The moves by the Israeli regime to militarily occupy several Palestinian cities and towns throughout the West Bank, and surround the refugee camps with fences, should be met with renewed protests by working people the world over. Working people in the United States have a particular responsibility to demand an immediate end to Washington’s military aid to the Israeli regime.

While claiming opposition to a military invasion by Tel Aviv, the Bush administration continues to pour massive military aid into a regime that carries out an endless list of brutalities against the Palestinian people--mass arrests of men and women who are handcuffed and blindfolded and taken away in trucks, cold-blooded assassinations of fighters, and torture--all aimed at denying Palestinians their right to self-determination.

Despite their brutal military occupation, constant harassment, and encirclement of entire Palestinian communities, the Israeli rulers are incapable of crushing the resistance of the Palestinian masses.

The Israeli rulers are increasingly frustrated with their inability to suppress a new generation of Palestinians, who refuse to submit to the brutality of the Israeli capitalist regime and its imperialist backers in Washington, in spite of the bourgeois leadership that leads them into a dead end time and again.

Tel Aviv also faces war weariness among a growing layer of Jews who are repulsed by the murderous acts of the government and are beginning to see the Israeli state as a deathtrap for them. Recent declarations by dozens of Israeli soldiers denouncing assaults on the occupied territories point to the challenges that the rulers must face at home.

The criminal pledges of Israeli politicians to retaliate a thousandfold for every Jew killed, and calls for an all-out war against Palestinians only widen the deadly trap that Israel represents for Jews. As long as the terror imposed by the Israeli government, and the denial of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination continue, there will always be Palestinian toilers who resist, and give their lives in struggle.

The Militant backs the struggle for a democratic, secular Palestine. From the beginning, the goal of the Palestinian resistance has been the destruction of the colonial settler state. This remains the aspiration of the overwhelming majority in spite of conciliatory moves by the Palestinian Authority of floating a "two-state" solution. It is only the call for a democratic, secular Palestine that is capable of mobilizing the widest number of Palestinians and working people who are Jews in a revolutionary struggle to bring down the Israeli state.  
 
 
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