Israeli Politics is the Continuation of Genocide by All Means

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Gaza, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, Hannibal, Israel, palestine, politics, The Dahiya Doctrine, US Imperialism

After two years of relentless genocide, is it all over?

Clearly, it is not.

Israel’s brutal attacks on October 28 and 29 against the destitute people of Gaza, killing more than a hundred Palestinians, including at least 34 children, was sanctioned by the USA administration as “not a violation of the ceasefire agreement”!

From the first day of the “Trump agreement” Israel ignores all the points related to the basic human needs of the Palestinians: The amount of food that is allowed in is not enough to stop mass starvation; Medical supplies are blocked; No tent are allowed to enter as Gazans return to their destroyed homes and the cold and rainy winter is approaching; Tens of thousands of the injured and maimed are prevented from exiting the sieged strip for medical treatment; The number of Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons is still at an all time high and torture and abuse are systematic.

The buzz word now is “the Lebanese Model” for the ceasefire, where Israel continues it attacks daily, claiming that it is “enforcing the ceasefire”!

Why did “the war” stopped?

During the last two years, many of us were obsessively discussing: how can the Genocide be stopped?

I did not see much importance to Israel’s internal politics. Israel threw itself into this bloody campaign like an attack dog, with no measure of self-control. It would attack until it is stopped by its master.

Others were discussing Israeli influence of US politics, and speculated that the US administration can’t stop Israel. I always said that the US president can stop the genocide by a phone call. Trump phoned to instruct Israel to stop attacking Iran, and Israel had to return its bombers that were already halfway to Tehran. In the end Trump called Netanyahu to come to the white house and told him that “enough is enough.”

Why did the US decide to pause the genocide in Gaza? While Israel is its crazy attack dog, its vast interests in the region are essentially in controlling and exploiting hundreds of millions of Arabs, with the biggest prize being Saudia and the Gulf states. Only when it started to suspect that its continued support for Israel’s genocide put in danger its interests in the Arab world, did the US decide to stop it.

The genocide was not a revenge but the essence of Zionism

After generations of whitewashing Zionism, academic research of “the conflict” in the middle east settled on the understanding of Zionism as a late case of “settler colonialism”. Unlike other types of colonial rule that are based on the exploitation of the local population, settler colonialism aims to uproot the natives and replace them with settlers. Hence, ethnic cleansing and genocide are inherent essential characteristics of such movements.

This mode of operation can be summarized clearly by the old Zionist saying: “A land without people to a people without land.” As the land of Palestine was populated by Arab Palestinians, this “unfortunate” state of affair had to be corrected. Ethnic cleansing is still the main occupation of the Zionist state in all the territories under its control. Unavoidably, uprooting people from their ancestral lands is a violent and bloody business.

Rabin said it clearly when he signed the Oslo accords: The Palestinians will be oppressed without Bagaz (Israel’s highest court) and without B’Tselem (an NGO reporting violations under the occupation). Sharon doubled down on it in 2005, when Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip. Their declared aim was to free their hands to suppress the people of Gaza by bombardment from heavy artillery, airplanes, and warships, instead of putting their soldiers in danger while hunting resistance fighters in the alleys. The same genocidal practices were applied against the people of Gaza in multiple rounds of “fighting” ever since.

In 2006, when the Israel invaded Lebanon and its army was badly hit on the ground by Hizballah fighters, it officially adopted a genocidal strategy: attack and destroy the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in order to force local resistance to submit to its will. They call it “The Dahiya Doctrine” after the name of the neighborhood in southern Beirut that was intensively and deliberately destroyed during that war.

The same genocidal intentions were also specifically expanded to the scenario of hostage taking through the “Hannibal Directive,” instructing the mass killing of everybody around, including Israeli POWs. This inhumane readiness to kill your comrades-in-arm, and knowing that your comrades-in-arm are ready to kill you, were part of the fomenting of the Israeli psyche that enabled the mass genocide.

Both the Dahiya Doctrine and the Hannibal Directive were long time official Israeli policy, before they were implemented on a large scale in the Gaza Genocide.

No Day After

Since the onslaught of the mass genocide, Israel refused to discuss, let alone prepare for, “the day after.” Any agreed “day after” would naturally take into account some accommodation of Palestinian human rights and national aspirations. What Israel wanted, and still wants, is to crush the Palestinian people, and drive them off their lands. Israel will still do whatever it can to resume its attacks on the people of Gaza.

