WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY PALESTINE News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Reggiana FA: Newsletter - PALESTINE: ONE LAND, TWO PEOPLES, NO STATE. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

We know that the massacre taking place today in Gaza and the West Bank
started from the "casus belli" provided by Hamas with the attack of
October 7th. We also know that this wicked murderous act certainly did
not arise out of nowhere, but fits fully into the framework of the wars
that are redefining the international geopolitical chessboard.
Responsible for the continuous violence that continues relentlessly in
Palestine is the fascist and racist policy of the Israeli state, which
for decades has practiced a ferocious apartheid against the Palestinian
populations, and for years has cyclically bombed the territory of Gaza,
massacring defenseless civilians in the silence of the rest of the
world. Policy supported and legitimized by the United States and Europe,
which consider Israel as the pivot of their hegemonic aims in the Middle
East. It is to further their goals that every day the Palestinian
population, in Gaza as in the West Bank, is subjected to arbitrary
actions, murders, violence, expropriations of land, harassment of all
kinds by the Israeli government and the settlers, incited and armed by
same government that uses them for the dirtiest jobs of ethnic cleansing.
And let it be clear that it is not acceptable for us to define, as
unfortunately some do, the Hamas attack on 7 October, which massacred
hundreds of unarmed civilians, as an "act of resistance". We consider
Hamas for what it is: a reactionary and medieval force, made up of
religious fanatics who in their statute define the French and Russian
revolutions as Jewish conspiracies. A force that has behind it some of
the most reactionary states in the world: from the petro-monarchy of
Qatar, to the Iran of the Ayatollahs who torture and kill women without
veils, to Erdogan's Turkey which massacres the Kurdish people and tries
to suffocate the revolutionary experience of Rojava. On the other hand,
the Netanyahu government uses Hamas as a bogeyman to fuel its
colonization plans after, many years ago, other Israeli governments
financed Hamas to divide the Palestinian front in opposition to Al-Fatah
and the PLO.
Unleashed by the October 7 attack, today Israel's exterminating fury has
lost all remaining restraint. The incessant bombings that have been
going on in Gaza for a month and a half with unprecedented violence, now
reinforced by the army invasion, are transforming a territory where two
million two hundred thousand human beings live into an enormous killing
field. The dead cannot be counted, and after all it makes no sense to
count them. It is not because of the number of deaths, but because of
the methods of the massacre, that we can speak of genocide.
In all of this, there are people who don't fit. Who reject the logic of
hatred. Who refuse to be drafted. Who fight against Hamas AND the
government of Israel. Who fight Zionist fanaticism AND Islamic
fanaticism, and have been doing so for years, and sometimes together.
Refusenik, Anarchists Against the Wall, ordinary citizens. These people
understood which side the enemy is on. He finds himself on the side of
those in command, of those who incite hatred, of those who perpetuate
massacres to perpetuate themselves, of those who use this terrible
tragedy for their own geopolitical aims. They know that the enemy is not
the Palestinian, it is not the Jew. The enemies, the enemies of all are
Israel, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the United States, the European Union,
Turkey, Qatar, Arabia, and whoever caused the shedding of a single drop
of blood to gain a paltry advantage.
If one day things change it will be because these people, after having
denounced and silenced those who committed horrible crimes in their
name, will build a different society together. We do not believe in the
fairy tale of "two peoples and two states". We are anarchists, after
all. States only serve to reproduce logics of power and oppression, of
war and exploitation. What is needed is a stateless society, without the
need for the corrupt governments of the PA or the murderous governments
of Hamas and Israel. Federations of free communities organized on class,
non-religious and non-ethnic bases.
Wishful thinking? A utopia? Perhaps. But it's not worth fighting for
anything less. In Palestine and everywhere.

REGGIAN ANARCHIST FEDERATION - LIBERTARIAN ALTERNATIVE REGGIO EMILIA
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