Success and Failure of Terror: Israel's Experience ---- The summer of
2023 is drawing to a close, and the counteroffensive of the Armed Forcesof Ukraine has not had much success. But what the Ukrainian military isdoing really cool is attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.Either drones twice in a row in Moscow City crash into a skyscraperwhere several federal ministries are based, then explosions in Taganrog,then in Novorossiysk. In one day, a dozen and a half pensionershypnotized by telephone go to set fire to military registration andenlistment offices. ---- The question is, can terror - from damage tothe railway infrastructure, which some anarchists did quite successfullyin the Russian Federation, to attacks on ministerial buildings withdrones worth millions of dollars ... Can terror affect something?It is interesting to turn to the experience of Israel. Israel is 75 thisyear. In terms of population, it is slightly larger than the Moscowregion, in terms of territory - like half of the Moscow region. All 75years the state exists in the mode of smoldering war. First with theentire Muslim environment, now established Arab states are interested indeveloping trade and tourism with Israel.An essential part of the already small Israel is the PalestinianAuthority recognized by most UN countries as a separate state: the GazaStrip, the West Bank of the Jordan, East Jerusalem. These are landswithout a stable state system, which are controlled by paramilitarygroups. To the north of Israel - Lebanon and Syria, recently survivedcivil wars, with approximately the same state of the state.There are millions of impoverished people around Israel, against whomthe Israeli authorities are pursuing an openly xenophobic policy. Thefactions that control them are much more interested in cultivatinghatred against Israel than in improving the welfare of the Palestinians.Now, for example, there are mass protests in the Gaza Strip againstHamas ruling there. Because Hamas is stealing money for theelectrification of the region, which is allocated by successful Arabcountries. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Syrian-Lebanese Hezbollah arefinanced by Iran to make Israel a nightmare.Israel is a region where war and peace coexist dozens of kilometersapart. In the Palestinian Shechem, once every two weeks, street fightingbetween the Israeli army and the Islamists - with armored personnelcarriers, helicopters, shooting, civilian casualties. And an hour awayby car - Israeli tourist Netanya. A city where the presence of war isnot felt. Life in Haifa is absolutely peaceful, although the border withLebanon is 130 kilometers away. The south of Lebanon is controlled byHezbollah, a war with which could start any day now. From the Gaza Strip, Israeli territory is regularly shelled withhomemade rockets. From the Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv, one of the world'shigh-tech centers - 70 kilometers. Several times a week, anotherPalestinian jihadist throws himself with a knife in a crowded place atJews, or drives a car onto the sidewalk and tries to crush morepedestrians. Or Palestinian guerrillas on some highway fire at passingcars with civilians.The consequence of terror is very high taxes and prices in Israel, thedefense budget eats up space money. It all sounds like an apocalypse,but the average Israeli doesn't care: statistically, you're more likelyto die in a car crash than at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist.Why are the Israelis calm about all this? It cannot be said that thereis a conflict between Jews and Palestinians. Israeli society is notmonolithic at all. There are dozens of political parties in Israel, anumber of them cultivate hatred towards the Palestinians, many othersare in favor of normalizing relations with them. Ethnically, Israelisociety is also non-monolithic. In addition to Jews, Druze, Bedouins,and Arameans (Christian Arabs) who are generally integrated into societylive in Israel. There are Muslim Arabs with Israeli citizenship: some ofthem sympathize with Palestinian groups, some with Israel.And Jews are people with a completely different culture and ethnicity. From blond immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to EthiopianJews with black-black skin and negroid features. Israeli repatriatesfrom Uzbekistan look like Uzbeks, from Georgia and Dagestan - likeGeorgians and Dagestanis. And also the British, French, Poles,Romanians, Moroccans, Spaniards, Latin Americans ...All together there are about ten million Israelis. There are dozens ofdifferent opinions among Israelis about the conditions under whichrelations with the Palestinians can be normalized. But there is a publicconsensus, thanks to which the vast majority of young people serve inthe army. Israeli anarchists are involved in draft boycott initiatives,but they are few in number. Thanks to