Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 22.05.2025
You don’t have to be a genius to realize that Israel has entered the road South Africa traveled in the middle of the 1980s. Even left Zionists like Yair Golan understand it. However, being a Zionist, his vision is to return Israel to the ethnocracy it was before Netanyahu.
Israel has never been a liberal democracy. From 1948 to the end of 1966, the Palestinians who remained in Israel after the mass ethnic cleansing lived under military rule. In preparation to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, the military rule was removed from the Palestinian citizens of Israel and enforced on the Palestinians in the new occupied territories. This change was aimed at the creation of suspicion between the Palestinians of 1948 and 1967. The old Roman method of divide and rule.
For years since the war of 1967, Israel, which was ranked as the fourth strongest army in the world, has been considered a strategic asset of Western imperialism. However, in the war with the small Hamas and other smaller resistance organizations, Israel lost the longest war in its bloody history.
The American imperialism led by Trump sees Netanyahu as an obstacle to his strategy for the Middle East of relying on the Gulf states and maybe even Iran. Most Israelis want to end the war and get the captured Israelis in Gaza. Netanyahu and his gang want to continue the war for years and occupy the entire starving enclave. General(reserved) Yair Golan wants to save Israel from its destruction, hoping to return it to the false image of the only democracy in the region. We find in the “Jerusalem Post”:
“The Democrats Party chairman, Yair Golan, addressed the war in the Gaza Strip during an interview on Monday with Kan Reshet Bet’s This Morning program, saying: “A sane country does not kill babies for a hobby.”“Israel is on the path to becoming a pariah state among the nations – like the South Africa of old – if it does not return to behaving like a sane country,” Golan said. “A sane country does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies for a hobby, and does not set goals involving the expulsion of populations.” [1]
Whom does he try to cheat? Israel was formed by 30-40 massacres and the expulsion of 750,000-900,000 Palestinians. Thus, by his criteria, Israel was never a “sane” country. Now Western imperialists are trying to hide that for many years they backed Israel and, like the USA, provided it with the weapons used to murder the Arabs. Now, in this attempt, they call for a mini-Palestinian state – a Bantustan alongside the Zionist settler colonialist state on 80% of the Palestinian stolen land. A call supported by the reformists and many centrists.
The only solution is one secular democratic state for the Jews and all the Palestinians, including the Palestinian refugees, governed by the government of Workers and Fellahin.
For one secular democratic state that includes the Israelis and all the Palestinians, including the refugees!
For a constituent Assembly, including the Palestinian refugees!
For the Arab revolution and a socialist federation of the region!
Endnotes:
[1] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-854678