[Marxism] How the rulers of Iran see the solution in Palestine

["yossi schwartz" <ssschwartz8@xxxxxxxxx>]

A controversy began  in mid-July  in Iran when Vice President Esfandiar
Rahim Mashai said Iranians were friends of all people in the world - even
Israelis.



Hard-line lawmakers  opposed this statement and  said Israelis were not
friends and Mashai's comments did not reflect government policy. They also
lashed out at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his decision not to dismiss
the vice president, a close ally.



On Thursday, Ahmadinejad stood by Mashai again, saying Iran is not against
Israelis, though he did not call  them friends. "We don't have a problem
with people. But in no way do we recognize the Zionist regime", he said. He
added that " Jews who have immigrated to Israel were tricked by Zionist
propaganda and the  Iranians are sympathetic to them". "We are opposed to
the idea that people tricked into coming there should be thrown into the sea
or be burned, he told reporters. We believe that all the original people of
Palestine, Jews, Muslims and Christians, should hold a free referendum and
choose their government. Then those who were brought in can decide whether
to leave or stay under the government of Palestine" He emphasized.



On Friday Iran's supreme leader " seeking to end this controversy said: It
was illogical to say Iranians are friends with the Israeli people..



Be as it be, it is clear that the position of the Iranian regime is not the
destruction ofd the Jews living in Palestine but a single Palestinian  state
from the river to the sea based on religious line similar to the time of the
Ottomans

:



Each local community had religious autonomy  so too each religious community
was undisturbed in the conduct of its religious affairs. The Jews of the
Empire as well as each separate Christian sect formed "Millet", a community
organized under the religious l heads and recognized by the Sultan as
possessing authority in matters of communal interest and personal status,
and as competent to speak for all its members in their dealings with the
state. Each "Millet" had power to own and administer its own property, to
dispense its own law in internal matters and to worship as it thought fit.



As Marxist struggling for socialism we oppose this bourgeois-religious
program and we struggle for a Palestinian Workers Republic from the sea to
the river, where the Jews who live in this republic will not have any
privileges
and will have language equality and the right to practice religion  privately
while the public school will teach science and the law will  be based on
nationalized property controlled democratically by the workers themselves.
The executive committee of the Soviets will be the government and it will
include the Jewish workers who support and defend the Palestinian Workers
Republic.

The same idea was advanced by Trotsky in relation to South Africa and we are
basing our approach on his.


However, while we oppose the Iranian government's program we are pointing
out that unlike the Zionist's program that is based on occupation robbery
and ethnic cleansing the Iranian is seeking a solution that include the Jews
who live in Israel.
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