Israel/Palestine: One State or Two, Capitalism Rules

Dallas, TX, March 29  — Several PL’ers attended a small conference here of members of the One Democratic State (in Palestine) group.
This group oppose the two-state proposal because of two basic reasons: 1) Given the use of the right-wing settlements by the Israeli government to divide up and take over more and more of the remaining West Bank, any “Palestinian state” will be a collection of geographically separated islands. 2) All residents of, and refugees from, Palestine of all ethnicities should be able to live together in peace, justice and equality. They also want to see the end of both the Zionist government and the Palestinian Authority, which they view as a puppet of the government of Israel.
At the conference the question of what kind of state should be implemented was raised by PL’ers. Whether there are two states or one state, as long as it is under capitalism there will continue to be inequality, racism, oppression, exploitation and wars. Only by building communist revolution will we ever have a world where working-class families can live together as one.
There was no agreement on what type of state there should be. It was left with the statement,  “We encourage continued discussion on the future economic system.”
At the conference we did meet some  people who are looking for ways to work for a better world. CHALLENGEs and flyers were distributed to people with whom we talked.  We plan to keep in touch with some of those we met. It is important that we not ignore opportunities to reach out to people with our politics and our actions. The working class has nothing to lose but our chains.