PoWR
11th January 2009, 00:42
The following comes from PoWR's Revolutionary Perspective site, the link to which is in my signature.
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GAZA CITY, January 10, 2008—Hundreds of people have been killed, among them close to 300 children. Countless more have been injured, including over 1,000 children. Whole buildings have been smashed and the conditions in blockaded, surrounded Gaza continue to deteriorate by the day. It is in this context that the Israeli government has rejected a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire and pledged to continue, and increase, its attacks on Gaza.
Israel claims its attacks, which began on and December 7, 2008, and have left hundreds of innocent people dead and whole areas destroyed, are “defensive” moves against the Islamist group Hamas, which has fired rockets into Israel that have killed a total of 4 people. While every loss of life is regrettable, it’s utterly ridiculous for Israel to claim its moves are defensive.
After continued attempts at a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire were blocked by the United States government, a revised version finally passed on Thursday, January 8. That resolution has been ignored.
Today, as attacks on Gaza continue, U.S.-made Israeli war planes began dropping leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks.
"The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) will escalate the operation in the Gaza Strip," read the fliers.
The IDF’s atrocities continue to pile up. Earlier in the week, the Israeli military attacked a United Nations school, leaving 40 people dead. Today, it bombed a garden home, killing 9 people, including 2 children. "Residents brought them to the hospital in a civilian car. They put them all in the trunk because their bodies were mangled," said the administrator of the hospital the victims were taken to.
Whether having bombs or rockets fired at them or being drafted into the IDF or recruited into Hamas, it is working people which will suffer the most as a result of this clash.
What’s needed to bring an immediate end the mass slaughter in Gaza is the power of the international working class. Working people in Gaza must establish their own self-defense militias instead of relying the reactionary Hamas outfit, who claim to fight in their interests today, but smashed their strikes yesterday and seek to establish an anti-worker theocracy tomorrow. Workers of all countries should refuse to touch any or products going to or coming from Israel. Likewise, workers of all nationalities in Israel and the West Bank should organize and carry out a number of well planned strikes aimed at crippling Israel, thus ending its ability to wage war. Workers in the U.S. can and should carry out similar actions, as it the massive aid given by “their” government that props up and supplies the Israeli rulers and their machinery of war. Peaceful protests and other appeals to the blood soaked murderers who started this attack aren’t going to convince them to end it. They must be forced to stop, and the working class is in the unique position to make that happen.
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GAZA CITY, January 10, 2008—Hundreds of people have been killed, among them close to 300 children. Countless more have been injured, including over 1,000 children. Whole buildings have been smashed and the conditions in blockaded, surrounded Gaza continue to deteriorate by the day. It is in this context that the Israeli government has rejected a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire and pledged to continue, and increase, its attacks on Gaza.
Israel claims its attacks, which began on and December 7, 2008, and have left hundreds of innocent people dead and whole areas destroyed, are “defensive” moves against the Islamist group Hamas, which has fired rockets into Israel that have killed a total of 4 people. While every loss of life is regrettable, it’s utterly ridiculous for Israel to claim its moves are defensive.
After continued attempts at a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire were blocked by the United States government, a revised version finally passed on Thursday, January 8. That resolution has been ignored.
Today, as attacks on Gaza continue, U.S.-made Israeli war planes began dropping leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks.
"The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) will escalate the operation in the Gaza Strip," read the fliers.
The IDF’s atrocities continue to pile up. Earlier in the week, the Israeli military attacked a United Nations school, leaving 40 people dead. Today, it bombed a garden home, killing 9 people, including 2 children. "Residents brought them to the hospital in a civilian car. They put them all in the trunk because their bodies were mangled," said the administrator of the hospital the victims were taken to.
Whether having bombs or rockets fired at them or being drafted into the IDF or recruited into Hamas, it is working people which will suffer the most as a result of this clash.
What’s needed to bring an immediate end the mass slaughter in Gaza is the power of the international working class. Working people in Gaza must establish their own self-defense militias instead of relying the reactionary Hamas outfit, who claim to fight in their interests today, but smashed their strikes yesterday and seek to establish an anti-worker theocracy tomorrow. Workers of all countries should refuse to touch any or products going to or coming from Israel. Likewise, workers of all nationalities in Israel and the West Bank should organize and carry out a number of well planned strikes aimed at crippling Israel, thus ending its ability to wage war. Workers in the U.S. can and should carry out similar actions, as it the massive aid given by “their” government that props up and supplies the Israeli rulers and their machinery of war. Peaceful protests and other appeals to the blood soaked murderers who started this attack aren’t going to convince them to end it. They must be forced to stop, and the working class is in the unique position to make that happen.