The Zionist Genocide And The Media

For 18 months, the Zionist state, in Israel, has been systematically carrying out a genocide against the Palestinians, on an industrial scale, using the latest weapons of mass destruction, provided, not just by its own huge military-industrial complex, but those of the even bigger imperialist states in the US, Britain, Germany, and other countries in the EU. There has been no secret about that genocide for those prepared to simply open their eyes and ears. The trouble is that many in the media, as well as the politicians in those western imperialist states chose to keep their eyes and ears firmly shut, and simply lie, when it came to the actions of their ally, just as many of them did, in the 1930's, when Hitler came to power, and, as well as smashing the German workers movement, also, unleashed the pogroms against Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled.

Of course, not that you would know it, from the rewriting of history, since, but many of those, like Churchill, who welcomed the likes of Mussolini and Hitler, as the means for putting down the workers movement in Europe, and providing a buffer against the USSR, were themselves long-standing anti-Semites, and racists, so its no wonder that they didn't look too hard for the evidence of a developing genocide against Jews and others, taking place. At least, not until such time that they had already decided to go to war with Germany, for their own imperialist motives, and so, duping the workers into believing that it was a war against fascism, was greatly facilitated by suddenly recognising that Hitler and his Nazis were not at all nice people!

Anyone who cared to look at what Hitler was saying before he came to power, let alone after the German conservatives put him in power, as Chancellor, could have had no doubt about the racist, anti-Semitic nature of the Nazis ideology, and what they would do. But, for Churchill, and others in the western ruling class, that was not a major concern, at a time, when, in Italy, the workers had risen up, during the 1920's, to begin occupying the factories, and establishing workers councils, much on the lines of the soviets in Russia, before Mussolini smashed them; when, in Germany there had already been failed workers uprisings in 1918 and 1923, and where the Communist Party, backed by the USSR, mobilised hundreds of thousands of workers, and secured the votes of millions more, whilst the Social Democratic Party, which nominally still considered itself to be “Marxist”, mobilised nearly twice as many again; where Britain itself had seen the General Strike in 1926; where revolution had erupted in China, in 1927; where France had seen General Strikes and a Popular Front government containing Communists; and where a revolution was underway in Spain.

Indeed, when Hitler and Mussolini, together with Japan established the “Anti-Comintern Pact”, in 1936-7, the western ruling class must have seen their dreams coming true, of their battles against the working-class, and its still only bastion, in the USSR, being fought for them. Indeed, not only did Britain sign a naval agreement with Nazi Germany, but, when Hitler and Mussolini took an active role in supporting Franco against the elected Popular Front government in Spain, Britain, France and other western powers stood by, as German bombers flattened Guernica and other towns and cities. Only, when Nazi Germany, having achieved these advances, and, then signed its deal with Stalin, before moving on to initiate its plans to create a unified European state under the tutelage of the German Third Reich, did France and Britain begin to have concern over their own imperialist positions, and the US, began to see the potential for its own imperialist ambitions being challenged by a unified European state, also, in alliance with Japanese Imperialism.

So, there is considerable precedent for the imperialist powers, and their media turning a bling eye to the racist, and, indeed, genocidal actions of their allies, before suddenly discovering what everyone else could see, when it suits their own imperialist interests. As Owen Jones has documented from day one of the Zionist genocide against Palestinians, the Zionist regime has been extremely candid about its intentions to carry out systematic, war crimes and genocide, but what is more, its politicians, most of its media, and its own soldiers, via social media, have even documented the carrying out of those war crimes, the deliberate slaughter of Palestinian civilians, and the implementation of that genocide.

There has never been any excuse for anyone not knowing that the Zionist regime intended to undertake a genocide against Palestinians, and that, for the last 18 months, that is precisely what it has been doing. Yet, anyone that simply pointed to the readily available facts was branded an “anti-Semite”, in line with the Zionist interpretation of that term, enshrined in the IHRA definition. Thousands of Labour Party members were expelled on that basis, including, of course, Jeremy Corbyn, its former Leader, respected candidates were prevented from standing, and so on. In the US, even before Trump, the Biden administration sent in its own goons, often alongside Zionist thugs, to break up peace camps on university campuses protesting the genocide. Trump has only taken Biden's policy to its next step, by calling for foreign students, and even US citizens to be deported, now leading to his attacks on Harvard.

In Britain, Starmer himself argued that the Zionist regime “had the right” to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against Palestinians, by cutting off water and energy supplies and so on, and that position was supported by Emily Thornberry when challenged. So, why, now, has western media suddenly become critical of the Zionist regime, and its genocide against Palestinians? Why have even pro-Zionist politicians like Starmer, Lammy and others, now, suddenly, discovered what everyone else has known for 18 months, that the Zionist regime is committing war crimes and genocide? The simple answer is that Zionism has done the dirty work that was set for it, by imperialism.

As I set out more than a year ago, the grisly truth is that there is, now, no future for Palestine. The cruel deception that imperialism perpetrated, for more than half a century, supported by the social-imperialists, of the chimera of the Two Bourgeois States Solution, had finally been exposed for the fiction it was. Even more starkly, the even more delusional idea, put forward by petty-bourgeois nationalists, that the Palestinians were somehow going to get the support of other bourgeois Arab states, in the region, to be able to defeat the Zionist state, raze it to the ground, and create, in its place, a secular state of Palestine, which would have been a thoroughly reactionary project, even were it credible, has also collapsed, along with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrian state, and the power of Iran.

