Gaza Review

Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire (actually creating a permanent state of war in which Israel will not have to even pretend to adhere to any sort of terms) and is withdrawing troops. I have tried to create a bullet-point list of items noteworthy.


-1300 dead Palestinians, plus another 5400 wounded, with well over half of the total being accounted for by civilians

-some 50,800 people are now homeless and 400,000 are without running water in Gaza.
-entire neighbourhoods have disappeared.

-94% of the Jewish population of Israel have supported the Gaza massacres

-the US and UK (not Egypt) will help Israel to stop arms from getting into Gaza (because Palestinians have no right to self-defense)

-Even the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have begun to criticize Israel.

-It is a matter of broad consensus in Israel now that all of the land from the Jordan to the Mediterranean belongs to the 'Land of Israel'.

-The heavily fortified village-like Zionist compounds with their pitched, red-tiled roofs are islands of luxury and comfort overlooking some of the worst poverty in the world.

-Israel still maintains its own 'Civil Administration' (Area C, 59% of West Bank territory)

-Israeli Defense Forces are permitted to shoot any Palestinian who looks at the settlements through binoculars or in any other 'suspicious' manner.

-Palestinian militias are outlawed and considered international terrorists. Zionist militias are not outlawed, and they are even permitted to collect funds from American organisations.

-Israel is a First World country in a Third World region, but this is a feat that could not have been accomplished without the original dispossession of the Palestinians and the theft of their natural resources and farmland

-USA and Israel's Palestinian lapdog, Mahmoud Abbas is politically destroyed.

-The US has now accepted a DIRECT role in Israel's war against Hamas.

-Apparently, Mahmoud Abbas provided intelligence reports to Israel.

-This action was planned well over 6 months ago and was forced to end before Obama's inauguration.

-stopping smuggling was never dependent upon bombing the hell out of Gaza

-Israel and the US signed an agreement - without telling the Egyptians

-They have shattered the myth that Israel is the victim and the Palestinians the aggressors.

-USA is growing tired of Israel's mad dog routine, which threatens US hegemony in the region by alienating Arab allies and threatening others with domestic political upheaval because of Israel's penchant for killing Arab civilians.

-There MUST be an international boycott/divestment campaign against Israel!


(thank you Lenin's Tomb)
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I am highly critical of anarchists who not only refuse to support the Palestinians but refuse to even deal with this struggle calling it simply a fight between two states or statist authorities.

There is no such thing as neutral. It is our government that is funding Israel's wars and no matter how much you don't want to recognize the USA's authority over you, we pay for it and we unjustly benefit from it. So, any silence or inaction is simply condoning the status quo.

If you truly believe in the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, you would support it. One does not have to erase their criticism of a group such as Hamas to support the survival of Palestine! If you pay lip service to people's liberation and then withhold support until it looks exactly how you would like it to, you are no different than the rest of the White "First World" who thinks they know what is best for the lowly masses.

I will pick a side. I will always side with the oppressed.