{"id":6164,"date":"2014-10-09T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2014-10-09T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:37:17","slug":"does-the-british-socialist-party-support-the-two-state-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2014\/10\/09\/does-the-british-socialist-party-support-the-two-state-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the British Socialist Party support the two-state solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRITAIN<\/em>
\nWritten by Marcos Margarido <\/em>
\nWednesday, 01 October 2014 16:01
\n<\/em>
\nFirstly, it is important to say that unity in struggle against the Israeli military aggression, the brutal occupation imposed on Gaza, and the attacks in the West Bank strengthens the struggle for Palestine.
\nIt is important that parties such as the Socialist Party have condemned Israel for slaughtering the Palestinian people. But this cannot mask our differences.
\nThe Socialist Party, and its international, the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), argue for a \u201ctwo states – a socialist Palestine and a socialist Israel\u201d solution. In Liverpool, for example, theirleaflet advocated a negotiated solution to the genocidal Israeli massacre and, as a final solution, the existence of a socialist state of Palestine and a socialist state of Israel in the region.
\nWe do not agree. Firstly, there is no possibility of negotiated solution with Israel. On the contrary, to destroy the ongoing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority was the immediate reason for Israel\u2019s attack, under the pretext of the murder of three Israeli children by Palestinians, which has never been proven.
\nMilitary Israeli leaders say openly their aim is to turn the Gaza Strip to dust. Arnon Sofer, one of the leading demographers of the country, on forecasting the demographic imbalance between Palestinians and Jews in the territory of historic Palestine stated that \u201cif we want to remain alive, we have to kill and kill and kill, all day, every day. If we don\u2019t kill, we\u2019ll cease to exist\u201d. That\u2019s what Israel does.
\nIt seems that the SP reflects the position of the Israeli left, who called the demonstration on July 26 in Tel Aviv with the following words: “We must end the war and start talking with the Palestinian Recognized leadership of the West Bank and Gaza … Instead of being drawn again and again, into more wars and more military actions, it is now time to lead the way to dialogue and political settlement.”
\nThe problem is that the Israeli Left defends the two-state solution, with a few concessions to the Palestinians. But there will be no peace without justice. If the so called Zionist left really seeks peace, it must break with Zionism and side with the Palestinians inside and outside the borders of 1948 to fight for a single state in the historic Palestine.
\nTwo socialist states side by side?<\/strong>
\nDefending two socialist states in the region in the future, is defending a two-state solution now, because for two socialist states to exist in the future it is necessary that they exist \u2013 as capitalist states – before being transformed by revolutions.
\nThis is also are wrong in the long run. The SP calls for two socialist states, that is, two separate states, existing side by side with each other. But if they are socialist states they would have no border between them. There can be no boundaries between socialist states, except if one defends the farce of \u201csocialism in one country\u201d advocated by Stalin.
\nPeter Taafe further says that the \u201cPalestinian and Jewish peoples have decided that they could not live together in one state\u201d.
\nWhere the Palestinians decided this is not stated. The Palestinians are the ones facing genocide, it is not they who are deciding who they should or should not live with. Otherwise,, Taafe should be mentioning the treacherous position of the Palestinian Authority (PA), expressed in the Oslo agreements, that were never submitted to a democratic decision by the Palestinian people, inside and outside the current borders.
\nSP against Boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS)<\/strong>
\nThe SP are against BDS campaign. They say in relation to boycott campaigns, \u201cif threatened with destruction, the Israeli population will fight\u201d. Seven weeks of slaughter supported by a large majority of Israel\u2019s population proves that Israel\u2019s war threatens Palestine with destruction. On the other side, the Israeli population\u2019s fight against BDS is entirely reactionary; is the same as the fight of the white minority in South Africa, and shouldn\u2019t be supported.
\nJudy Beishon in Socialism Today<\/em> (No.169, June 2013) argues that there \u201care the limits on what boycotts are likely to achieve\u201d.
\nBut international support from the US, the EU, South Africa and across the world is mounting. There are a lot of examples that can\u2019t be mentioned in this article, but they show that the actions carried out by the youth and the working class all over the world might force the Israeli\u2019s government to get down its knees, how it happened, in that time, with the white minority\u2019s government in South Africa. It means that the international struggle and solidarity is key for Palestinians.
\nWithout the struggle for a single state of Palestine, Zionism will maintain its genocidal policy. Therefore, both in the present struggle and in the future, the only solution is a single, secular, non-racist Palestinian state.
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