Set aside all of the Old Testament gobbledegook used by the Zionists to cover their desire to establish a Greater Israel, the real basis for such a desire is the quite simple, 21st century, materialist and economic reason that, in the age of imperialism, small states are no longer tenable. For more than a century, the minimum scale of production for capital has grown so large that it requires large single markets to sell into. The US, China, the EU are such large single markets, and its no coincidence that, across the globe, where smaller nation states exist, they have been forced to come together to form similar trading blocs, which are just a precursor, as with the EU, to forming a single political unit, a single, multinational state. The Middle-East is no different, and the role assigned to Zionism has been to forge such a bloc, combining with other pro-US states such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and so on, as set out in the Abraham Accords.

More than a year ago, I set out what the course of events was likely to be, and so it has been. The Zionist state has flattened Gaza, making it uninhabitable. It did that with the full blessing and backing of western imperialism, which, as seen earlier, in the case of the statements of Starmer and Co., fully legitimised, in advance, the implementation of that genocide. Similar supportive statements came from the Biden regime, and from politicians in the EU, and its member states, along with the weapons to do so. Alongside it, the Zionist regime has stepped up its pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank, and its further seizing of Palestinian land. Its latest statements on occupying Gaza, and annexing the West Bank simply confirm what they have been doing, and will continue to do. A few weasel words, and sanctions against some settlers in the West Bank, as against the Zionist regime itself, which the West continues to arm, is just window-dressing.

The Zionist regime, as I set out, would, also expand into Lebanon, where the much vaunted resistance of Hezbollah was also, seen to be a mirage. Finally, as I set out at the end of last year, and start of this year, the theatre of war would then move to Syria. That happened faster than I expected, as Assad's gruesome regime collapsed, allowing the Islamists to seize power, and also allowing the Zionist state to occupy further land in Syria, right up to Damascus. All of that has weakened Iran, and its remaining proxies in Iraq, and Yemen.

None of this can be seen separately from the growing global inter-imperialist conflict between the US and China/Russia, the other part of which is the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine, and the simmering tension in Taiwan and the South China Sea, where the US is using Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and others to perform a similar role, as that of Ukraine, but without, yet, open warfare.

In the Middle-East, China has made great advances in its relations with the Gulf States, and given the long historical relation between Russia and Iran, which, itself, now exerts influence in Iraq and Yemen, represents a challenge to US imperialism. The great power of China, as the US economy has declined in the last half century, is the ability of China to offer considerable economic advantages to those with whom it forms alliances. On the one hand, it sucks in vast amounts of materials and other primary products, and on the other, it can not only provide vast amounts of manufactured products, but it also offers large amounts of real investment in infrastructure, and industrial capital, whereas, the United States has only been able to offer the potential of increasing paper wealth in its expansion of fictitious capital, via inflated financial and property assets.

To catch up, the US has had to promote the idea of a Middle-Eastern economic bloc. In fact, prior to the Iraq War, many of the states of North Africa, were already being drawn in towards the EU, on a path similar to that which saw the accession of former Stalinist states in Central and Eastern Europe. Its not hard to see why the US would, again, see that kind of expansion of the EU, as a large, developed, single economy, now drawing in the oil and gas resources of the Middle-East, which it had seen as its own global reserve, for decades, as being a threat. The Iraq War, and the actions of Saudi backed Islamists in Syria, Libya and elsewhere, in 2011, put an end to those closer relations and economic developments in North Africa. Now, it is the US's proxy, the Zionist state in Israel that is the spearhead to forming such an economic bloc.

The main thing that stood in the way of that was the continuing conflict with the Palestinians. It was not the objections of the other bourgeois Arab states that presented a problem, they had shown themselves happy to reconcile not only with US imperialism, but also with the Zionist state itself. The problem was with the Arab masses in those states, many of whom are themselves grossly oppressed by the existing ruling classes. So long as the conflict with the Palestinians continued, and flared up, periodically, it would stand in the way of such normalisation. It also meant that, in those conditions, Iran would gain ground, further undermining the US friendly Arab regimes. So long as Hamas could launch another set of, ineffective attacks on Israel, to which the Zionist state could be counted on to over-respond, the Arab masses would demand that their rulers make no peace with Israel.

The Two Bourgeois States delusion had run its course, and the Palestinians had become even weaker, the divisions between Palestinian and Jewish workers much greater, as I had described forty years ago. The rational course of action, for Zionism and US imperialism, was to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, and that is what the Zionist regime has done. All those deluded petty-bourgeois nationalist, “anti-imperialist” souls that kept telling us that Zionism was losing, who looked to one group of petty-bourgeois nationalist saviours to rescue the Palestinians, saw their hopes dashed, though many of them continue to delude themselves in that way, as I wrote a few months ago. They are now clinging to the hope that the same western media that has covered up the genocide for the last 18 months, is, now, beginning to report it, and to more actively criticise the Zionist state, and that even some of those politicians like Starmer, Lammy etc., are now criticising the Zionist state rather than expelling members for having done so.

It is another forlorn hope. The western media and politicians are only offering up their criticism and crocodile tears, now, because Zionism has more or less completed the task set it. They are not even stopping the supply of weapons. Gaza is going to be occupied, and will not be rebuilt until the Palestinians have been physically removed from it. Trump's video, circulated a while ago, is only a ghoulish caricature of what lies ahead. The PA is already simply a puppet of the Zionist state, and of US imperialism used to quell any resistance of the Palestinians in the West Bank, against further settlements and annexation. The fate of the West Bank is also sealed. The only role of criticism of the actions of the Zionist state, is to further distance the West from any consequences of the war crimes and genocide cases being undertaken, and to exert leverage over the Zionist state in the forthcoming negotiations with the Gulf states and others, in relation to the normalisation of relations between them.