Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
HEO/GED
7-31-24
Well Israel's assassination of Ismail Haniyeh should make the world feel a lot safer shouldn't it? Of course not. The Zionists have murdered some 90 members of this Palestinian leader's family including many grandchildren. But he's the terrorist.
But it confirms one thing most of us in the world already know, Israel's
genocidal Apartheid regime has no intention of achieving any serious peace and
certainly no Palestinian state or self determination for the Palestinian
people.
I think murdering a leading figure who you are apparently at the negotiating
table with in order to end a conflict is a tell tale sign you're not serious.
But the Israeli Apartheid regime can do this because Washington is OK with it.
Kamala Harris continues her language accusing Hamas, a Palestinian resistance
(to occupation) movement of being terrorists in no uncertain terms and refuses
to condemn the murder. The reality is that even if the Quakers were leading the
Palestinian people in their struggle against Zionist violence and occupation,
the US rogue regime would be calling them terrorists. Remember, they called our
efforts to build unions terrorism.
And to murder him in the capital city of another country! It makes the
Salisbury affair small potatoes I think, at least there is doubt it was Putin;
no doubt here.
US/Israel US capitalism, Biden, Trump, Harris, the entire US Congress,
could have stopped this genocide a long time ago. The decades of endless talks
were always a sham, the US was never going to undermine its colonial settler
regime in Palestine, it's the only friend it has. That is a social fact now.
Imagine the fear and insecurity millions of people in the Middle East are
subjected to due to US and western capitalism's role in the region; never
knowing when the US ally in the region will let the missiles fly. Working class
people like most of us. As the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe said recently, he
believes all Palestinians want is their homes back, security, and end to the
decades long war on them and their culture and to live in peace.
Capitalism unfortunately is not a system of production that is peaceful, it is
inherently exploitive. It is a constant state of war, a class war at all times,
by those who do no productive work against those who do. Against humanity and
the natural world which is necessary for the survival and continuation of the
human race. It is a system that can only lead to mass suicide.
The US is the one with the big stick. It is driving the violence, ever more
violent in the late stages of capitalism as its pole position in the race
drops. It is a dangerous beast indeed.
There have been powerful protests against the wars in the US. Against Zionism
also, led to a great degree by young US Jews. But we have no party through
which this anger can be expressed. The Democratic Party is a party of war like
it's twin. Workers, no matter where we are, in the US or outside it, will find
no ally among the Democrats as capitalism races headlong to the abyss.
I am an optimist mind you. I am convinced the workers of the world will move to
resolve this historical political and economic crisis; will seek to build an
alternative system of production to the so-called free market. A system that produces
not for the profit of a few but the needs of the many in harmony with the
natural world not antagonistic to it. A global federation of democratic
socialist states
No comments:
Post a Comment