“There seems no end to the Israeli government’s intensification of its bloody warmongering. For [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, escalating the war is a means to try and remain in power as long as possible, and to attempt to reshape the region in Israel’s interests, by brutally further repressing the Palestinians, and weakening Israel’s strongest opponent in the region: Iran. The claimed justification, however, is the drive to destroy Hamas, supposedly in order to bring peace to the Israeli Jewish population.
“The horror has lasted over a year, but this has not been achieved. Nor will it be. On the contrary, IDF brutality will inevitably have the opposite effect. Nowhere in the world has military action succeeded in eradicating national aspirations. Israel’s actions are fuelling a profound rage, which at a certain stage will erupt in volcanic lava flows throughout the region, shaking Israel, the neighbouring Arab states, and the imperialist powers across the world.”
War in the Middle East takes place today in a new era of “turmoil and increasing barbarism, but the working class internationally has begun to re-enter the scene of history”. Read more in the editorial of Socialism Today, November 2024.
Read in full at www.socialistparty.org.uk/ST282ed
