In Nazareth, thousands of Jews and Arabs marched from Tawfiq Zayad Street to Mary’s Well Square in the city center, where a rally featuring political speeches was held.
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| Fascist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir |
Adopted on the night of March 30, the law stipulates that capital punishment will be imposed on anyone who carries out a deadly attack “with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.” In reality, however, the law is crafted in such a way that it overwhelmingly targets Palestinians.
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| Palestinian communist Tawfiq Zayyad speaks at a rally, 1979 |
“Two days ago someone asked me why I oppose the war,” she said. “I replied that answers should be demanded from those who start wars, not from those who oppose them. The default must be opposition to war, because wars will never bring security or peace.”
On Saturday evening, demonstrators gathered at Habima Square in Tel Aviv to protest the government’s decision to continue the military assault. Protesters carried banners and placards reading, among other slogans, “Stop the imperialist aggression” and “Justice for Palestine,” calling for resistance to the war and to Israel’s deeper involvement in the regional conflict.
The war of aggression launched by the Netanyahu criminal government and the United States Imperialism in the early hours of Saturday morning against Iran has ignited a full-scale war and dragged the region and its peoples towards more disasters and civilian casualties – all in the service of imperialist interests, against the interests of peoples, their independence and their right to self-determination in an effort to dominate and control the region and the world.
Comrade Makhoul, who passed away Friday, December 26, at the age of 73, was a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of Israel and the director of the Emil Touma Center for Palestinian and Israeli Studies, former MK and a former General Secretary of the CPI.
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| Photo: Morning Star |
The Communist Party of Israel leading member, who has been suspended from Israel’s parliament for 10 months of the last two years because of his public denunciations of the Gaza genocide, described how Jewish settlers “in a chilling imitation of other Nazis” set fire to a mosque last week in the occupied West Bank.
The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East. It is not the story of dominant political forces or large armies, but of a small and persistent current that, for over a century, has tried to carve out a political path distinct from partition, conquest, and exclusion. Palestinian and Israeli communists—Arabs and Jews—built joint organizations, resisted colonialism, opposed military occupation, and spoke for coexistence at moments when the surrounding climate favored division and hostility.