The issue of Palestine is the issue of statism’s bankruptcy!

The issue of Palestine is the issue of statism’s bankruptcy!

From Asranarshism

In recent days, we have witnessed a renewed conflict in the Palestinian region and an attack by the Islamist group Hamas on the lands under the control of the Israeli government, which was unprecedented in the past years or even decades. This incident shows more than anything that the Palestinian issue, which everyone liked to consider a “dead” issue, is still alive and with no apparent end in sight, at least as long as the governments exist!

The ancient land of Palestine belongs, first of all, to the people of this land. The people who once had a peaceful and happy life are now being slaughtered for decades in the meat grinder of nationalist and Islamist ideologies and the temptation to form Jewish, Arab, and Islamic governments… The lives of the Jewish people, the Arab people, and others living in this region are being played as pawns by the governments and corrupt politicians inside and outside this geography, and the opportunity for a healthy and safe life is taken away from them.

From the United States to Iran with their interferences, from the Israeli government suppressing and usurping the land of the Palestinian Arab people to Islamist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who have used innocent people as human shields for their reactionary and inhumane ideology, they are all complicit and responsible for this situation. even if they appear to be the opposite and enemies to each other.

Palestine is a perfect mirror of what anarchists have been shouting throughout history: As long as governments exist, there will be no peace and security.

-The media department of the Federation of Anarchism Era

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That's a much saner, inherently anarchist statement that pulls away from the terrible Palestinian Oppression Olympics we've seen, now.bejng used to justify cold-blooded massacres of civilians by jihadists.

Speaking of jihadists, shall I once again remind people that the Palestinian flag originally was the flag of the Jihad Army?

Yes, this stuff is never repeated enough.

Fuck Palestine, and also fuck Israel. Nationalism KILLS!

Up with the goodies down with the baddies! If I can find someone I can get along with in Israel or Palestine those are my people but I'm not going to support anyone who might kill me over my identity. Islamic or Israeli fascists. I'm against war in general, stop it.

Ah yes the "oppression Olympics" of Apartheid and the billion baby decapitations that have followed.

Hope ur getting paid that sweet $$$

Yes, when one of the most heavily armed colonial puppet states on earth is doing explicit brutal racism for decades against people who have almost nothing to survive on, I like to say “both sides are equally bad”- that’s the true anarch way! That way I’m relieved of feeling like I should maybe learn something about it or even get involved. “There are very fine people on both sides”

Just like being a shit poor regime didn't make Pol Pot any better than the US back in the days. Furthermore, highly-traines jihadist killers with advanced assault rifles and other gear as well as thousands of guided missiles doesn't read like a dirt-poor people who're entirely on their own.

Also btw, you're defending fascists. This is an anarchist site. Anarchism has never meant "Down with Satan Israel! Kill all the Jews and Islamic state everywhere!"

Now GTFO, national-shitstain.

So you’re cool with millions of people being starved to death in a massive concentration camp. You’re cool with apartheid. You’re cool with the most powerful government on earth providing funds, weapons and participants to this project. Good, I’m glad we’re clear. You probably thought the US had some good reasons to get rid of the evil dictators when they demolished Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia…

If you can’t think of anything to say about a conflict like this that other than “both sides are bad,” you might actually be a liberal not an anarchist. If you’re always above everything, more moral than anyone else, and go into hysterics that anyone providing context is a fascist, then I guess you get to feel good about yourself and your little opinions without ever actually doing anything.

Nobody said both sides are equally bad. This is asymmetrical warfare and the Palestinians are at a clear disadvantage surrounded by relatively powerful nation states and infiltrated by extremist groups. I am loving these anarchists who raised their flag and made this macro to deliver a clear message against war and supporting anarchist principles.

What is this dogshit Islamic fascism doing on my beloved Anws?

What’s this dogshit Fox News brain take doing here?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/جهاد#Arabic

Who are these people who are always demanding their “beloved anews” censor stuff they don’t like?? What kind of website do you think this is?

censor "stuff they don't like" =/= removing apology of mass murder + support to religious fascism and nationalism

(because this stuff is quite literally opposite to anything anarchist, aside from also serving to label this site as a Hamas-supportive website)

OK lmao. Anon above is clearly just a non anarchist troll.

yes it seems they've taken up residence in the comments here to muddy the waters on the genocide of Palestinians currently taking place. I wish they'd just go away. Free Gaza!

