Open door for talks on Israel, Palestine state recognition – The Militant

....In the face of decades of defeats and setbacks for working people in the Middle East, caused by anti-working-class misleaderships, whether Stalinist, bourgeois nationalist or Islamist, the SWP says, the toilers need a different starting point: “the class interests and solidarity of workers and toiling farmers across the Middle East — be they Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Kurdish, Turkish, Persian or otherwise, and whatever their religious or other beliefs — as well as working people in the United States and around the world.

“We are for whatever helps working people organize and act together to advance our demands and struggles against the capitalist governments and ruling classes that exploit and oppress us.

“We are for whatever renews our class solidarity and self-confidence, advancing us along a revolutionary course toward a united struggle for workers power.”

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....working people in the West Bank and Gaza have been losing confidence in the Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaderships, tired of their dead-end course. Hamas has repressed demonstrations and locked up opponents as discontent with its rule has grown, even as it has cut deals with the Israeli government to allow thousands of Gazans to work inside Israel.

Every time the Palestinian misleaders refuse to pursue opportunities to discuss a settlement, it means they start from a worse position. “The record of Arab-Israeli peace efforts can be summed up succinctly,” New York Times columnist and former Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens said in his Jan. 30 Times column. “Nearly every time the Arab side said no, it wound up with less...."

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