Palestine: they have created a desert and call it “peace”

After, before the eyes of the whole world, almost one hundred thousand Palestinian civilians were killed by the Israeli army and bombs, not counting all the bodies still lying under the rubble; after more than a thousand Israeli civilians were also slaughtered or kidnapped, providing the opportunity to start an even more extensive massacre; after cities have been reduced to rubble, with hospitals destroyed and no means to treat the wounded, with hunger and malnutrition due to the blockade of food supplies affecting and killing especially the weakest, the elderly, and children; after the world has had to witness this immense tragedy, after all this, does peace flourish?

Camp David 1978: under American auspices, Begin and Arafat sign a peace treaty, shortly after which Sadat is assassinated and the war resumes. Oslo 1993: a new peace agreement is established and signed by Rabin and Arafat. Shortly thereafter, Rabin is assassinated and the war resumes.

No one really believes that peace will come out of Sharm el Sheikh, as it did not on previous occasions. Rather, there will be an armed truce in which, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, Israel will suspend its bombing and withdraw from the city of Gaza, while continuing to occupy a large part of the Strip.

Hamas, having secured immunity for its militants, should surrender and hand over its weapons, and only then should food supplies, under UN guarantee, finally enter and be distributed to the exhausted population.

Israel will certainly take over a large part of the territory, further confining and isolating a large part of the Palestinian population that will not leave the territory, in an area that will resemble even more than before a huge concentration camp.

Once Hamas is excluded, the administration and management of the Strip would then be established under the tutelage of the United States and the Arab countries aligned with it. This will mark the beginning of reconstruction, fueling the appetites of American companies and their closest Western allies. It is no coincidence that Italy’s Meloni, proposing to send the Carabinieri as an intervention force, is eager to be present at the signing of the agreement and to join the game.

During the major strike on October 3, the party distributed the following flyer at related demonstrations:

AGAINST WAR, NOT PACIFISM BUT CLASS MOBILIZATION!

Comrades, workers,

The massacres and destruction of entire cities being razed to the ground, which we are witnessing in Gaza today and have been witnessing in Ukraine for a long time, are closely reminiscent of the imperialist world conflict of the last century.

Genocide in particular is nothing new in bourgeois society, which has never hesitated to carry it out, even if it has very often been minimized, denied, and hidden with the complicity of the press. This time, that has not been possible.

The trade war, with the imposition of import tariffs promoted by the United States and then mirrored by other imperialist powers, and the ongoing clash over energy supplies, are also precursors to the armed conflict that is brewing.

It is the end of the illusion of progress and peaceful development that capitalist society claims to bring. Everywhere, there are calls for rearmament, and in the face of the US, China, and Russia, even “peaceful” Europe, led by Germany and France, is preparing for war, allocating increasingly large portions of state budgets to this end, taking them away from what would be needed for an acceptable life for the working classes. In a few years, they will be ready, and there will soon be incidents that will trigger warmongering propaganda to induce the proletariat to take sides. Soon, images of death and destruction, which do not seem too far away, together with news, even false news, will be part of everyday life in our countries, with young proletarians enlisted and sent to the front.

But this fate is not inevitable. If the working class is able to react by refusing solidarity with its own states and ruling classes, mobilizing against the sacrifices imposed on it and with a view to its own emancipation through revolution, the rush towards war mobilization can be stopped.

Comrades, workers,

Neither demonstrative actions, however courageous, such as those recently staged by the so-called “flotilla,” nor the feeble pacifist propaganda supported by the parties of the so-called left, will put an end to the massacres we are witnessing. Only the preparation and unfolding of the revolutionary movement of the working classes can stop the third imperialist war. Only with the revolutionary overthrow of the regime of Capital (a regime of exploitation, death, and destruction) can all wars finally be stopped forever.

There can be no peace as long as the regime of Capital remains alive.

Workers must orient themselves towards this perspective and mobilize, rebuilding their economic defense organizations and rediscovering the leadership of the class-based political party, against the false left-wing parties and collaborationist unions.

Florence, Friday, October 3, 2025

International Communist Party