As these lines are written, there are more than 40,000 dead or missing
in Gaza. This is the equivalent of 1,300,000 deaths in France. No one
can anymore deny, despite the media hype and despite the complicity of
the pseudo "republican arc", that we are dealing with a genocide. ----
Barbarism ---- In Israel, moral barriers have collapsed. Israelis live
as victims and not executioners. All Israeli leaders theorized that it
was legitimate to kill everyone, including women and children. The
International Court of Justice cited by name President Isaac Herzog
(from the Labor Party), Minister Yoav Galant (famous for having treated
the Palestinians as human animals) and Amichay Eliyahu who proposed
launching a nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Cruel acts have multiplied. Babies left abandoned in destroyed
hospitals, trucks bringing food aid blocked, strafing (with tanks) of a
hungry crowd rushing on a food truck (119 dead, 700 injured). The
occupier organizes famine and tortures the prisoners. There are no more
limits.
In France too, supporters of Israel have lost all limits: "If the Gazans
agree with Hamas, then there is no collateral damage. We are dealing
with savages, who have revealed their true face.» It's Michel Boudjenah.
There is also no limit in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. The settlers
and the army together are increasing attacks against the civilian
population, expropriations, destruction of property, pogroms. The
program of Zionism has always been "maximum territories and minimum Arabs".
On the side of the most fascist wing of the Israeli government, the
program is simple: kill or expel, provoke a new Nakba (like in 1948).
The international community comes to the aid of the genocidaires.
Western and Arab countries bear major responsibility. The United States
of course, which showers the assassins with dollars and deadly weapons.
Biden shot himself in the foot by cutting himself off from a significant
portion of his electorate. Netanyahu just has to wait quietly for the
return of Trump and his allies, the Christian Zionists (who are proven
anti-Semites).
Arab leaders, despite their public opinion being very sensitive to the
Palestinian cause, remained collaborators. They did not use the weapon
of oil. They maintained diplomatic relations with Israel. They allow the
worst massacres to take place, content to beg the occupier for the right
to drop a few packages by plane, like throwing food to dogs.
The Gulf dictatorships dream of winning in the event of a ceasefire, by
installing their man, Mohammed Dahlan, at the head of Gaza. This fighter
of the First Intifada became a mafioso upon his return to Gaza in 1994.
It was he who launched an attempted coup against Hamas in 2007. He fled,
lives in Dubai and dreams to return, pockets stuffed with dollars, to power.
In the European Union, there are certainly countries which have somewhat
distinguished themselves from pro-Israeli unanimity: Spain, Ireland,
Belgium. Others were zealous. The Swedish Prime Minister made a superb
slip of the tongue: "Israel has the right to commit genocide... er, to
defend itself."
In Germany and France, demonstrations for Palestine have been banned.
Heads of state have multiplied their declarations, with Macron going so
far as to propose engaging the French army against Hamas. Activists
(often Arabs) are prosecuted for "apology of terrorism" as soon as they
do not take up the dominant discourse. The media hammer home the
official version about the poor Israeli people being treacherously attacked.
The destruction of international law
The West had a good time denouncing countries like Russia, Iran and
China, described as horrible dictatorships. Western support for a regime
that assumes responsibility for destroying everything, methodically
murdering entire families and machine-gunning hungry crowds completely
discredits them. All the values that this West was supposed to represent
(democracy, the rights of peoples, etc.) have been trampled. Israel has
destroyed everything that remained of international law as it was
supposed to exist since 1945. Impunity, willful blindness to the
colonial steamroller, silence in the face of pogroms perpetrated by
settlers and the army , deafness to calls for the murder of Israeli
leaders, all this brings the planet back to the law of the jungle. There
are no more rules or rights. The UN and International Justice have no
power. The thugs are everywhere.
Incidentally, this war also destroys the memories of Judaism,
anti-Semitism and the Nazi genocide. Now, racists and the far right
systematically attack those who defend the rights of the Palestinian
people by accusing them of being anti-Semites.
The fable of the two States How to get out of it?
During our stay in Gaza in 2016, we systematically asked all our
interlocutors: "one state or two states"? The few who spoke out in favor
of two States told us: "this is not justice but the world is bad. They
will give us an acre of desert, they will call it a Palestinian state
and we will be so weak that we will be forced to accept. We asked them:
"what about the refugees"? The response was unanimous: "The right of
return is non-negotiable. So of course two States can only be one step."
In 2007, we were received by the (then) mayor of Bethlehem, Victor
Batarseh (PFLP). He defends the position of his party (which is the
historical position of the PLO before 1988) for a single secular and
democratic state. "We are not extremists. If Fatah succeeds in obtaining
a Palestinian state on the 22% of historic Palestine occupied since
1967, we will accept it as a transitional step. He then opens the window
of Bethlehem town hall in a very theatrical manner. There used to be a
large forest between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. She was shaved. The Har
Homa colony founded in 1997 has tens of thousands of inhabitants and its
large buildings are located very close to the town hall. The mayor asks
us: "Where do you put the Palestinian state?" ".
