generous offer.
The PLO was right in 1964. The Jewish settlers who came to Palestine after World War II had already had their homelands in: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Britain and the United States, to name just a few.
All this expansion, killing and horror perpetrated by Israel would not be possible without the connivance and help of US imperialism and the US Zionist Lobby in Washington. As the USA ignores all of the decisions of the United Nations resolutions, so does Israel.
From Finsbury Communist - England
In the Near East:
By Gabriel Peri
"L’Humanite "– France
May 26, 1936
Gabriel Peri (1902-1941) was from a well-to-do employee’s family, a brilliant student. He became involved in politics and joined the Young Socialists of France in 1917, then joined the Communist Party of France.
He as an extremely brilliant journalist and an orator and a member of the CC CPF and in charge of the international section of the Communist Party’s newspaper "L’Humanite". He led a strong campaign against the appeasement policies of Great Britain and France in face of the coming aggression by Germany.
In the summer of 1940 he participated as one of the leaders in the clandestine reconstruction of the Communist Party of France. He wrote the pamphlet "No, Nazism is not socialism". Arrested in May 1941, he was executed in December of 1941.
Below is the article he wrote for L’Humanite. Translated by Eric Mueller, Dallas, USA.
For more than a month – to fix the date, since April 15, 1936 – Palestine had been in a state of open revolt. Demonstrations and bloody clashes are multiplying. The last few days have left 36 dead among the Arab population, the Jewish population, and the British occupation troops. New reinforcements of tanks and armored vehicles have been dispatched to Palestine.
These events deserve to hold our attention, and it is indispensable, in our opinion, to correct the erroneous interpretations that can loom up regarding them. Some voluntarily nothing in the final analysis but the result of Hitler’s propaganda and Mussolini’s intrigues. We cannot subscribe to this judgment. No one can deny that Hitlerite fascism and Italian fascism try hard to use every incident in international life to exploit them for their suspicious aims. But it would be wrong to be content with these facts to get a correct understanding of the Palestinian movement.
The Arabs revolted even in 1929, when Hitler was not yet in power and where there was no rivalry pitting Great Britain against Italy. The Palestinian revolt is linked with a general movement of rebellion that agitates the whole Arab word, in Egypt, in Syria, just as in Palestine.
Is this revolt justified? We believe that it is perfectly justified. We add that, in our opinion, it is a big mistake to classify it as an anti-Semitic movement. Anti-Semitism is to us profoundly odious.
But it is not against the Jews as such that the Arabs are rebelling. It is a form of exploitation thought up and put into practice by British imperialism.
Basically, on the pretext of a Jewish national home, there has been organized in Palestine a veritable plunder of the Arabs. The big Zionist association, Karen Kayeneth, makes this kind of plunder its specialty. Profiting from the lack of property titles among the Fellahs (peasants) and Bedouins, they get an agreement with an Arab feudal – a shaykh – to appropriate their land. Afterwards they tell the fellahs that they must leave the land that their ancestors have worked on hard for centuries. If the fellahs do not obey, the Zionist association asks the British soldiers for help.
There is more. A veritable manhunt for Arab workers has been organized by another organization, the Histadruth. Each year, at harvest time, there are organized by Zionist storm troopers at building sites and in factories from which the Arabs are mercilessly chased out.
This is how Zionists organized pogroms in reverse.
How, in such previous conditions, can the Arab population not be expected to rise up in active rebellion? The leaders of that revolt had taken care to repeat a hundred times that they did not intend to give in to anti-Semitism. They wanted to fight against British imperialism and its ally, Zionism. They asked that a stop be put to Jewish immigration, which had gone from 80,000 in 1914 to 450,000 in 1935. That is not, whatever some may say, an anti-Jewish watchword. It is by respecting the law of refuge; it is by respecting international solidarity against fascism, and not through complicity of plunder, that we intend to defend the cause of Jews persecuted by Hitlerism.
The Arabs, in addition, demand a ban on all sales of Arab land. They advocate the formation of an Arab national government.
These demands are just. They are inspired by the will of a people to shake up a domination that is suffocating them.
The cause of the Jewish workers, pursued by the fascist dictators, is not that of the expropriators who belong to the big Zionist associations, but with the cause of the oppressed of all colours and all races who do not want to allow themselves to be despoiled.
Gabriel Peri
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