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By David Morera Herrera, from Costa Rica

Everything indicates that we are witnessing a turning point on a global scale. This is a critical juncture at the epicenter today of the struggle between revolution and counterrevolution worldwide that is staged around the Palestinian resistance, its mass support and the ruthless offensive of Yankee Zionism. Let us remember that mobilizations of similar magnitude were the decisive fuel of the first defeat in the history of Yankee imperialism in Vietnam.

If we look at the derivations of the Palestinian genocide and its global impact as a whole, we must take into account two contradictory phenomena, under the dialectical principle of the struggle and unity of opposites.

The pole of the popular masses and the working class

On the one hand, we have increasingly massive and forceful mobilizations for Palestine and in defense of the Sumud Global Flotilla, with strikes and massive direct actions to boycott Israel in much of the world; especially in Western imperialist countries, such as those of the European Union, Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Greece stand out. In the United States, the pro-Palestinian movement is combined and complexed with the street battle against ICE deportations of migrants and the militarization of large cities imposed by Trump (in his essay to impose an increasingly bonapartist regime). There are also massive mobilizations in key Latin American countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, as well as in Asia: Morocco, Turkey, Indonesia; in the Extreme East of Asia, youth mobilizations in South Korea and Japan stand out (although not so massive).

The Italian workers’ movement, with two consecutive general strikes, has been at the forefront with massive support from the popular masses and the youth, and has unleashed, as in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, pitched battles against the riot police, under the slogan: Let’s block everything! The Euzkadi trade unions announced a general strike for October 15 in solidarity with Palestine. These concrete signs of boycott and solidarity from the working class and with its methods of strikes (a million times more effective than the rocket launchers of Hamas), not only put our class on the scene, but also allow us to foresee that, in the long run, it is possible to stop the bloody hand of Trump-Netanyahu. Add to this that there are already signs of demoralization and desertion among Israeli troops, and a contained political crisis inside Israel. There are mobilizations against the genocide (certainly not very massive – yet-) of Israel’s own citizens against the genocide.

The Zionist offensive intensifies

At the other pole of the phenomenon, for all the siren songs of peace that Trump promotes, Zionism is ramping up its scorched earth offensive, with the clear objective of exterminating the population of Gaza and expelling from the strip those who survive the shrapnel, bombs and famine. Likewise, Israel’s increasingly voracious illegal occupation of the West Bank continues unabated.

Since August 14 of the current year, regarding the occupation of the West Bank: “(…) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, far-right, said that he will approve plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank, a move that, according to him, will prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and the settlement of Maale Adumim has been frozen for decades amid strong opposition from the international community. Building there would de facto separate the West Bank from occupied East Jerusalem and would considerably hamper its territorial contiguity.” “The plan will bury the idea of a Palestinian state,” Smotrich said, according to Israeli media.”[i]

It was enough for Israel to decree, by itself and before itself, that international waters of the Mediterranean were its naval exclusion zone, so that the pantomime of guarding the Flotilla, with gunships sent by the European imperialists: the ”socialist”, Pedro Sánchez, and the far-right, Giorgia Meloni, for the supposed protection and custody of the Flotilla, was evidenced as a gross demagogy. With absolute cynicism, in unison, they called on the Flotilla to obey Israel, with the supposed guarantee of its security, in order to contribute to its demobilization.

Far from being a defeat, the interception and kidnapping of the Sumud humanitarian Flotilla to Gaza, the ill-treatment and torture of its members, has strengthened the global struggle for Palestine.

The visceral hatred of Zionism before this great show of international humanitarian solidarity was expressed unequivocally by the far-right Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, who: “(…) referred to the complaints about the detention conditions of the Sumud Flotilla activists, declaring that “anyone who supports terrorism is a terrorist and deserves terrorist conditions.”

“If any of them thought that they would come here and receive a red carpet and trumpets, they were mistaken,” the minister said on his Telegram channel, who visited Saharonim prison, located in the Negev desert near the Israeli city of Beersheba (south), where the activists are being held.”[ii]

The peace of Trump’s graves and his short circuits

In this regard, let’s start by indicating that Trump’s “Peace Plan” is a plan to subdue the resistance and liquidate the Palestinian self-government of the Gaza Strip, sponsored by governments that have historically been traitors to the Palestinian cause: Egypt, Turkey, the Gulf monarchies, especially Qatar, which turns off all financial aid to Hamas, which it granted in the past. This is why it is a “peace of the tombs”.  But, we even have to ask: will Trump’s colonialist plan be effective in its implementation? It is difficult to know today, but what is absolutely clear is that it is born full of contradictions and short circuits.

At the moment of writing these lines, despite Trump’s orders contemplated in “his peace plan”, the revulsive Zionist state is far from guaranteeing a ceasefire in Gaza.  On the contrary, it is intensifying its military offensive. The genocidal Netanyahu government and its occupation army continue, without any consideration, to intensify their bombing trail and block all humanitarian aid, to condemn the population to death and starvation.

