Communist Party of Israel
Against The attempts at de-legitimization
of the Palestinian people's rights
"The Hammas movement's success in the Palestinian legislative assembly election implies a significant change in the state of affairs in the occupied territories, concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and with regard to the Middle East as a whole", stated the Political Bureau of CPI on January 27th.
In its statement the PB emphasized the fact that Hammas has been reinforced by the official policy of Israel and United States. The danger is, that in the near future Israeli government, with the support of Bush administration will use Hammas' victory as an excuse for military actions against the Palestinians and against Iran.
The everlasting official Israeli policy of occupation, fully supported by the U.S administration, the suffering caused as a result of many decades under occupation, the thousands of victims, the ongoing construction of settlements and the separation wall, on one hand, and on the other hand – Israeli government's refusal to renew the negotiations with the Palestinians and its decision to withdraw the army and the settlements from the Gaza strip unilaterally – all of these have weakened the Palestinian authority and empowered the Hammas. Add to this the weakness of the Palestinian authority and the public exposure of corruption. These have led many Palestinians to vote for Hammas as means of protest against the Fattah.
Long before, we have welcomed the popular character of the first Palestinian uprising and criticized the military form of the second one. We have estimated that armed struggle and terror activities would not lead to end the occupation but rather increase the aggression of the occupying forces.
On September 2005, CPI has published a strategic file, analyzing Sharon's disengagement plan. That file included the assessment that the disengagement would be followed by a collapse both in Israeli and Palestinian political arenas. This forecast has been realized by the Hammas victory and by the numerous changes that have already occurred in the political map of Israeli parties.
Leaders of Kadima, Likud and Labor parties harried to announce, following Hammas' victory, that Israel has no partner in the Palestinian side. The truth is, however, that the last decade is marked by the refusal of Israeli governments to any political negotiation, which would lead to the end of the conflict by the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Instead of arriving at a peace agreement based on the 4th of June 1967 lines, the Israeli governments starved the Palestinian people, imprisoned them behind walls, robbed its lands and created throughout the occupied territories political and physical apartheid.
CPI evaluates that Hammas' success might strengthen the Israeli right wing forces and the refusal policy of the Israeli government. CPI warns against any attempt of the Israeli establishment at abusing the Palestinian legislative assembly election results as justification for amplified oppression and further confiscation of territories as well as for racist and exorcising campaign against the Arab citizens of Israel.
CPI calls upon the peace seekers in Israel, Jews and Arabs, to thrust away the attempt at de-legitimization of the Palestinian people and the political conspiracies by Israeli leaders and the Bush administration against just peace and Palestine independence. We shall continue with greater vigor with our public struggle for the evacuation of all the territories occupied in 1967 and for an overall and just Israeli- Palestinian peace.