Zionism is winning, as I always expected it would, its military offensive against the Palestinian people. It is a military superpower in its own right, and backed by the world's largest military superpower, the US, and by the next biggest military superpowers the EU and UK. That it could wipe out the Palestinians militarily was never in doubt, even without resorting to the use of its nuclear weapons as proposed by one of its politicians, and at least one US Republican politician. As I wrote recently, it is, now, well on its way to completing its genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, leaving it free to occupy that land, and to move on to a similar military assault on the West Bank, and to continue its increasing offensive against Lebanon and Syria.
The fact that it is carrying on with great efficiency in that genocide, backed by US, EU and UK imperialism, which arms and finances it, and acts as its attorney and publicist on the world stage, is precisely why the bourgeois "democracies", in those states have had to massively ramp up their propaganda, and to remove the velvet glove that hides the iron fist of the bourgeois class dictatorship. The clash between appearance, as they seek to present it, and reality, has increasingly been exposed, especially as modern technology allows the actions of imperialism to be documented as never before, breaking the monopoly of the bourgeois media. Hence the use of Zionist and other fascist irregulars to violently attack the peaceful student encampments on universities across America, as the attempt to brand opponents of genocide as being "anti-Semitic" supporters of Hamas, violent terrorists, or even "agents of Putin", collapses in its own hysterical absurdity.
As Owen Jones describes, Zionism is winning militarily in Gaza, and its same violent methods have now been transferred to the US. In the same way that in the West Bank, fascist Zionist settlers attack Palestinians, and ae backed by the Zionist military, so, now, on US university campuses, we see peaceful protests violently attacked by fascist Zionist irregulars, in a way that was clearly planned, organised, and orchestrated with the forces of the state, which allowed them to engage in their violent assault using weapons, fireworks, pepper-spray, cable ties and so on, for a prolonged period, before the police turned up. And, of course, as anyone familiar with such methods in Britain in the 1970's is aware, when the police do, then, intervene, it is not against the violent fascists, but against those they are attacking!
All, of this shows that whilst the Zionists and imperialism have the military might to win, they are losing politically, and all of this ramped up use of force, increased hysterical lying via its media and politicians, is because they know they are losing politically. Unfortunately, just because they are losing politically, does not mean that socialists are winning. In the US, Biden has, now, clearly lost the election, not just for himself, but for the Democrats in general, and deservingly so. But, in the absence of a socialist party, and socialist candidate to rally around, the winner will be Trump, and his reactionary Republicans, just as in Britain, as Sunak goes down to a massive defeat, he will be replaced by the petty-bourgeois, reactionary Starmer and his ultra-nationalist/monarchist, Blue Labour, which is no better.
Moreover, the fact that Zionism/Imperialism is losing politically, at the moment, contrary to Owen Jones' argument, does not mean that they have to lose politically, in the longer term, precisely because, without a progressive alternative to them they will simply bring about their own stabilisation, and, in the short-term, the consequence may be even worse, as the election of Trump, and so on would demonstrate. It shows the need to build a socialist alternative to them, and to fight for it, now.
Owen Jones says that even if Zionism wins against the Palestinians it can bring no positive solution for Israel. Wrong. If the Zionists wipe the Palestinians from history, as the Europeans did against Native Americans, Australasian Aborigines and so on, although there will be a lot of moralistic hand-wringing, for a time - much, indeed as there was following the initial Naqba - then the Zionists, with US and EU imperialist backing, will quickly establish normalised relations with the surrounding bourgeois Arab states in Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf states, creating a powerful imperialist base from which to turn their attention to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and eventually Iran.
No comments:
Post a Comment