Le Monde Diplomatique previously published a map of the "Palestinian
archipelago". It's not even an archipelago anymore. The West Bank is a
confetti without any unity and Gaza is both a field of ruins and a great
cemetery. The pseudo opposition between Netanyahu who wants to annex and
expel and his Western supporters who claim to support "the two-state
solution" is an illusion that allows the steamroller to move forward. To
stop it, we must sanction the genocidaires.
Oslo was a gigantic hoax. The only thing that was signed was "security
cooperation", that is to say the obligation for the occupied to ensure
the security of the occupier. The Palestinian Authority was condemned
from the start to "collaborate". The Palestinian state, the end of
colonization, the release of prisoners or the return of refugees, we
talked about it and Israel signed nothing.
Put an end to ethnic cleansing
Before leading to uninhibited fascism, Zionism was initially a theory of
separation proclaiming that Jews and non-Jews cannot live together,
neither in the country of origin, nor in the future Jewish state. This
ideology produced the replacement colonialism and murderous madness of
the ethnically pure Jewish state.
No just peace will be possible with the continuation of the Jewish state
and all the racist institutions it has created, which means the end of
Zionism.
The Palestinians are not demanding one state, two states or 36 states.
They are just asking that international law be applied to them (which
must be distinguished from the UN. The UN violated this right on several
occasions in 1947-49).
This right is:
* freedom: end of occupation, colonization, end of the Gaza blockade,
destruction of the Wall, release of prisoners
* equal political and economic rights for all inhabitants of the region,
regardless of their origins, their real or supposed identities, their
religion or non-religion.
* Justice: the founding crime of this war being the premeditated
expulsion of the Palestinian people from their country, it is the right
of return of refugees. It will also be necessary to judge war criminals.
When these points which constitute a theoretically guaranteed right are
accepted, the negotiation will decide the future state form.
Palestinians and Israeli Jews will be mixed in such a way that
separation will be meaningless.
Of course, it's difficult. The wall and the blockade of Gaza mean that
the populations no longer see each other. And without sanctions, the
domestic front will not crack among the Israeli Jewish population which
enjoys colonial privilege. With sanctions, the Israelis will understand
that the guarantee "that they are not thrown into the sea" is the end of
apartheid and not its maintenance.
Some in the solidarity movement for the rights of the Palestinian people
dream of an "Algerian-style" situation, that is to say the departure of
the vast majority of Israeli Jews as was the case for the Feet. Black.
They are wrong. We will not repair one ethnic cleansing with another
ethnic cleansing.
"Living together with equal rights", there is no non-barbaric
alternative, neither there nor here.
From the sea to the Jordan, equal rights!
Pierre Stambul
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4129
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in Gaza. This is the equivalent of 1,300,000 deaths in France. No one
can anymore deny, despite the media hype and despite the complicity of
the pseudo "republican arc", that we are dealing with a genocide. ----
Barbarism ---- In Israel, moral barriers have collapsed. Israelis live
as victims and not executioners. All Israeli leaders theorized that it
was legitimate to kill everyone, including women and children. The
International Court of Justice cited by name President Isaac Herzog
(from the Labor Party), Minister Yoav Galant (famous for having treated
the Palestinians as human animals) and Amichay Eliyahu who proposed
launching a nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Cruel acts have multiplied. Babies left abandoned in destroyed
hospitals, trucks bringing food aid blocked, strafing (with tanks) of a
hungry crowd rushing on a food truck (119 dead, 700 injured). The
occupier organizes famine and tortures the prisoners. There are no more
limits.
In France too, supporters of Israel have lost all limits: "If the Gazans
agree with Hamas, then there is no collateral damage. We are dealing
with savages, who have revealed their true face.» It's Michel Boudjenah.
There is also no limit in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. The settlers
and the army together are increasing attacks against the civilian
population, expropriations, destruction of property, pogroms. The
program of Zionism has always been "maximum territories and minimum Arabs".
On the side of the most fascist wing of the Israeli government, the
program is simple: kill or expel, provoke a new Nakba (like in 1948).
The international community comes to the aid of the genocidaires.
Western and Arab countries bear major responsibility. The United States
of course, which showers the assassins with dollars and deadly weapons.
Biden shot himself in the foot by cutting himself off from a significant
portion of his electorate. Netanyahu just has to wait quietly for the
return of Trump and his allies, the Christian Zionists (who are proven
anti-Semites).
Arab leaders, despite their public opinion being very sensitive to the
Palestinian cause, remained collaborators. They did not use the weapon
of oil. They maintained diplomatic relations with Israel. They allow the
worst massacres to take place, content to beg the occupier for the right
to drop a few packages by plane, like throwing food to dogs.
The Gulf dictatorships dream of winning in the event of a ceasefire, by
installing their man, Mohammed Dahlan, at the head of Gaza. This fighter
of the First Intifada became a mafioso upon his return to Gaza in 1994.
It was he who launched an attempted coup against Hamas in 2007. He fled,
lives in Dubai and dreams to return, pockets stuffed with dollars, to power.
In the European Union, there are certainly countries which have somewhat
distinguished themselves from pro-Israeli unanimity: Spain, Ireland,
Belgium. Others were zealous. The Swedish Prime Minister made a superb
slip of the tongue: "Israel has the right to commit genocide... er, to
defend itself."
