Quick notes on the situation in Palestine in Israel

Extracted from this twitter thread

After an unprecedented attack organized by armed groups of Hamas in Israeli territory, Netanyahu declared war against Gaza and its population. Since then, IDF started a massive military operation, once again bombing and massacring Palestinian people

Palestinians had been under brutal attacks for decades. For few days, Israeli soil experienced what has been always happening in Palestinian areas. And of course, this is in all the news, because Western media takes side with its NATO ally interests.

We don’t support HAMAS attacks, especially not against unarmed civilians. We understand the context in which those attacks took place and we denounce the actions of the Israeli State, already targeting Palestinian civilians on a much bigger scale.

We see both actions as consequences of the brutal occupation policies of Israeli State. When existence is threatened, the only options are resistance or annihilation. Resistance is life, to be passive in the face of annihilation will never be an option for those who struggle.

The Israeli state, with the total support of US and the rest of NATO, developed a massive military and intelligence industrial complex #TestedInCombat, not just to continue their occupation of Palestinian territories, but also to profit by selling weapons to other states.

Attacks and campaigns against revolutionary forces like PFLP pushed Palestinian resistance towards Islamist groups, who use religion to organize the people instead of socialist and revolutionary values of liberation. We stand with revolutionary groups resisting ocupation.

HAMAS is a fundamentalist organization orbiting the Muslim brotherhood, aspiring to build an Islamic state on Palestine. They use brutal tactics like human shields, they crushed palestinian revolutionary groups, they prise Erdogan islamist politics and the taliban goverment

Anarchists ideas and groups are present in both sides.

The early kibbutz movement was libertarian socialist in nature, rejecting the idea of a Jewish nation-state, promoting Jewish-Arab cooperation. The Israeli State was founded against their libertarian values.

The Yiddish Anarchist Circle published anarchist materials in Yiddish and Hebrew since late 1950’s, organizing and spreading anarchist thought in Tel Aviv and beyond, promoting anarchist ideas while denouncing the occupation and the atrocities of the Israeli State.

Anarchists Against the Wall have been working since early 2000’s, organizing Jewish, Palestinian and international anarchists against the construction of walls and fences in Gaza and West Bank, fighting against occupation and zionist policies of ethnic cleansing.

We also want to mention that the arabic twitter account of Fauda, a Palestinian an Israeli anarchist organization, has been recently blocked. But they continued spreading their voice on telegram channels in arabic an hebrew as well as in their enlgish twitter account @Fauda_en

For those interested on a more inside view of the situation, we recommend the nextinterview with an anarchist from Jaffa, talking about the conflict and the recent escalation in Palestine, as well as the Israeli repression methods

Comrades of @asranarshism also published an statement with their perspective of the conflict :

“Palestine is a perfect mirror of what anarchists have been shouting throughout history: As long as governments exist, there will be no peace and security.”

We have trust that Palestinian solidarity networks, with the long internationalist tradition that started in Beka’a Valley, will also cover the situation better than we can, defending Palestinian people while rejecting the fundamentalist views of groups like HAMAS.

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is a polarized topic in Western social movements, and it echoes all around the world. Demostrations in solidarity with Palestine are being banned all around “Western” world, and they may be target of police repression in the next days.

Meanwhile, in middle east

After Khamenei praised HAMAS attack, Hezbollah launched some rockets on Israeli territory from Lebanon. Other groups on Iran’s orbit are mobilizing in southern Syria, arround the occupied Golan heights. A convoy from Iran has already being bombed on Syrian soil.

A public relations account of the taliban goverment published about passage request to Iran, Iraq and Jordan to join forces in the offensive agaisnt Israel. Later an oficial spokepersone denied it, but their relations with HAMAS are not a secret. Read more here

We don’t know how the situation will unfold and will keep an eye on it. In a conflict between a nuclear-power NATO army vs. a stateless people dispossessed of their land, we know which side are we on.

Long live international solidarity!

long live Palestinian people’s resistance!