The offensive against Gaza is the latest attempts of the State of Israel to break the
unity of the Palestinian struggle that threatens its colonial domination release. ----
Stop the massacre of the current offensive is urgent and imperative but it is not enough.
Without conflict resolution that puts an end to its roots and its foundations, a new
Israeli aggression follow it, the occupation and blockade of Gaza will continue
indefinitely. ---- Fighting for Peace in Palestine is to fight against the complicity of
the French state and against state imposed by the colonial policy of the Zionist project
permanent war. ---- About massacres in Gaza, the Palestinian issue and its impact in
France ---- Position of the OCL ---- PS, again and again, ---- on the side of the
exploiters and colonizers
First Pointons the hypocrisy of a government that claims to not want to "import the
conflict in France" but once he took a clear position from the outset, openly and loudly
supporting the State of Israel ("the Israel's right to defend itself "), by endorsing the
bombing affecting mainly houses, shops, schools and multiplying by the dozens, then
hundreds, massacres of Palestinian civilians trapped in a tiny enclave, densely populated
and fully curly.
But the French government did not stop there: he has reached a new milestone in its
infamous policy: the prohibition of expression of solidarity with the Palestinians
Saturdays 19 and 26 July.
When Holland supports Netanyahu
One learns in a statement released by the Elysee, Hollande had a telephone conversation
with Netanyahu on July 9, to express his "solidarity of France against rocket attacks from
Gaza" recalling that " the France strongly condemns these attacks " , while "stating that
it is the Israeli government to take all measures to protect its population against
threats and prevent the escalation of violence" , which is in fact a genuine license kill
even the head of the State of Israel was for two days, massive bombing Gaza by launching
"Operation Border protective" mobilization of 40,000 reservists deploying armored vehicles
to Gaza border paving the way for a ground offensive.
On 13 July, the first major demonstration against the Israeli attack: almost 30,000 angry
people pour into the streets of Paris, where the anti-colonial activists always has
aggregated a predominantly young proletarian composition, popular neighborhoods the
periphery and significantly with a very large female presence.
At the end of the event on 13 July in Paris, activists of the Zionist extreme right (JDL)
cause incidents in the Bastille area, especially around the synagogue of the Rue de la
Roquette where they called their supporters to gather. Pro-Palestinian protesters make
this near La Bastille to protest against the presence of this band of fascists in the
neighborhood and if possible turn away street. They are loaded by the members of the JDL
swinging their tables and chairs terrace bistro and some other objects. A few seconds
later, a load against pro-Palestinian exposes Zionist thugs in the other direction and
forced to take refuge behind a cordon of riot police ...
The evening of the Paris demonstration in support of Palestinians July 13, CRIF (pharmacy
which calls itself the representative of the Jews of France and real-bis Embassy of the
State of Israel in Paris) publishes a statement in which he " calls for ban on
demonstrations in favor of Hamas (...), the banning of demonstrations, rallies and violent
radicals who ostensibly represent a disturbing public order, including one to be held next
Saturday in Paris " (press . published on its website)
Meanwhile, "information" will spread like wildfire in all media and at the highest levels
of state: Jews and a synagogue were attacked by pro-Palestinian anti-Semitic demonstrators.
The testimony of the head of the synagogue of the Rue de la Roquette puts a little stuff
up: "Not a single projectile on the synagogue [...] At no time have we been physically
endangered" [1], while in its submission, CRIF has not hesitated to speak of "pogrom" ,
synagogue "siege" of "Kristallnacht" and a very large part of the media extensively
relayed this manipulation .
This brinkmanship conducted for years by the Zionist movement is not only to inflate and
exploit the proven anti-Semitic acts, but to invent other simply, that is to say, do exist
where there there is none and thus participate voluntarily create a climate - smelly,
stinking - in which anti-Semitism can be trivialized.
Support for the Israeli offensive in the banning of demonstrations
In his speech of July 14, Holland reiterates that "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can
not be imported" . Conflict "Israeli-Palestinian" as if they were yesterday
"Franco-Algerian" conflict ... so to deny the nature of the anti-colonial struggle by
placing the protagonists, colonialist and colonized, on the same level for the best
reverse order of responsibilities and better present those who resist as responsible for
unrest and violence. Holland is without doubt a "social-liberal" but it fits in the
tradition of the French political left and straddles the same rhetoric that the SFIO once
the historical social democracy, one that is particularly illustrated leading and
supporting the colonial wars that the French state has delivered once in his empire and
that meant already, Indochinese or Algerian resistance as "terrorists."
