A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Call: Palestine means resistance | Panhellenic mobilization at the Souda base (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Against war, the state, capitalism, fascism and imperialism ---- The 
genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza is writing another page of 
barbarity by the state of Israel, with the attempted extermination and 
genocide of the Palestinian people for 2 years through mass murders of 
civilians and famine conditions that Israel has imposed on the Gaza 
Strip. This horrific crime that is being committed before the eyes of 
all humanity against a people struggling to live on their land, is at 
the same time a clear and exemplary terrorist message of the global 
dictatorship of the state and capitalism to all the peoples of the 
world. In the opposite direction of the world of power, the 
international solidarity of the oppressed and exploited will constantly 
find new ways to shout loudly: Palestine means resistance, Freedom in 
Palestine!
Over the past 77 years, the Israeli state has managed to build modern 
Apartheid, that is, the systematic exclusion of Palestinians in the Gaza 
Strip and the West Bank. It has managed, through the normalization of 
terror, to apply generalized conditions of control, militarization and 
oppression, constituting a true model of a modern totalitarian regime. 
From the embargo on Gaza and the wall that surrounds it, the ban on 
movement and military checkpoints, the destruction of entire areas and 
their colonization by Israelis, to the brutal repression and continuous 
bombing, the numerous arrests, imprisonments and murders.
The state of Israel is a model of militarization and imposition, a death 
machine that has been attacking the Palestinians for years in order to 
subjugate them so that they accept the military occupation that they 
resist with enormous self-denial. A state that has key allies in its 
pursuits the leading powers of the Western power bloc that are 
attempting to extend their power and interests in the wider Middle East. 
In this context, the Greek state - fully tied to the Western chariot of 
domination - is attempting to further develop its cooperative relations 
with Israel through a series of strategic energy, military and economic 
agreements through which it essentially functions as a base of support 
for Israel's war machine in the wider Middle East region. This is also 
evidenced, with audacity and clarity, by the continuous propaganda of 
the strategic alliance of the Greek state and the ruling class with the 
slaughterers of the Palestinian people.
Since October 7, 2023, after the attack by Palestinian organizations, 
the Israeli forces have been audaciously propagandizing the sweeping 
military operation of expulsion and annihilation of the Palestinians as 
a right to self-defense. The airstrikes at the beginning and then the 
ground invasion of Gaza - in one of the most densely populated areas on 
the planet, which was already dominated by deprivation and poverty due 
to the embargo imposed by Israel since 2007 - have resulted in the 
killing of more than 67,000 Palestinians, including more than 20,000 
children, the injury of more than 169,000 people, the destruction of 
buildings, hospitals, schools, homes, roads, water supply infrastructure 
and health services, the lack of electricity and fuel necessary for 
agricultural food production, the complete deprivation of drinking water 
and the supply of food and medical supplies. While in the West Bank, 
settlements are expanding and murderous pogroms, persecutions, beatings 
and dismissals of Palestinians are taking place.
In the Gaza Strip, 98% of the population is facing a lack of food, the 
amount of drinking water per person has decreased by 99%, while more 
than 70% of international humanitarian missions have been prevented and 
banned by Israel, with typical examples initially being the hitting of a 
ship - a solidarity mission by two Israeli drones in international 
waters near Malta, the blocking of the Madleen shortly before it reached 
the Gaza Strip and then the attack on the global sumud flotilla and the 
kidnapping of hundreds of its members, while in these days another 
blocking was carried out on the one thousand madleens flotilla and the 
captivity of those on board. All these international missions were 
intended to break the blockade imposed by the state of Israel on the 
Gaza Strip in order to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of 
Palestine, and despite their fierce repression by the Israeli occupation 
army, they were important points of international mobilization and 
coordination of solidarity with the struggling Palestine.
This genocide is being carried out with the alliance of Western states, 
whose lukewarm "humanitarian" announcements simply confirm their consent 
and support for Israel's operations, since at the same time they 
maintain political and economic agreements between them, while attacking 
solidarity demonstrations taking place around the world and 
criminalizing the symbols of the Palestinian people, proclaiming that in 
the world of the state and capitalism, there is only one "right". That 
of the strong that is imposed on the weak by force. Within this 
