No to the Annexation of
Palestinian Territory!
Days of Rage Against Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Territories
Gaza, Palestine, July 1, 2020
July 1 was designated a Day of Rage by
Palestinian resistance against Israeli plans to
annex significant parts of the occupied
Palestinian territories. In the weeks leading up
to July 1, there have been protests throughout the
occupied territories, in Europe, the U.S. and
Canada as well, condemning the annexation plan of
the Israeli Zionists. July 1 was the date set by
Israeli government leaders to formally move ahead
with annexation -- roughly 30 per cent of the
Jordan Valley and parts of the occupied West Bank.
Israel did not follow through with its July 1
deadline -- some say by design, that it was
intended to put maximum pressure on the
Palestinians to submit to the Deal of the Century
proposition announced in January this year by U.S.
President Donald Trump. If that was the objective,
it failed.
 Annexation and
legitimizing the role of the Zionist state of
Israel over the Palestinians, negating their
rights as a people, including their right of
return, is what the Deal of the Century is all
about. For its part, Canada has remained
completely silent in the face of what is a
complete violation of international law being
orchestrated by U.S. imperialism and the Zionist
state of Israel.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
immediately denounced the proposal put forward by
President Donald Trump as a provocation and act of
violence against the Palestinian people. On
January 31 CPC(M-L) wrote: "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
seven 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 from 2018 to
2019."
Internationally many, including United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the EU and
others have decried the annexation plan as a
threat to peace and called on Israel to abandon
the plan. "If implemented," Guterres told the UN
Security Council, "annexation would constitute a
most serious violation of international law,
grievously harm the prospect of a two-state
solution and undercut the possibilities of a
renewal of negotiations."
In this edition, TML Weekly is publishing
photos and reports of actions during the Days of
Rage and reprinting statements of Canadian
Palestinian organizations and an open letter
signed by some 59 former Canadian diplomats
calling on Canada to take a stand in support of an
international order based on the rule of law and
to reject annexation by Israel of occupied
Palestinian territories. TML Weekly also
calls on Canadians to vigorously support actions
in their area in support of the Palestinian
people's right to be, for their sovereignty and
statehood.
100,000 march in Gaza, July
1, 2020.
Ramallah, July 1, 2020.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 24 - July 4, 2020
Article Link:
No to the Annexation of
Palestinian Territory!: Days of Rage Against Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Territories
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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