In Germany and France, demonstrations for Palestine have been banned.
Heads of state have multiplied their declarations, with Macron going so
far as to propose engaging the French army against Hamas. Activists
(often Arabs) are prosecuted for "apology of terrorism" as soon as they
do not take up the dominant discourse. The media hammer home the
official version about the poor Israeli people being treacherously attacked.
The destruction of international law
The West had a good time denouncing countries like Russia, Iran and
China, described as horrible dictatorships. Western support for a regime
that assumes responsibility for destroying everything, methodically
murdering entire families and machine-gunning hungry crowds completely
discredits them. All the values that this West was supposed to represent
(democracy, the rights of peoples, etc.) have been trampled. Israel has
destroyed everything that remained of international law as it was
supposed to exist since 1945. Impunity, willful blindness to the
colonial steamroller, silence in the face of pogroms perpetrated by
settlers and the army , deafness to calls for the murder of Israeli
leaders, all this brings the planet back to the law of the jungle. There
are no more rules or rights. The UN and International Justice have no
power. The thugs are everywhere.
Incidentally, this war also destroys the memories of Judaism,
anti-Semitism and the Nazi genocide. Now, racists and the far right
systematically attack those who defend the rights of the Palestinian
people by accusing them of being anti-Semites.
The fable of the two States How to get out of it?
During our stay in Gaza in 2016, we systematically asked all our
interlocutors: "one state or two states"? The few who spoke out in favor
of two States told us: "this is not justice but the world is bad. They
will give us an acre of desert, they will call it a Palestinian state
and we will be so weak that we will be forced to accept. We asked them:
"what about the refugees"? The response was unanimous: "The right of
return is non-negotiable. So of course two States can only be one step."
In 2007, we were received by the (then) mayor of Bethlehem, Victor
Batarseh (PFLP). He defends the position of his party (which is the
historical position of the PLO before 1988) for a single secular and
democratic state. "We are not extremists. If Fatah succeeds in obtaining
a Palestinian state on the 22% of historic Palestine occupied since
1967, we will accept it as a transitional step. He then opens the window
of Bethlehem town hall in a very theatrical manner. There used to be a
large forest between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. She was shaved. The Har
Homa colony founded in 1997 has tens of thousands of inhabitants and its
large buildings are located very close to the town hall. The mayor asks
us: "Where do you put the Palestinian state?" ".
Le Monde Diplomatique previously published a map of the "Palestinian
archipelago". It's not even an archipelago anymore. The West Bank is a
confetti without any unity and Gaza is both a field of ruins and a great
cemetery. The pseudo opposition between Netanyahu who wants to annex and
expel and his Western supporters who claim to support "the two-state
solution" is an illusion that allows the steamroller to move forward. To
stop it, we must sanction the genocidaires.
Oslo was a gigantic hoax. The only thing that was signed was "security
cooperation", that is to say the obligation for the occupied to ensure
the security of the occupier. The Palestinian Authority was condemned
from the start to "collaborate". The Palestinian state, the end of
colonization, the release of prisoners or the return of refugees, we
talked about it and Israel signed nothing.
Put an end to ethnic cleansing
Before leading to uninhibited fascism, Zionism was initially a theory of
separation proclaiming that Jews and non-Jews cannot live together,
neither in the country of origin, nor in the future Jewish state. This
ideology produced the replacement colonialism and murderous madness of
the ethnically pure Jewish state.
No just peace will be possible with the continuation of the Jewish state
and all the racist institutions it has created, which means the end of
Zionism.
The Palestinians are not demanding one state, two states or 36 states.
They are just asking that international law be applied to them (which
must be distinguished from the UN. The UN violated this right on several
occasions in 1947-49).
This right is:
* freedom: end of occupation, colonization, end of the Gaza blockade,
destruction of the Wall, release of prisoners
* equal political and economic rights for all inhabitants of the region,
regardless of their origins, their real or supposed identities, their
religion or non-religion.
* Justice: the founding crime of this war being the premeditated
expulsion of the Palestinian people from their country, it is the right
of return of refugees. It will also be necessary to judge war criminals.
When these points which constitute a theoretically guaranteed right are
accepted, the negotiation will decide the future state form.
Palestinians and Israeli Jews will be mixed in such a way that
separation will be meaningless.
Of course, it's difficult. The wall and the blockade of Gaza mean that
the populations no longer see each other. And without sanctions, the
domestic front will not crack among the Israeli Jewish population which
enjoys colonial privilege. With sanctions, the Israelis will understand
that the guarantee "that they are not thrown into the sea" is the end of
apartheid and not its maintenance.
Some in the solidarity movement for the rights of the Palestinian people
dream of an "Algerian-style" situation, that is to say the departure of
the vast majority of Israeli Jews as was the case for the Feet. Black.
They are wrong. We will not repair one ethnic cleansing with another
ethnic cleansing.
"Living together with equal rights", there is no non-barbaric
alternative, neither there nor here.
From the sea to the Jordan, equal rights!
Pierre Stambul
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4129
_________________________________________
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