The following Editorial was published in "The Guardian", newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, November 1, 2000. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The Guardian": <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webpage: http://www.cpa.org.au> Subscription rates on request. ****************************** Editorial: Israeli dead end Behind the manoeuvres going on in the Israeli Knesset to form a government of "national unity" is the reality that the decades long policies pursued by successive Israeli Governments, be they Labour or Likud, have landed Israel in a dead-end. Israel was created by decision of the United Nations out of sympathy with the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis in WW2. It was an artificial state planted in the lands of the Palestinians even though historically, Jews also inhabited that region of the world. Zionists took control of the new Israeli state and hijacked the aspirations of Jews from the four corners of the earth to which they had been scattered. The Zionists pursued the aim of creating a Greater Israel by occupying more and more Arab land and forcing the inhabitants out. There were always ready justifications at hand to launch war against the Arab states and the Palestinians because Arab states opposed the decision of the UN (1945) to create a Jewish state behind which lay not a progressive concept but a racist one. Whether it was war or the so-called "peace process" the objective was the same -- a greater Israel and the expulsion of the Palestinians. Even these complex problems would have been solved many years ago but for the fact that the US built up Israel as a predominant military and economic power to be used as a battering ram against the Arab states which possessed the world's largest oil resources. Inevitably, the Arab states opposed these policies and although, initially weak, they have inevitably become stronger and more resentful of both Israeli actions and America's anti-Arab aims. The US-Israeli aims were not only pursued by military aggression. The "peace process" was also about forcing the Palestinians to accept a colonial status, impoverished, weak, with a tiny divided geographical area, and a government which would do as it was told by the Israelis and the US. All this has come tumbling down with the second Intifada -- the really heroic struggle of the Palestinian people who have shown that they are prepared to suffer considerable loss of life in their unequal struggle -- stone throwers against the well armed Israeli armed forces. What is Israel to do? Kill the Palestinians, four a day until they have all gone or been turned into refugees and fled their historic homeland? Can Israel launch a new all-out war against the Arab countries as it did in 1967? It might be thought that these aims would be implemented by an ultra-conservative Israeli Government in which the two ex- Israeli generals -- Barak and Sharon -- participated. And this is how it might turn out but in the end it will land Israel in the same dead-end it faces today. The present "peace process" has also been exploded as the fraud that it always was and is no longer an option unless Palestinians can be forced to accept a colonial status. Given the realities of its geographical region, surrounded by Arab states, Israel has to make a genuine peace with them otherwise it will be the source of endless conflict, facing Arab countries whose populations will have nothing but hatred for Israel and whose states will become stronger as time goes on. This is not the only question. Is Israel to forever remain a cat's-paw for United States interests in the region or will it decide to pursue policies in its own interests? Although it appears that the majority of Israel's Jewish population supports their government's military operations against the Palestinians, reality and sanity must eventually emerge. They must get rid of the Zionist cancer and the US tutelage that has brought Israel to this present impasse. It is a time for wise decisions but it remains to be seen whether Israeli leaders are yet big enough to change policies that will at last take Israel on to a new path and achieve its real security in coexistence with its Arab neighbours. ****************************************************************** -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
