Gaza is still being bombed and the Hamas rockets are still being fired, showing that nothing has been solved by this brutal, one-sided war: over 1300 dead, mostly civilians and foot-soldiers, thousands more wounded and traumatised; over 20,000 houses partly or totally destroyed.
Those attending the demonstrations against the recent massacres in Gaza, because they wanted to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people or with humanity in general, needed more than a warm coat, hat and scarf to participate. A strong constitution was also required to stomach what turned out to be an orgy of nationalism.
This article was originally published on Israel's
Indymedia site and on Libcom.org . It was written by a comrade in Israel who, despite being in an
extreme minority, felt the need to respond to the patriotic war fever sweeping
Israel/Palestine in the wake of the Israeli assault on Gaza.
After two years of strangling the economy of Gaza - blockading
fuel and medicines, preventing exports and stopping workers from leaving Gaza
to find work on the Israeli side of the border - after turning the whole of
Gaza into a vast prison camp, from which desperate Palestinians have already
tried to escape by breaking through the border into Egypt, Israel's military
machine is subjecting this densely populated, impoverished area to all the
savagery of a virtually continuous aerial bombardment.