The Palestinian flag is the same colors as many national Arab flags, which dates back at least to the anti-Ottoman revolt of the early 20th century. I love how the “treat both sides as equivalent adversaries” crowd is constantly showing their ignorance of the entire region. Just shut the fuck up and learn something, it isn’t necessary to always spew your half baked opinions!

Flag colors aren't much relevant. You could equally say that Israel is Greece since it's using the same colors, or Turkey with Morocco...

No, the Jihad Army of the war of '48 is where the Palestinian flag came from, then was made official again by the PLO in the '60s.

A nearly identical flag (green and white stripes switched) used in the revolt against the ottomans. 30 years before what you’re talking about. Get your shit straight. We’re not doing hasbara here.

Because this was the same crowd of fanatics instrumentalized by Euro empires, you ignoramus.

The British Empire through Sykes and Lawrence (of Arabia, look it up), had set up what was first a Pan-Arab national liberation movement after WW1 to pull down the Ottoman Empire. This continued through the '20s though this backfired with the Hebron Massacre, as these proto-jihadist fucktards were murderously antisemitic.

In other words, there is no paradox between this flag and the other, between the early Pan-Arab movement and the '48 Jihad Army led by this Nazi collaborator; it was direct continuity.

Yes, it was never about national liberation, but a battle between foreign influences in a region. Nationalism was just, like Benedict Anderson demonstrated, a PROXY, used by foreign imperialists, from the UK to Nazi Germany to the USSR to the US, the with Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and... China... added to the mix.

So SAD you ate and digested this fake crap for all these years, but it ain't too late to change for healthy food!

A one state model based on one religion in a land containing two populations with different religions forces the excluded party to go to war. A two state solution is impossible with all those settlements chopping Palestine into pieces. That leaves the NO state solution, but as I do not live in Palestine all I can do is recommend it, nothing more.

Religion is not the same as ethnicity, and multiple minority groups inhabit the area not just two.

While being against power seems too much to ask of the anarchists today, it would at least be polite not to confuse those who have power and those who don't, be that in Palestine, Israel or elsewhere. Neither those who are being tortured in Hamas's prisons, nor those who demonstrated against this bunch of religious thugs the 30th of July this year in Gaza, are "the Palestinian people who defend themselves". They are mere human shields for an "offensive" that is programmed to be a mass slaughter. Besides that, all you fine scholars in Palestinian history should know well how Hamas, and other Islamist organizations, came to power during the Cold War period, right?

There's but one thing to say to the circumstantial allies of Hamas, anarchist or otherwise: fuck you.

There's but one thing to say to the circumstantial allies of Israel, anarchist or otherwise: fuck you.

And I would agree that the Bolsheviks were a menace. They did kill and imprison anarchists and libertarians after all. The Stalinist offshoots ended up being comparable to Nazis. Also, of course Tankies care more about international politics then anarchists. Anarchists are about everyday life radicalism, the last thing that tankietards care about. Also, individual does not equal consumer.

Israel and the Palestinian Arabs are not equivalent. The Israeli state supports its Jewish population as the ruling caste, in a capitalist-run society. The Palestinians have been dispossessed of their lands, massacred by the army and by fanatical settlers, and denied minimal rights. A new Nakhba has been taking place in the West Bank, as settlers drive off the remaining Palestinians. A two-state solution has become virtually impossible due to the expansion of the settler colonies. (Israel is a prime example of the failure of nationalism, even of an oppressed people such as the Jews were in Europe and elsewhere._

In reaction to this, the Palestinian leadership has ranged from corrupt secular pseudo-democrats to fanatical Islamic theocratic thugs. Both are varieties of nationalist.

In this situation, I am on the side of the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom. BUT I cannot support the way Hamas has waged its war, with the massacre of unresisting and unarmed civilians, including children and old people. This is not the road to freedom!

Now we anarchists must oppose the Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza and its coming mass invasion and slaughter of Palestinians. We have to oppose the U.S. military aid to Israel and the overall U.S. intervention.

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