The genocide is not over, it was just paused by the US administration, as a temporary damage control measure. And it is not just over Gaza.

Israel continues its violent and murderous attacks to drive Palestinian off their land everywhere. The occupation army and the settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank on many fronts every day. Every day Palestinians are killed and wounded. Many thousands are tortured in Israeli prisons and detention camps.  In 48 Palestine, the Israel police and Shabak continue to encourage the rule of criminal gangs, causing daily murders, with the same intent to drive Palestinian out of Palestine. Land confiscation, house demolition, the destruction of whole villages and the deprivation of basic services are on both sides of the green line.

And it is not only in Palestine. As the Arab world failed to mobilize to help Palestinians regain their rights, we now witness “Palestinization” of the whole region. Lebanon is under constant attack and under threat of another massive destruction campaign. The Lebanese government, according to the Israeli-US dictates, is not allowed to defend its own people, and its only “raison d’être,” like that of the “Palestinian Authority,” is to disarm and oppress its own people in the face of Israeli aggression.

Syria, which liberated itself after 14 years of revolution, civil war and external interventions, is not allowed to breath freely. Even as its new rulers declared in every possible way that they do not constitute a threat to any of their neighbors, Israel see the very possibility of the existence of a Syrian state that is not at war with its citizens as an existential threat. It grabbed more Syrian lands, regularly bombs the forces of the new government and tries to inflame sectarian divisions.

The central strategy at the heart of the imperialist support to the Zionist project is that the small and armed-to-the-teeth Jewish state should keep strategic superiority over any combination of regional powers. This concept was put into question over the last two years. The intense violence used by Israel, and backed by the western imperialist powers, was not a show of strength, but a result of the collapse of Israel’s perception as invincible.

With the endless usage of brute force, the threat of force is losing its potency. With its attacks on Iran and Qatar, Israel concentrated minds all around and reminded long time regional rivals that the main danger to their national security is Zionist aggression. The only question is how much blood will be spilled until the people of our region would be able to persuade western powers to stop playing with Israeli fire.

(*) The title is based on Carl von Clausewitz’s famous saying:

“War is the continuation of politics by other means”.

Why Accomplices to the Gaza Genocide Recognize the Palestinian State?

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Britain, France, Gaza, Gaza Genocide, Genocide, Israel, palestine, Palestinian State, politics, Western Imperialism

The catastrophic situation of the people in Gaza, which was unbelievably horrific long time ago, is getting ever worse. After two years of mass killing every day, the ruthless destruction of all the essentials for human existence, the systematic blatant violation of all human values and humanitarian laws, finally, much too late, all international “observers” and “experts” agree that what is going on in Gaza is Genocide, Forced Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing. The genocide in Gaza is live-streamed to the whole world, thanks to the effort of thousands of Palestinian journalists and activists, who put their lives in immediate danger, confronting Israel’s systematic killing of whoever tells the truth to the world. Humanity is shocked by the relentless cruelty and horrors.

Something should be done… The only thing that should be done NOW is stopping the genocide, ensuring free access to humanitarian aid, and complete and unconditional withdrawal of Israel’s genocidal occupation army from the whole of Gaza. Every human being with a minimum of conscience knows that.

To stop the genocide, we, humanity, should change the equation that makes this genocide possible. All possible pressure should be applied against the Israeli war machine (and all of Israel is part of this war machine) and against its master and prime supporter, the United States of North America. Only practical steps that would make the cost of eternal war crimes too heavy might force them to stop.

The pressure on the western imperialist powers that participate actively in the genocide, by supporting the Israeli war-crime machine in all practical ways, militarily, economically and politically, is accumulating. So, they also felt that they should do something. Of course, their first instinctive response was to oppress the local public and silence voices supporting Palestine. They use the mainstream media and social networks to cover Israel’s war crimes and vilify Palestinian resistance. But their attempts at distortion of reality can work only so far.

The last thing that those accomplices to the genocide would agree to do is stop supporting Israel. So, today, some of the most prominent of them found a new way to divert attention from their crimes by officially recognizing “the state of Palestine”. This recognition is somehow a symbolic victory for the Palestinians. When the issue of recognizing Palestine was before the British parliament, in 2014, I supported it as a small step forward. I still support the recognition itself, as it puts the recognizers a step farther from Israel’s position. But this formal recognition of a state that does not exist is absurdly meaningless in the face of the all-out onslaught against the very real Palestinian people on the ground, which they are doing nothing to stop.

