Solidarity with the Palestinian masses. For a unique Palestine, secular, democratic and socialist.
On this Saturday morning 7 October, Hamas fired thousands of missiles at Israel and stormed Israeli towns and cities around the Gaza Strip with numerous armed commandos, attacking military bases and taking soldiers and civilians hostage.
The Palestinian people, fed up with years of genocidal oppression, he responded enthusiastically, mobilizing massively and thousands of young people spontaneously joined the assault on the barbed wire fences and walls of shame that surround Gaza.
Israel's response was an immediate bombardment against civilian targets in Gaza, including hospitals, and a statement from Netanyahu asserting that they are at war and that the Palestinians will suffer an unprecedented attack. The head of the Zionist army announced massive bombings and cynically asks that the civilian population leave Gaza knowing that more than 2 Millions of inhabitants there have nowhere to go and no possibility of breaking through the siege imposed by the Zionist State of Israel..
Since its founding in blood and fire in 1948, The State of Israel has been a colonial imperialist enclave. It has perpetrated genocide and ethnic cleansing on the Palestinian population., who have been forced to massively abandon their land, to go into exile in neighboring countries and live as second-class citizens in the apartheid West Bank and as inmates in the enormous concentration camp that is the Gaza Strip..
Israel has ignored every United Nations resolution, continuing and increasingly deepening its colonial extension with illegal settlements in the increasingly reduced Palestinian spaces, provoking, attacking and massacring the civilian population.
In recent years, The Israeli State has turned considerably further to the right and intensified its genocidal actions. Not only has it legalized torture, but also institutionalized apartheid and its ethnic cleansing plan with a law that defined Israel as a Jewish State, limited self-determination exclusively to Jews, eliminated Arabic as an official language, declared illegal settlements “of national interest”, He moved his capital to Jerusalem and appropriated it entirely., contrary to the peace treaties that determined the city as shared with Palestine and prohibited the establishment of the capital of one or the other there.
Since Netanyahu assumed his third term as prime minister in December 2022, there has been a new escalation in Israeli attacks. New settlements were legalized and tens of thousands of homes and new colonies were planned, Death penalty imposed on Palestinian “terrorists”, definition that includes even someone who throws a stone at a tank, and increased bombings that have caused more than 200 deaths of Palestinian civilians so far this year, among them elderly, Women and children.
Among the attacks that have generated the most outrage in the population, along with the escalation of violence in illegal colonies, there are the repeated raids of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the last one in April of this year, with Israeli police shooting into the mosque, and beating and arresting people indiscriminately.
In all these actions of Zionism we must look for the causes of what has happened now, with a regrettable balance of hundreds of dead and thousands of injured. While we express our sorrow for the loss of lives of ordinary Israelis, We also clarify that the losses suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of the Zionist State of Israel during the last decades are incomparably greater, and the supposed international community, particularly Western imperialism, has remained silent on the matter. The violence of the oppressed cannot be judged by the same standards as the violence of the oppressor., in this case Israel, which is a state with nuclear power, armed to the teeth by the United States.
With Hamas and Islamic fundamentalism in general, that we consider a completely reactionary ideology and a product of imperialism itself, irreconcilable differences separate us, but our support for the Palestinian people to resist against their oppressor, the racist state, genocidal and colonial Israel is unconditional. Every oppressed people has the right to defend themselves and fight to recover what has been taken from them.. And it is a duty, not only those of us who are revolutionary socialists, but of all those who love freedom and defend the rights of people to self-determination, support the palestinian people.
Israel has the explicit financial support, US military and diplomat, all Western imperialism and the complicit silence of the powers, like Russia and China, and also from a large part of the Arab bourgeoisies and pro-imperialist governments of the world. Similarly, regional powers like Iran, who oppress their own people at home, They defend their own interests and are not friends of the Palestinian people. The so-called Palestinian Authority is also corrupt to the core and plays a collaborationist role. The main victim of this process that is going through 70 years is the Palestinian people. But you are not alone, since it has the sympathy of millions of workers and young people throughout the Middle East and the entire world.
After so many years, It is demonstrated that there will be no peace possible as long as the oppression of an entire people continues to exist at the hands of an oppressive and terrorist State artificially created by imperialism.. Peace will come from the defeat of the oppressor and the construction of a single Palestine, secular, democratic and socialist within the framework of a voluntary federation of socialist republics throughout the Middle East.
After the Zionist State can reorient itself after the surprise attack, reflecting Israel's biggest military and intelligence failure in decades, will intensify its attacks on Gaza, other regions and will increase their oppression of the Palestinian masses. The armed conflict, relatively limited at that time, It can also escalate into another regional war. The duty of the working masses and revolutionaries, not only in the Arab region but throughout the world, is agitating in the streets, work places, social networks and other places against Israeli oppression and occupation of Palestinian lands, and force the imperialist-backed Zionist state to withdraw.
From the International Socialist League (LIS) We call for the broadest international mobilization in defense and solidarity with the Palestinian people against the new massacre that is coming and to end the apartheid that they have suffered for decades..
Executive Committee of the International Socialist League– 07/10/2023
