By: Soraya  Shahabi: 

Part one

Global Resistance Movement:

The ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Israeli government against the people of Gaza, which continues despite the initial foolish assumptions and the media propaganda of Western powers, led by America, regarding the control and "management" of it, contrary to the "congratulatory" statements of Hamas and its regional supporters after Hamas's attack and the "magnification" of the power of "resistance forces" and the imminent destruction of the "Zionist regime", all completely out of their control. 

It was clear from the beginning that neither Hamas's attack nor Israel's collective retaliation and the complete destruction of Gaza by the Israeli military cabinet would have a decisive role in the ensuing bloodshed.

 

 

As Israel launched its military offensive and initiated the bombardment of Gaza's civilian population, attempts by Western media and traditional propaganda channels to justify these actions under the guise of 'Israel's security' were overshadowed. This marked the ignition of one of the most significant global political movements of the century, mobilizing both 'superpowers' and ordinary citizens worldwide against the perpetrators of the Gaza tragedy and challenging their own governments.

 

With this genocide, global struggles have entered another level in terms of political-class alignments on a global scale and in terms of the extent of their spread, becoming determinants. Global struggles to solve the historical dilemma of Palestine and heal the immense wound of racial cleansing that is underway, are only one aspect, not the main pillar and axis.

This is neither a war over the "freedom of Israeli hostages", the "eradication" of Hamas, and ensuring "Israel's security", nor over the "victory of Hamas" and the "eradication of Israel"! Neither does the systematic massacre of the Palestinian people ensure the "security" of Israel nor do the "Operation Storm of Al-Aqsa" by Hamas and "resistance forces" bring down the "Zionist regime" and "eradicate Israel" while making the Palestinian people owners of their land.

These are not the real reasons and roots of Israel's war with the people of Gaza, which are war propaganda. The key clue to Israel's war with the people of Gaza and the people of Palestine can be seen three months after the start of this cleansing, outside the Middle East, through the New Year's gift of "NATO" to the world, primarily to Europeans.

 

On Friday, January 19 (Dey 29), NATO announced that it would start a military exercise in the coming weeks, lasting several months and involving 90,000 soldiers, which is its largest military exercise since the Cold War. Their commanders proudly state, "This exercise demonstrates that NATO can conduct complex multi-domain operations over several months and across thousands of kilometers, from northern to central and eastern Europe and under any conditions." They describe it as a "simulation of an imminent conflict scenario with a nearly peer adversary."

The claim by "observers" that "the main goal of this extensive military exercise is to deter Russia from targeting a member country of this military coalition" is empty and part of war propaganda. Superficial journalists' assertion that "World War III" is emerging between atomic powers and major and "peer" armies of the world, America, Europe, China, Russia, India, etc., is also part of war propaganda, the "oil painting" of the intimidation apparatuses of militarism.

America's goal, throughout the post-Cold War era and in the past thirty years, remains the same as it was initially! Maintaining dominance and leadership of America as the "sole superpower and hesitant international sheriff who has officially replaced assassination and intimidation on a million-scale with war! "War" that with Russia's attack on Ukraine, shifted from the Middle East and geographies where one after another "evil empires" were discovered and their impoverished and oppressed people bombed and victimized on a million-scale, to the main geography of the problem, namely the West. With this shift, the process of eventually resolving the problem of "maintaining America's dominance," especially in the military and political realm, officially began in Europe and America.

The overarching struggle among the ruling bourgeois powers has influenced all global power dynamics and conflicts."

 

The arms race and intimidation that accompany it, along with "civilized" countries armed with atomic weapons, various types of destructive powers large and small, local and regional, national and religious, armed gangs of various kinds, all armed with missiles and the most advanced weapons of mass slaughter, such as the Taliban, ISIS, and militarized Islamic resurgence, have been born. This universal militarism has given rise to various types of indigenous national and religious mushroom clouds armed with bombs and missiles, all of which are byproducts of America's strategy."

