Statement No. 6 of the Three Worker-communist Parties in the Region
Today, May 7th, in an atmosphere filled with fear and dread of the Israeli army's military operations against the people of Gaza and fear of an attack on Rafah, the last remaining "sanctuary" where over one and a half million people from Gaza, after multiple forced displacements and fleeing from bombardments and comprehensive massacres by the rulers of Israel, have sought refuge, once again, the Israeli military government, in complete disregard of global pressure and demands, attacked Rafah.
The pressure from the global movement protesting the genocide by the Israeli army and its direct and indirect supporters in America, Europe, and the Middle East has forced them to find a way out of this deadlock and their genocide to reach agreements. Agreements reached at the diplomatic level (with the mediation of the governments of Qatar and Egypt) resulted in a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel! Agreements that were welcomed by Western governments, the majority of powers ruling the world, as well as a significant portion of the people in Israel, families of Israeli hostages, as well as the people in Gaza, and the families of thousands of Palestinian hostages, prisoners, and detainees in Israeli hands! Tens of thousands of Palestinians hoped that with the ceasefire and the end of their massacre, they could retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from under the rubble of buildings and devastated cities and villages and bury them somewhere.
While in Gaza, amongst the people trapped in Rafah, a glimmer of hope for the end of the bloodbath that has engulfed their city, homes, and society had emerged, while America, under the pressure of a global movement in defence of the Palestinian people and against the genocide and support of the West for Israel, was shaken under the pressure of the student movement protesting against the genocide by the Israeli army and full military and financial support from America, while Western countries, under their own pressure of protest, one after another, were going through deep political crisis, and while many families of Israeli hostages came to the streets protesting against this brutality and demanding acceptance of the ceasefire, on Tuesday, the fascist government of Israel, ordered the people of Gaza in Rafah, more than one and a half million prisoners, men and women, children, elderly, disabled, sick, and ..., their last refuge, to be "relocated" and flee again! Because they want to attack! And today, Wednesday, they began their attack!
Netanyahu and his war cabinet closed all escape routes for the innocent people of Gaza. They closed the routes for food and international aid to ensure their complete destruction and massacre and, at the same time, started an attack indicating a deadlock, an extermination, and a fascist hopelessness that has already failed. The executioners who, using the horrors of Hitler's fascism, for seven months have been committing the same crime against the people of Palestine that the Nazis did against the Jews! The attack on Rafah shows the desperation of the Zionist resurgence movement, which today is using the blood of Gaza's innocent people and Palestinians for its own survival!
Too the global humanity, from the Middle East to America, Europe, and Africa, the attack on Rafah blocks any escape route from the international isolation of Zionism and Israeli fascism, isolation from their biggest supporters in America and Europe caused by their atrocities against the Palestinian people. The unbridled behaviour of the fascist Israeli government and its dim future, the exposure of the extensive files of crime and massacre carried out on Gaza's people by the Lumpen-Fascist Israeli army, does not diminish the destructive role and direct partnership of Western leaders, led by America, in this genocide and the planned annihilation of the Palestinian people.
This is a deadlock of not only Zionists, but America and other Western governments with their unconditional support for the Israeli government, the deadlock of contemporary bourgeoisie and Capitalism, which can only survive through war, massacre, hunger, and displacement of hundreds of millions of deprived people and workers worldwide! This deadlock of "Western democracy" is the deadlock of bourgeois economies, politics, ethics, ideology, and culture, which was supposed to "liberate" the world with the "free market economy" after the end of the Cold War!
Escaping this deadlock, even with the complete massacre of millions of innocent Palestinian people and starting more bloodstreams, is not an easy task! Israel's attack on Rafah is a lost gamble for all of them. This brutality displays the true face of global bourgeoisie, the real face of Western bourgeoisie and "Western democracy," and the scope of rights and human rights in it. A display that reveals the overthrow of the foundations of the global order under America's leadership; its political, social, and cultural downfall.
The attack on Rafah, however, must be the last gambling chance of this failed fascism! We must not allow the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip to be sacrificed any more for such a historic downfall! The attack on Rafah must be the final nail in the coffin of Zionism, Jewish racist fascism, and its global supporters!
But hitting this nail is the task of the world’s working class, the heroes of civilized humanity, which has so far brought down this beloved military state of the West, this hardest and most ferocious, this armed and equipped military and financial and political force of the Western bourgeoisie, on its knees! It is the work of civilized humanity that does not want any more poverty, misery, racism, military and militant, religious and Jewish, Christian and Islamic, backwardness and exploitation of human beings from the Middle East to America, Asia, and Africa.
We, the Worker-communist parties in the region, consider ourselves part of this human force that is on the ground and is taking action to end this massacre. We, the working class and civilized humanity, call on all workers’ unions and organisations, all humane and freedom-loving organisations and forces worldwide and in the Middle East, to confront this brutality. We must not allow the rulers in Israel and their global and regional supporters to commit a general massacre. They must be made to regret their deeds; the whole world must rise against them.
Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
Hekmatist Party (Official Line)
May 7, 2024