COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST LENINIST) RED FLAG
CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
Nl2-11,
C8,
Sector
9, Nerul,
Navi
Mumbai, Maharashtra
, Pin
400706
Date 13-11-2016
OBSERVE November 29 as Palestine solidarity Day
Long Live India Palestine Friendship
Down with Zionism
Down With Imperialism
This policy was initially promoted by British imperialism because they wanted to create an artificial racist state in the west asia in order to safeguard the interests of imperialist oil industry in that region. Again, the British imperialists wanted to divide the unity of Arabs and jews that has been forged in the fight against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. This was the motive behind Balfour Declaration on 2nd November 1917.
Between the two World Wars, the rich oligarchy in US and other capitalist imperialist countries organized wealth , Weapons and men for Jewish occupation of Palestine. After World War II This was intensified. Shifting from the plans to create Jewish land in the then Uganda, the Imperialist and Zionist clique targeted to occupy Palestine. finally , by UN resolution181 (II), military aggression and Zionist terrorist strikes got strengthened in Palestine on high scale.
On the14th May 1948, the day before the British withdrawal, the Zionist leaders declared 'The Independent State of Israel'. Soon after the British withdrawal took place on the 15th May 1948, war was unleashed by the newly established Zionist Israeli State upon the neighboring Arab countries. The war ended with the establishment of the 'Armistice Lines of 1949', also called 'Green Line'. Palestine was divided into three parts, the land that the Jews occupied during the war, which constitute the current Zionist Israeli State, and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was left to the Jordanian Administration, and the Gaza Strip was left to the Egyptian Administration.
The1948-war has significant meaning for both the Zionists and the Palestinians. For the Zionists, the war marks the establishment of the Zionist Israeli State, but for the Palestinians, it signifies the events referred to as 'Al Nakba' (the Catastrophe). For during and after the 1948-war, at least in 418 Palestinian villages a great number of Palestinian people were massacred and the rest were driven out. These villages were demolished, and about 80% of the Palestinian population were expelled from the newly created Zionist State of Israel. The expelled people were banned by Zionist Israel to return to their homes and lands. Mass murders done by Zionist Terror gangs like that a Dier Yassin exemplified the Zionist policy of wiping out the people of Palestine. Terrorist groups like Irgun and Lehi (Stern Gang) did these acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip were under Jordanian and Egyptian Administration, respectively, from 1949 until the 4th June 1967. On the 5th June 1967, Zionist Israel unleashed war , and within six days, Zionist Armed forces occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Syrian Golan Heights, including Shab'a Farms. Another Nakba (Catastrophe) for the Palestinian people took place, for in the course of war, more than 350,000 Palestinian were forced to flee, some of them becoming refugees for the second time. Although 'UN Security Council Resolution 242' requires Israel to withdraw from Arab land it occupied during the war, Israel did not abide by it.
In later years, Zionist Israel and Egypt made a peace agreement, known as the 'Camp David I Agreement', and by 1982 Sinai was returned to Egypt, unlike the Golan Heights which are still occupied to the moment. In addition, other peace agreements between Zionist Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), known as the 'Oslo Accords I and II', were signed in 1993 and 1995, respectively.
Although these agreements, along side many more, enabled the Palestinian people to have a representative government and to attain the status of observer Status in the UN last year on 29th November, it did not give them sovereignty over the Palestinian land occupied in the course of the 1967-war, and till date it also has not helped to build an Independent Palestinian State. Instead Zionist Israel is trying to fragmentize the Occupied Palestinian Territory by building settlements, outposts, barriers, bypass roads, and not to forget, the 'Segregation Wall'.
At the moment, Zionist Israel is in control of 57% of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), on which, during Forty Years of Occupation, has built its 207 current settlements and 217 settlement outposts that contain about 480,000 Jewish Settlers. These settlements and outposts are located in the West Bank, as the Gaza Strip's settlements were dismantled in 2005.
Still, after 2005, Three major wars were waged by Zionist Israel upon Palestine such as Gaza War (2008–09), also known as Operation Cast Lead ; 2012 conflict, also known as Operation Pillar of Defense ; 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, also known asOperation Protective Edge. All these were wars of atrocious bombings and mass-murder. Humanity stood with its head hung in shame and grief as these genocidal wars could not be prevented or stopped in time.
So, the question of Palestine was one of the first just issues brought before the foundation of United Nations. Yet it remains unanswered until this moment, as UN and its members continue to be powerless.
The desire of Palestine to have its deserved place as a sovereign and equal member among the international community is just and its peoples' right. This rightful desire is denied and oppressed by Zionist Israel and the imperialist Camp lead by the US Imperialism. These forces do it by various ways of military and terrorist attacks upon the people of palestine and their leaders. This chain of wars, assasinations and belligerent tactics of isolations went on continuing.
The people of Palestine appeal to the International community to support their struggle towards the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestine State. As the part of unwavering Communist policy long upheld, we stand by Palestine, its right to establish a free, sovereign and secular republic of Palestine. We condemn the Zionist Israel for its wars of aggression and innumerable and immeasurable acts of terror, assassinations and mass murder. We call upon the democratic , secular and anti-imperialist forces to come forward for this cause by rallying to observe the day of solidarity with Palestine on this November 29
M.S JAYAKUMAR (SIGNATURE) GENERAL SECRETARY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
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