 

No country and no army fights "war" with any country and any army anymore! Today, everything and everyone is a "military target"! Destroying bombs and missiles over residential homes and cities and killing all members of families, on the scale of Gaza and the twenty-five thousand or several hundred or dozen massacres, proxy militias and armed groups instigated by ruling powers for bloodshed in various societies in the farthest corners of the world, from exterminating youths and "strapping bombs to themselves" to massacring civilians, are the bourgeois world's way of resolving conflicts, where the absolute power of America and the West is seated on the throne of military, political, and ethical hegemony.

The volume and speed of increasing military budgets and the production, purchase, and deployment of the most advanced weapons of mass slaughter in this whirlpool of militarism initiated by America in the years after the Cold War are staggering. They herald that in response to NATO threats, "Russia intends to increase its military spending by nearly 70 percent in 2024"! Or "Germany's economy" is damaged and Russia's army is "healthier" and its "economy" has "improved". 

 

From the viewpoint of the working class and those under the sway of these authorities, the outcomes of economic fluctuations, escalating military expenditures, and the accompanying propaganda impact them directly. These factors replace hopes for a brighter future with the harsh realities of poverty, fear, and nationalism.

 

Hence, global confrontations must be addressed at another opportunity.

From "rise" to "fall", America has pursued and continues to pursue a single policy and strategy in the new unipolar world order. The main pillar of this strategy is militarism. With the West's victory over the East and in the unipolar world, today's superficial critics of America's militarism and NATO's belligerence and the genocide of the Israeli government herald that don't worry, Russia has expanded its military power, North Korea is an "important nuclear power", and China is on the verge of reaching a level playing field with America militarily. Ending the hellish situation in Gaza, which has been going on for thirty years and the world has been in turmoil over, awaits the "victory" of one of these powers! Regarding the "dominance" of each or all of these powers, the facts must be asked from the people under their rule! Ask the working class, women, youth, children, and see the hellish conditions of work and life that the majority of toiling people endure under their domination, to have a glimpse of the victory horizon of each of them!

 

The reality is that the genocide in Gaza is a link, and one of the most important links in resolving a global problem, the problem of the decline of the "unipolar world" and the birth of another new order. A new order that is either communist-socialist humanistic or bourgeois, and another round of competitions in imposing poverty, misery, war, destruction, backwardness, religious zealotry, nationalism, fascism, racism, etc., in the new guise of a "multipolar world"!

The main pillar and axis of this struggle, whose root and ultimate resolution lie in the West, is the manner of the decline of the "new world order of unipolarity" and the characteristics of the rise of another new global order! A struggle that can be short-term in the direction of the common interests of humanity on Earth or decades-long at the cost of heavy tolls on humanity for the numerous bourgeois camps, rivals, and partners. These aspects need to be addressed in other articles.

Today, from the perspective of the "generation Z", the promise of the end of militarism to humanity's peace-loving "grandparents" of this generation, through agreements between America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, is a "naive" and historically mocking joke.

In the whirlwind of the rise and fall of the "new global order", three generations have been bombarded with the idea that having a relatively "stable" and "idealistic" world militarily is a wish! It's a "pipe dream" and "illusion"! What about socialist justice! They whispered by various political, research, artistic, and social institutions in the minds of a generation that is now engaged in their struggle, saying that the world of "modernity" is the world of "realpolitik" and not strong human ideals and beliefs! 

 

They said that accepting and conforming to whatever power "gives" is sheer "realism" and a condition for the survival of modern man!

 

This generation, before the Israeli genocide in Gaza, had shaken Europe and America from protests against poverty and unemployment and economic austerity policies and militarism to opposition to their own governments and parliamentary parties under the feet of their labor movements and their disruptive structures. Defending the people of Palestine and anger and hatred for the massacre of children and the destruction of all signs of life in Gaza, have brought humanity on another dimension, not as "peace-seekers" decades ago demanding "moderation" from above, but as a front line in a broad resistance to curb militarism and the slaughter machine, relying on popular power.

 

This immense human tragedy, contrary to the political and advertising efforts of the European Union and the United States to confine it within the framework of the Middle East and the equations of power struggle in the region, contrary to the futile efforts of the Israeli military government to drag NATO into broader military intervention, neither as the Israeli allies in America and Europe desired to remain confined within the walls of the Middle East nor as Israel wanted to engage in a military confrontation between larger powers. The provocative operations of various factions, groups, and governments in the region and the global militant confrontations against them, with all its costs and risks for the people and victims, are neither a link in dragging NATO and the world's major military powers into this struggle nor an act of defending the people of Palestine and curbing Israel's slaughter machine.

