A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #37 - To save Gaza and ourselves, it's time to rationalize hope - Alessandro Ferretti (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

By now, we've thought "let's hope" after statements from some government 
or major institution are hundreds of times. We've hoped for a 
breakthrough with the pronouncements of the Hague Court and the ICC, 
with the rumors of disagreement between Biden and Netanyahu and Trump 
and Netanyahu, with the states that recognized Palestine, with the 
Democratic Party that organized the ceasefire demonstration, with 
Turkey's fiery words, with Von der Leyen who finally said "enough 
deaths," with the mediators that "an agreement is close," with China's 
(false) statement, with Iran's reaction to Israeli aggression, with 
Meloni outraged by the attack on UNIFIL and a Christian church... and 
countless other times. Even now, when Macron said he would recognize 
Palestine in September (!), many commented with "let's hope."
These hopes for imminent solutions "from above" are a spontaneous 
impulse of the human soul. Hope is not rational; it is a reflex, like 
the leg rising when the doctor taps the knee with a hammer. For many, 
these hopes serve to endure the pain, for others to continue working, 
for many more to justify their indolence: "Look, they can't go on much 
longer, I'm almost done, there's no need for me to antagonize the powerful."
All these hopes, however, have always come to nothing. The genocide is 
more brutal than ever, the suffering inflicted on the Palestinians is 
increasingly sadistic and brutal, Israel's impunity and arrogance are 
ever more blatant, its ambitions ever more brazen. It only takes a 
moment to look at reality to understand that the chances of Macron's 
gesture (assuming he doesn't take it back) leading to the end of the 
genocide are even lower than the chances of Meloni doing anything that 
displeases the United States.
It's time to recognize that these hopes are wishful thinking. The 
continuation of the genocide benefits those in power and the powerful, 
all of them, simply because the powerful always have something to gain 
when the underlings are beaten and everything to lose when the 
underlings resist their power.
The genocide won't end through a gracious concession from above, or 
because the conscience of those who decide the lives of millions of 
people will awaken at some point. In a capitalist system, the primary 
requirement for becoming a ruler or powerful is to have no conscience at 
all. And if by chance this were to unexpectedly manifest in one of them, 
you can be sure the others will do away with them in an instant. The 
genocide will end in only two ways: first, a powerful group militarily 
crushes the currently dominant group. This prospect is not only 
extremely remote, but would only mean moving from one genocide to 
another, just as the Allied victory in World War II ended the massacre 
of the Jews, replacing it with that of the Palestinians and so many 
other powerless people.
In the second, those who are powerless realize that they are merely 
cannon fodder for the various powerful, and they organize themselves, 
collapsing the power bases of the current rulers through sheer force of 
numbers.
Enough of waiting for the Western establishment's Godot to suddenly come 
to its senses and bring justice to the Palestinians: this will not 
happen today, tomorrow, or ever. Hoping for Macron or anyone like him 
only demonstrates that despite nearly two years of live genocide, we 
still lack the strength or courage to accept the evidence of the 
irremediably predatory, domineering, and ferocious nature of established 
power in a profit-driven society.
Only a counterpower organized from below can succeed in undermining the 
very basis of the power of the current powerful, which is the massive, 
servile, and supine acquiescence of those who work, create, and produce 
everything that keeps society alive.
To achieve this goal, of course, hope is needed, but a hope that is 
nourished by a successful demonstration, by a collective that grows in 
numbers and awareness, by an initiative of denunciation or sabotage.
Hope is us who oppose the established power and its servile and lazy 
accomplices; we are the ones who build bonds and new ways of living, 
relating, and producing.
Let us therefore abandon false hopes and embrace the awareness that the 
choice before us is one and always the same: the choice between 
socialism and barbarism.

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