We oppose Palestine inaction with class war against imperialist war!

Gaslighting Gaza: Hunger, hypocrisy and history all over again…

If media promoted photographs are to be believed, crowds of desperate Palestinians surrounding aid convoys in the Gaza Strip have now joined the Great Wall of China as one of the few earthly human spectacles visible from space.

It is an instrument of torture to revive the victim, sustain their capacity to live sufficiently to draw out the terrible suffering inflicted on them, as a warning, revenge, or punishment.

This is the context in which the current rush to drop crumbs from the air into a starving caged mass and the temporary short-term pauses in their exposure to horrific violence in Gaza could be seen. For survival, dignity or resolution, it is neither use nor ornament.

A 1000 people at least have been killed in the sadistic “hunger games” conducted by the Israeli state and US mercenaries over the last few months, to the increasing ‘tut-tut’ of an apparently disapproving world.

The fact that a pause has occurred at all is not a measure of the commitment and efforts of Israel’s allies to reign it in, but of their complicity, having clearly always possessed such power but refused to apply it for the sake of their global imperialist goals.

The ruling socialites of the Labour Party have proved themselves again as one cheek of the capitalist arse as Shammy Lammy and Starmer Chameleon perform the full pragmatic masquerade to serve their master Trump. They will never serve the interests of the working class they rob.

It might be better, observed President Lincoln, to avoid such treachery by choosing somewhere “…where despotism can be taken pure… without the base alloy of hypocrisy”. He was referring to Russia verses the US, we might well ask today, what’s the difference?

The far-right administration of the Israel state continues to squander the last of its historic good will or guilt credits, still peddling the line that the hunger it has created doesn’t exist.

This while juggling between military pauses and renewed bombing costing around 30 lives a day – double that currently caused by the induced famine. That any in the West can seriously claim this as a success is again masking a cynical complicity.

Hamas, meanwhile, the ‘state-aspiring’ anvil on which the Palestinian working class is being hammered, unapologetically continues to feed the meat grinder at the other end.

The western governments continue to supply Israel, block refugees fleeing war zones and suppresses even the flimsiest internal descent against their Israeli ally as antisemitism.

The banning of Palestine Action as terrorists for their nonviolent direct action has fooled no one, not even the usually supine United Nations which has called for the ban to be lifted.

We don’t support the ultimate goals of Palestine Action as we believe none of the artificially divided sections of the worlds working class should be subjected to the brutalising local policeman of capital that is the state, Palestinian or Israeli. We do however acknowledge this as a sign of greater repression to come and raise the alarm against it on that basis.

We have seen the seeding of periodic challenges to the power of Hamas brutally repressed by the Palestinian state-in -exile, while in Israel resistance is beginning to emerge to both genocide and forced military service.

While this initially appears small and far from the reality we are seeing elsewhere on the ground, we must counterpose it by asking what have those marching in their millions have achieved over the last three years other than sore feet and burnout.

Objectively they have bought time for the slaughter to continue by refusing to confront it with vigour and class interest with which this slaughter has been perpetrated. So far, our focus on the horror abroad has served to divert our attention to how it is paid for – by our increasing exploitation at home through austerity.

We must continue to argue that capitalism’s Social Peace at home is its violent immiserating pause enroute to the next generalised global bloodletting for profit, whose pathway is being paved almost everywhere we look at the moment.

The frontiers of capitalism are ablaze in preparation for our destruction; it’s destruction through the global struggle of our Class War is our necessary response.