Symbolic Steps

The recognition of Palestinian statehood is just the latest of mostly meaningless symbolic steps that were adopted by western powers as lip service to Palestinian rights, while they systematically support Israel’s war crimes and enforce its impunity. They use microscopic tweezers to identify “violent settlers” and enact symbolic toothless sanctions against them, ignoring the fact that their violence was never possible without the active support of the occupation army. The distinction of a few “violent settlers” is used to distract from the fact that all the settlements on occupied lands are illegal, violent and part of the criminal policy of ethnic cleansing. To say nothing about the much wider massive terrorizing of the Palestinian population by the army itself, guided by the Israeli apartheid regime and sanctioned by its racist courts.

Similarly, they denounce “far right extremists” in the Israeli government, and threaten more toothless steps against them, as preventing them from visiting Europe. By this distinction they ignore the fact that all the Israeli government and state apparatus, including all the Zionist opposition, are willful participants in all the war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, all around the Middle East and beyond.

By formally recognizing “the State of Palestine”, the advocates of “the two sate solution” want to legitimize the occupation and ethnic cleansing of 78% of Palestine in 1948, and to deny the majority of the Palestinian refugees, who were uprooted in the ’48 Nakba, the right of return. But the hypocrite western powers do not even mean to recognize an extremely limited “right of self-determination” of the Palestinian people, even not over the 22% of the land of Palestine that was occupied by Israel in 1967. Instead, they support the “right” of Israel to continue to dictate occupation-friendly leadership of the Palestinians. They recognize the totally bankrupt Palestinian authority that was built to serve the interest of the occupation against its own people. They even demand from it farther steps to be adjust itself to the liking of the occupiers. The Zionist rulers of Britain, France, Canada and Australia proud themselves that they suggest the best way to get rid of Hammas – as if the crime of resisting the occupation is the major problem, and they are outdoing Bibi in fighting it.

Yet, with all its fake symbolism, the formal recognition of Palestinian statehood is a retreat of these western imperialist powers, under the pressure of humanity and the people in their countries, to another trench, from which they intend to continue to defend the colonialist Zionist movement and support its crimes against the Palestinian people. The fact that they had to retreat from their traditional positions shows that our pressure is working. It also exposes the isolation of the US and Israel in their stubborn aggressive positions. It is a hard won and well deserved, so mostly symbolic, prize for a hundred years long struggle, and for the infinite suffering and resilience of the last two years.

The real change would not come through the good will of these hypocrite old-world imperialists. The real change would come by the people of the region, when they will gain real independence and unite to take control of their lives and interests. The imperialist powers support Israel as its excessive violence allows them to subdue and exploit the whole region. Till now the region’s rulers don’t see any option but to beg to the favors of their old colonial rulers. The heroic struggles in Palestine, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere shows that the people can take their fate in their own hands.

Free Raja Eghbarieh!

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Abna elBalad, Abnaa Al-Balad, Administrative Detention, Gaza, Gaza 2025, Genocide, Israel, palestine, Raja Eghbarieh

Eghbarieh’s arbitrary administrative detention is a dangerous escalation of political oppression

The Israeli authorities bear full responsibility for the imminent danger to Eghbarieh’s health and life

Call for International Solidarity

Declaration by Abnaa el-Balad Movement

April 20, 2025

On April 9, Israeli police and Shabak forces stormed the home of Raja Eghbarieh in Umm el-Fahm, confiscated personal equipment, and took Eghbarieh to the Jalameh (Kishon) detention center.

As a leading figure in Abnaa el-Balad, the Left Palestinian movement, since the 1980s, Eghbarieh, now 73, is not new to political persecution. His family and comrades are very concerned that, considering his age and fragile health, he might not survive another period in the Israeli occupation’s prisons, where torture and abuse of all types are widely and indiscriminately used.

On April 15, Israel’s “Defense” minister, Israel Katz, signed an administrative detention order for 4 months against Eghbarieh. According to this order, Eghbarieh was transferred to the Megiddo prison, which is notorious for violent repression that caused the death of several imprisoned Palestinian detainees. On April 17, the head of the Haifa district court started a review (beyond closed doors) of the administrative detention order and postponed its confirmation to April 22.

