PREAMBLE
Why a DiEM25 CAMPAIGN on the Palestine-Israel Question?
DiEM25 is a paneuropean internationalist transnational movement committed tocampaigning for our Manifesto’s principles within and without the European Union.
DiEM25 has members in Israel and in occupied Palestine, as well as members in Europe andelsewhere who feel immense empathy toward the long-suffering people of historic
Palestine, Jews and Palestinians as well as minorities who have lived there for centuries.
At a time when the EU’s policies and authorities are part of the problem in the Middle East,and the Middle East is erupting once again, DiEM25 is obliged to take a position on thePalestine-Israel question and to campaign vigorously for it.
The proposed vote text below comprises four parts:
Part 1 recounts the facts on the ground since the now defunct Oslo Accords
Part 2 states the basic rights that all people living in historic Palestine must be guaranteed
Part 3 presents the vision for a democratic and peaceful future for Jews and Palestinians
that DiEM25 commits to campaigning for across Europe and beyond
Part 4 presents the immediate steps that DiEM25 will campaign to push Europeangovernments and the European Union to adopt

PROPOSED TEXT FOR A DiEM25 AMV (OPTION 1)
Part 1: THE FACTS
1. From the Oslo Accords to this date, the strategic goal of Benjamin Netanyahu and hisallies was the termination of any meaningful Peace Process. An objective achieved
long ago.
2. Since the Oslo Accords, the state of Israel has been:a. massively, and illegally, expanding settlements in the areas where thePalestinian state was meant to be, the result being more than hundreds ofthousands of settlers are now ensconced on occupied Palestinian lands
b. utilising the Israeli army, architects, civil engineers, road builders and townplanners, as part of a well-planned project to build an apartheid state (as1confirmed by Israeli human rights’ advocate B’Tselem and, more recently,
Human Rights Watch)c. In 2018 legislation was introduced that formalised the second-rate status ofPalestinians with Israeli citizenshipd. assassinating/humiliating potential Palestinian Partners in Peace whileconsistently undermining and destroying secular, democratic alternatives
3. A two-state solution, today, would:
a. either lead to a non-viable Palestinian state resembling a set of loosely
connected Bantustans, while Palestinians living in Israel remain second-classcitizens of a Jewish stateb. or require the forceful removal of hundreds of thousands of settlers from theWest Bank, with the Palestinians now living in Israel either forced to move tothe new state of Palestine or remaining as second-class citizens of a Jewishstate.
4. In view of 2&3 above, the objective of Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies has been
fully achieved: It is now impossible even to imagine two viable, sovereign statesliving peacefully side-by-side, each free of discrimination, guaranteeing equal civilrights to all their citizens, and brought about without systemic violation of basic
human rights (i.e., freedom from ethnic cleansing and population exchanges).

Part 2: BASIC RIGHTS OF JEWS & PALESTINIANS
A. The historic land of Palestine must be a safe, peaceful country both for Jews andPalestinians
B. Members both of the Jewish and the Palestinian diaspora must retain their right toreturn
C. Jews and Palestinians must enjoy equals rights to liberty, security, non-coercion,non-discrimination, freedom to associate, and pride in their identity and nationhoodPart 3: DiEM25’s POSITION
Short-run measures that DiEM25 campaigns for:
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An immediate end of the Israeli Occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank andthe blockade of Gaza
An immediate termination of Israel’s Apartheid policies and institutions bothwithin its pre-1967 borders and elsewhere
The immediate implementation of the right of Palestinian refugees to return(United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194)
The immediate recognition by the EU of the State of Palestine, so that Israelis andPalestinian negotiators enjoy legal parity in International Law
The immediate embargo on arms sales, technology transfers and maintenanceto/from Israel
The immediate dissolution of all military alliances and treaties of EU member-stateswith Israel
The immediate cessation of all trade with Israeli settler communities in theOccupied TerritoriesAn immediate de-nuclearisation of all states and entities in the Middle East
An end to foreign power meddling: Foreign powers have traditionally stoked thefires of conflict. The United States in particular have no legitimacy as an honest
broker, and nor does the European Union. Israeli and Palestinian progressives must
now take it upon themselves, with the support of progressives from around theworld, to take the necessary steps

Long-run vision:
Consistent with DiEM25’s internationalist, humanist principles of non-discrimination,equality before the law, diversity, and freedom of movement, DiEM25 believes that theonly long-term settlement requires progressives from both sides, Israelis and Palestinians, towork together toward a Single Democratic Secular State in the land of historic Palestine forJews and Palestinians.
The Single Democratic Secular State we support and envisage must be:The homeland of both Jews and Palestinians
A country to which all Jews and all Palestinians (and their descendants) evicted during
and after 1948 will have an equal right to return
Based on a Democratic, Non-Discriminatory Constitution written jointly by aConstitutional Assembly of Jews and Palestinians, supported by the international
community, through the UN and with resources committed for the purpose by the EU,
the USA, Russia and China
A force of good, and peace, in the broader Middle East, catalysing the end of various
regional conflicts, delegitimising oppressive regimes and supporting greater economic,
social and cultural cooperation in the region.

Nb. DiEM25 has come to this view only because the facts on the ground, as engineered by
the state of Israel, are such that, at this stage, every viable two-state solution will involve
population exchanges and/or the entrenchment of apartheid that are incompatible with
DiEM25’s basic principles.

SUMMARY
DiEM25 acknowledges and respects the craving of Palestinians for their own state and thatof Jews for a Jewish state. But, over the past decades, the Peace process that could havedelivered a two-state solution has been intentionally undermined and dismantled –irreversibly. Any attempt at a two-state solution now will involve massive, and very likely
violent, displacement of people and/or the formalisation of some form of apartheid.
Progressive humanists, faced with this situation, must fight for an end of the apartheid
policies practised with ruthless efficiency by the Israeli state, for a cessation of fighting, andfor a democratic entity in which both Jews and Palestinians can live free of fear andcoercion. To build up this unique alternative to varieties of apartheid, i.e., a SINGLE
DEMOCRATIC SECULAR STATE, the first step must involve the recognition of the State ofPalestine, the right of both Palestinians and Jews to live and to return to historic Palestine.
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