How many times have we found ourselves thinking, while watching the many
films that talk about the Shoah: "But how was it possible that such a
horror was committed in almost total general indifference?" . ---- Well,
in 50-100 years, those who study, read, and review the documents of the
genocide underway in Gaza will surely ask themselves the same question:
"But how was it possible? What were the rest of the world doing in the
face of this tragedy?". ---- The most common approach to this question
is probably to take refuge behind absolving concepts such as "the
inevitability of evil, horrors, and brutality, elements always present
in human history ." This is a more than natural approach because it
prevents us from asking too many questions and too many uncomfortable
questions, from feeling implicated: it is that fatalism that somehow
allows us to carry on despite the fact that around us there is a
crumbling society.
It is that acceptance, even if passive in the vast majority of cases, of
the status quo, because all in all somehow we end up moving forward: but
"each one alone, on his own path".
We, however, as militants of a political organization that aspires to a
world different from the current one, where capitalism is not the only
and final possible universe, do not believe in fatalism. We believe that
the events of human history always (or almost always) have very specific
causes, sometimes intertwined in such a complex way that they are
difficult to identify.
Indeed, there are very specific causes for the ongoing genocide in Gaza,
as well as very clear responsibilities, as we have highlighted several
times in our documents and more recently in the statement “ Neither with
Netanyahu, nor with Hamas! ”, published in October 2023 and available on
our old website.
(
https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/wpAL/blog/2023/11/25/ne-con-netanyahu-ne-con-hamas/
).
Just as we must not forget that, alongside those responsible for this
massacre, there are also human beings who, in that context of war, for
decades and not just today, have opposed deadly nationalism and
militarism, embracing the idea of a society in which people of
different religious (and otherwise) and ethnic backgrounds can coexist
peacefully: first and foremost the Refusniks, young people who refuse to
perform military service, still mandatory by law in Israel, paying for
their courageous choice with prison.
As it also happened in Nazi Germany, where small but aware minorities,
isolated from each other, risked their lives to save dozens of Jews and
political prisoners.
Unfortunately, historiography is largely omissive in this regard, and it
is very difficult to find evidence of these stories in the mainstream
media, precisely because they tell us that it is possible to choose not
to be complicit in a system deemed criminal. In this regard, we report
in particular the words of one of these young people, Yuval Pelleg, who
just recently, along with another eighteen-year-old, Ayana Gerstman,
refused to enlist in the IDF (
https://www.pressenza.com/it/2025/07/due-diciottenni-israeliani-finiscono-in-prigione-per-il-rifiuto-di-partecipare-al-genocidio-a-gaza/
):
Despite all its crimes, the nations of the world continue to supply
Israel's machine of destruction with weapons and funding. I will soon be
imprisoned for my refusal to participate in the massacre, and I appeal
to you, the peoples of the world: intensify the fight! Join me and
resist destruction and genocide with all your might.
Finally, I want to remind you that this isn't about me. It's about the
destruction, the people killed, the dialogue that has been extinguished,
and the justice that has been buried under the rubble of Gaza.
I strive to take part in a struggle for life, equality, and freedom. In
this struggle, one thing is clear: the army and I are polar opposites.
That’s why I refuse to enlist.”
At the very time when one of the most horrific chapters in recent human
history was unfolding in Gaza, thousands of kilometers to the east, the
weapons still used in Gaza on human beings scavenging for food were
instead burned in a symbolic bonfire by PKK militants. The historic
event, which followed Öcalan's call for an end to the armed struggle and
the subsequent dissolution of the PKK decreed by the party congress,
took place on July 11; The connection with what is happening in Gaza was
recalled by Bese Hozat, co-president of the Kurdistan Communities Union
(KCK), who, reading the statement of the “Group for Peace and Democratic
Society” during the ceremony , underlined that the voluntary destruction
of the PKK's weapons constitutes a “gesture of goodwill and
determination” and that “given the growing fascist pressure,
exploitation across the globe and the ongoing bloodbath in the Middle
East, our peoples need a peaceful, free, equal and democratic life more
than ever”.
Certainly there are many other factors that have led the PKK to make
this choice, among which one cannot fail to mention the recognition of
the now unbridgeable gap in terms of military technologies between the
Turkish state and the Kurdish militants.
In any case, it is a courageous choice with which the Kurdish movement
is trying to break out of a stalemate, demonstrating once again that it
constitutes one of the most advanced revolutionary perspectives in the
world today, probably together with the Zapatista experience in Chiapas,
stubbornly carried forward by the EZLN amidst a thousand difficulties.
And so, while we in Europe are witnessing a continuous worsening of the
conditions of the working class, with the disintegration of all
significant political and social opposition, what is happening in
Kurdistan must spur us to find new forms and languages, to rethink the
modalities of revolutionary transformation. It is increasingly urgent to
emerge from disorientation and inertia: an internationalist political
and social proposal is increasingly necessary, one that transcends the
now worn-out corporate and national barriers, one that can reconnect
with the working class and the proletarian strata of all countries, to
effectively stem the degeneration of the capitalist system into a
competition between imperialist powers, a harbinger of bloody armed
conflicts for control of the world market.
