{"id":20313,"date":"2024-12-05T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=20313"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:44:41","slug":"global-solidarity-with-gaza-grows-and-former-israeli-defence-minister-accuses-netanyahu-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/global-solidarity-with-gaza-grows-and-former-israeli-defence-minister-accuses-netanyahu-of-genocide\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Global solidarity with Gaza grows and former Israeli defence minister accuses Netanyahu of genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 29th of November saw the commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. Palestinian flags were flown in major cities alongside large mobilisations expressing global sympathy with the resistance. The genocide, perpetrated by Israel, can no longer be hidden and Netanyahu suffers from increasing global isolation, along with a deepening political crisis in his own country. To the point such that a former war minister of Netanyahu, who was also Chief of Staff during the second Intifada, accuses Netanyahu of ethnic cleansing. An unprecedented and very serious fact that shows the internal crisis of Zionism itself within Israel. In addition, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Zionist officials acknowledging the genocidal policy of the ongoing ethnic cleansing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This, coupled with the political failure to defeat the resistance of the Lebanese people, forced the Netanyahu government to accept a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Deepening global solidarity in support of the Palestinian resistance is the central task of the peoples of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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November 29 and the mass protests\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 29th marked another anniversary of the passing of UN resolution 181, also known as the \u2018partition resolution\u2019, which provided for the creation of a \u2018Jewish state\u2019 and an \u2018Arab state\u2019 in Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital. This UN trumped-up resolution only served to create the genocidal Zionist state on territory taken from the Palestinians, whilst never forming a Palestinian state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the current international scenario, marked by the Zionist genocide that has already killed around 45,000 Palestinians and 4,000 people in Lebanon, transformed this commemoration into an unmistakable day of global struggle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In various cities around the world, protests, events and actions showed support for the Palestinian resistance. In Latin America, the large mobilisation organised by the Palestinian community in Santiago de Chile, home to one of the largest Palestinian communities in exile, was a highlight. Major actions also took place in Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela and other countries. In Europe, mobilisations were also felt in Spain, with strong rallies in Madrid. Mobilisations also took place in France and other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The demonstrations, in various cities in the United States, were energetic, and with the student camps, an arms embargo on Israel is being strongly demanded from the Biden administration, all whilst the government continues to shield the genocidal Netanyahu and guarantee the shipment of weapons, alongst with its fundamental economic, military, diplomatic and political support.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel’s isolation has reached an unprecedented point\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The global mobilisations deepen Netanyahu’s growing political isolation. His criminal, genocidal and ethnic cleansing plan cannot be hidden by the Zionist regime. More than a year after the counter-offensive, Netanyahu is unable to defeat the Palestinian resistance, which, despite the blows it has received, is rearming and reorganising itself to continue resisting, causing a military stalemate and a political failure that hits Netanyahu hard by cracking his war cabinet, as happened with the dismissal of former war minister Yoav Gallant. Despite sending in thousands of soldiers, from one of the largest armies in the world, the visible political failure and his inability to guarantee the hostages’ safe return and alive, increases the discontent of the Israeli population and fuels the political crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All this isolation has precipitated the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue, for the first time, an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister and his former war minister, for being found politically responsible for carrying out war crimes, and genocidal political and military actions. This was surprisingly confirmed by Moshe Yaalon. Yaalon was Chief of Staff during the second Intifada and Netanyahu’s War Minister in 2014, until his departure in 2016, and stated on Israeli radio and TV channel 12 that \u2018The path they are dragging us down is one of occupation, annexation and ethnic cleansing\u2019 and that Israel’s political leadership was \u2018corrupting the army\u2019. He stated that the political crisis is impacting the Israeli army head on and that \u2018I speak on behalf of the IDF commanders operating in the northern strip. They contacted me expressing their fears about what is happening there\u2019. In this way, military and political sectors of Zionism are beginning to regard Israel’s military actions as war crimes, or, as Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet national intelligence agency, called Netanyahu’s orders, \u2018immoral and unjust\u2019, saying they could expose commanders and soldiers to prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Israel’s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said Yaalon \u2018crossed all red lines\u2019, whilst Tally Gotliv, a feisty Likud party lawmaker, called him \u2018worse than our greatest enemies\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The global mobilisation, growing isolation, and inability to defeat the resistance, forced Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which was celebrated by the Lebanese people returning home after two months of systematic attacks and a failed invasion by Israel. Which, despite its air superiority and bombing raids, was completely unable to control the invaded territory and was forced to withdraw.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the ICC arrest warrant, Moshe Yaalon’s unprecedented and grave statements, and the ceasefire itself, are a political blow to Israel and demonstrate its political and military failure. However, capitalist diplomatic negotiations are powerless to stop the genocide, and imperialism as a whole seeks to prevent Netanyahu’s arrest. This failure of diplomacy is part of the failure of the two-state policy promoted by imperialism, a policy that collides with the colonialist, genocidal and criminal strategy with which Netanyahu seeks to avoid his downfall, to hold on to power and to advance the Nazi plan of \u2018Greater Israel\u2019.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Let’s deepen international solidarity with the Palestinian resistance!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the unbreakable solidarity between imperialism and Israel allows it to sustain the genocide on Palestine, the workers, along with the peoples of the world, sustain the mobilisations and international solidarity with the Palestinian people and the resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the International Workers’ Unity – Fourth International (IWU-FI), we participated in the actions this November 29th, and we will continue to push for the demand that governments immediately break military, political, economic, cultural, commercial and diplomatic relations with the genocidal Israel. No more complicity with genocide! No more sending arms! No more financing genocide! No more deaths from hunger and disease! Open the borders for the entry of humanitarian aid! Israel out of Gaza, the West Bank, all of Palestine and Lebanon! For a single, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine! Long live free Palestine, from the river to the sea!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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