Palestine - May 23th, 2021
About the provisional "ceasefire"
The uprising of the Palestinian masses and the solidarity of the international working class were the ones who stopped the aggression of Zionism
On May 20, a ceasefire was signed between Hamas and Zionism, by means of which both of them pledged to stop the bombings that took place in the last 11 days. The masses of the entire Palestine celebrated, as they saw that they achieved a first triumph of their struggle, which began almost a month ago, by stopping the Zionist aggression that took the lives of 276 Palestinian brothers in Gaza and the West Bank, left thousands of wounded and sought to occupy Gaza and the entire Jerusalem.
Seeing this agreement, it must be made clear that what stopped the genocidal bombings in Gaza, the offensive of the Zionist settlers to expel the Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in Jerusalem and the raids of the Israeli occupation forces on the Al Aqsa Mosque were the huge demonstrations and clashes with the Zionist forces throughout historic Palestine, including the cities that were occupied since 1948, as well as the marches from Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq to cross the border for fight against the occupier, in addition to the massive demonstrations and actions of the working class in solidarity with the Palestinian people in dozens and dozens of cities around the world.
However, in the face of the signing of the "ceasefire", it’s necessary to make an alert. This one is a provisional agreement that Zionism can break at any time. Throughout history, the state of Israel, in the face of a huge uprising against it or when international solidarity hit their bosses theUS imperialism and awakened actions of the world working class, has always used these agreementsto cool down these actions and to conquer conditions that are more favorable forthem to return to the offensive. An indication that this may not be the exception is that it was Biden, who had been commanding the Zionist aggression, who gave the order to Zionism to accept this ceasefire, in his efforts of stopping the international struggle of the working class or the Palestinian uprising. But what truly indicates that Zionism will not stop its aggression on the Palestinian masses is the repression by the Israeli police of the Palestinians who gathered in the Al Aqsa Mosque on Friday, May 21 and had expelled the mufti (religious-political authority) of Al Fatah for its collaborationism, added to the new raidthat the settlers didonthat mosque today.
We celebrate as a victory of the struggle by the Palestinian masses that for the moment no more Zionist missiles will fall on those exploited in Gaza, since each life there is worth a thousand fascists. But we must understand that Zionism will not be stopped completely, there will be no bread, no vaccines against Covid, the siege of Gaza will not be broken and the Palestinian masses will not recover their homes until the Zionist-fascist state of Israel is destroyed and the entire Palestinian land isrecoveredfrom the Jordan River to the sea.
The Zionists started the aggression; our defense will end when we finish with all their threats at once!
International demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people haven’t stopped. The Palestinian masses that took to the streets in recent weeks remain predisposed to struggle. Iraq is still in revolt. The Syrian resistance remains standing. It’s time to prepare a coordinated offensive by all these forces to wipe out the occupier once and for all, now that their war machine was momentarily paralyzed!
Editorial Board of the Paper "The Truth of the Oppressed"
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