1500 dead in the first day alone - not Ukraine this time but again inthe Middle East. ---- "If war begets war, it feels like it's spawning
at an alarmingly bloody rate across the globe" was a UK journalistsintroduction to the outbreak of the Israel/Gaza war. ---- As if war werea contagiousness natural phenomenon independent of cause and effect. Wardoes not beget war, capitalism does. ---- As French Socialist JeanJuarès said just before WW1: "Capitalism carries war within it, justlike clouds carry rain". ---- The hypocrisy of those claiming to offersolutions is demonstrated in Turkey's president Erdogan's statementinviting "...all parties to act reasonably and to stay away fromimpulsive steps that raise tensions" just days after bombing Kurdishcommunities in Rojava, northern Syria.'Honest Broker' the USA promises Israel "We will always have your back",effectively issuing a blank cheque for a license to kill.Whole families wiped out in their homes in Gaza; hundreds of kids hunteddown on bikes and butchered at a music festival. The slaughter hasbecome immediately vast and merciless. We know who is doing thekilling, we must ask, who is doing the dying?People like us, workers, Jew and Arab alike. Without ownership andcontrol, our class, without power killed by those fighting for it.The suffering of the Palestinians is an open sore of the West'sstronghold in the Levant. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been theWest's 'boots on the ground' since the '50's, playing pivotal roles insuch imperialist ventures as the Suez Crisis of '56. Armed to theteeth, it wants for nothing.Despite the Israeli state's West leaning Democratic credentials, it defacto maintains an apartheid system over the Palestinians, enablingtheir movement to work when it suits them and locking them in when not.It's slow march to the theocratic Right has generated a massiveresistance from its own working class.The tragedy of Gaza is that it rests in the horns of a dilemma. Becauseof the blockade by the Israeli state, it has been described as the"largest open prison in the world ". Its further misfortune is to beguarded by the Hamas Islamic Statelet.'Hamas', meaning 'Zeal' is a viscous theocratic dictatorship worse thanthat which the world has been protesting against in Iran. As liberalsand leftists chant 'we are all Hamas now', they might do well to reflecton how long they would survive there.Hamas even butchers its own, like Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a former Hamascommander who was, according to the New York Times, "...accused of moralturpitude, by which Hamas meant homosexuality" then was tortured andshot in 2016.As with the Vietnam Têt Offensive of '68, this brutal 'David' assault ona brutal 'Goliath' is an attempt at a paradigm shift.It is as much aimed at the Fatah faction of the West Banks PalestinianAuthority to usurp its leadership as to scupper Israel's attempts tofreeze the conflict through rapprochement with its Arab neighbours.While it might seem counter intuitive for Hamas to have united a dividedIsraeli entity, it may prove a timely exploitation of the West's focuson the European war to widen the conflict by dragging in an unwilling Iran.With US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, talking up the potential ofIran's role, this could go anywhere. Sending their westernMediterranean Carrier strike force eastwards 'to deter Iran' wouldcertainly free up Israel to take on a wider military venture againstIrans nuclear program that it has been itching to do.Whatever the truth, this is not Arab versus Jew, this is workers on bothsides slaughtered and manipulated by capitalisms Power Bloc rivalrycarried out through their bloody proxies. Capitalist war, red in toothand claw!Neither one state nor two states can end this cycle, no agent ofcapitalism is able or willing too. All their wars are against ourclass. Class War is our only response which is why there, as in theUkraine we say resist their drive to war - No War But The Class War!Article by Dreyfushttps://anarcomuk.uk/2023/10/09/neither-one-state-nor-two-states-no-state-will-end-the-slaughter-of-our-class/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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