WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #335 - Editorial: Ni Hamas, Ni-tanyahu (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Some time ago, G. Darmanin believed that anti-Le Pen incantations were
no longer enough to fight against the RN. It is true that, due to the
election, it was a question of voting for E. Macron. Then, during a
debate with the RN candidate, he characterized her as "soft and an enemy
of the republic" using the words of former minister Ch. Castaner. Not
long ago, Prime Minister E. Borne was criticized by the President after
calling the R.N "the heir of Pétain". These about-faces or "at the same
time" dear to the president, who - himself - celebrates Pétain and
Mauras, did not prevent Macronists, Republican right, and extreme right
from marching together for "the defense of secularism, of the republic ,
and against anti-Semitism. A "republican arc" which goes from the
centrists to the Zemmourians joined by the PS, the Greens and the PC.
Hypocrisy that this gathering, which poorly masked the unconditional
support for Israel and Netanyahu, after the rush of some to go to the
Hebrew state. Despite their differences, the bourgeoisie came together
and marched to the sound of the drums of LICRA (international league
against racism and anti-Semitism). Democrats and Republicans, who banned
demonstrations as best they could and stigmatized any hint of support
for the Palestinians, under the fallacious pretext of disturbances to
public order, or anti-Semitic statements. Despite this, a resistance has
emerged in France, in the world, recalling that the Palestinians have
been colonized and hunted since 1948. That today, Gaza is, under bombs
night and day (14,000 dead), and that the Gazans are deprived of all
basic needs. That in the West Bank, they are killed by settlers with the
complicity of IDF soldiers (200 dead) and that in the Israeli Negev
desert where Hamas rockets also fall, 35,000 Bedouins are chased out,
displaced to install Jewish settlers there and military installations.

The Stalinist Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the imperialist
bourgeoisies have never stopped waging wars and sowing desolation and
chaos, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc. Not long ago, these same
Western countries, despite their differences or clashes of interests,
still find themselves behind the USA and NATO in a union against Russia
by supporting and rearming Ukraine (admittedly attacked), but also by
excessively remilitarizing European countries. Finland has joined NATO,
Sweden is in the process, and we see the military budgets of each
country soaring to the detriment of social budgets. Today, these
democracies are once again following Uncle SAM to the Middle East. They
give carte blanche to Israel, an apartheid country, and to Netanyahu to
ensure the security of the Jewish state since the barbaric attack of
October 7 by Hamas. J Biden will declare: "Israel is a fundamental
partner in the region". Indeed, in the Middle East tensions are
exacerbated, on the one hand with the Russians present in Syria, on the
other hand with Hezbollah which threatens Israel from Lebanon, and also
Iran which has moved closer to Russia and China. We can understand J.
Biden.: "If there were no Israel, the United States would have to invent
an Israel to defend its interests in the region." Indeed, this country
is the advanced stronghold of Western imperialism in the Middle East
where 40% of the oil consumed in the world comes from, but is also the
watchtower on the Suez Canal, a major maritime route where transit world
trade. We therefore find the colonialist and imperialist West giving a
blank check to a far-right supremacist government which, following the
policy of its predecessors, denies any right of existence to the
Palestinian people. So what, in this context, can the Palestinians be
worth to Westerners?

Our solidarity with the Palestinians, the dead in Gaza, the West Bank
also extends to those in Yemen, Sudan... The Palestinian refugees
expelled since 1948 must remind us of the millions of exiled men and
women who die in the sub-Saharan deserts or in the Mediterranean, forced
to flee the poverty and wars bequeathed by the colonialists and
imperialists. As for the survivors, when they are not vampirized by the
smugglers, it is our democrats and republicans, from Paris, Rome or
elsewhere, who are responsible for making them pay the high price of
their stay or their asylum. They are parked in camps, held in centers.
They are shipped, subcontracted like goods to third countries such as
Rwanda or Albania. In Europe, governments are toughening laws and
cracking down.

In France, the new Darmanin law, reviewed by the Senate, undermines the
dignity and better living of those who choose France as a land of
asylum. A law that toughens their living conditions and restricts their
access to care. In France, the vehemence and enthusiasm for condemning
anti-Semitism - which must also be fought - displayed by politicians,
cannot make us forget the ambient racism, the measures, the xenophobic
declarations and the amalgamations between Islamists and invaders or
troublemakers .

We are witnessing an escalation of imperialism which is leading the
bourgeoisies to rigidify towards security, militarization and
nationalism. We are witnessing an attack by Capital against all the
oppressed but also the working class. So much fertile ground for the far
right. So, whether in Gaza under bombs or hunted by settlers and the IDF
in the West Bank, whether in the camps in Italy, Greece or elsewhere, in
the streets of Rome, Paris or Tel Aviv, we remain in solidarity with the
oppressed against the oppressors, and with the exploited against their
exploiters.

To do this, we must fight the barbarity and chaos sowed by the
bourgeoisie, by stirring up hatred in Paris, Gaza and Tel Aviv. Which,
in the name of various ideologies, stifle people and lead them to kill
each other for their profits.
So many reasons to say: Ni Hamas, Ni-tanyahou. No to colonialists, No to
imperialism.

Caen on 21 11 2023.

Corrigendum
An error has crept into the Editorial of No. 334 of Courant Alternatif.
p.3  "Bedouin villages in Sinai." The Bedouin villages in question are
located in the Negev desert, a southern region of Israel.

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