Palestine - November 9, 2024

Against Zionist genocide and its most powerful missile: hunger

The martyred people of Gaza respond with a general revolt, expropriating the merchants of hunger to have bread

This is the way to triumph against imperialism and its gendarme

In a time of Zionist genocide and extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza*, where a massacre is being carried out by means of bombings and sieges so that the masses die by starvation, the Palestinian bourgeoisie has been selling them food. The masses rose up, going to get the bread where it was, expropriating shops, attacking the property of these merchants of hunger.

When 400 days of Zionist war of extermination in Gaza have passed, hundreds of thousands are dead, the whole infrastructure has been destroyed, the martyrs cannot be buried and are trapped in the rubble and left at the mercy of stray dogs; more than 90% of the population has been displaced and is living in inhumane conditions among mountains of garbage, sewage, without a drop of clean water, without medicine, food, or safe shelter to live in, with schools, hospitals, tents and every “safe and inviolable space” deliberately bombed. The occupation does not want any doctors or paramedics, civil defense personnel or ambulances to remain. Everything and everybody is killed and destroyed by the fierce hatred of the Nazi-Zionist occupier.

The Gaza Strip is a demolished and destroyed area, with its buildings and agricultural fields completely razed and poisoned with white phosphorus, where the fascist occupier has thrown two million Palestinians to live in a nightmare. Those who survive wander from one ghost town to another, from one destroyed refugee camp to another, and lately they have hardly any shelter left and are sleeping in the open air. 85,000 tons of bombs have fallen on Gaza. Hunger is unbearable. They have no more animal feed, not even weeds and grasses, everything has been eaten long ago or destroyed and nothing reaches them, because the Nazi-Zionist siege does not let them in. Zionism is thus using a powerful missile against the Palestinian masses: hunger.

The masses seek bread, attacking the property of the merchants of hunger

Takingvadvantage of this situation, the Palestinian bourgeoisie has filled its pockets by selling food to the hungry masses. But a huge revolt by the hungry people went to look for the food where it was, attacking the commercial establishments of the bourgeoisie, merchants of hunger, who make business out of the hardships of the starving people, while the heroic masses struggle to survive, eat every day and throw out the Zionist occupier. They attacked the property of the capitalists to solve the bread problem.

The heroic masses defend their land, their families' and their people's, their home that is no longer there, and they search for bread. As the resistance denounces: “We refuse fleeing to die in humiliation. Death is death, whether here or elsewhere. So let us die with dignity in our homes.”
Thus, the Palestinian masses in Gaza took a huge step forward in winning the war. Not only by countering the missile of hunger against the people, but also by demonstrating that in order to achieve national independence and defeat the Zionist occupation and imperialist oppression, the only way is to expropriate the expropriators of the people, something that only the workers and peasants can guarantee.

The bourgeoisies of the region: an obstacle to liberate the Palestinian nation from the Zionist occupier

By taking food from the merchants, the masses in Gaza have shown that even in the midst of extreme calamities and catastrophes, the bourgeoisie is still trying to fill its own pockets. It is only interested in its own businesses. That is why it defends, above all, its property. Having a bourgeois leadership at the helm is an absolute limitation to providing all the resources to feed the people and win the war.

This is what happened in Aleppo, Syria in 2016 with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) bourgeois generals, to give just one example. While the masses were resisting and running out of ammunition and food rations, these bourgeois had stockpiled and hidden all the food and weapons that would have allowed them to defeat al-Assad’s forces. Thus the FSA generals ended up under the wing of Turkey, together with al-Assad and Putin, sharing out business at the Geneva table, from which —under US command, which kept the lion’s share of Syrian oil— they had been coordinating to defeat the Syrian revolution.
Syria was divided, occupied and bloodied, handed over from within and massacred by al-Assad and Putin on behalf of all the imperialist powers. The more they massacred the Syrian masses, the more Zionism became stronger and the genocide it is carrying out in Gaza is proof of this.

The heroic Palestinian people are resisting the attacks of the fascist-Zionist army. For more than a year, they have been preventing it from taking Gaza. In the West Bank, the occupation army cannot enter the pockets of resistance. Even though the bombings on southern Lebanon are devastating, Zionism has not yet been able to set a single soldier’s foot on in that territory where it was defeated by a mass civil war in 2006.
But the Palestinian masses resist in isolation. Just as the Geneva conference did for the Syrian masses— a conference in China was convened where all the bourgeoisies from the region met with Xi Jinping and Putin to act as “mediators” so that the Palestinian resistance surrenders, with the Zionist gun to its head. Once again, a conference to hand over the masses, isolate them and let them be massacred.

The proof is that Iran, Lebanon and Syria bourgeoisies, although masquerading as Palestinian people’s friends, have not entered the war shoulder to shoulder with the Palestinian masses. They only made empty speeches, fired a few shells without much effect and with  advanced warning, even when their commanders were subjected to “surgical assassinations” from a distance.
The PLO in the West Bank is surrendering from within the resistance which is fighting against the Zionist occupier. In Egypt, there is Pharaoh al-Sisi who is guarding for Zionism the Rafah crossing and the wall of shame.
In Jordan, the masses have taken to the streets in downtown Amman, the capital, in support of Gaza and demanding that aid and food be brought there, while Jordanian King Abdullah II has imposed counter-revolutionary military control over the Palestinian people who are refugees in his territory and is using an iron fist to prevent food from reaching the people of Gaza.

These lackey Arab bourgeoisies, Sunni and Shiite alike, have left the heroic masses of Gaza at the mercy of widespread famine, with hundreds of thousands dying of starvation and lack of medical care, while denying them the weapons and all the resources they need to free themselves. They know that if the Palestinian masses defeat Zionism, it will be through an expropriation path, calling into question not only the business of imperialism but also their own, as was the case in the 2011 revolution.

We must expropriate the bourgeoisie in order to have all the resources for the people to eat and win the war!

The masses have made a huge step forward in the civil war by expropriating the bourgeoisie. This is the way forward, not only in Gaza and in the shopping areas. The path to the Palestine liberation must include the expropriation of Zionist factories so that the Palestinian people can have decent work and win bread.
All the businessmen must be expropriated so that the people can eat and all the weapons and resources must be used to win the war! All the banks in Lebanon must be taken, where the oil companies launder the black money from their plundering of the Middle East! All the oil wells of the “seven sisters” that take the black gold must be taken! This is the most powerful missile that the working class has to defeat imperialism and its fascist Zionist army.

Food supply committees and health committees must be set up, and each resistance group must elect its leaders by direct vote. All weapons and resources must be put at the service of defeating the Zionist occupier.
Liberating Palestine for the masses means recovering their homes, their land, avenging their martyrs and winning bread. Liberating Palestine for the bourgeoisie, on the other hand, only means helping them to being able to establish their businesses within that territory.
Therefore, the key to victory lies only with the armed masses, attacking the property of imperialism and the capitalists in independent actions. They would put the land and the entire economy into production so that the hungry people of Gaza can feed themselves. They would leave businessmen without food so that the Palestinian people can eat. The bourgeoisie is terrified of the masses entering into a civil war against Zionism and imperialism, in a generalized and independent way.

The thousands of Palestinians in Jordan and the Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, the West Bank, the masses of the Maghreb and the entire Middle East must declare total war against the war of extermination of Zionism and the US! Let us open the fronts!
For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel! Free Palestine from the river to the sea with its capital in Jerusalem! For a federation of workers' and peasants' republics throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East!