Since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, there has never been peace for the Palestinians. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, which released an estimate in May last year, some 134,000 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli state.
Our leaders talk of peace. In reality, we are witnessing the beginning of the brutality that is to come if the capitalists are allowed to blast their way through in the coming decades.
In the first week of the so-called ceasefire, the Israeli army killed 97 Palestinians. Imagine if it had been 97 Israelis killed. There would be no handwringing about the ceasefire holding. It would have been wall-to-wall justifications for Israel to continue the genocide.
The Palestine movement worldwide must keep marching, striking, occupying and sailing for a complete end to genocide—not just what Israel started fast-tracking in 2023, but the longer-term genocide of Palestinians it’s been carrying out since 1948.
A recent series of strikes in Egypt didn’t rewrite the system. But it showed thousands of workers, again, that the machine still stops when they decide it will.
After decades of hegemony, the two-state solution is no longer considered a viable or desirable solution to the decades-long oppression of the Palestinians among pro-Palestine activists in Australia. This is an extremely positive development.
