WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #335 - Palestine: Ongoing Genocide and Complicity (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

There is something obscene in the reactions of almost all French
political leaders and media to what is happening in Palestine. ---- No
one can pretend not to know. ---- "We didn't know" said many Europeans
when the evidence of Nazi extermination became obvious. This alleged
guilt resulted in making Palestinians who had no responsibility for this
crime pay the price of genocide. ---- How can we pretend today that we
do not know what is happening in Gaza? ---- "Palestinians are human
animals," declared Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant. And "heritage"
minister Amichai Eliyahou suggested that Israel send an atomic bomb to
Gaza. No matter: Israel is a "democratic state", right?

In the age of social networks and Al Jazeera, we cannot fail to know
what is at work: 13,000 deaths to date, the vast majority of them women,
children and the elderly. Dozens of towers and hundreds of small
buildings crushed, more than a million and a half people driven from
their homes and still bombed, a relentless attack on hospitals, the
power plant, solar panels, journalists (60 dead. es), UNRWA staff (more
than 100 dead), the UNDP building, the UN building, the French Cultural
Institute, schools, water tanks... Entire families targeted and
exterminated: 8 deaths on the first day in the Abu Rock family, 37 in
the Khuder family, 48 in that of the Palestinian ambassador to France,
more than 50 in that of the feminist activist Mariam Abu Daqqa... This
is not are not "blunders", it is a deliberate desire for "elimination".

The images showing fathers carrying dead or dying children in their
arms, those where we see hospitals transformed into morgues and the
omnipresent blood are certainly disturbing, but everyone can see them.
Denialism regarding this mass massacre is not admissible.

During the previous deadly bombings which left 5,000 dead in 15 years,
Gaza recovered. The social fabric had reformed, the population had
started to cultivate the land again, to fish, to trade, to educate
children, to party. There, we are witnessing, without being able to
prevent it, the eradication of Gaza society. This is more than ethnic
cleansing.

Killing humans and killing history.  Kill vocabulary
The Zionist narrative kills history. According to him:
"There was no colonial conquest of Palestine, the Jews returned home
after 2000 years of exile".
"Palestine was a land without a people for a people without a land, so
the Palestinians are intruders or do not exist."
"The Arabs left on their own in 1948, there was no ethnic cleansing."
"The creation of Israel is legitimate and those who doubt it are
terrorists."
"Israel made a garden out of the desert. The intruders who lived there
were retarded."
"Israel was threatened with annihilation in 1967. Attack, conquest of
new territories and colonization are acts of defense."
"After Oslo, Arafat refused generous offers."
"The settlers are at home, God gave them this land."
"The Palestinians are all terrorists who must be locked up or expelled
since Israel has the right to defend itself."
"Israel has the right to security." Even and especially against his victims.

This speech, which does not have the beginnings of historical
plausibility, continues to be delivered with the unconditional support
of the majority of the media and the West.

So let's be clear about what is at work.
This is not an Israeli war against Hamas, it is a war of destruction
against the entire Palestinian people.
Israel does not defend itself against a people that it has expelled (75%
of the population of Gaza is made up of refugees) and that it is
imprisoning. Israel is constantly attacking a population that has been
living in a closed-air prison for 17 years. There was neither
"retaliation" nor "retaliation". Moreover, in 2019, the totally peaceful
"return marches" had a terrible toll: 350 dead and 8,000 maimed.
The aggressor's goal is not to eradicate Hamas, which he largely
contributed to putting in power. Its goal is "to complete the war of 48"
to use an expression from Ariel Sharon. Permanently destroy Gaza.
Transform this territory into a pile of ruins emptied of its survivors,
annex most of the West Bank.

In Israel, racist speech has become free. Sylvain Cypel attributes these
words to many Israelis: "we don't want to live with these people. And we
don't give a damn what you think." This now majority word announces a
new "Nakba. Those who pretend not to see it are complicit with the
supremacist fascists in power in Israel.

