The Massacre in Gaza: Mirror of the International Bourgeoisie’s Ferocity

Across the European side of the Mediterranean, just a few thousand kilometers away from the so-called “civilized” world which watches indifferently, there is massacre. The massacre of Palestinians trapped in the city of Gaza, which has been reduced to nothing but rubble.

In a mere 48 hours, another 700 victims and 1000 wounded have been added to the tens of thousands already killed by the bombings and incursions of the Israeli army. Most of the victims have been women and children, and with health facilities collapsing and hospitals destroyed, with food supplies interrupted continuously, their rescue and treatment is enormously difficult.

Recently the Israeli army has entered the Strip again. The army has taken possession of the city of Rafah, whose inhabitants have been forced to flee.

New massacres and new deportations have transformed Palestine into a true extermination camp.

It is a holocaust which is analogous to that suffered by the Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany. The difference is that today it is carried out by the democratic State of Israel, which intends to eliminate the Palestinian presence in the territories it plans on taking into its hands.

This happens with the blessing of the world’s largest democracy, the United States of America, and the acquiescence of other imperial powers. The so-called “friendly” Arab states, who are also responsible for the brutal repression of Palestinian proletarians, carry the blame as well.

It is up to the proletariat of the entire world—today asleep in the metropoles of Capital—to avenge the genocide of its brothers, the Palestinian proletarians, through international revolution. The genocide unfolding today foreshadows the massacre that awaits the global working class: the massacre born of ever-expanding imperialist conflict. If the proletariat fails to counter this war between States with a united front of class war, it condemns itself to that same fate.