Main Panel: Iraqi resistance in the front line of the antiimperialist struggle
Speaker: Hisham Bustani – Coordinator -Resistant Arab People’s Alliance, Pan-Arab

It's Time to Radicalize the Concepts on the Arab/Zionist Struggle

It is time for the international Anti-Globalization movement to take up a more concrete analysis instead of clinging to stereo-typed "reasoning". There is no solution but to eliminate the Zionist/Imperialist project, otherwise, it'll only be a slow process of self-consumption, while the enemy gets stronger. And it should be understood that to resist Globalization, you should resist "Israel", and the opposite applies: To resist Globalization, you must resist "Israel", not on the level of policies, but on the level of function and mechanisms, that is: existence.
The Anti-Globalization movement is becoming more and more an important "for-the people-player" in the years that followed the fall of the Soviet Union and the Socialist Block countries. Along with it, came the fall of the lie of the Capitalist "welfare", pseudo-democratic, pseudo-liberal state.
Since then, Capitalism has accelerated tremendously in its aggressive patterns, and have moved on to show, as you all know and experience everyday, that its only way to achieve its profit-driven objectives for the benefit of the "chosen few", is to crush by sheer force not only the materialized and organized resistance of the masses, but even the hopes and dreams of changing this world into a better one. The "new" doctrines of "pre-emptive" and "continuous" war, along with cultural interventionism of Imperialism after the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, are minor examples of what lies ahead.
Among other "hot spots" in the world, the Arab Homeland and its struggle against Imperialism has been very prominent and illustrating. Not only has Imperialism "confiscated" a part of it to create a multi-function front base called "Israel" in the heart of the land of civilization and oil, but it moved directly to occupy Iraq establishing the era of neo-Colonialism following the Afghanistan "affair".
Now, the US is discussing with its "partners" what Powell described earlier -before the occupation of Iraq- as the "re-shaping of the region" to comply with US interests. In the extra-ordinary session of the World Economic Forum (the Global Reconciliation Summit, 21-23 June) held in the Dead Sea-Jordan, and with the participation of Paul Bremer, a W. Bush thesis on the transformation of the Arab East into a "US-Middle East Free Trade Area" was being catalyzed by the Multinationals and the Imperialist and submissive states that make the WEF frame.
Needless to say that the Zionist entity will serve as the "Capitalist center" in this new formula, both by being a regional focal point for the accumulation of multinational/Zionist "investment", and becoming a "marketing" outlet and an exploitation labor-contractor for the Arab "social blocks".
Already, and as an example, Delta Galil, one of the biggest Zionist textile contractors in the Zionist entity, are manufacturing brands like Gap, Victoria's Secret, Boss, Ralph Lauren among other, by exploiting Jordanian women labour for JD 80 (= US$ 112) per month. These products are manufactured in Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) which are special free zones from which a company can export customs-free and quota-free into the US market on one condition: a minimum of 8-20% of raw material should be from an "Israeli" origin!
That's the deal in the Arab region, which will become the primary model for the mechanisms of Globalization after Argentina, especially if the US and Zionist succeeded in re-opening the Haifa-Kirkuk oil pipeline.
It is important at this particular moment to adopt a direct non-compromising position regarding Imperialism, and especially regarding the Zionist entity.
There is NO alternative but resisting Imperialism in an Internationalist approach, where real political/active solidarity is delivered rather than distributing humanitarian sympathy.
It is also important to formulate a position regarding the Imperialist/Zionist project in the Arab region. The resistance to eliminate the occupation in Iraq using all means should be supported, same applies to the fight against the Zionist entity until the defeat of the Zionist project and the elimination of the Zionist entity towards establishing a free, Arab Palestine as a preliminary stage towards the unification of the Arab Homeland and its transformation to independent development and Socialism. There are no other real solutions to the Arab questions besides these.
Our international comrades should understand that halfway solutions will strengthen the Imperialist/Zionist structures and mechanisms. The two-state solution, the bi-national state solution and even the "one-democratic-state" solution without the Arab dimension will not resolve the contradiction between the Arab masses and the Zionist/Imperialist project in the Arab region.
Another issue on which the movement should have a firm position: There are no "progressive Israelis". Those who are part of the Zionist/Imperialist project, even if they "oppose" the Zionist policies, are whether they like it or not, and whether they know it or not, part of "Israel's" structure and mechanisms. One can not be progressive and at the same time be part of the Zionist entity/project. The only progressive "Israeli" is the one who, upon understanding the function and mechanisms of the Zionist entity/project, decides to cut all ties with this entity, resist it, and before all, leave the occupied area on which he resides in the place of an expelled people: The Arab Palestinians.
The movement should be well aware of this and should NOT fall in the NGO trap of "getting both sides to sit and talk" as if the main issue of "Israel's existence" is settled. "Israel" is not a legitimate state, so as ALL the individuals/organizations that represent it or recognize it. Thus, and to emphasize this illegitimacy, all ties with "Israelis" should be deleted. i.e. Normalization with Zionists should be resisted globally, not only in the Arab Homeland.
It is time for the international Anti-Globalization movement to take up a more concrete analysis instead of clinging to stereo-typed "reasoning". There is no solution but to eliminate the Zionist/Imperialist project, otherwise, it'll only be a slow process of self-consumption, while the enemy gets stronger. And it should be understood that to resist Globalization, you should resist "Israel", and the opposite applies: To resist Globalization, you must resist "Israel", not on the level of policies, but on the level of function and mechanisms, that is: existence.
for details, see the WEF web page
for details, read my article WEF in Jordan: "Israel" as an Axis for a US-Middle East Free-Trade Zone
details on the Boycott Israel Campaign web site
see the QIZ agreement