A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #460: RUBBLE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The daily bulletin of horrors churns out incredible numbers on Gaza. 
Numbers however approximate, incomplete, omertà: how many thousands of 
victims lie under the rubble? How many thousands of injured people will 
not survive? What is happening in the West Bank? ---- The video of the 
dog with the corpse of a child recovered from under the rubble in its 
mouth says it all. ---- But under the rubble of Gaza is also buried the 
UN along with all the international institutions that talk, whose 
appeals, like those of the Pope and other well-fed peacemakers, frame 
the extermination of the Palestinian people. Let us not forget the 
international coalitions authorized by the UN and led by the United 
States conducting the bloody crusades against Saddam Hussein's Iraq and 
his alleged weapons of mass destruction; and while they pretended to 
look for them, the real owners of these weapons - the Western coalition 
- destroyed a country and murdered over a million Iraqis. Result: the 
theft of oil, ISIS, the permanent instability of the area.

Let's not forget the invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban; 
result: hundreds of thousands of victims, the Taliban back in power. 
Always and everywhere double standards, which have paid and continue to 
pay for defenseless populations.

Under the rubble of Gaza there are also the world's democracies whose 
hypocrisy is equal only to their cynicism. For 18 months they looked the 
other way, pretending not to see the carnage, but continuing to fuel it 
with the sale of weapons to the state of Israel, with commercial 
exchanges, with the purchase of technologies and above all by providing 
moral and political cover for the actions of the Nazi-Zionist Israeli 
government. Only now are some people starting to bark plaintively at the 
Netanyahu government, talking about the exaggerations of his army in the 
Strip, blathering about anti-Semitism and continuing to brand only Hamas 
as terrorism. How many more thousands of deaths will it take to also 
define the clerical-fascist government of Israel as terrorist?

And none of these democratic governments, starting with the Italian one, 
intends to stop supplying weapons to the Israeli army. No one has 
stopped defining the State of Israel as a democracy wedged into a 
geographical area of monarchies and dictatorships. Israel continues to 
enjoy the privileges of a European state overseas, even in sports or 
singing competitions it continues to participate like any other country 
in Europe. Here it is not just a question of guilt for the Holocaust but 
of an interconnection of complicity that makes European democracies 
co-responsible for the failure to resolve the Palestinian question and 
for the genocide taking place today as a final solution. Alongside them, 
of course, are the United States, and then the Arab states, the first to 
have subjected the Palestinian cause to their economic and financial 
interests.

Along with the daily bulletin of horrors, we now witness the spread of 
the bulletin of declarations, both functional to the objective of wiping 
out Gaza and completing the occupation of the West Bank, but at the same 
time indispensable to keep public opinion clinging to the thread of hope 
for a diplomatic solution, a ceasefire agreement. For those who do not 
believe this fiction, here are the fascist laws of the Italian 
government, Trump's ethnic-political cleansing of universities, the 
repression of protests everywhere, the defamatory accusation of 
anti-Semitism leveled at solidarity movements.

What is happening is what states and governments have always been 
masters at: acting as firefighters but pouring gasoline on the fire. At 
this moment, Western diplomacies in particular are above all trying to 
save their face and their asses from the increasingly strong protests 
that are flaring up everywhere. It is a dirty game that serves the 
interests of the Israeli state.

Cynicism, double-dealing, are part of the art of governing. Let us not 
forget that it was the Israeli government that financed the 
fundamentalist movement of Hamas to split the secular Palestinian 
society, to bankrupt the Palestinian National Authority (relegated to 
the increasingly smaller Bantustans of the West Bank) in impotence and 
corruption, and to ensure a "terrorist" enemy indispensable to justify 
the permanent state of war, the militarization of society, the growing 
power of religious extremism. Didn't the same thing happen with Al 
Qaeda, raised by the CIA, or with the Taliban used in an anti-Soviet 
function?

Today more than ever it is necessary to take note of the unreformability 
of democratic regimes: they also created that rubble, and it is 
consistent with the social butcheries that they impose on the working 
classes and the less well-off in general. Given the level of human and 
material destruction taking place in Gaza, no one today should have 
qualms about respecting the so-called democratic rules; the 
mobilizations that are spreading with growing anger throughout the 
country - just to stay in Italy - have the moral obligation to break 
down the banks of bourgeois legality, a necessary step, with plenty of 
room for imagination, to face a conflict minimally adequate to the daily 
extermination in Gaza and help stop it.

Pippo Gurrieri

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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