On July 15, the CRIF is received at the Elysee where its president Cukierman, reiterates
its request to ban pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including that of 19 July in Paris. It
will be clearly understood since this will be the government line (Valls, Cazeneuve
Prefecture de Police de Paris Prefecture of Val d'Oise, Alpes Maritimes ...), relayed in
this dirty work by an "independent" government institution but not of the state apparatus,
the Paris Administrative Court which validated this prohibition. [2]
Holland and his government, as most of the political and media class, are in favor of
"peace" but the only peace they are considering is that endorses the colonial domination
of Israel over Palestine, a pacification pursuing the annexation of East Jerusalem and the
colonization of the West Bank (which, remember, 62% is directly administered by the
colonial power), which prohibits the return of refugees, control and plunder its natural
resources, especially water, enclosing the Palestinian population in prisons open, behind
walls, barbed wire and watchtowers, who openly practice ethno-religious apartheid in
defining themselves as "Jewish state" is to say "only for Jews "with the complicity of
Western powers and Arab bourgeoisies of feudalism and, in fact, the puppet" government "of
the Palestinian Authority.
By banning demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians killed by the bombs of the
colonial armies of Israel, the government has not only chosen a side, but uses the power
of reason of state dressed under the pretext of "order public "and defended by the
instruments of repression to silence its service solidarity with Palestine and beyond, to
silence dissent and opposition to its policy and its projects.
The use of anti-Semitism
But doing it feeds the mad cycle of brinkmanship imposed by the Zionist rhetoric that has
no other "argument" that mean any opposition to the State of Israel, its nature and its
colonial policy racist, as "anti-Jewish" and anti-Semitic.
A death trap and a dangerous game with matches next to a powder keg - including and
especially the Jews-who invents and manufactures anti-Semitism where there is none. In
fact, Zionism is a theory of separation has never fought anti-Semitism but raises and
feeds. This is a great gift to the real anti-Semites of all kinds who are rubbing their
hands as advertising, that can hopefully increase their audience in confusion deliberately
created and fed, which already benefit in believing that their ideas and progress can
recruit accordingly.
Let's be clear . There is anti-Semitism everywhere, in every corner of the French society,
political parties, trade unions, businesses, among proletarians and bourgeois among senior
officials and small ... and there are too many . There is infiltration of militants and
some anti-Semitic belief in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and there is also, for years,
the "anti-Semitic temptations" diffuse when anger is blind and with a good dose ignorance
and stupidity, turns into hatred of Jews for what they are, or more precisely, what they
are supposed to be, there is no doubt. But the only way to effectively combat
anti-Semitism, it is not simply uttering sentences and denunciations principles as fair
and necessary as they are; it is to deny the terms of the conflict imposed by both
defenders of the State of Israel and anti-Semitic, to show their objective collusion; it
is to provide a different perspective, another horizon, as clear as possible: the struggle
for national and social liberation in Palestine and its vital strategic alliance with the
popular liberation movements throughout the region, primarily with those located within
Israeli society, combining and gathering without distinction Jews, Muslims, Christians,
atheists, Arab and non-Arab migrants.
Show solidarity with the Palestinians and defy the dictates and prohibitions, it has
become more than that.
This is already defend every inch of expression and mobilization spaces against the raison
d'etat that claims to defend public order to better defend the pro-Israeli government
policy. It is also denounce and refuse in words and deeds the trap set by the Zionists and
anti-Semites who, in complicity and perfect complementarity, want to impose the terms of
conflict arrange them in essentializing its protagonists, in politicizing issues by
falsifying historical data and justifying in advance and a posteriori logic of extermination.
Despite the ban, the demonstration on 19 July was still held by a large part of its
initial organizers and thousands of protesters have not been intimidated, disobeyed and
imposed their will occupy the street what that it costs. Holding the demonstration despite
the impressive police force was a slap to the government and a first victory for the
movement of solidarity with the Palestinians.