On October 05, Agence France-Press reports“ “Israel announced yesterday that it is continuing its operations in Gaza City and warned the displaced not to return, despite President Trump’s call to immediately stop the bombings, after Hamas (…) declared on Friday that it is ready to release the Gaza hostages within the framework of Trump’s ceasefire proposal, and this Saturday said that it is ready to start negotiations to finalize the details.” However, “the bombs continued to hit Gaza and the spokesman of the Civil Defense of the territory, Mahmoud Basal, reported that it was a very violent night, during which the Israeli army carried out dozens of airstrikes and artillery fire against Gaza City and other areas of the Strip, despite the call of President Trump.” [iii]

It is early to predict the course of Trump’s diplomatic maneuver, but undoubtedly the scenario is complicated for him, because the beastly offensive of the Zionist war machine has not stopped yet.  Although on Monday, October 6, negotiations are convened and Egypt. “The meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, a city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula that has hosted negotiations in the past. Before the meeting, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised President Trump’s plan, although he noted that he hopes the negotiations will move towards the recognition of a Palestinian state as “a path to lasting peace and stability.” “I can only express my praise and appreciation to President Trump,” he said in a televised speech, in which he stressed the importance of drawing up a plan for the reconstruction of the enclave, devastated by the Israeli offensive. The indirect talks will also involve Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, as well as Egyptian intelligence services, to finalize the technical details of Trump’s proposal.”[iv] It is evident that al-Sisi and the Emir of Qatar are rubbing their hands with the participation they bet on in the succulent real estate business that Trump encourages with the screen of the reconstruction of Gaza.

The warnings of Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of state

The two sides, Israel and Hamas, will meet on October 6 to hold indirect talks in Egypt, at a meeting in which it is expected to determine a date for first establishing a temporary ceasefire and the subsequent surrender of the living and dead hostages.

But beyond the fanfare: how far will Trump be able to control Zionism, the monstrous spawn of Western imperialism, in this episode? The statements of Marco Rubio, prior to the round of negotiations reveal some impatience in this regard. The secretary of the U.S. State Department said before the meeting: “We want this to happen quickly. If not, I think the whole agreement is put in danger,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday about this first phase of the plan. The head of US diplomacy pointed out that for the moment the security and political future of Gaza will not be addressed, thorny issues that Hamas has already stressed that it wants to continue negotiating with Israel and the United States. However, Rubio warned that hostilities in the Palestinian enclave should stop, as it is the only way to reach an agreement that ends the conflict. “If there is active fighting going on, you just can’t, he remarked.”[v]

The chimera of the two-state solution and the ”final solution” of Zionism

For those who believe in the solution of the States, which is forged with the subjugation of the PLO since the Camp David accords and more recently those of Oslo, they do not understand that Zionism does not stop in its expansionist push since the artificial creation of Israel, which has a fascist essence, intrinsically racist. From the economic and social point of view, in order to sustain its character as a regional power and its big businesses, which are carnally linked to Western imperialism, it requires a permanent expansionism, protected by its theocratic ideology of the “promised land” for “God’s chosen people” and “Greater Israel”. The material basis since 1947 for the illegal appropriation of Palestinian territory by blood and fire to spread is the worldwide promotion of the entry into Israel of settlers from anywhere who are offered first-world housing, income and social benefits. The only requirement is to be or convert to the Jewish faith. That is why it is a myth that Israel is an ethnicity or nationality, it is a spawn of Zionism, as monstrous as Nazism, which with Hitler’s obscurantist ideology, by erecting itself as a “superior race”, exterminated on a large scale other religious confessions (Jews), ethnic groups (Gypsies), communists, Trotskyists, social democrats, homosexuals, and all dissent.

The proof of the essence of Zionism very similar to Nazism is its continuous displacement of the Palestinian people, which since 1947 led to the Nakba, its birthmark.  For the colonization of ever greater expanses of land of the Arab peoples, squeezing the Palestinian people, expelling them from their homes, destroying their crops, and giving free rein to the Israeli settlers for the purpose.

No trust in the Arab bourgeoisies or Trump’s negotiations: permanent mobilization to stop the genocidal Netanyahu and his fascist gang

The whole world has witnessed the genocide of the people of Gaza. As never before, Israel and its partners, open or covert, cover themselves with discredit and are despised. Their moral and political defeat is a fact, as evidenced by the great mass mobilizations against the genocide that we reviewed at the beginning.

Only the worldwide mobilization and the worldwide boycott of Israel, demanding from all governments the severance of diplomatic and commercial relations, and the direct action to prevent the arrival of cargo ships, tourist cruises or aircraft coming from or destined to Israel, as the Italian dockworkers and the Greek masses teach.

The fundamental solution is a secular, democratic, non-racist and socialist Palestine, where all ethnic groups and religious creeds coexist, liquidating the theocratic State of Israel and also in combat against Islamist religious fundamentalism.

From the river to the sea: Palestine will win!

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