If we look at this war from a human perspective, we see its victims as humans only, and that is the basis of our stance on this massacre, which is nothing but barbaric. The justification for these killing operations is the victory of one party, one ideology, and the solution to the problem. This is the goal of this war—killing, terror, and terrorism!
For a week now, two terrorist forces have been killing the people of Israel and Palestine. As workers, the poor, and advocates for liberation, we must ask, for what purpose is this barbarity?
Since its election 17 years ago, Hamas has engaged in terrorizing other Palestinian parties, such as Fatah, to impose its terrorist rule in Gaza. From that time until October 7, 2023, when nearly 1,000 Israeli women, children, and residents were killed, it worked to maintain and expand its terrorist authority, not only in Gaza but also as a supporter and part of the terrorist axis in the Middle East, aligning with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups in the region. This strategy aims to protect the economic and political interests of this dominant section of political Islam in these areas.
The authority of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, wherever they may be, does not represent the peoples of this region. Instead, they have made the lives and destinies of these people hostage to their terrorist and oppressive policies. The presence of Hamas in the occupied Palestinian territories and its hostility towards the state of Israel will not diminish the terrorism and backwardness of Hamas. The killing of Israeli civilians this month has demonstrated its barbarity, revealing the darkness of the future for Gaza and the region, and the extent to which humanity is threatened under the influence of this power and its allies.
The right-wing government in Israel today represents the other side of this capitalist barbarism. The killing of civilians in Gaza and the cutting off of water, electricity, and food from them is a terrorist crime similar to that of Hamas and is no less heinous.
The persistence of occupation and apartheid in this state has undermined the stability of the Israeli people and made war a part of their lives. The pretext of suppressing Hamas terrorism does not change the reality of the apartheid and inhumane policies of the bourgeois governments in Israel, nor does it legitimize them. These policies are by no means a defence of the Israeli people but rather a means of keeping these people under a state that is not only occupying but also part of the capitalist competition for redefining the Middle East according to the economic and capitalist interests and plans of energy companies, and for the dominance of these capitalist states in the market.
Today, the escalation and expansion of these wars tell us that humanity is facing a new cycle of capitalist barbarism. Therefore, the call for peace between Hamas and the Netanyahu government and a return to the Israeli-Palestinian two-state project at the United Nations cannot prevent these barbaric forces from making the Palestinian and Israeli people victims of their terrorist war.
Ending this barbarism requires a global struggle that humanity must engage in today to save itself from the dark future imposed by these forces. Instead of supporting these barbaric and terrorist forces, the peoples of Israel and Palestine must stand against both sides and remove them from power. This strategy has proven its necessity in Israel and Palestine for over 70 years if the residents of this region do not wish to live under oppressive conditions like the current ones. The call for peace, the establishment of two states, or any other alternative should be the work of this human front in Israel and Palestine, rather than waiting for and supporting either front of the Israeli government or the Palestinian nationalist and Islamic forces to bring about peace or end the occupation.
This doesn’t just apply to Palestine, but to Ukraine, Western Kurdistan, and any other hell of capitalist state wars today. Humanity is in the midst of a new period of capitalist barbarism. Therefore, the choice before human society is either barbarism or socialism and liberation from capitalism.
ASO KAMAL
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