A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #463 - GAZA. "Blue Helmets": Masks of the Oppressor (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The UN, after two years of unprecedented violence in Gaza, finally 
confirmed on September 16 that the State of Israel is indeed committing 
"genocide," and all its allies, including the United States and Italy, 
are therefore complicit and criminal. Fortunately, the United Nations is 
telling us this, otherwise... nothing: the powerful would continue to 
play their disgusting, convenient power games at the expense of the people.

In this context, where the Nazi-Zionist state, presided over by the 
international criminal Netanyahu, respects absolutely nothing and no 
one-not human lives, nor borders, nor international law, nor human 
rights-on September 4, 2025, Democracy Now! broadcast a speech by Craig 
Mokhiber, former director of the Office of the High Commissioner for 
Human Rights, based in New York, in which he proposed implementing the 
UN resolution. called Uniting for Peace. Only now are we realizing that 
the United Nations General Assembly can adopt binding resolutions, in 
emergency situations, for all member states, as the Uniting for Peace 
resolution specifically provided. Mokhiber proposed the establishment of 
an international protection force ("Blue Helmets") for Gaza, tasked with 
protecting civilians, ensuring the distribution of humanitarian aid 
(without shooting them), preserving evidence of alleged war crimes 
(already very clear), and initiating the reconstruction process. This 
instrument, already used in the past to deploy peacekeepers, would allow 
member states to bypass the Security Council (and the disgusting abuse 
of the "veto" by the United States over the past two years) and adopt 
urgent measures to help the people of Gaza.

History repeats itself with cruel monotony! Oppressed peoples cry out 
for freedom, and international institutions promise "peace" but only 
export the "order" desired by the dominant states. Today, as Gaza and 
the West Bank burn under yet another offensive by Zionist occupation 
forces, a seemingly reasonable call is being raised by governments and 
the media: send in the United Nations "Blue Helmets" to "protect 
civilians" and "ensure security in the territories"! But we 
anarchists-not theorists of inertia, but activists for freedom-must 
denounce what lies behind this stilted language: the consolidation of 
domination, the neutralization of popular struggle, the perpetuation of 
hierarchies and colonization in another guise.

Who are the "Blue Helmets"? Puppet soldiers, disguised as blue knights 
in the service of the UN, a body that represents not peoples, but 
governments; not communities, but chancelleries. It presents itself as 
an impartial arbiter, but in reality it is a clan in which the strongest 
powers-from the Security Council on down-impose their will.

The hypocrisy of institutional pacifism is clearly demonstrated in this 
proposal to send "Blue Helmets" to Palestine. This proposal does not 
arise from the grassroots, from the desire of the Palestinian or Israeli 
masses to find a common path of free coexistence, but from Western and 
Arab diplomacy seeking to "stabilize" a situation that is also spiraling 
out of control. The goal is always the same: not justice, but social 
control. The "Blue Helmets" are not peace, but the military order of 
states. We must not be fooled by the Disney-inspired or semi-religious 
blue and white banners: the UN has already demonstrated, countless 
times, that it is not a guarantor of peace, but an instrument of 
diplomatic and military repression and mass deception.

Anyone who thinks these blue-colored puppets can "protect" the 
Palestinians ignores the historical reality of the Israeli occupation 
and the complicity of the great powers in the Zionist colonial project. 
A UN intervention in Palestine would not be neutral. It would have to 
negotiate with Israel, and therefore accept its "security" as a 
priority; this would legitimize military control over Gaza and the West 
Bank, the repression of popular resistance, and the idea that "violence" 
is only that of the colonized, not the structural violence of the 
colonizers. Worse still, the "Blue Helmets" would hinder international 
solidarity from below, because they would shift the issue to a 
bureaucratic and diplomatic level, emptying the struggle for 
self-determination of meaning. In Palestine, the "Blue Helmets" would 
merely be a camouflaged occupation force!

The anarchist alternative lies in internationalist solidarity, 
self-management, and demilitarization: in the case of Palestine, this 
means supporting the Palestinian popular resistance, not in its 
authoritarian aspects (neither Hamas nor Fatah) but in its experiments 
in self-management, popular committees, and forms of mutual aid in 
refugee camps, cooperatives, and Bedouin communities. Rejecting all 
forms of colonialism and nationalism, including Zionism, but also those 
that claim to "save" Palestinians in order to maintain the existing 
geopolitical order. Promoting internationalist solidarity networks, as 
anarchist collectives, grassroots unions, feminist, anti-colonial, and 
indigenous groups are already doing, building direct links with 
resisting communities in Palestine and elsewhere.

Challenging military logic everywhere: in Gaza as in our own countries. 
The army is never the solution, but always part of the problem. 
Demilitarization is not a utopia but a necessity if we truly want to 
talk about peace. In Palestine, liberation will not come from new armed 
groups or from further militarization of the conflict: more weapons only 
mean more victims, more oppression, more deception. Nor is the solution 
to creating "two states," which would mean two armies, two 
bureaucracies, two borders to monitor and divide peoples. We anarchists 
dream not of a new state but of the absence of states: free communities, 
capable of coexisting and self-managing, without imposed borders, local 
or foreign masters, without armies, occupations, or authoritarian 
governments.

Peace imposed from above is merely the continuation of war and injustice 
by other means: true peace, lasting and just, is born of freedom, 
equality, and solidarity. And there will be no freedom in Palestine as 
long as a people is occupied, expropriated, and humiliated; and even 
less so if this happens at the hands of foreign forces, under blue or 
rainbow flags. We reject the illusion of "peace missions." We denounce 
the humanitarian colonialism that treats peoples like children to be 
protected rather than individuals with the right to fight for their own 
emancipation.

The peace of the "Blue Helmets" is a peace that perpetuates injustice. 
Ours, anarchic, is one of direct action, of collective liberation, of 
humanity governing itself without masters or political parties, without 
armies or saviors.

Gabriele Cammarata

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