Palestine - November 22, 2023

A Zionist offensive of extermination to secure the plunder of the region’s wealth, starting with the gas
of Palestine

There’s an ongoing huge massacre of Zionism, commanded by imperialism, in Palestine for more than a month and a half. More than 12 thousand dead, a million and a half displaced, cities and refugee camps reduced to rubbles… intense airstrikes, attacks with troops, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, indiscriminate fire to houses, hospitals, schools, mosques and the so called humanitarian corridors. Zionism and imperialism are thirsty of Palestinan blood to get its Zionist gendarme back as the big counterrevolutionary device in the region.
Zionism is carrying out an extermination and ethnic cleansing war on the Palestinian people, to completely evicting it from its land and steal all its natural resources. There are huge gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea in front of the Palestinian coasts, with several fields that are distributed among Zionism (as Leviathan or Tamar, of which the United Arab Emirates has a percentage), Egypt (Zohr gas field) and Lebanon, among others, which are part of a great basin, known as the Levantine Basin, which also includes southern Cyprus island. The gas of this basin can supply Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and also export to the whole Europe as Russia did before.
In fact, there are already agreements and businesses around this gas among the bourgeoisies of those Arabic countries, the US companies and Zionism, including also a part for the Palestinian Authority. With Greece and Italy, they have agreed to build also the gas pipeline EastMed, which goes from the Gazan shores to Southern Cyprus and from there directly to Greece and Italy, for it to reach Europe. That is to say, Greece and Italy will now play the role that Germany had played before when it received the gas from Russia and distributed it to the rest of the continent.
This would leave Turkey out of this business, whose role, as a minor imperialist country, was to be a gendarme of the gas and oil pipelines from the Middle East and guarantee the transportation of these hydrocarbons to the Mediterranean Sea and Europe. This is what lies behind such rhetoric of Erdogan toward Israel and even the disputes among Turkey and Greece.

Gas exploitation not only includes the gas fields that are already established but also there are other fields projected, specifically the one called Gaza Marine, located only a few km away from the Gazan shores, which Zionism, as the gendarme of the US oil companies, wants to take over. Not only Zionism occupies the Palestinian nation but it also steals its natural wealth. These extractions have been taking place for some years, but they need the safety and stability for plundering and to expand the gas production and build more gas pipelines able to transport it. This is so, specially taking into consideration that Chevron had to shut down recently operations in Tamar gas field, near the Gazan shores.

For this reason, Gaza has to be a Zionist territory, that is to say, of the US. Because the one hiding behind the theft and loot of Palestinian gas is Biden, the gas baron. We have already seen what he was capable of in Ukraine, giving that nation as a pawn for Putin to invade it and partition it, while taking the passage of Ukranian gas pipeline and at the same time interrupting Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, which connected Russia to Germany directly. 400,000 dead have been already in the war of Ukraine. This is a true butchery. This is the blood gas. With the ethnic cleansing of Palestine they want to secure that the gas legitimate owners, i.e. the Palestinian masses, wouldn’t claim it ever again.
What will the entire reformist left, which called to “defeat the fascist Trump” and ended up at the feet of Biden, say now, when Biden showed to be more fascist than Trump? They have to explain, because they are responsible for that commander in chief of all the massacres in the planet to have taken office.
Biden is not democratic and imperialism does not expand with more democracy, as the PTS says; instead, it rules the planet with a fascist policy, based on wars, occupation, plunder, coups as in Peru and massacres as we see now with Zionism massacring hospitals in Gaza and killing newborn babies.

To stop the massacres of Zionism and imperialism, we need to expropriate the companies that plunder oil and gas from the whole Middle East! The local bourgeoisies have already accorded their businesses and sold out the Palestinian masses. Only the working class can take to victory the Palestinian war for the destruction of the Zionist occupier, gendarme of the imperialist oil companies.

Editorial Board of the paper “The Truth of the Oppressed”