The suspension of the bombings on Gaza, wanted by Trump to tinge the
honeymoon with his new presidency with "good" lasted a handful of weeks.---- On March 18, the warplanes and drones of the Israeli army began
their terrible music again and the soldiers returned to killing also
from the ground. Since that day, official estimates count another 1900
deaths, making a total of over 51000 since the beginning of the ongoing
genocidal operation (October 2023). Needless to say, these are purely
indicative figures and almost certainly underestimated, as it is not
possible to count the victims still under the rubble, but above all the
indirect deaths from hunger, disease and lack of care. Moreover, it is
precisely towards places of care that the Zionist extermination fury has
once again dedicated specific attention: on April 13, the last hospital
in Gaza still functioning was destroyed, after a month earlier, in
Rafah, Israeli soldiers had killed in cold blood 15 Palestinian rescuers
guilty only of trying to pick up the wounded with their ambulances.
Moreover, since the beginning of their genocidal enterprise, the Zionist
armed forces have paid particular attention to hospitals and schools,
that is, to those places that are fundamental to a civil society. A
civil society whose existence they want to prevent at every possible and
imaginable level. By now, the Palestinians of Gaza mostly live camped
out in tent cities, visibly undernourished, constantly looking for food
that is increasingly scarce because since March 2, Israel has no longer
allowed international aid to enter, starting with food and medicine.
Bombs continue to be dropped on these undernourished camps. What is
underway is not only a genocide, it is also a great experiment in
collective torture against a population that, unlike what happens in
other war zones, does not even have the possibility of trying to escape
elsewhere (you cannot leave Gaza). In Gaza, weapons are certainly being
tested and perhaps human resistance to suffering is also being tested,
as was already done by other subjects, in another historical era.
Moreover, even in the West Bank - the other piece of bloodied Palestine
- the continuous coordinated aggressions between squads of settlers and
regular Israeli soldiers continue to pursue the policy of progressive
expulsion of Palestinians and dispossession of lands. Now reduced to
narrow strips of territory, surrounded by Zionist colonial outposts, the
West Bank is also experiencing the most violent season of recent
decades. In 18 months, almost a thousand Palestinians have been killed,
that is, many more than those recorded in the previous phases of
colonization.
The West Bank and Gaza are both in the context of a political-military
operation that appears to be extremely indefinite in duration and
lacking rigid boundaries in ambitions. Quite often, in various political
and journalistic circles, the indefiniteness and prolongation of the
ongoing military operation is attributed to Netanyahu's personal
interests. It is reasonable to think that, in fact, the interests of
Netanyahu and his close clique are playing some role. Before October 7,
the Israeli president was in legal trouble and half of his country took
to the streets every day against him. It is clear that the Hamas attack
of October 7, 2023 was a lifesaver for him and that he is doing
everything to prolong the state of military mobilization to stay in
power as long as possible. But to think that the horror of Gaza is
continuing at the behest of one man alone, without the consent of at
least a significant part of the Israeli military-industrial complex, is
hardly credible. Netanyahu clearly still enjoys at least the green light
from the key players in his country's economic, political and military
power. Clearly the path he has taken still responds, to some extent, to
the existential problems of the Israeli ruling classes, who have
historically found an essential piece of their insane internal balance
in their continued colonial expansion to the detriment of the
Palestinians. After all, since Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Israel has
tightened an inexorable pincer grip on the Palestinians: hard apartheid
in the West Bank and small attempts at genocide in Gaza (periodic carpet
bombings of a closed and densely populated territory). The operations
currently underway constitute the elevation to the power of this
strategy, through which the aim is to achieve a true annihilation of
Palestinian society and which, presumably, refer to the prospect of a
new great expulsion of Palestinian masses from both Gaza and the West Bank.
Trump's horrifying ad showing a Gaza Strip freed from Palestinian
inconveniences and turned into a "riviera" for wealthy tourists enjoying
colorful drinks is a shame that is far too "futuristic," but it does
express a direction that someone is thinking of taking. Not the "final
solution," which is neither realistic nor convenient, but rather a rapid
opening of new "living space" for the prospect of Greater Israel.
Without arriving at the idea of forced deportations, which are also
unrealistic, it is possible that in Netanyahu's (and Trump's) mind there
is the idea that after a few years of hell like the current one, a few
careful openings of the borders would be enough to determine a massive
voluntary exodus of desperate people; and thus a good part of the
Palestinian "problem" would be transferred to others. In the meantime,
just to be on the safe side, the so-called buffer zones are being tested
with related internal displacements of tens of thousands of people (see,
for example, Rafah).
In such a context, it is very difficult to establish what is happening
in Palestinian society, but we can once again record its timeless
dignity and resilience that seems to resist any horror. At the moment,
for example, it is still very difficult to decipher the weight and real
meaning of the recent protests against Hamas in Gaza.
We can understand something more about what is happening inside Israel.
An article, which appeared in the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972 and
published on the FB page "Osservatorio mediterraneo di pace", testifies
that there are about 100,000 fewer young people who have reported for
military service as reservists compared to what happened at the
beginning of the operations in Gaza. Of course, most of those who do not
enlist are defined as "gray objectors", that is, not convinced against
the war, but simply demoralized or tired by the long duration of the
operations in progress; and yet they constitute a wake-up call for the
government clique, especially in the context of the internal crisis in
Israeli society that preceded October 7, 2023, and which the resumption
of military operations certainly exacerbates.
At the same time, the end of the brief "Trumpian" truce and the
full-scale resumption of massacres are elements that further blow on
Israel's international discredit, also giving new life to the robust
international movement of solidarity with Palestine. A movement that is
demonstrating great constancy of mobilization at all latitudes,
including Italy. A movement that has in the boycott of Israeli goods a
potentially significant instrument of pressure. A movement that also in
Italy - net of some heavy political influences that condition it -
expresses, in the great mass, a widespread, profound and visceral
empathy towards the very painful Palestinian condition. As such, it
seems set to become a stable element of the national and international
political agenda, to the extent that the dramatization of the Middle
Eastern affair seems, unfortunately, destined to occupy the political scene.
In this context and in this perspective, the large demonstration in
Milan on April 12, organized by the grassroots unions and with a good
presence of the libertarian area within it, should be welcomed
positively. Equally positively is the demonstration of May 31 in La
Spezia, a demonstration that is against all wars and against the arms
industry, but is, from the premise, strongly marked by solidarity with
the Palestinian people, against genocide and against apartheid.
Claudio Strambi
https://umanitanova.org/palestina-fermare-il-genocidio-solidarieta-internazionale/
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