Communist Party International Committee BRIEFING 13 November 2014 PALESTINE CPB Congress November 2012 28. The key priority of our international agenda must be the implementation of UN Resolution 194 calling for the creation of a sovereign, viable and independent Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel with the borders of 4 June 1967, Jerusalem as its capital and the right of return of refugees. In furtherance of this goal and to highlight the injustices perpetuated by the state of Israel, we will campaign for its universal boycott, including all things academic, cultural, economic, military and political. 29. We support the demands of the Palestinian people and their organisations for the restoration of all that has been taken from them, for rights and freedoms, the cessation of abuse and the release of all political detainees, including child prisoners. Our party supports the demand for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood and sees it as its particular duty to campaign for the release of the Palestine Legislative Council member and PLO leader, Marwan Barghouti. Our party also notes the continuing opposition within Israel to the creation of a sectarian Jewish state, the mass movement developing in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and the role of the Communist Party of Israel.
Statements of the 14th and 15th International Meetings of Communist and Workers Parties December 2012 and November 2013 2012: ‘Condemning the on-going atrocities perpetuated by the Israeli occupying forces against the Palestinian people, supporting their right in resisting occupation, and building their independent state, East Jerusalem as a capital, and strengthening the campaign for the immediate lifting of the blockade against Gaza and for the Right of Return.’ 2013 Press Release: Reiterated previous commitments and ‘re-affirmed its solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle national rights.’
2014 is the UN’s ‘International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’ The General Assembly resolution A/68/12 (November 2013) named 2014 as the year of solidarity with the Palestinian People – with the objective of winning global awareness of the demands of the Palestinian People as ratified by UN resolution, winning an understanding of the obstacles to their achievement and a global mobilisation to overcome them
Israel’s geopolitical alliances Palestine became a British Mandate under the League of Nations in 1922. Prior to 1945 Britain used Jewish immigration to stabilise its military grip on Palestine in face of repeated Arab insurgency. After 1945 and prior to the formal end of the British mandate in 1948 Britain resisted Jewish attempts to establish a separate state for fear of alienating support in its Arab client states (Egypt, Jordon, Iraq). After the Naqba of 1948, when Jewish settlers