The administrative detention against Eghbarieh comes in the context of the ongoing genocide that is carried by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023, Israel is conducting a relentless campaign of murder, ethnic cleansing, and terror against the Palestinian people. This terror campaign is not limited to Gaza and the West Bank, but is also directed against Palestinians in the areas that are occupied by Israel since 1948, aiming to silence any protest. Attempts to demonstrate against the genocide are brutally oppressed.  Many were persecuted for simple social media expressions of solidarity with the people of Gaza. Hundreds were arrested, tortured, sentenced to prison, and expelled from work and universities.

Administrative detention is an especially arbitrary tool of oppression, widely used by the Israeli occupation. It is a detention by military order, with no formal accusations, no trial, and no way for the detainee to refute the “secret evidence” that he and his lawyers are not even allowed to see. Currently there are about 3500 people from the West Bank under administrative detention. The usage of administrative detention is also expanding in ‘48 Palestine, and it is estimated that there are now about 30 such detainees. To emphasize the racist character of administrative detention in Israel, the same Katz abolished the few orders that were issued against Jewish settlers that carried out violent pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The administrative detention of Raja Eghbarieh is another dangerous step in the political oppression against ‘48 Palestinians, being used against a central political leader, to prevent him from exercising his public political activity. In the week of detention before the administrative order was issued, Eghbarieh was only interrogated about his public political activity. The last public campaign by Abnaa el-Balad, that Eghbarieh took part in, was collecting humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank during the holy month of Ramadan.

Who is Raja Eghbarieh?

Raja Eghbarieh, 73, is a central figure in the leadership of Abnaa el-Balad movement. In the eighties he played a central role in defining the political identity of the movement as a progressive leftist movement for national liberation.

As the first Palestinian intifada started in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on December 9, 1987, Abnaa el-Balad had an important role in the organizing of a general strike of ’48 Palestinians, naming it “Palestine Day”. As a direct response, Israel’s then “defense” minister Rabin issued administrative detention orders against three leading members of Abnaa el-Bald, including Eghbarieh.

When, in 1990, Abnaa el-Balad held its first national congress, Eghbarieh was elected to be its first secretary general.

From its establishment, Abnaa el-Balad emphasized the unity of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, with the Palestinians that survived the 1948 Nakba and were left under Israeli rule an indivisible part of the Palestinian people.

Abnaa el-Balad is known primarily for its position of boycotting the Israeli Knesset, in response to the racist nature of the Zionist colonialist project and the Apartheid regime in Israel.

The movement consistently struggles for the right of return of all Palestinian refugees and for the establishment of a secular democratic state in all historic Palestine.

For all this period Eghbarieh was not only a political leader within his movement but also represented it in different bodies that united the 1948 Palestinians in struggle against Israeli racism and oppression, most notable the “higher follow up committee”. In this role he had made important contributions as part of the united leadership of the Palestinian masses in many crucial struggles.

Call for International Solidarity

While all efforts should be concentrated to end the genocide in Gaza, defending the freedom of those who struggle against this genocide is an integral part of this vital world-wide struggle. Political repression in ’48 Palestine is designed to terrorize and paralyze an important part of the Palestinian people.

Solidarity with Raja Eghbarieh now is especially urgent to defend him against the imminent danger to his health and life in the Israeli slaughterhouse-prisons.

• Free Raja Eghbarieh!
• End All Administrative Detentions!
• Freedom to all Palestinians that are imprisoned due to their struggle for freedom!

To contact Abnaa el-Balad about this campaign, please email: abnaa.albald48@gmail.com

You can follow the campaign on Facebook: Free Raja Eghbarieh

This is Biden’s War – You, Americans, Must Stop It!

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Biden and Bibi, Dahiya Doctrine, Gaza 2023, Genocide, Israel and the USA, Stop the war, Western Imperialism

As no anti-war political protest is allowed now in “democratic Israel,” I spent most of the last weeks writing my war diaries, describing my daily experiences, describing how Israel has become a full-scale dictatorship. I concentrate on what happens within 1948 Palestine, as this is where I live, and as this is the segment of Apartheid Israel that is least known and understood globally. Unfortunately, many people still believe the fake propaganda as if Israel is a democratic state within its 1948 borders, and see the 1967 occupation is an external unresolved problem. You can read these diaries in Mondoweiss and, of course, in Free Haifa.

