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The Zionist state is affected by tensions among its horrendous components. But it does not stop killing and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank and neighboring countries. Trump’s pact with Israel is an anti-Palestinian trap. Let us stand in mobilized solidarity and raise high the banners of a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
By Ruben Tzanoff
Tensioned horror factions
On November 3, Israeli President Isaac Herzog warned at an event that the country “is once again on the brink of the abyss” due to “internal tension”. He pointed to the existence of a social, verbal and physical division that is expressed in threats and episodes of violence against public officials, judges and security forces, both on social networks and in the streets. Furthermore, he assessed that it is not only a political and governance crisis but also a strategic threat to institutional and social cohesion.
There have long been indicators of fissures. During the genocide, there were demands for corruption and for agreements to free the hostages; however, these demands did not go as far as questioning the Zionist State project, which is the basis of all the violence. And on October 30, some 200,000 ultra-Orthodox (Haredi/Jaredis) demonstrated against compulsory military service, since they consider that their contribution does not involve uniforms and weapons, but the study of the Torah and a religious life. They insisted that their protest is not directed “against the soldiers”, but against the treatment with which they feel singled out: “We are treated as pariahs and criminals”. The rabbinical fundamentalist theocracy, which considered itself a chosen and superior elite, is questioned by social sectors that perceive the existence of inequalities in relation to military obligations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to resolve the dispute between Zionists with a law modifying the enlistment regime, aware that he needs to keep the support of the ultra-Orthodox -Shas and United Torah Judaism- or he could run out of political support. The political and social atmosphere is charged with accusations of doubts about “total security”, the halt to the genocidal advance for the total occupation of Gaza and the arming of Hamas.
While fighting, torturing, legislating and executing more death
On November 3, Israel arrested Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, a lawyer and former military prosecutor, following the leak of a video showing violent abuse by reservist soldiers against a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman prison. The violation of human rights has been an ongoing practice of Zionism since 1947. On November 4, a committee of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) advanced a bill promoted by the extreme right to apply the death penalty to “terrorists” who murder Israeli citizens. The list of “Israeli citizens” includes settlers in the West Bank and soldiers carrying out genocide in Gaza. At the same time, the regime has a vision that includes as “terrorists” Palestinian civilians -men, women and children-, Arabs and solidarity activists from other countries. In the hands of Zionism, the death penalty will be another murderous “legal” instrument applicable to anyone who confronts the aggressors or criticizes them.
Don’t forget the West Bank
The Knesset also gave preliminary approval for the annexation of the West Bank which, beyond the criticisms – including Trump for his promises to the Arabs – and limitations to its implementation, is progressing in the form of a permanent harassment of the settlers and the IDF against the Palestinians. They destroy their crops, decimate their herds and prevent them from accessing water, forcing the paralysis of traditional agricultural activity in vast areas. The aggressions reach such an extent that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documents more than 3,000 attacks in the past two years, and 1,000 in 2025 alone, many targeting Palestinian farmers during the harvest season. The resulting economic losses strangle the ability of local communities to sustain themselves and push for forced displacement in what amounts to another tool for ethnic cleansing. Thus, illegal settlements have grown with virtually nothing done by the Palestinian Authority.
To the rescue of the plan and in search of international legitimacy
On October 22, US Vice-President J. D. Vance traveled to Israel in an attempt to rescue an already violated cease-fire in Gaza and to shore up the agreement promoted by Trump, which takes up the Abraham Accords and pursues a more lasting regional alliance. It remains to be seen whether the imperialist plan is fully or partially imposed or explodes, meanwhile, Trump is trying to consolidate US interference and presence in the region.
Trump is pushing an initiative for the UN Security Council to approve the deployment of an international military force in Gaza in order to establish an intervention mandate and guarantee security, obviously for Israel. The draft being discussed proposes that the military force would operate from January 2026 to the end of 2027, with an option to extend.
It is not even a question of the “disguised” interference of the well-known Blue Helmets, which on multiple occasions have served to consolidate the advance of the aggressors under the masquerade of a “peace mission”. The proposal contemplates an active force, with authority to impose imperialist and Zionist law and to form part of a major political transition. The military would come from a variety of countries – Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Turkey, among others, have already offered troops – and would act in coordination with a “peace” board that Trump proposes to chair. Their tasks would include training collaborationist Palestinian forces and overseeing the destruction of military or “terrorist” infrastructure.
Socialist revolution and free Palestine, from the river to the sea
Against this background, we reaffirm the scope of the international declaration “For a Palestine free from the river to the sea. No to the cheating agreement of Trump and Israel”, signed by the International Socialist League (ISL) and the League for the Fifth International (L5I). We denounce Israel as a serial violator of agreements not only in Palestine but also in Lebanon, where it recently disregarded the terms of the cessation of hostilities signed with Hezbollah in 2024, by staging a military incursion in the south that left four “terrorists” dead according to its own reports.
We maintain that it is necessary to maintain the organization and mobilization in solidarity with Palestine and that the only way to achieve peace, a socially dignified life and democratic freedoms consists in defeating the State of Israel and its accomplices: Israel out of Gaza, the West Bank and Palestine, imperialists out of the Middle East! This will not be a simple task nor exclusive to the Palestinians; it demands the mobilization of the socialist revolution in the entire Middle East against the treacherous governments and for the establishment of a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