But the opposing party does not let anything. The next day, Sunday, July 20, the bloodiest
so far of the Israeli offensive in Gaza (over 140 Palestinians dead in less than 24
hours), and Holland Valls day rush to reaffirm where their camp. They revive the offensive
by taking the pro-Israeli arguments accusing the protesters "pro-Palestinian" to be
troublemakers and anti-Semitic, Valls even offering luxury designer explicitly the
"popular neighborhoods" such as places where hiding "the 'hatred of the Jewish'
anti-Zionism behind a facade and behind the hatred of Israel" .
Popular neighborhoods, the multinational proletariat contemporary urban peripheries,
workers, Arabs, poor, tanned all latitudes, classes judged eternally dangerous by and for
the wealthy, and now stigmatized by a diagonal policy which connects to the PS via the FN UMP.
On Saturday 26 July, new manifestation prohibited new noncompliance with this order, with
even more people, nearly 10,000 people gathered Place de la R?publique. The government,
disappointed not to be reached again enforced silence despite threats and police
deployments, retaliates by suing our friend Alain Pojolat for having made his name as part
of the formal legal organization of the rally .
Israel's new attack against Gaza
The kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers on June 12 near a West Bank settlement was
immediately attributed to Hamas by Netanyahu. Hamas officials in the West Bank immediately
denied. Although Hamas leader in exile in Qatar, Khaled Meshaal, has "welcomed" this
kidnapping, but said he could neither confirm nor deny that Hamas is responsible, it seems
clear direction movement is not the cause of this action would be the work of members of a
powerful local clan in the Hebron region, clan Qawasmeh, which is or was related to Hamas
but keeping has always been a autonomy [3].
For Hamas in full attempt to refocus with his "reconciliation" with Fatah and the creation
April 23, 2014 of a "government of Understanding", this action could not get worse. Matter
for the Israeli government, Hamas is responsible and only him and it is this position that
was reaffirmed at the outset.
During the three weeks after the abduction, the Israeli army multiplies arrests and
administrative detention in the West Bank (a majority of Hamas members including deputies)
and the seizure of equipment (computers) in local associations imposes a total closure of
Hebron, the curfew for 300,000 Palestinians, killing 10 Palestinians without the military
wing of Hamas in Gaza launch any rocket into Israel, most of the shots being claimed by
other movements, including Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad and to a lesser extent
the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The abduction and murder of young Palestinian East Jerusalem, burned July 2, will cause
both a cycle of mobilization and riots in the Arab towns of Galilee and Jerusalem, rallies
in the West Bank and the beginning replica of an army from Gaza in the form of firing
rockets. The shelling of the Israeli army meet a growing response of the various
Palestinian factions: the military wing of Hamas, but also those of Islamic Jihad, the
Popular Resistance Committees, the PFLP, groups of fighters linked to Fatah and may be
DFLP. A given not to lose sight as Hamas is contested politically in the Gaza Strip, as
there is unanimity on the fact to resist the Israeli army so attacks.
More worryingly for Israel, according to Palestinian analyst and author Ramzy Baroud, "the
pain and anger caused by the death of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 17, who was burned by Israeli
settlers in the context of this outburst, promoted the revival of the Palestinian national
identity has long been fragmented " . And he adds, that collective identity "that has
suffered because of Israeli walls, military tactics and own disunity of the Palestinians
was reattached in a process that resembles the events that preceded the first and second
Intifada 1987 and 2000 respectively " . [4]
The real threat to Israel: Palestinian unity leading to a new intifada
For several months, much has been said and written about the possibility or impossibility
to launch a third Intifada. Very clever who can say the probability of either thesis with
certainty, but one thing is for sure, it is the unity of the Palestinians that most
threatens Israel.
No unit - although problematic, moreover - of leaders and a combination to create a single
point of contact within a hypothetical resumption of negotiations, but the unity of its
dispersed population exploded in separate statutes and legal-political situations, those
living in the 3 zones West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Israel, in exile, in and outside
refugee camps ...
Because in recent months, Gaza was no longer the center of the game: the issue of
settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem was returned to the forefront, as well as the
lives of Arab-Palestinian in Israel (including the Negev Bedouins ), the right of return
of refugees, and of course, the lifting of the blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and
Egypt. And finally, it is the whole Palestinian question kept resurfacing in a context
marked by the crisis of leadership of the resistance is also a crisis of 'governance'
simple daily survival of Palestinian society, between Authority sclerotic Palestinian
Hamas and disqualified and strangled financially and eager to get it over with deadlock Gaza.