this consensus, Islamist terror ispractically ineffective, does not undermine the foundations of Israel,but rather promotes the popularity of the Jewish far right.Returning to Russia, the main question seems to be whether a similarpublic consensus will emerge about a war with Ukraine. To what extentwill the Russians be ready to endure the war not as an overly protractedNVO, but as a multi-year armed conflict. You can't form such a consensusby fines and arrests of war opponents alone, it is the society's consentto a long war with Ukrainians that is needed.If such an agreement is formed, then the Armed Forces of Ukraine cansend at least ten thousand more drones to Russian cities, they will notbe able to disorganize anything ... But it seems that one can expresscautious optimism: the Russians had no understanding of why February 24,2022 happened at all, so and no.Navalny and KagarlitskyAlexei Navalny was thrown another 19 years in prison, and not a strictone, but a special regime, on yet another absurd charge. Obviously, theregime sees in him its main internal opponent, and wants to immure himbehind bars for sure.The author of this issue associates Navalny with two majordisappointments. December 2011, the "white tape movement" begins: massprotests, anarchists are quite successful. Protesters use the termoccupy, hold assemblies...By 2013, all this fizzles out and the protest movement turns into justan election campaign for the election of Navalny to the post of mayor ofMoscow. Navalny uses anti-migrant rhetoric that infects othercandidates. Frightened, Sobyanin catches the unfortunate illegalVietnamese workers, creates a terrible tent camp for them in theindustrial zone in the east of Moscow ... (Anarchists then activelyparticipated in protests against him). As the highest point ofanti-migrant hysteria - a pogrom in Biryulyovo.It was wildly infuriating that the protest movement with the assemblieshad degenerated into a leader's election campaign. Then, among theMoscow antifa, a slightly crazy plan matured: the Navalny formed theirown security service, the antifa were going to infiltrate Lesha"Socrates" Sutuga there so that he would ingratiate himself with Navalny... And then they assumed when Navalny would already be a few steps awayfrom the presidential post ... Service Security was supposed to revealits anarchist essence and steal Navalny: an action in the style of LeonDzholgosh of the 21st century.But all this was not destined to come true: Navalny did not end up inthe Kremlin, and during the election campaign for the post of mayor,Navalny's assistants realized that something was not right with antifa,and instead of them they hired some kind of private security company tothe security service.The second disappointment: the winter of 2021, mass protests after thestory of Navalny's poisoning, his return to Russia, his arrest and afilm about Putin's palace. As soon as the protests inflamed, theNavalnists called for them to stop: they say, otherwise we will all bedeclared extremists and terrorists, we will not be able to participatein the elections. The people of the headquarters of the Navalnistsobeyed, the protests subsided. A few months later, Navalny's structureswere banned as an extremist organization.Did Navalny's functionaries turn out to be fools? Yes. But the problemis not so much with them, but with the entire Russian society, theRussian protest movement. That by 2021 it was formed in such a way thatit could be taken out into the street or sent home at the decision ofsome not the most understandable clerks from Navalnov's headquarters. Ihope that the future Russian protest movement will not make such mistakes.And at the end of the issue: Autonomous action did not speak about thearrest of Boris Kagarlitsky, let's correct it. You will not surpriseanyone with an arrest for statements now. The cops are acting more andmore brutally: the other day a story surfaced with a search of a certainpensioner for posts on VKontakte, during the search the cops killed hiscat ... With Kagarlitsky, we have more different views than we have incommon. In general, it is not a fact that anarchists, in principle,belong to the left side of the political spectrum.But it should be noted that Kagarlitsky repeatedly allowed anarchists tospeak out on their information platforms. Unlike the thousands ofordinary people who are persecuted for speaking out, Kagarlitsky has areputation, so the fight for his release is easier to fight in thissense, and this fight can affect the practice of state pressure forwords. So Kagarlitsky, of course, should be released. Like Navalny, likeseveral dozen anarchists and thousands of innocent Russians.Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order andChaos" the participants of Autonomous Action and other authors giveanarchist assessments of current events. 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