On 25^th September 2011 Palestinian president, Mr Mahmoud Abbas, requested that Palestinians be granted full membership to the united nation through a speech to the UN General Assembly. He formally handed the application to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations. The Palestinian people have an undeniable right to an independent and viable state. No conditions dictated by the Israeli occupation, the so-called international community, quartet on the Middle East or the Security Council are acceptable. The masses in Palestine have suffered oppression and discrimination for six decades because of the interests of the regional and world powers.

Today the voices of the American and European governments rose against this request. These governments continue to make noise about democracy and human rights; this is despite the fact that they do not allow Palestinians the right to an independent and viable state. They are similar to Israeli fascism, which due to the political equations of the Cold War era were destined to be the main power in the region. That era has passed for good. Barak Obama, a democratic president who promised to solve the Palestinian question in one-year, supports all the oppressive practices and actions committed by Israelalong its entire history.

Those who want to separate themselves from the US and its president to achieve a strong footling in the region, like Nicolas Sarkozy of France, give up their principles of democracy and human rights when it comes to Palestinians and propose a non-member observer state. American and Western democracy and human rights are designed according to the sphere of influence of capital. Their standard is the national interest of capital, especially in current times where the world is again divided amongst major powers.

They support the armed movements in Libya, to overthrow the capitalist dictatorship of Kaddafi. The nature of these movements and whether they are terrorists or oppressors is not the main issue. Their human rights consist of the right to accumulate and plunder wealth, provide suitable conditions for investments according to the free market economy and create privatization of the entire economy under the justification of facilitating the development of infrastructure in different nations. They aim at undermining the influence of China and Russia in Libya and Syria through overthrowing these regimes but when it comes to Yemen, which lies under their own sphere of influence, they have a different policy. Thus, their claims in democracy and human rights are hollow claims. The claims of these forces and their bodies, like the UN and the Security Council, on human rights and fighting terrorism are historical lies and should go to where they belong - the dustbin of the history. Nobody should be deceived by these claims except for those mercenary journalists who gain livelihood through defending these lies.

We, in the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, strongly support establishing the independent Palestinian state and we support Mr Mahmoud Abbas’s pursuit of this goal. Establishing an independent Palestinian state will put an end to part of the tragic conditions, which prevail in the Middle East and Arab World and will end a conflict which has been ongoing on for six decades. This is the conflict in which most of the movements and governments of Arab nationalism colluded with Israel and America in order to remain in power. They submitted the masses through false claims about the Palestine question. Ending this conflict will be the first step in clarifying the class view of workers in the Arab World against the ruling bourgeois nationalist movements and Islamic movements, which use the Israeli occupation as an excuse to oppress the masses in their countries and kill their aspirations. It will be the beginning of restraining these movements, undermining their ideas, authority and capability.

2011-09-23