All Out to Support the Palestinian People's
Heroic Resistance to Occupation!
- Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist), January 31, 2020 -
The
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) resolutely condemns "Peace
to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and
Israeli People," put forward by President Donald Trump on January 28 as
a provocation and act of violence against the Palestinian people. It is
aimed at extinguishing their rights, particularly the right of return,
a collective right which has been affirmed year after year by the
United Nations General Assembly. By proposing that the more than 7
million Palestinians, including those in Gaza and the West Bank, be
settled in what will be a bantustan in Gaza, in the countries where
they are now living or in some other state that the U.S. will
generously broker, the aim is to extinguish the historical memory of
the Palestinian people and their decades-long struggle for their rights
so gloriously expressed in the "Great March of Return" in Gaza in 2018
to 2019.
The Palestinian people have had no say over any aspect of this "Deal of
the Century." It is a modern day rendering of the 1917 Balfour
Declaration, the starting point of the crimes and atrocities that have
been committed against the Palestinian people since 1948, in which the
British imperialists handed over Palestine to the Zionists for their
"Jewish state" without the Palestinian people's consent. "Peace to
Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and
Israeli People" gives a green light to the theft of the most productive
lands now in Palestinian hands, such as in the Jordan Valley, and to
the building of more settler homes on Palestinian territory. It would
expand and consolidate the Zionist state while disarming the
Palestinian people in the name of peace and stability and the so-called
prosperity of both peoples.
Protest in Gaza rejecting the Trump deal, January 29, 2020.
Canada, for its part, is playing a most
dishonourable role by condoning the crimes of Israel, always blaming
the Palestinians for the violence, while remaining silent in the face
of massacres, land thefts and destruction of Palestinian property and
accusing any critics of Israeli crimes as "anti-Semitism. Now Canada is
presenting itself as an "honest broker" in order to secure a seat on
the UN Security Council. On the day Trump made his proposal,
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
stated: "Canada remains committed to the goal of achieving a
comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East [...] Canada
recognizes the urgent need to renew efforts toward a negotiated
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and will carefully
examine the details of the U.S. initiative for the Middle East peace
process. Canada has long maintained that peace can only be achieved
through direct negotiations between the parties. We urge the parties to
create the conditions for such negotiations to take place."
While Israel carries out a brutal bombardment of Gaza to terrorize the
people into submitting to U.S.-Israeli dictate, mainstream media in
Canada is silent. Photo is from January 31, 2020.
How do you sit down and negotiate "peace" when
the terms require you to give up all your rights? Far from being an
"honest broker" the Canadian state is continuing its role as an
appeaser of U.S./Israeli policies and crimes against the Palestinian
people.
The Palestinian people, governments in the Middle East and all peace-
and justice-loving people in Canada and around the world have roundly
rejected the "Deal of the Century" as a fraud and provocation against
the heroic Palestinian people.
CPC(M-L) calls on the Canadian people to step up their support for the
Palestinian people's just cause in the wake of this latest assault
against them by the U.S./Zionist aggressors. Canadians must hold the
government to account for conciliating with and providing active
support for the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the crimes of the
occupiers. They must speak out in their own name in support of the
Palestinian people's just and heroic resistance to Israeli occupation
and their affirmation of their inalienable right to be.
All Out to Support the Just
Struggle of the Palestinian People!
The Palestinian People Will Never Relinquish the Right of Return
and Their Claims to Their Homeland!
No to the "Deal of the Century!"
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 2 - February 1, 2020
Article Link:
: No to the Imperialist U.S.-Israeli "Deal of the Century!" End Israeli Occupation of Palestine! - Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist), January 31, 2020
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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