International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
New Delhi, November 20-22, 2009
Intervention by Faten Ghattas, Communist Party of Israel
Dear Comrades
It is a pleasure to participate in this important meeting of communist parties and unions from around the world as a representative of the Israeli Communist Party, the party internationalist Jewish - Arab, that our participation in this meeting comes from the strategic vision of the importance of sharing ideas and attitudes and create a unified strategy for our party to stand in the forefront of the struggle against capitalism and class oppression and for social justice and socialism and peace.
The Israeli Communist Party, which culminated in its celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of its founding in the seventh of this month in a lavish ceremony with the participation of thousands of former Communists, its militants brilliant history-makers, along with the Communist Youth young guard of the party and the participation of delegations from communist parties and unions sister came to confirm the follow-up to this process based on honorable the unity of intellectual Marxism - Leninism and Ommith party hard labor Jews - Arabs in the State of Israel within the State territory and threatened the security of the region.
The newspaper " Al-Etihad " as well as in the celebrated anniversary of the founding of the -65, which is maintained by the Arabic language and Arab culture of the Palestinian minority in Israel.
The Communist Party, which was founded in 1919 over in many of the stations very difficult in our country that have passed and still in the conflicts, wars and numerous calamities, but the positions of the party and proved his health, especially in difficult moments, even walked a popular country and the region put on the Communist Party for what we signed of these calamities, wars and woes. Did not make fundamental errors that we always provide us with the intellectual and political vision of the appropriate starting points are applied to the internationalist vision of class Marxism - Leninism in the reality of the national question the boat.
Dear Comrades
That the capitalist system in Israel is in deep trouble as the rest of the capitalist world but the crisis deepened in three areas:
The economic crisis and further economic polarization.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party estimates that the global economic crisis deepening, it is an expression of the fundamental internal contradictions of capitalism and the outcome of neo-liberal policy, which class is widening gaps between owners of capital and Alogerin.
The proposed budget and economic plan, presented by the Netanyahu government as well as the militarization of the budget and the occupation and settlement, it aims to save the major corporations at the expense of reducing wages and the expansion of unemployment and other tax concessions for the rich and the continuing cuts in social services.
Economic development in the Israeli economy will continue to stagnation and lack of economic development beyond the boundaries by zero percent. Nominal gross domestic product and gross national product
Reports of the Central Bureau of Statistics show that 1,650,000 people in Israel is poor and this equals 24% of the population. 784.000 of them from the events of 34% of them.
The proportion of poor among the minority of Palestinian nationalism, it up to 48%!!
Per capita income of the Jewish family by the largest 120% of the per capita share
The details of the data and analysis reflect the reality terrible, we have known for decades, but what proves to us that the policy of racial discrimination fester more, and this is evidenced by the widening gaps between Jews and Arabs
As for unemployment, which is approaching the 8% it up among Arab women to the above - 80%, as well as 80% of Arab academics do not work according to university degrees
What we are witnessing here is the policy of starvation and oppression assassinate a bit of bread, and we are facing together, the first Jew according to the standards of developed countries, and the second Arab accordance with the standards of developing countries poor.
It should be emphasized that the military budget account for more than fifty percent of the volume of the public budget
State budget deducted from education and social welfare, industry and housing for the militarization and the preparation of a new war, perhaps the country out of its economic crisis.
And the Government of enriching the rich and impoverishing the poor reduce income tax on employers of big capital and corporate monopolies, reducing the corporate income tax from 65% to 35%.
This, along with the continued policy of privatization and the sale of state property and state land and state-owned companies to the owners of capital.
The phenomenon of violence and murder rife within Israeli society, the power of money up to State institutions and the impact is sometimes crucial, gangs are threatening the judiciary, which also threatens the remnants of the democratic system, former prime minister Ehud Olmert to face trial in the abuse of power for the benefit of the owners of capital.
The right-wing government and the occupation settlement does not include its plan to address poverty and unemployment and the exit from the circle of economic stagnation. The Government adopts the commission of crimes against the Palestinian people can not pursue an economic policy that reconciles the high cost of the policy of aggression and the development of the civilian economy and the policy of social justice.
Racial Discrimination in Israel and her career in the direction of the State of Apartheid.
In Israel there are about 1.25 million Palestinian Arabs who clung to their land despite the catastrophe, wars and all attempts to displacement, they are the legitimate owners of the country, this national minority, which is an integral part of the Palestinian people, demanding the right to be recognized as a national minority with rights common to the national demands for equality Civil full.
This minority, which has killed them in 2000 the army and police shot dead 13 Arab youths cold blood did not provide an indictment of any of the killers who are known.
At the beginning of this month, the Attorney General to submit an indictment against a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and a member of the Israeli Parliament and the President of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality Comrade Mohammed Baraka for his involvement in 4 different demonstrations with his people against Aaharb and racism, this trial is to cross all the red lines, a screw the latter in the coffin of democracy forged in Israel, said the Communist Party, which will address all the power to defend Comrade pool invites you to conduct the widest possible global campaign of solidarity with our comrade to stop this farce. " Our party will work to turn this trial into an indictment and condemnation of all practices of the apartheid government.