On the use of the word "terrorist".
After 1945, "international law" was developed. The concept of
"terrorism" does not exist in international law. If we consider any
armed group that kills unarmed civilians to be terrorist, then how can
we talk about the terrorism of Hamas without talking about that of the
Israeli army and the settlers? How can we not talk about American
terrorism in the wars that this country has waged in Vietnam, Iraq or
Afghanistan? How can we not talk about the terrorism of the French army
in Indochina or Algeria? Or more recently in the Sahel?

In fact, this word is systematically used by dominant states to
designate any armed group that opposes them. This makes it possible to
erase the "raison d'être" of what they call terrorism. When someone
escapes from prison by killing his guard and those around him, he is not
a "terrorist". This is what just happened in Gaza. Erasing occupation,
colonization and confinement means reversing responsibilities.

On the other hand, the terms "apartheid", "war crimes", "crimes against
humanity" or "genocide" are perfectly defined in international law. They
apply themselves totally to what is at work.

The fact that, despite the obvious nature of the Israeli regime, it
enjoys such support means that capitalism no longer pretends to respect
human rights and fundamental freedoms. At the global level, we are
moving into a new phase of limitless violence against the "dominated".

Demonstrations and complicity.
In the West as in the Arab world, there is a clear divorce between
political leaders and the people.

This is clear in the Arab world. Morocco has normalized its relations
with Israel, which helps it militarily against the Sahrawis. And yet,
pro-Palestinian demonstrations are daily in all the country's major
cities. In Egypt, the first demonstrations since the start of the
military dictatorship took place in Cairo and Alexandria, and it was in
support of Palestine. In Jordan, protests forced the king to cancel a
Biden summit with Arab leaders.

In Latin America, where a large Palestinian community lives, several
countries have recalled their ambassador to Israel.

In Asia, demonstrations took place in Muslim countries (Turkey,
Malaysia, Bahrain) but also in Bangkok.

In Great Britain, the divorce between political leaders and the
population is blatant. Despite the complicity of the leaders of the two
major parties, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in London
and around sixty Labor MPs defied their leader.

In the United States, where Biden shot himself in the foot by rearming
Israel and rightly appearing as the one who prevented the vote for a
ceasefire, serious fractures have appeared, including in the the ruling
establishment. There is also the engagement of many Jews in spectacular
actions against the ongoing genocide: occupation of a train station, the
Statue of Liberty, etc.

To stop the liquidation of the Palestinian people, there is one hope:
that people around the world will rise up.

Mariam Abu Daqqa.
In France, complicity with Israeli supremacists has taken a new step.
For having recalled what the positioning of a De Gaulle or a Chirac
would have been, Dominique De Villepin appeared as a leftist. Macron,
after proposing the engagement of French troops against Hamas, charged
Darmanin with criminalizing any support for Palestine.

The government participated in the demonstrations organized by the CRIF.
The President of the Assembly went to Israel with Éric Ciotti and the
settler deputy Habib Meyer. Darmanin banned the first demonstrations
before being disavowed by the courts. Its prefects added more, that of
Tarn et Garonne considering that "supporting Palestine was an attack on
human dignity".

Between Télé Bolloré and Télé Drahi, without forgetting France Info,
there was a campaign to present Israelis as victims of Islamic terrorism
and especially not as citizens of an apartheid state who overwhelmingly
vote for the various forms of the extreme right for decades.

The case of Mariam Abu Daqqa is emblematic. Leader of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), feminist activist in the Arab
world who has never worn the headscarf and who is unanimously respected
in Gaza, she was arrested in my car on October 16. We had the expulsion
order overturned on October 20. Darmanin appealed to the Council of
State. Unfortunately, this matter was chaired by the man who had drawn
up the state of emergency during the Valls era.

Darmanin's assertions against Mariam on Hamas, incitement to hatred or
discrimination, and the assassination of Arras were swept aside. There
remained the "terrorist PFLP" or rather considered as such by the
European Union. This is the prototype of Western complicity: in Oslo,
the PLO was responsible for ensuring the security of the occupier and as
such, benefited from international recognition. However, the PFLP is,
after Fatah, the second largest party in the PLO.

