A-Infos (en) What does the Palestinian left do? by anarchist alternative libertair [machine translation]

A special report from the February 2010 issue of the monthly libertarian Alternative: One 
year after the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and its 1,400 victims, the 
situation of the Palestinian population is dramatic. While a UN report confirms that the 
IDF has engaged in war crimes in January 2009, Israeli leaders are not low profile. 
Netanyahu continued to refuse a freeze on settlements, Barack Obama gives a free hand to 
the Zionist state, and the prospect of another war, even a reoccupation of Gaza are not 
excluded. Solidarity needed. At the invitation of Palestinian society, the anti-colonial 
world are mobilized in the campaign Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS).

But in Palestine, where is the resistance? The media continue to demonize Hamas, 
justifying all the Israeli atrocities. But Hamas and Fatah are not alone in opposing 
Israel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Marxist influence, has 
never admitted nor Israel nor the Oslo Accords and has never renounced the struggle for 
the liberation of Palestine.

Why are the progressive forces and secular Palestinian, are they not able to embody the 
hope among the population? Where is the Palestinian left as a whole? How is the 
Palestinian popular movement? Why social movements in the Occupied Territories are they at 
this point in the trough of the wave?

So many questions to ask before the next intifada.
What does the Palestinian left?

One year after the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and its 1,400 victims, the 
situation of the Palestinian population is dramatic. While a UN report confirms that the 
IDF has engaged in war crimes in January 2009, Israeli leaders are not low profile. 
Netanyahu continued to refuse a freeze on settlements, Barack Obama gives a free hand to 
the Zionist state, and the prospect of another war, even a reoccupation of Gaza are not 
excluded. Solidarity needed. At the invitation of Palestinian society, the anti-colonial 
world are mobilized in the campaign Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS).

But in Palestine, where is the resistance? The media continue to demonize Hamas, 
justifying all the Israeli atrocities. But Hamas and Fatah are not alone in opposing 
Israel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Marxist influence, has 
never admitted nor Israel nor the Oslo Accords and has never renounced the struggle for 
the liberation of Palestine.

Why are the progressive forces and secular Palestinian, are they not able to embody the 
hope among the population? Where is the Palestinian left as a whole? How is the 
Palestinian popular movement? Why social movements in the Occupied Territories are they at 
this point in the trough of the wave?

So many questions to ask before the next intifada.

In summary the "File Palestine":

* Ghassan Ali, a libertarian to communist PFLP http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16103
* Between Fatah and Hamas, which left one survives http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16102
* 1962-2000: Matzpen, enemy within http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16101
* 1972-1982, the lost dream of an Islamic-Communism http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16100
* 1936-1939: A revolt sabotaged http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16099
* Settlement: and now work http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16098
* Zionism: A Century of falsification http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16097
* AL: What solution to the conflict? http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16096
* Read: Finkelstein, "Killing Hope" http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16095
* Habash, "Revolutionaries never die" http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16094
* Read: "The revolutionary Yiddishland" http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16093
* Read: "Destroy Palestine" http://www.anarkismo.net/article/16092

A folder coordinated by Nicolas Pasadena (AL 77), Cuervo (AL 95) and William Davranche (AL 
Paris-Sud)

Related Link: http://www.alternativelibertaire.org
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