In practice we are witnessing in recent years a wave of legislation that led the Israeli right and pass in the Knesset legislation, which was in fact attempting to impose a new equation on the Palestinians at home, in dealing with the Palestinian people in general. Israel is using the negotiations with the official Palestinian leadership, to draw the parameters of a new relationship with the Palestinians at home to limit the political freedoms of the Palestinian Arab minority, in order to devote a Jewish State and the superiority of formal and actual citizen of the Jewish citizens of Palestine, and to devote his inferiority legal second class citizens and even third, and say has clearly and unequivocally that a citizen is equal to the Jewish citizen. Israel claims that it provides rights and civil liberties of individuals, meaning it does not recognize Arabs as a national minority, not collective rights to them, but provide them with full equality of individuals, this legislation is in fact reflect a serious deterioration of the Jewish-Israeli society's perception of the Arab community does not recognize the right of Arabs to obtain equal rights, such as a Jewish citizen, as confirmed by recent polls that reported that two-thirds of Jewish citizens and agreed to the argument not to grant the Arabs have equal rights
He has led our party in the first of October general strike of the Palestinian masses inside the country.
The Israeli society sliding toward fascism is really disturbing than hype and propaganda today, and we are on the brink of the abyss, and we accommodate the most effective tool to combat the outbreak and stop it before it is too late!
Israeli occupation and the Palestinian cause.
What remains of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land in Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan and the territory of Sheba in Lebanon continued for 42 years, this occupation is the core conflict in the region and any other on terrorism and the other is just a smokescreen, the real terrorism is the occupation Mopqath and the Palestinian people
That Israel was trying hard to transform the conflict into a conflict between different religions and particularly in Jerusalem, because this is in their interest and meet with the policy of U.S. imperialism in linking Islam with terrorism, that U.S. imperialism is created, and grew up fundamentalist movements to fight communism in Afghanistan and elsewhere, as well as Israel is born Hamas to fight the Palestine Liberation Organization, that these movements has not been unrelated to religion and we have always emphasized this separation and counter religious fundamentalism.
The state of division on the Palestinian arena is extremely dangerous and threatens the future of the Palestinian cause the image of a convergence of the work of the Trinity filth: imperialism, Zionism and Arab reactionary, because this division only serves Israel
The Communist Party sees the importance of the role of the PLO the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, who stepped down this role in recent years in favor of the Palestinian National Authority, which had recently discovered that it had completed its role and become a civilian administration under the authority of the Israeli occupation. I made a bet that all this command leaves the solution in the hands of United States and the only bet on them and the failure of its bid
Our Party assesses twice sadly left forces globally and Israelis, as well as on the Palestinian arena and the growing strength of fundamentalism and the weakness of alternative launch a genuine political militant anti-occupation, including that people do not live in a vacuum, so quiet, and Hamas has become even progressives see it as a force against the occupation and America, that our party stands along with all anti-occupation movement because the resistance is a sacred right, but progressives should not be fooled by appearance, but analyze the substance.
Of the reactionary Arab sits on the thrones of its role seriously, a full partner in the plots woven against the Palestinian people of Zionism and U.S. imperialism, the Communists have an important role in the erosion of these positions and explain it to people
Way out of the crisis in Israel:
• ending the occupation and full Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders and the dismantling of settlements and the recognition of the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people.
• the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel and Arab Jerusalem as its capital and resolving the refugee issue in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations to return or compensation.
• Recognition of the Palestinian masses in Israel as a national minority and give them full equality in their homeland and restoration of their land stolen and the return of refugees in their home to their villages destroyed.
• the dismantling of the Israeli nuclear arsenal and halt the nuclear arms race, and not threatened by looking for
• a just and real peace is the one who gives security to Israel and change the priorities of economic war budget to social welfare, education and housing.
• increase the strength of the Communist Party and the forces of the left in general is a safety valve out of the tunnel.
• Pursue the construction of socialism never because the system that would give the community of social justice, we also desired to clarify the responsibility Ashimml about what socialism is, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Our Party assesses high this meeting and the efforts to unify the positions of the communists in the world, "Workers of the world unite," This is a logo and a realistic and true to him as well, we raised the slogan of "O communist parties unite," because the unity of the Communists is the foundation stone for the strengthening of the socialist alternative
Extend our deep gratitude to our fellow communists in India (CPI) - CPI Marxist for hosting this important meeting, Communist Party, hoping to be hosting the consolidated step towards the unity of the communists in India! On behalf of all the Communists in Israel draw greetings to all the revolutionary communists and progressives in the world in their struggle hard and stubborn to achieve our goals for progress, freedom and social justice for the victory of socialism