Israeli Socialist to speak in Derry and Belfast

Wednesday May 29, 2002 16:59

by Gary - Socialist Party

Israeli Socialist Speaks Out.. ...Against the re-occupation and for A socialist solution in Israel/Palestine Derry: 8pm Monday 10th June, The Junction Bishop Street Belfast: 8pm Tuesday 11th June Holiday Inn 106 University Street

Derry: 8pm Monday 10th June, The Junction Bishop Street

Belfast: 8pm Tuesday 11th June Holiday Inn 106 University Street

Towards a regional war?
Israel’s bloody re-occupation of parts of the West Bank will turn out to be a disaster not just for Palestinians but for the ordinary people of Israel as well.
Sharon’s methods carried out in the name of “providing security” will only produce a new generation of suicide bombers determined to inflict revenge on Israelis.
Further military incursions, probably into Gaza, as well as the West Bank followed by retaliatory attacks inside Israel are now likely. It is possible that the end result of this escalating spiral of tit-for-tat bloodshed could be a new regional war.
Solutions from below
Neither the right wing Sharon government nor the corrupt Palestinian rulers are capable of offering any way out. The Israeli ruling class will not grant the Palestinians a genuinely independent state and none of the groups leading the struggle on the Palestinian side have either a programme or tactics to bring such a state about.
As in Northern Ireland a genuine solution will not come from the ruling elites, whether it be the ruling class in Israel or the rotten regimes that are in power in the Arab states.
It is only the ordinary people of the region, the working class and impoverished masses in the Occupied Territories and the Arab states and the working class in Israel who can end the conflict.
Developing a socialist struggle
If the Intifada is to be developed into a struggle that can achieve a state for Palestinians it needs to be organised on a democratic basis with committees of struggle organised to allow the mass of the people to take control. It also needs a programme, not just to end the Israeli occupation, but to get rid of the corrupt Palestinian leadership and set up a socialist Palestine.
Suicide bombings and other attacks inside Israel only drive the Israeli population behind the government. An appeal by Palestinians to Israeli soldiers and to the Israeli working class for a common struggle against all the regimes of the area would be a much more effective way of undermining the Israeli ruling class.
Ma’avak Sozialisti is the Socialist Party’s sister organisation in Israel/Palestine. It campaigns among Palestinians and Israelis for a socialist solution – a socialist Israel and a socialist Palestine as part of a wider socialist federation of the region.
Following Sharon’s re-occupation of West Bank towns Ma’avak Sozialisti members in Israel were active on the streets demanding an immediate withdrawal of the IDF from the occupied areas.
Yuval, a member of Ma’avak Sozialisti from Israel, will give a first hand account of the current upheaval in Israel and in the Territories. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear an Israeli socialist give a true account of what is really happening.

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Comments (5 of 5)

Israeli Socialist

by dave

Wed May 29, 2002 22:37

Re the Israeli Socialist
Can he find an Arab Socialist to come with him and show that they can both preach peace and the inter denominational class struggle ? To make things even can he bring along a member of the Arab Peace Now movement ?
Will he be able to tell us and our "Socialist " friends of the Brussels EU set up what has happened to all the EU money meant for the Palestinian PEOPLE --or has that gone down the drain of a corrupt elite or in some ones pockets ? I heard Prof Hanan Ashwari has some Louis Vuitton [?] luggage -she was spotted at Heathrow Airport with about 8 L B cases .[One of my mates works there for B.A.] Hardly the leader of a revolution ?
What development projects did the PA set up to help the Arab working class ? What will happen when Israel does withdraw behind the 1967 lines or as near as dam it .Will Palestine then be able to support itself .

Come along and find out.

by ph

Wed May 29, 2002 22:58

Why don't you come and ask him in person, its quite an effort to get someone over from israel, so come and put your questions to him thats why hes here.

Supporting Palestine

by Oliver O'Driscoll

Thu May 30, 2002 00:30

I was not aware that the Zionists had ever supported Palestine, though they have played a role in reducing the population and in a not so little land grabbing. The only solution is for working people in Israel and Palestine to unite and struggle for a solution that is in their interests, i.e. a Socialist Israel and Palestine.

by red

Thu May 30, 2002 00:56

Not all Israelis are zionists.

Dublin

by Mark - Socialist Party

Thu May 30, 2002 11:14

The Israeli Socialist is also speaking in Dublin on June 12th (Wed). We also hope to have some other speakers organised by then.

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