In April and May, there was a hunger strike of several hundred Palestinians held in
Israeli prisons against administrative detention. On May 15, two young Palestinians, Nadim
Abou Nuwara Siam, 17, and Mohammed Odeh Mahmoud Salameh, 16, were killed by Israeli
soldiers while participating in a demonstration commemorating the anniversary of the
Nakba, or "catastrophe" of 1948. Video footage shows that Nadim was innocently with a
group of friends, before collapsing when he was hit by a bullet in the Israeli army.
since the evocation of Nakba returned to the agenda. In recent months, are advertised as
permanent new construction project of thousands of homes in the settlements, new
Palestinian generations began to find ways of expressing anger by putting it into words,
by politicizing, making the link between lived history and context, mobilizing multiple
occasions and increasingly and significantly in populated areas mostly Arab-Palestinians
in Israel.
This growing conflictuality mobilization is reflected in the figures: between May 15th and
the beginning of the attack on Gaza on July 7 at night, Israel killed 27 Palestinians ,
including children.
The real motives of Israel in this new attack is to maintain a permanent state of war and
to prevent any possibility of "negotiate" with the Palestinian side separating Gaza from
the rest of Palestine and breaking any unity government. For this, Hamas is a foil and the
focus on Gaza keeps the story of a conflict between Israel and "terrorism" or to "Islamism".
For months, the line Hamas is singularly bent and moved closer to Fatah, that is to say,
the Palestinian Authority, remember, governs only 18% of the West Bank [5] . For many
reasons which can be summarized like this: the weakening and the impasse is the Islamist
movement (like Fatah) in a context of significant drop in financial resources and
political support. Hamas, probably divided on the issue, seems to have decided to abandon
short-term direct management of political power in favor of a return to its social,
charitable, religious activities, "civil"; back somehow what the Muslim Brotherhood which
it comes with maintaining power over civil society itself does not necessarily passing
through the exercise of political power.
In recent years, Hamas has indeed gradually lost support among the population of Gaza,
where protests and disaffection occurred and hear the facts, especially in the wake of the
"Arab Spring". Simultaneously, the movement has also suffered from the late traditional
support he enjoyed from regimes like Syria and Iran and politico-military movements like
Hezbollah since the uprising and war in Syria and the departure of Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
To this was added more recently, since the military coup of July 2013 in Cairo, the abrupt
discontinuation of support provided by the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt,
minimal but vital support to the people and the resistance movements that allow the
opening of the Rafah border terminal and laxity observed the transit of goods through
dozens of tunnels under the border fence.
Since last spring, Hamas is literally strangled financially, the Egyptian regime blocking
tunnels with Sinai, the only source of economic activity, to the point that officials in
Gaza are no longer paid.
It is in this context that on April 23, a new agreement "reconciliation" between Hamas and
Fatah was signed in the Shati camp (north of Gaza City). On June 2, an "agreement" to
prepare cabinet holding presidential and legislative elections within six months took the
oath before President Mahmoud Abbas.
However, if Hamas is politically weakened, it is militarily strengthened over the past two
years, in terms of equipment, defensive structures, technical weapons manufacturing,
logistics and strategic capacity. The Israeli offensive against Gaza that claims to tackle
the military capabilities of Hamas will in any case no other political result to raise the
prestige of the Islamist organization and that of its fighters in much Palestinian opinion.
On the other hand, the project of Hamas to form a government of national agreement with
the PA faces unwillingness Clan surrounding Mahmoud Abbas, leader age, totally discredited
and busiest suppress protests in the Palestinian street to satisfy Israel and consider
putting into practice a new politics of resistance to colonization based on the unit at
the top. Episodes of June, while the Israeli army arrests multiplied and punitive
operations in the West Bank, have shown how the Palestinian Authority had no independent
authority on any parcel of the Palestinian territories, not even on 18% of the West Bank
(Area A) it is supposed to administer only, except by sending its police force to disperse
anti-Israeli demonstrations as until recently in Hebron.
Unwillingness expressed by the continued non-payment by the PA in Ramallah officials
recruited Gaza since 2007, paralysis of the process steps recently signed, including the
deployment of the Presidential Guard at the Rafah border to lift the Egyptian blockade on
Gaza or the establishment of joint committees for the preparation of elections ... not to
mention the deafening silence of the AP / PLO since the Gaza offensive.