Time to ask the big questions

Stifling of internal debate is not directed only at the Palestinians or the very few critical voices within the local Jewish society. Israel was deeply divided before October 7, but it soon united around the necessity “to win the war,” with no questions asked about what that might mean. Without internal debate, the whole society is moving blindly behind hollow slogans toward devastating escalation of the conflict, with no other option even being considered.

Israel is like a car driving crazy ever faster down this road of bloody calamity, without any internal discussion that would allow it to critically assess the situation. The driver is blind and deaf and the car has no brakes to prevent it hitting people on the road, bumping over stones that might turn it upside down or crush into a final wall.

The main thing that I want to convey to you from here, from the middle of this blinding eruption of fear, hate and rage, is my impression that “the West” simply does not understand what this war is all about. And, saying this, I do not speak about my deep moral revulsion toward all those “democratic” leaders that revealed their white supremacist inner selves by supporting Israel’s Apartheid regime and backing its complete disregard to Palestinian lives and Human Rights.

Western leaders revealed their white supremacist inner selves by supporting Israel’s genocidal campaign

I think the leaders of the West, first and foremost Biden, simply do not understand the devastating damage that they are causing to their beloved racist Israel by pushing it to continue this massacres campaign against Gaza’s people.

As Israel is not able to make any rational considerations regarding the direction it is heading, it is up to the Western politicians, media and public, which enable this war, finance it and send daily the bombs that destroy Gaza, to ask the big questions, pull Israel out of its crazy race to mutual destruction, and immediately stop the killing and ethnic cleansing. Only when the road to genocide will be blocked, we would be able to start the search for a real solution, a solution that will guarantee decent living, freedom, equality and security to all.

Premeditated Madness: The Dahiya Doctrine

Israel’s current massacres campaign is not coming out of the blue. It is not a spontaneous response to the (real) shock caused by the unexpected devastating attack by Hamas on October 7, and the total failure of all Israel’s mighty security apparatus on that day.

Since the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, on the summer of 2006, there is an officially endorsed Israeli strategy, which they call “The Dahiya Doctrine”. The essence of this doctrine, modeled on the destruction caused in Beirut’s Dahiya neighborhood, is the usage of excessive force against the civilian population, creating massive destruction, in order to gain unproportional deterrence that can’t be achieved by confronting military forces. The death and suffering inflicted on the civilian population, according to this doctrine, is not “collateral damage,” but the main goal of the war effort.

Of course, Israel can not speak openly, “in real time,” about this well-documented doctrine. They must declare that they are out “to fight terrorists.” But it is not by chance that, more than a month and a half into “the war,” Israel could not portray any, even slightly feasible, “end game.” The only real solution is, of course, to dismantle the colonialist racist system, but for all Zionist parties this is absolutely out of any consideration. But their claimed goal of “destroying Hamas” is recognized by all experts as completely unrealistic.

Hamas was established in the Gaza Strip and became its main political party when it was under full Israeli occupation and as a direct result of this occupation. History is full of lessons about how war, occupation and oppression resulted in galvanizing fierce resistance. The Israelis could have learned it from their 18 years of occupation of southern Lebanon, where they converted the friendly, peaceful poor Shia minority into their most formidable enemy in the form of Hezbollah. The United State, at the height of the power of its empire, experienced the same frustrating results from their 20 years of “educating” the Afghan people by bombing and shooting them.

The only thing that Israel’s racist leadership (not me) could hope to achieve from this war is to make a frightening impact that will resume their “deterrence” for some time, and to try to convince their army not to sleep on duty.

What Went Wrong

If you understand this logic behind Israel’s madness, you can understand that what the saner Israeli generals, politicians and public want is that their big imperialist brothers will hold them back. If, for example, Biden would tell Israel that killing 20,000 Palestinians, 7,000 of them children, is enough, they could pretend to be angry and say: “We could have killed two hundred thousand”, and return home proud of themselves. This would also protect the big egos of failed generals and politicians that could explain to the lynch-mob public that they wanted to kill more, but they need America to keep their back.

What prevents this war from reaching its “logical end” is the fact that the Western politicians, mostly the US Democrats, and Biden at their “core,” have no brain, and they are carried away by their hypocritic rhetoric. They object to the ceasefire that Israel could accept only if it was enforced on it. By what they see as brave support of Israel, they push it into an ever-bloodier massacres campaign.

