7,000-9,000 martyred in 23 days.
Over 2,500 children, dead, killed, murdered.
What was their crime? What was the cause of their punishment?
Being Palestinian in Palestine.
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It has been 22 days since the masses of people of Palestine, led by HAMAs and others, began their Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. In this time we have seen all sorts of information going around, lies, slander, misinformation; we have been told stories of beheaded children, besieged settler neighborhoods, hostages being brutalized, and have had some of those same stories be redacted and apologized for, but never fully removed from the question. Once these are introduced into public consciousness, they are never fully rooted out. The label "terrorist" has been fancied upon HAMAS and any supporters of Palestinian resistance, and the media is perfectly contented in doing so, to create their own narrative- to sell us another Genocide as "War". It's as if Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Kuwait, Yugoslavia, and all these other nations were never overthrown, they were never invaded; it's as if history has never occurred.
What we aren't getting is the real stories, the real situation on the ground for Palestinians every day before and after Oct. 7th, because Israel's shut down all electricity, water, internet, has been bombing civilians' homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, etc. and have been arresting or just killing reporters, journalists and civilians who don't report or speak in favor of the IDF and Israel's Genocide. This all didn't start with Oct. 7th - this genocide by Israel has gone on for 75 years. For this whole time, generations have been stirring and building monumental outcries and organization from the people of Arab nations - against Israel, the US and even against their own governments - for their complicity in the genocide of Palestinian people. The same goes for those in Africa, broader Asia, Europe, and the Americas, folks who have been demanding things such as a ceasefire, a humanitarian corridor for providing needed resources, or a complete end to the occupation. We see this action on Oct. 7th, and the resounding solidarity from those around the world, with Palestine, as not only a new chapter in the resistance of Palestinian people, but also a rebirth/reassessment of the questions of armed resistance, and revolution.
The same can't be said for folks everywhere, though. Here in the US, protestors who stand against Genocide, calling for things like a ceasefire, or legislative bodies to end aid to Israel, etc. are being beaten, arrested, and brutalized for demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine. People are having their employment revoked, being harassed at their jobs, on social media, and some are even facing death threats. While the Zionists continue to get away with harassing pro-Palestinian supporters, misinforming the world about the genocide of Palestinians, massacring and ethnically cleansing millions, and tarnishing the name of the Palestinian people and their supporters around the globe, the masses of Palestinians and their supporters are made out to be terrorists, violent, and liars themselves. While all this is happening, the genocide of the Palestinian people still continues, as does the resistance of Palestinian people.
When we look closely at what has happened to the Palestinian people for the last 75 years we can see many resemblances to the Genocide of millions of Indigenous Peoples from Turtle Island, and of the Indigenous peoples throughout all of the world; to the Genocide of the Congolese by the Belgians; to the genocide of the Kenyans, Indians, Irish, and others by the British; to the Genocide of the Jews and Roma people by the Nazis in Germany; to the murder of 1.5 million Indonesians; tp the slaughters of Slavic peoples throughout Eastern Europe; murder of thousand of Chileans after Allende was overthrown; the murder of thousands of Guatemalans Arbenz was overthrown; when Pogroms and public attacks against Jewish folks; to the deaths and suffering of millions locked in cages or concentration camps today - called Prisons, Jails, reservations, etc. - the connections are evident.
These similarities are there because the way the world has been set up, by and large, the same way for over 500 years, which has led to these disastrous crimes against humanity. It came first as Patriarchy, then as Law and Private Property, it then came as religious intolerance and persecution, economic domination, exploitation and oppression, which brought along the murder of millions, slavery and indebted servanthood, wars of conquest, the theft of land, militarism, and the creation of the thing we now know as the "State" or "government" which took political power over and above the rest of the populations. This was the foundations for Class Society, which has come in many forms, comes to us today in the cloak of Capitalism-Imperialism. This system is run and owned by a miniscule clique of rich bankers, CEOs, hedge fund managers, stockbrokers, the Police, the Military and the intelligence agencies, along with the politicians who take their bribes and follow their guidelines. And in the last 500+ years the only things that have changed are the advancement of this system's ability to manipulate, reform itself and continue to dominate, the names and titles of its Rulers, and the ways in which technology and labor has changed.
Palestine represents the hope of the human race for a real opportunity for positive change, revolutionary change, change for the people and by the people in real material ways not just word!
If we are to turn our backs now on the Palestinians, we will be turning our backs once more on a people - just like the Congolese, the Kenyans, the South Africans, the Indigenous, the Hawaiians, and just like the Jewish and Roma people - slaughtered and colonized, left to die, and suffered this fate in many circumstances, alone. We cannot allow another Holocaust, we cannot allow another Genocide.
We must fight.
We must stand up.
We must demonstrate.
But we must also recognize the seriousness of the situation.
No bandages, no medicines, no money, nothing of this sort will help a dying, enslaved people, engulfed in a fight for liberation against an ongoing campaign of genocide against them, if they have no hospitals, no doctors, no patients left to operate on, no banks to exchange the funds in, no stores or shops to use the money. And it won't help the Palestinians if no one left to accept any of the aid, at all.
We need to understand that this is a genocide against the Palestinians, and a war of liberation for their survival against it. What they need is resources to win that fight, and people willing to engage in that struggle with them, however they can, however is possible.
All Power to the Palestinian People!
End Occupation now!
Down with Imperialism and its Puppets!
Down with Colonialism!
Down with Oppression!