The "war against Hamas" is in this context that the Israeli government attempt to divert
attention. Targeting of Hamas is another attempt to block indefinitely the situation in
the status quo and prevent the emergence of a third way, one that takes into account all
aspects and parts of Palestine, "regardless either side of the "wall of separation" Israel
where they live. " [6]
This is the Palestinian unity leading to a popular Intifada mass is ominous: threatening
the Palestinian Authority and Hamas directly and indirectly, blocking the creation of new
settlements, taking the initiative against the annexation and the "Judaization "East
Jerusalem, not letting anything on the right of return of refugees, remobilising Israel's
Arab-Palestinian from Galilee to the Negev, in short, by putting on the table and in the
light of day the whole of the colonial dimension of the conflict and the Palestinian
liberation struggle .
It is this unity in struggle that Israeli leaders are desperate to avoid committing once
more bloodshed and war crimes, as previously in Gaza (2008-2009, 2012), Jenin (2002) ,
Lebanon (1982) ... some of the impunity they can enjoy with the support of all government
of the "international community" and the terrible isolation that is the Palestinian people.
This isolation to be broken. This is the State of Israel must be isolated.
Stop the killing, stop the Zionist project
Stop the massacre of the current offensive is urgent and imperative but it is not enough.
Without conflict resolution that puts an end to its roots and its foundations, a new
Israeli aggression follow it, the occupation and blockade of Gaza will continue indefinitely.
Fighting for Peace in Palestine is to fight against the complicity of the French state and
against state imposed by the colonial policy of the Zionist project permanent war.
It is to affirm loud and solidarity with the Palestinian people in this crucial moment and
the legitimacy of resistance by any means it deems necessary (non-violent and armed) and
it goes today the minimum democratic demands required by the Palestinian call of July 9,
2005 for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions): 1. Ending the occupation and
colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; . 2 Recognizing the fundamental
rights of the Arab-Palestinian Israeli citizens to full equality; 3. Respecting,
protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and
properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. 4. Ending the blockade of Gaza. [7]
This resolution is not a panacea and is not exclusive of other actions but it is neither
more nor less than to be finally a definitive halt the Zionist project. In doing so, it
can contribute decisively to put in crisis, to dismantle the colonial bases and
ethno-religious state of Israel, to shatter the social / national consensus that
characterizes it and it required within Israeli society and outside, and open a new
situation of coexistence and solidarity between peoples and fight against their common
local and global oppressors of any religion and / or national, ethnic or cultural history
to which they refer.
Libertarian communist organization, July 31, 2014
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Notes:
[1] The testimony can be viewed here:
http://www.itele.fr/france/video/incidents-rue-de-la-roquette-la-ldj-briefee-par-lapolice-88717
. This testimony and other sources did not have the right to be mentioned in the media.
handling Other media where subtitles slogans chanted by the protesters are grossly
falsified and bidonn?s: https://www.youtube. ? com / watch feature = share & v =
TkWefM_qd7o & app = desktop
on the production of some pro-Israeli media atmosphere, the reader is referred to the
article "Israeli offensive against Gaza bias of media coverage," Julien Salingue, Acrimed
, July 18, 2014 ( http://www.acrimed.org/article4407.html )
[2] A "justice" is not left on another level: 4 months imprisonment with warrant
(immediate incarceration) for "rebellion" of a protester "pro-Palestinian" in Paris after
a check identity facies July 13: see here
[3] Clan known for, among other things, for having provided the Hamas martyr many
candidates for suicide, especially in the 1990s.
[4] Ramzy Baroud, "Ravaging Gaza: The war Netanyahu cannot Possibly win," July 16, World
News Trust .
[5] The West Bank is administratively divided into three areas. A zone in which the
Palestinian Authority has a political authority (administrative) including police powers,
represents 18% of the territory. Zone B is co-administered by the AP (civil power) and the
occupying forces (police, army) covers about 20% of the West Bank. Area C, the largest
(62% of the area), which includes the settlements and the whole valley of the Jordan, is
fully governed and occupied by Israel which controls the border with Jordan and encircles
the "self-administered" Palestinian pockets areas A and B.
[6] Ramzy Baroud, ditto .
[7] Website of the BDS France: http://www.bdsfrance.org/
oclibertaire.free.fr/spip.php?article1563
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