For the United States this is just one more imperialist adventure that they can easily allow themselves to abandon, like they abandoned Vietnam and Afghanistan after orgies of bloodshed. For the Israelis, the extreme violence that they are encouraged and pushed into by their “Western friends” might eliminate any chance that they would ever be able to live peacefully in the Middle East.

Herak Haifa Declaration: Stop the war of extermination against two million Palestinians besieged in Gaza!

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Gaza 2023, Genocide, Israel's unity war government, Solidarity with Gaza, Zionist war crimes

Urgent call

Stop the Zionist war crimes against our Palestinian people!

The American and European imperialist powers are partners in the war of extermination against two million Palestinians besieged in Gaza!

To the daughters and sons of our steadfast people in the homeland and in the diaspora,

To all conscientious people in the world!

We raise this cry, this urgent appeal, at the most dangerous stage in the history of our people, history which is full of calamities, tragedies, bombings, massacres and displacement.

From here, from occupied Haifa, we launch a cry of pain and distress, and an urgent request for action to save two million daughters and sons of our Palestinian people, children and the elderly, against whom the Israeli war machine has launched an unprecedented war of comprehensive annihilation, unprecedented despite the long bloody history of the colonialist state.

We should not forget that the campaign of crimes against humanity being waged these days against our people in the Gaza Strip is not just “madness” practiced by the current fascist government, but rather a continuation of the policy of ethnic cleansing that has made most residents of the Gaza Strip refugees and besieged in this small piece of the Palestinian homeland, in which basic necessities of normal life are lacking, already 75 years ago. The siege on these people intensified, even more brutally, when the resistance forced the occupation to withdraw its forces and settlers in 2005. Rabin had once declared his desire to see “Gaza sinking into the sea,” and now we witness how his killers and followers unite to drown it in a sea of blood.

Today’s criminal offensive to exterminate our people in Gaza is a new stage in an endless series of systematic Zionist crimes aimed at realizing their dream of inheriting and settling “a land without people.” We issue this call while we are all being persecuted, as Palestinian blood is spilled with impunity throughout Palestine and the diaspora. Just this year, about 200 Palestinian Arabs were killed within the “sovereign borders of Israel” (Palestine 48) by bullets from criminal gangs, which enjoy the protection, and even the participation, of the occupation police and army.

We witness in these very days a massive campaign of detentions against anyone who expresses an opinion contrary to the regime’s bloody chorus, the expulsion of Arab students from their universities and the firing of workers from their jobs, the suppression of any expression of protest, and the recruitment, arming and letting-loose of settler gangs under the auspices of the army and police. The result of all these persecutions is that to protest or even to cry in pain over the shedding of blood of our people is regarded as a crime.

We are raising this cry, calling for an end to this bloody carnage, while our hands are tied and our homes are besieged. But we know, and the world and history know, that behind the war criminals are those who enable and encourage them while they are sitting safely in their homes and offices, waiting to profit from the misfortunes of others. The first of whom are the American and European imperialist powers, their politicians and the owners of multinational companies who calculate their expected benefits.  The bombing, massacres and bloodshed are pushed on by the racist, biased media that sanction Palestinian blood, as it sanctions the blood of all oppressed, colonized peoples.

We issue this appeal, with greater hope, to our Arab peoples and all the peoples of the region and the peoples of the Third World who have suffered from colonialism and occupation for centuries, have paid a heavy price for their freedom and are still suffering from the “neocolonial” system. We believe that our sisters and brothers around the world are capable of stopping the regimes rushing to normalize relations with the occupation and apartheid state. We believe that restoring global solidarity between the oppressed and exploited peoples is the guarantee to deter colonialism, stop the suffering of our people, and establish a better world for all.

We return and demand that everyone does everything possible to stop the campaign of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, immediately!

At this time, when our people are being exposed to the fiercest attacks in their history, we promise everybody, friends and enemies, that our people will remain stronger than all conspiracies against us, and that the steadfastness and unity of our people are the guarantee of achieving return, freedom, and living in dignity in the future democratic state of Palestine.

Glory and eternity to the martyrs of our people.

Healing for the wounded and freedom for all the prisoners.

Haifa 10/13/2023

(You can read the original Arabic declaration in Haifa al-Hurra.)

