A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #182: Gaza: a genocide by pogrom (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The term genocide indicates the set of violent crimes committed against 
certain groups of individuals with the intent to destroy them and is 
carried out through the killing of members of a national, ethnic, racial 
or religious group, serious injuries caused to physical or mental 
integrity of members of the group, its submission to conditions of 
existence that lead to its physical destruction, total or partial, 
measures aimed at preventing new births within the group, an objective 
which can today be effectively pursued with mass bombings and 
indiscriminate which have the advantage of being an industrial tool 
compared to procured abortions, children sent to gas chambers, 
individual sterilizations.
To better implement a genocide, specific events were organized which 
took the name of pogrom, a Russian term meaning "to demolish or destroy 
with violent acts" with which a community was annihilated. As the Jewish 
people, who were victims of it, know well, the historical connotation of 
the term refers to the violent attacks against them by local 
populations. Participants in the pogroms were organized at the local 
level, sometimes with the encouragement of governments and the police. 
Those who participated raped and killed, then plundered their property. 
By Hamas on October 7 a pogrom was carried out against them after the 
holocaust, a scientifically planned genocide.
Since then a pogrom has been underway against the Palestinians of Gaza 
and, in other forms, against the native inhabitants of the occupied West 
Bank, which takes different forms depending on the location, with a 
scale and intensity that transforms it into genocide, given that the 
Israeli army acts to physically eliminate all the inhabitants of Gaza, 
as members of a national, ethnic and religious group, and inflicts 
serious injuries on them to the point of causing death, destroys the 
physical and mental integrity of the inhabitants of the It crawls, 
subjects them to conditions of existence that aim at their total 
physical destruction, while indiscriminate bombings nip life in the bud, 
or disable the living who survive.
The same action takes different forms in the West Bank, but uses partly 
different methods, such as arbitrary arrests, detention ordered by 
administrative measure, without trial, the destruction of houses, the 
seizure and expropriation of land which is transferred to the 
availability of settlers who, armed by the government, carry out acts of 
deterrence and retaliation against the Palestinians who inhabit the 
territory, depriving them of their lands, terrorizing them, shooting at 
them.
The state of Israel asks for solidarity for the fact of being the 
container that hosts the survivors of the Holocaust and the wandering 
Jews, expelled from their land since the edict of Trajan, relying on the 
bad conscience of the West which, steeped in anti-Semitism, has viewed 
with valor the return of the Jews to Palestine, facilitating it, in the 
belief that a moral and political problem was resolved. Yet the Jewish 
people should know that if it is true that the Jews were the object of 
the Holocaust, that a genocide of frightening magnitude was carried out 
against them, this does not make them different from other peoples who 
suffered similar violence, such as the Armenian one and the Kurdish one 
(unless you want to quibble about the methods used, the intensity, depth 
and cruelty with which the genocide was implemented).
The Jews are free to consider themselves the chosen people, but this is 
a religious belief that does not imply their superiority in rights, 
their moral nobility, their particular ethical sensitivity, proof of 
which is what they are doing in Gaza, literally applying the law of the 
retaliation, it has nothing to do with law.
It is time to stop accusing of anti-Semitism all those who criticize or 
deplore the genocide through pogroms that the Israelis have 
scientifically decided to practice on another people.
What has happened should certainly make members of the Jewish people 
aware of what it means to experience this tragedy firsthand, to suffer 
so much violence, and this should lead them not to behave like their 
persecutor murderers and understand that hatred and violence must be put 
to an end. , looking for the reasons for a possible coexistence.

They know well that, with difficulty, the horrors of history have led 
people and international law to adopt instruments condemning genocide, 
condensed in the 1948 United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, and 
they should be the first to respect. Reflecting on their history, the 
Jewish people know well that they have generously attempted to find 
tools for coexistence, identifying them in the kibbutz, but they must 
become aware of having missed the solution to the problem, distorting 
its solidarity meaning, when they selfishly decided to allow exclusively 
the affiliation to men and women of the Jewish religion, introducing 
paid work into the structure and therefore the exploitation of man by 
man, violating the community spirit.
A people who have had the courage to find within themselves the strength 
to plan open and supportive social relationships cannot accept being 
blocked by ethnic and religious prejudice and giving up being an example 
of coexistence in peace and solidarity in the name of Zionism.[1]

