Translated "Avante!"article by Ângelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee
The GENERAL elections that took place, in Israel, april 9th last, and the political framework in which they are inserted ought to arouse all those who defend peace, peoples rights and democracy, a deep reflexion and concern that cannot stay still. They demand action and struggle.
The elections’ outcome expresses two directions. The first is that Israel assumes more and more, to be a confessional and racist state. What produces the important abstention increase among the Arab population, more and more oppressed, treated as "second class citizens". This reality places the inevitable question on if the Israeli elections were genuinely free. The answer is no. Amid a state that practices occupation, discrimination and apartheid policy.
The second, signifies that these elections frame, along with the previous period, had as background, Israel’s state confrontation, bellicose and state terrorism exalting, with the purpose of changing the electoral act into a kind of plebiscite, a starting point configured and decided upon the idea that Israel state existence presupposes that the people of Palestine have not the right to build their state of Palestine. this is the major question behind the recent events.
One is before a major qualitative change on the Palestinian issue, and the Israeli elections served as a "democratic" appearance to the Israeli government policy action that, more and more, affirms itself as openly illegal and extremist.
All this was behind the whole Israeli government and the trump administration performance that have acted as a highly coordinated unique block. Trump’s decision of transferring the USA embassy unto Jerusalem, the incendiary statements coming from the North-American administration on the Golan mountains and Netanyahu’s statements on the west bank annexation intentions represent a frontal attack to all that up to present has been established by international law concerning the Palestinian issue, namely the two states solution.
That is present in all that currently is known on the century agreement, coordinated by Jared Kushner, trump’s son-in-law and adviser, one of the leading members of the USA powerful Zionist lobby. According released news, published in North-American papers, the "century agreement" eliminates the existence of a Palestinian state as a fundamental premise of a peace process, in other words, tears apart all that, up to the present moment, was decided in peace agreements that never were respected by Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu ought to be named, once again, to become the Israeli government prime-minister. With the support of several ultra-orthodox and openly fascist forces and Trump, his next actions ought to signify serious steps within a policy that, more and more, figures out to be the people of Palestine ethnic cleansing and ought to inflame the already Middle East cauldron. The moment demands clarity. The Portuguese government ought to clearly reject the far-right couple Netanyahu – Trump and openly condemn Israel state terrorism.