These operations and confrontations, with all their dreadful human and destructive consequences, are solely for altering the balance of power, negotiation, bargaining, and hegemony in the global and regional bourgeois world, in the "multipolar world." 

 

While the Western bourgeois camp, consisting of Europe and America, faces unprecedented fragility and deeper internal divisions than in previous times.

 

Let's return to the global resistance movement that is currently on the scene and differentiate it from other movements.

The conditions under which the people of the world stood up against this genocide are more complex than the conditions under which millions protested against the bombing of Iraq and the support for war refugees from Syria, Iraq, Libya, and others. Although all global protests against Western militarism over the past thirty years, after the end of the Cold War, were resistance against the rising and bloody maturation of the "new world order" under America's leadership to maintain its unique power position. All those resistances and protests against the current outcry against Israel's genocide were the past, reflecting the rise and maturation of a global pole of Western militarism under America's leadership, which, at every step, armed more rivals at the global, regional, and local levels.

 

One of the last vestiges of discrimination in the bipolar world and the post-Cold War era was the dismantling of South Africa's apartheid system in the 1990s. This discriminatory regime faced decades of protests, fueled by global movements influenced by socialist ideologies, both in the East and the West.

 

The end of apartheid coincided with a period of historical weakness for communism and socialism, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this context, Western leadership facilitated the dismantling of the apartheid system without substantial shifts in global power dynamics. This transition occurred alongside significant geopolitical events, including the Iraq War and prolonged economic sanctions, marking the zenith of the emerging new world order."

 

In the conditions of the Cold War and the existence of a pole known as socialism, the existence of a global camp that, independent of its contradictory political and economic realities, resonated with social justice and against discrimination and exploitation, turned protests against or support for racial discrimination in South Africa into one of the focal points of global alignments. Discrimination that remained in America's hands after the Eastern bloc's collapse and ended with agreements with the African National Congress and South Africa's bourgeoisie. Thirty years later, the Palestinian issue and the possibility of NATO's survival have different conditions.

After winning the Cold War and sitting on the throne of a global pole, the Western bourgeoisie and America were able to easily let go of their grip on "an apartheid system" in the modern world, in "isolation" from the global anti-discrimination movement. It could abolish apartheid in South Africa without paying much attention to the expansion of global anti-discrimination and justice movements.

The solution to today's problem, the salvation of the world from historical oppression and discrimination against the Palestinian people, but in the presence and intervention of the world, with the participation of civilized humanity, especially in the West, comes with the revival of the threat of communism and socialism in Western societies.

Throughout the whirlwind of the new world order in philosophy, ideology, culture, art, and politics over the past thirty years, they have tried to eradicate the idea in the minds of global citizens that "the future is always better than the past" and must be better, and the "hope for a better world" which is the driving force of human labor, under the guise of "old" and "dreams" related to the past. Today, in the twilight of the unipolar world, this mentality is more alive than ever before.

 

Israel is the final bastion of resistance in a unipolar world. The resistance movement currently active has risen in these conditions, in conjunction with the protest movements ongoing in all countries against governments. The assault on the achievements of freedom and equality-seeking labor and socialist movements in the West has transformed resistance in Western countries from parliamentary walls to anti-establishment  movements.

 

The Gaza massacre brought to light the failure of censorship and traditional Western propaganda, which typically bolster the Israeli government. Despite this support, the historic leeway granted to Israel by Western powers, often justified by invoking the Holocaust, to conduct military, terrorist, and economic operations against Palestinians and dissenting governments, was challenged. The silence of Western protesters who dared to criticize Israel's right-wing policies underscored this contradiction.

 

Similarly, the elaborate displays of Western cultural and artistic support for Israel, portraying it as the pinnacle of Western superiority over the East and lauding it as the "most civilized," "most progressive," and "most democratic" government in the Middle East, were scrutinized by people in Western societies.