End the conflict

We are aware of the difficulties of interrupting the conflict and 
building peace after so many horrors. We are aware that the injury of 
the hostages presents itself as an insurmountable obstacle, together 
with the detention of thousands and thousands of Palestinians, often 
held for years in prison on the basis of administrative provisions 
transformed into acts valid indefinitely. But we know that the conflict 
must end and to do so a significant step could be the unilateral 
recognition by the United States first, and then by all the other 
countries, of the existence of a Palestinian state, as a subject of 
international law , even if this does not, at the moment, have a 
recognized and sovereign territory.
The concrete will of Russia and China to also act as guarantors of a 
solution to the conflict would thus be put to the test, all of this in 
the logic of a now multipolar world, where the United States cannot 
claim to be the only bulwark of stability. But a decision of this kind 
would have an even deeper meaning since it would force Israel to realize 
that its role as a sub-agent of American imperialism in the Middle East 
is over and that therefore its security lies in good relations with the 
countries that surround it and in the acceptance of the Palestinian 
ethnic entity, finally abandoning the fundamentalist and nationalist 
dream of the most extreme international Zionism which claims all of 
historic Palestine for the Jews, is unachievable.
If implemented, this choice would strengthen all those within the State 
of Israel who support the need to seek a negotiated solution; it would 
constitute a strong advantage for the current President of the United 
States who could, thanks to this proposal, receive the consent of that 
part of the democratic electorate that criticizes him for his 
unconditional support for Israel: he could find the favor of those 
Israelis and those Jews who do not want a genocide and are available to 
open dialogue.
From the creation, even if only virtual, of the Palestinian State, a 
process could begin that progressively leads to the restoration of 
acceptable living conditions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, also 
by providing for the eviction of the settlers who illegally and with 
irresponsible and criminal measures by the Israeli government have 
progressively occupied lands and properties not belonging to them. This 
would allow the necessary coexistence which is the only difficult 
solution to the conflict.
Let's be clear, the same procedure should be adopted with regards to the 
protection of the Kurdish people who would also have the right to a 
living space that guarantees them the possibility of building free 
institutions.

The global scenario

Giving a solution to the conflict is more necessary than ever because, 
as the facts demonstrate, the continuation of the conflict widens it, 
and even if for now a front has not opened on the border with Lebanon, 
the possibility of this happening is more possible than ever. What is 
certain is that in the meantime the conflict has spread to the Red Sea, 
where from the Yemeni coasts the Houthis strike and attack passing 
ships, effectively hindering world trade and causing serious damage to 
the economy of Egypt which sees a reduction in commercial traffic 
through the canal, as well as Europe and other countries interested in 
East-West trade which have to bear the greater costs for their economies 
that the circumnavigation of Africa entails, worsening the burden of an 
already difficult economic situation due to the growing indebtedness of 
various Western states and those of the European Union in support of the 
war in Ukraine.

To counter the Houthi attack, Western governments are preparing some war 
missions presented as defensive, but which in all respects constitute an 
extension of the conflict, effectively providing cover to those 
components of Israeli society that push towards its continuation of 
fighting.
These missions which operate with different rules of engagement are: the 
US-led operation Prosperity Guardianh which engaged the Houthis and had 
the effect of forcing 90% of the merchant traffic crossing the Red Sea 
to divert along the longest route around Africa. This US-led mission 
will incorporate the Spanish-led Atlas which will transform from a 
European mission to combat Somali piracy into a mission to defend 
merchant traffic headed to Israel or property attributable to Israeli 
interests; the European mission "Aspides" which has as its rule of 
engagement that of guaranteeing freedom and safety of navigation in the 
southern Red Sea, in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb and in the Gulf of 
Aden. mission which, supported by Italy, France and Germany which will 
have its headquarters in Larissa in Greece and will have the coverage of 
radar sighting planes; a further operation is called Operation Sentinel 
led by France, whose range of action includes, in addition to the Gulf 
and Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, with 
participation so far limited to Great Britain, South Korea and Israel 
(intelligence only).
As can be seen, the conditions for the expansion of the conflict are all 
there and all it takes is one incident to light the fuse and cause the 
conflict to explode.

[1]The Editorial Staff, The anarchist communists, the Jewish and 
Palestinian questions. Political Growth Newsletter, Ucadi (num. Spec., 
Nov., 2023)

The Editorial Staff

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