Why terrorist? In 2001, the Israeli army assassinated PFLP Secretary
General Ali Mustafa. In response, the PFLP executed a genuine war
criminal, General Rehavam Zeevi. And the entire leadership of the PFLP,
headed by Ahmed Saadat, was captured and has been in prison in very
harsh conditions for more than 20 years. For the EU, it is the PFLP
which is terrorist.

The Council of State reinstated Mariam's expulsion on November 8. In the
evening, she hosted the debate at the cinema on the film Yallah Gaza.
She was violently kidnapped from a private place at midnight by four
plainclothes police officers. SK who accompanied her was thrown to the
ground and has 45 days of ITT. Mariam was transported to various
detention centers until the CRA near Roissy airport. Although she had a
ticket to Cairo on November 11, they tried to ship her to Israel. She
finally left for Cairo 24 hours early. All that for this.

The exploitation of anti-Semitism
It is no longer possible today to talk about "anti-Semitic acts" without
talking about their exploitation.

There is a state that calls itself Jewish, colonies that call themselves
Jewish, a CRIF that claims to speak in the name of all Jews, a power
that equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, the same power that
multiplies acts and declarations against everything Arab, black, Roma,
Muslim, but which says "against Jews, it is forbidden". As if that
protected the Jews! There is propaganda which pretends to forget that
anti-Semitism and the Nazi genocide took place in Europe and not in the
Arab-Muslim world.

Anti-Semitism was a separate racism at the time of the extermination. He
is no longer. It is against racism in all its forms that we must fight.
The demonstration on November 12 "against anti-Semitism" alongside all
the racists who rehabilitate Pétain or Maurras and leave migrants to die
at sea had an obscene side. In the midst of the genocide in Gaza, it
looked very much like a demonstration of support for the ongoing carnage.

Anti-Semitism (the word is improper, it was invented by Wilhelm Marr,
one of the first racialists of the 19th century) has been the common
denominator of all far-right ideologies. Anti-Semitism remains mainly
the work of the far right, like Elon Musk who is still courted despite
his words.

The peoples dominated and stigmatized were the colonized peoples outside
Europe, the Jews and the Gypsies in Europe. Faced with those who pretend
not to know that the war in the Middle East is a colonial war and is
neither "racial", nor community, nor religious, we must remember that
hatred of the Jew is not only immoral. It objectively helps those who
massacre the Palestinian people.

Fear is a driving force behind Israeli apartheid and the support of many
Jews for Israel's murderous policies.

Constantly reminding that Jew, Zionist and Israeli are not the same,
that most Palestinians make this distinction, that 40% of young Jews in
the United States (according to a survey) consider that Israel is a
state of apartheid is much more effective than marching alongside arson
firefighters or pro-Israeli anti-Semites.

Finally, we must not remain silent regarding supposedly progressive
currents which are very silent on Israeli apartheid or the ongoing
genocide and which put all their energy into rewriting history and
seeing anti-Semitism on the left or in the movement to support
Palestine. In Germany, they are the Antideutsches. Here they are the
RAAR (Network of Actions against Anti-Semitism and all Racisms) and the
JJR (Revolutionary Jews).

Defending Palestine means fighting for ourselves.
The "Free World" was able to deceive us for a moment by denouncing with
us the war crimes committed in Syria, in Iran, against the Ukrainian and
Uighur peoples. The unconditional support given to the Israeli massacres
recalls the worst times: the colonial wars, support for the fascist
soldiers in Latin America, Vietnam.

This free world is on the verge of organizing a new Nakba and the
annexation of a large part of the West Bank. By supporting the forced
displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, he shows that he has no
problem trampling on an "international law" that he claims to support.
The consequences are multiple: strengthening of authoritarian measures,
muzzled information, banning of any anti-colonialist or egalitarian
opinion. Don't let them do it!

Pierre Stambul (November 20)

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