 

A global permit for protest and moral, political, and ideological criticism against Jewish fascism in Israel was issued by civilized humanity, immediately relegating and marginalizing the propaganda and positions of Islamic and national backlash against Israel, which had held sway in a unipolar world. The protesting people in the West, who had completely lost confidence and trust in their governments and parliamentary parties even before reviving the issue of Palestine and the Israeli genocide of the people of Gaza, identified the pain of the people of Gaza as their own pain! In the continuation of their several-year protests and strikes against poverty, corruption, and deception, and the historical lies of "Western democracy," they made the Palestinian issue their own problem, immediately igniting power struggles in other dimensions and levels throughout the world among numerous forces with conflicting political, economic, and social interests, both at the top among ruling powers and at the bottom among world citizens.

In the post-Cold War world led by America, in all the thirty years that have passed, in a world saturated with the hell of military interventions of this greatest global arsenal, through wars and destructive military, terrorist, and economic confrontations between a wide spectrum of local, regional powers, and international gangsters, no event has changed the face of the world as much as this genocide.

Israel, the last stronghold of resistance in a unipolar world..

The resistance movement that is on the scene has risen in these circumstances and in conjunction with the protest movements that are ongoing in all countries against governments. The attack on the achievements of freedom and equality-seeking movements in the West, resistance in Western countries has shifted from parliamentary walls to anti-establishment  movements.

 

The Gaza massacre brought to light the failure of censorship and traditional Western propaganda, which typically bolster the Israeli government. Despite this support, the historic leeway granted to Israel by Western powers, often justified by invoking the Holocaust, to conduct military, terrorist, and economic operations against Palestinians and dissenting governments, was challenged. The silence of Western protesters who dared to criticize Israel's right-wing policies underscored this contradiction.

Similarly, the elaborate displays of Western cultural and artistic support for Israel, portraying it as the pinnacle of Western superiority over the East and lauding it as the "most civilized," "most progressive," and "most democratic" government in the Middle East, were scrutinized by people in Western societies.

 

Civilized humanity issued a global mandate for ethical, political, and ideological protests against Jewish fascism in Israel. As this movement gained momentum, it swiftly marginalized Islamic and nationalist opposition to Israel, relegating it to the sidelines and diminishing its global influence.

 

The protesting people in the West, who had completely lost trust and belief in their parliamentary governments and parties before re-raising the issue of Palestine and Israel's genocide of the people of Gaza, considered the pain of the people of Gaza as their own! 

 

Continuing their multi-year protests and strikes against poverty, corruption, and hypocrisy, as well as against the great historical lies and the notion of 'Western democracy,' they internalized the Palestinian issue as their own challenge, triggering an immediate power struggle across various dimensions and levels worldwide.

This struggle involved numerous forces with conflicting political, economic, and social interests, occurring both at the upper echelons of ruling powers and among the ordinary citizens of the world.

 

In the post-Cold War world under US leadership, in the past thirty years, in a world saturated with the hellish interventions of this largest global arsenal, through wars and destructive military, terrorist, and economic confrontations among a wide spectrum of local, regional, and international powers, no event has changed the face of the world as much as this genocide.

 

Over the past thirty years, no military, economic, or terrorist confrontation, large or small, has been able to polarize the world, not just in words but in actions, around a genocide, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, and injustice, and transform it into a new framework in shaping political alignments in all countries. From the United Nations and the Security Council to its various commissions, to parliaments, assemblies, and government institutions, it has turned into a chaotic and disjointed collection! This is not due to inter-competitive rivalries, as it has essentially been imposed on them from below.

The massacre of more than twenty-five thousand people in Gaza, more than ten thousand of whom were children and infants, the injury of over ninety thousand, the disappearance of thousands more under the rubble of bombings, the destruction of all infrastructure and most residential areas, workplaces, schools, and hospitals, the mass exodus and displacement of millions over a hundred days, contrary to the expectations of ruling bodies in the West, America, and Europe, ... did not take place in the solitude of civilized humanity or in the presence of a civilized but passive and peaceful humanity in the West.

The victory of civilized humanity lies in raising a communist workers' and socialist movement primarily in the West. The conditions for the formation of a communist-socialist camp are ripe. However, the prerequisites for its formation must be clarified.

To be continued