framework, both in the USA and in Europe, states attack those who 
struggle against the atrocity that is unfolding before the eyes of the 
entire world. A more recent example is the murderous attack on the 
solidarity march for the Palestinian people in Athens on 07/10/25, where 
the uniformed stormtroopers of democracy brutally attacked the body of 
the demonstration, making 18 arrests, beating the demonstrators with 
fury and causing serious injuries. In fact, the attempt for another 
conspiracy began immediately with the invention of criminal charges for 
the arrested, who were however released on Friday 10/10 after three days 
of detention. Despite the state repression, the resistance that is being 
manifested is preserving dignity in the face of the ongoing genocide of 
a people, in the face of the blatant distortion of reality, of their 
words and meanings, of history, in the face of the silence that the same 
states that allow this historical crime to be committed are attempting 
to impose by force within themselves. Greece, as a member of the 
European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented towards the pursuits of the 
dominant political and economic elite of which it is an integral part 
and is tied to the chariot of Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many 
interventions in recent years and not only. The current political 
administration, like all previous ones, has fulfilled and continues to 
fulfill its mission in full, which is none other than the continuous 
effort, in its part, for the unhindered imposition of the modern 
dictatorship of the state and capital, of modern totalitarianism, on a 
global level.
The renewal of Greek-US defense cooperation with the upgrade of the 
American base of Souda and its role in the wider region, the transfer of 
"special" weapons to the Araxos air base and the expansion of existing 
NATO military bases in a number of areas of the country, including 
Larissa, Stefanovikeio and the helicopter base in Alexandroupolis, 
constitutes another example of the ratification and expansion of 
relations between the Greek and American states, confirmation of the 
attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of 
the dominant international political-economic elite and strengthening of 
the role of the Greek state in the critical region of the Balkans and 
the Eastern Mediterranean. It is precisely this strengthening of the 
role of the Greek state, which today passes through the undivided and 
comprehensive support of the state of Israel, that makes the entire 
Greek territory the rear of the front line of Western imperialism in the 
Middle East.
The American base of Souda in particular functions as a critical center 
for military monitoring, coordination and support of American and 
Euro-Atlantic operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle 
East. The upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked 
to military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect 
support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of 
the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance 
of American and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the 
critical region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military 
capabilities for rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical 
interests. Every ship that sets sail, every aircraft that takes off, 
every order issued from the Souda base offers services to the death 
machine that slaughters the Palestinian people.
For our part, we stand in solidarity, alongside the Palestinian people 
who tirelessly continue to fight hard and persistently for their 
survival, dignity, land and freedom, and we draw inspiration from the 
struggling people all over the world who strike, demonstrate, block 
ports, clash with the police or even attempt to break the military 
blockade of Gaza with boats. These are the elements of the struggle that 
we want to highlight as anarchists, the ability of the conquered to 
fight back against the all-powerful conqueror, the ability of the poor 
and the excluded to rebel even under the most barbaric conditions. We 
want international solidarity to create rifts within the aggressors by 
bringing to the fore our own history, the history of the struggles from 
below that, against all times, create the living reality of freedom and 
solidarity, constituting the only real bulwark against the onslaught of 
modern totalitarianism. Until the total liberation of the peoples from 
the shackles of the state and capital, until the Social Revolution for a 
world of equality, solidarity and freedom.

ORGANIZATION - SOLIDARITY - INTERNATIONALISM - SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Stop the genocide of the Palestinian people now and break the blockade 
of the Gaza Strip that condemns them to starvation

The Greek state is complicit
Let's sabotage the criminal alliance of Greece - USA - Israel

Close the American bases
Let's block the war machine

FREEDOM IN PALESTINE
Target Souda Base For Palestine

SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATIONS IN STRUGGLING PALESTINE
Friday, October 17 in Chania
Saturday, October 18 at the American base in Souda

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

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