The Palestine movement has become the core issue animating a bitter anger at the system among a new layer of leftward moving young people and millennials. And, significantly, those who march have felt themselves part of an international struggle.
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.
Not a single branch of a single union in Australia has authorised industrial action in opposition to the Australian government’s role in arming Israel’s genocidal military.
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.
