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The Butchers Olmert and Barak and International Responsibility |
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Written by Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
More than 100 Gazans were massacred by Israeli shelling and bombardments in
the last few of days and the list grows every hour. In comparison to the
murderous Olmert-Barak team, Ariel Sharon looks like a disciple of Mahatma
Gandhi: the massacre of Jenin that provoked a huge international outrage in
2002, had far less victims measured next to the present Israeli aggression
against Gaza. Nevertheless, the reaction of the international community is
significantly milder than it was six years ago.
Why?
This question should be at the heart of the reflection of the international
solidarity movement and, more generally, of the global resistance.
For, the Israeli war crimes are possible only because, in the last six to seven
years, the international community has stopped putting any kind of pressure on
the Israeli government; in fact, it is supporting it. This has not always been
the case, at least with most of the European states, which used to oppose the
“global-non-ending-preemptive-war” strategy of the US neoconservative
administration, and to defend a strategy of global stability instead of the
politics of global-chaos of Bush and his gang.
The rise of European neo-conservatism (French President Nicolas Sarkozy is an
example of this phenomenon) is a new challenge for the solidarity movement, and
more generally, for the anti-globalization movement throughout the world: the
global-war strategy is no longer the monopoly of the US administration
(supported by a few other countries, like Great Britain), but of the
“international community” as such.
This is definitely a change that the Global Resistance should take into
consideration very seriously: there is a world war and everyone is now part of
it. Over and against an “international community” aligned with Washington’s
global war, a united international anti-war movement is becoming a burning
priority.
What does this have to do with Gaza? Because today, Gaza is the frontline of the
resistance to that offensive. If Gaza surrenders, Washington and Tel Aviv will
feel free to launch a second round in Lebanon and to attack Iran. They know well
that Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are different battles in one and
the same war, and they are concentrating their forces in order to bring the
surrender of Gaza, its people and its elected leadership. That understanding
should penetrate the Global movement too, and bring it to one conclusion: the
Palestinians of Gaza are fighting not only for their own rights and dignity, but
for the freedom of all the peoples of the world; they are resisting the united
leaders of Empire leaders and their attempt to transform the peoples of our
planet into their slaves, including the working people in the industrialized
metropoles.
No one in our camp, the camp of worldwide resistance to Empire, has the right to
run away from the duty of total solidarity with the Resistance of Gaza, under
the pretext of disliking the leadership that the Palestinian people of Gaza have
chosen. The same should be said about the people of Iran.
At the core of the solidarity campaign with Gaza, one must call for a blockade
on Israel as long as the blockade on Gaza is not lifted. An economic, political
and cultural boycott of a state which has put itself, by its war crimes, outside
the civilized world: until the bloody attacks on Gaza are not stopped and the
siege lifted, the duty of decent people is to say, loud and clear: No relations
whatsoever with the criminal State of Israel!
Source: AIC Website
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