A proposal capable of providing organizational responses to a widespread
but still evanescent feeling of indignation, transforming it into
awareness and generalizing it to broader contexts, combating resignation
and beginning to overcome the challenges posed by the contemporary world.
https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
_________________________________________
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films that talk about the Shoah: "But how was it possible that such a
horror was committed in almost total general indifference?" . ---- Well,
in 50-100 years, those who study, read, and review the documents of the
genocide underway in Gaza will surely ask themselves the same question:
"But how was it possible? What were the rest of the world doing in the
face of this tragedy?". ---- The most common approach to this question
is probably to take refuge behind absolving concepts such as "the
inevitability of evil, horrors, and brutality, elements always present
in human history ." This is a more than natural approach because it
prevents us from asking too many questions and too many uncomfortable
questions, from feeling implicated: it is that fatalism that somehow
allows us to carry on despite the fact that around us there is a
crumbling society.
It is that acceptance, even if passive in the vast majority of cases, of
the status quo, because all in all somehow we end up moving forward: but
"each one alone, on his own path".
We, however, as militants of a political organization that aspires to a
world different from the current one, where capitalism is not the only
and final possible universe, do not believe in fatalism. We believe that
the events of human history always (or almost always) have very specific
causes, sometimes intertwined in such a complex way that they are
difficult to identify.
Indeed, there are very specific causes for the ongoing genocide in Gaza,
as well as very clear responsibilities, as we have highlighted several
times in our documents and more recently in the statement “ Neither with
Netanyahu, nor with Hamas! ”, published in October 2023 and available on
our old website.
(
https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/wpAL/blog/2023/11/25/ne-con-netanyahu-ne-con-hamas/
).
Just as we must not forget that, alongside those responsible for this
massacre, there are also human beings who, in that context of war, for
decades and not just today, have opposed deadly nationalism and
militarism, embracing the idea of a society in which people of
different religious (and otherwise) and ethnic backgrounds can coexist
peacefully: first and foremost the Refusniks, young people who refuse to
perform military service, still mandatory by law in Israel, paying for
their courageous choice with prison.
As it also happened in Nazi Germany, where small but aware minorities,
isolated from each other, risked their lives to save dozens of Jews and
political prisoners.
Unfortunately, historiography is largely omissive in this regard, and it
is very difficult to find evidence of these stories in the mainstream
media, precisely because they tell us that it is possible to choose not
to be complicit in a system deemed criminal. In this regard, we report
in particular the words of one of these young people, Yuval Pelleg, who
just recently, along with another eighteen-year-old, Ayana Gerstman,
refused to enlist in the IDF (
https://www.pressenza.com/it/2025/07/due-diciottenni-israeliani-finiscono-in-prigione-per-il-rifiuto-di-partecipare-al-genocidio-a-gaza/
):
Despite all its crimes, the nations of the world continue to supply
Israel's machine of destruction with weapons and funding. I will soon be
imprisoned for my refusal to participate in the massacre, and I appeal
to you, the peoples of the world: intensify the fight! Join me and
resist destruction and genocide with all your might.
Finally, I want to remind you that this isn't about me. It's about the
destruction, the people killed, the dialogue that has been extinguished,
and the justice that has been buried under the rubble of Gaza.
I strive to take part in a struggle for life, equality, and freedom. In
this struggle, one thing is clear: the army and I are polar opposites.
That’s why I refuse to enlist.”
At the very time when one of the most horrific chapters in recent human
history was unfolding in Gaza, thousands of kilometers to the east, the
weapons still used in Gaza on human beings scavenging for food were
instead burned in a symbolic bonfire by PKK militants. The historic
event, which followed Öcalan's call for an end to the armed struggle and
the subsequent dissolution of the PKK decreed by the party congress,
took place on July 11; The connection with what is happening in Gaza was
recalled by Bese Hozat, co-president of the Kurdistan Communities Union
(KCK), who, reading the statement of the “Group for Peace and Democratic
Society” during the ceremony , underlined that the voluntary destruction
of the PKK's weapons constitutes a “gesture of goodwill and
determination” and that “given the growing fascist pressure,
exploitation across the globe and the ongoing bloodbath in the Middle
East, our peoples need a peaceful, free, equal and democratic life more
than ever”.
Certainly there are many other factors that have led the PKK to make
this choice, among which one cannot fail to mention the recognition of
the now unbridgeable gap in terms of military technologies between the
Turkish state and the Kurdish militants.
In any case, it is a courageous choice with which the Kurdish movement
is trying to break out of a stalemate, demonstrating once again that it
constitutes one of the most advanced revolutionary perspectives in the
world today, probably together with the Zapatista experience in Chiapas,
stubbornly carried forward by the EZLN amidst a thousand difficulties.
And so, while we in Europe are witnessing a continuous worsening of the
conditions of the working class, with the disintegration of all
significant political and social opposition, what is happening in
Kurdistan must spur us to find new forms and languages, to rethink the
modalities of revolutionary transformation. It is increasingly urgent to
emerge from disorientation and inertia: an internationalist political
and social proposal is increasingly necessary, one that transcends the
now worn-out corporate and national barriers, one that can reconnect
with the working class and the proletarian strata of all countries, to
effectively stem the degeneration of the capitalist system into a
competition between imperialist powers, a harbinger of bloody armed
conflicts for control of the world market.
A proposal capable of providing organizational responses to a widespread
but still evanescent feeling of indignation, transforming it into
awareness and generalizing it to broader contexts, combating resignation
and beginning to overcome the challenges posed by the contemporary world.
https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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