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THE Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) has accused regional governments of “complicity” with Israel’s “aggressive and racist” Jerusalem security crackdown.
The LCP political bureau released a statement on Monday condemning the “aggressive security measures in Jerusalem” and that the two-week standoff at the al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem — Islam’s third-holiest site — “confirms the racist nature of the zionist occupation.”
The statement said the occupation “feeds off the divide among the Palestinian people, the silence of the Arab regimes and their complicity with the occupation.”
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
