Making peace with genocidal Zionism

Like apartheid South Africa, Israel is a limited democracy. It is a democracy built on the imprisonment of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the wider region and the second class status of Palestinian Israelis. It is a democracy built on the exclusion of Palestinians.

The apartheid Israeli regime depends for its existence on US imperialism. Without the $3 billion in non-military aid it provides Israel, the Jewish state could not exist.

Israel is the armed wing of US terrorism and imperialism in the region. It destabilises the Middle East through its presence and actions. It helps prop us US supported dictatorships in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Israel is part of the patchwork of dictatorships in the most important strategic region for the US. This importance stems directly from oil, and the need and the ability of the US to control its distribution, especially to China.

It is not only Zionism which is the creature of US imperialism. Elements of Palestinian society have also capitulated to the invading forces and their American master. These are especially the Palestinian bourgeoisie and upper middle classes, and their political expression the PLO.