Israel’s Genocidal Rampage Must Be Stopped

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#GazaUnderAttack, Egypt, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Gaza 2014, Genocide, palestine, Protective Edge, Uri Misgav, Zionism

 

Since the latest onslaught on the Palestinian people started I spend most of my time demonstrating, going to court to support the detainees from demonstrations and following the news which drive me mad…

What can you write that will knock the minds of people who close their eyes to the sight of burned kids and whose ears are deaf to the screaming of relatives who lost all their dear ones in the targeted mass killing of whole families by the most sophisticated western air force?

But, as I have the sickening privilege to read intensively the Zionist media, there are some things that I may better explain…

The Ultimate Goal

One of the best Zionist writers that I follow recently is Uri Misgav from Haaretz. At the beginning of the latest attack on Gaza he declared that Israel already failed, because it started a military operation without any conceived goal that can be achieved. But he failed to read the writing on the wall. The Israeli politicians had a very clear goal that the mob was chanting in all the “demonstrations” that prepared for the rampage: “Ma-vet la-a-ra-vim!” – “Death to the Arabs”.

When the Zionist mob gets out of control in the streets of Jerusalem – hunting the city’s cleaners and falafel sellers to beat and lynch – the Zionist law and order authorities and respectable media have a common phrase to hold them back: “Don’t take the law into your own hands”.

Israel is a Jewish Democracy and its politician should give their electorate what they want.

But it is not only electoral considerations and populism that make Israeli politicians complete to excel in propagating racist hatred and bath in the heroism of spilling Arab blood. It is the only real political plan in the country. While talking about political solutions, the Zionist still stick to their original goal: “A country without people to a people without a country”. They still systematically act in all legal and illegal means for ethnic cleansing in the Galilee and the Naqab as well as in Al-Quds and the rest of the West Bank. But expropriating the land doesn’t solve the Zionists main problem – the existence of the Palestinian people and their constant struggle to live as free people on their land. So they keep coming back to the ultimate solution: “Death to the Arabs!”

 

Killing Time

General Schwarzkopf once said it is not worth the while to hold a bulldog if you don’t let it loose from time to time. For a long time Israel didn’t really needed a complete policy – it was pushing for a new attack until the rope was loosened to let her go after its victims. Then her master could hold it back for a nice profit for itself and throw a fat bone to the dog.

Till now, in all Israeli thinking about the politics behind the military rampage, the main task of the politicians and diplomats is to “buy time” for the military to act.

The Israeli generals and politicians are now looking to find how loose the rope is. Yesterday they bombed two UNRWA schools where Gaza families found shelter after they were expelled from their homes by previous bombings. Today they bombed another hospital, killing patients in their beds. They also successfully targeted a Palestinian ambulance, killing and wounding members of the medical team. The daily death toll in Gaza is now more than 100.

Of course, according to their military-technical potential, they could kill as many Palestinians as they like. But they need some justification, and they are somewhat afraid to be brought to justice for their war crimes. This was the logic behind the entrance of the ground forces into Gaza. Some spilling of Israeli blood and the need to protect their soldiers was the best justification for much wider massacres of the Palestinians. Now the fairy tales about the need to destroy Gaza “terror tunnels” is used to buy time for more killing spree.

The Brakes are Broken

Historically Zionism and Israel were used by the different imperialist forces to subdue the Arab national movement. Egypt’s president, Anwar Sadat, declared that 90% percent of the cards are in America’s hands – before throwing away any semblance of national independence and remaking his country into a colony.

At those times the break on Israel’s atrocities was the famous “anger of the Arab street” – the fear of imperialism that mass struggle aroused in solidarity with the Palestinians will put in danger their servile Arab regimes.

Now, after the Arab spring of 2011, the Arab anger is no more a frightening potential… Currently the war for democracy and freedom in the Arab world and the Middle East have so many hot fronts and so many internal contradictions that there is nobody to turn to.

The dearest strategic asset for the US – the Egyptian regime – is a special case. It used to be an authoritative regime that tried to have national and international respectability. Now it is a counter-revolution in the making, fighting the Egyptian people in the streets and competing with Israel in inciting against the Palestinians.

The western regimes and much of its media seem completely undisturbed to justify any war crimes on the side of Israel as “self defense”.

More than ever – we need the world’s people to make a stand and stop the killing.