At the end of his excellent 2018 book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, the historian Rashid Khalidi speculated that the “collective west” might stop supporting the Zionist entity if it attempted a new ethnic cleansing campaign. He concluded that as of the time when he was writing this, it was unlikely for the “Israeli” settler state to embark on such an ambitious forced removal project; and even though this expectation is now being proven wrong, it makes sense why Khalidi felt such relative optimism at that point.
In 1948, the last time the Zionists expelled Palestinians on that level, the United States could distance itself from these actions. It could also hide the genocidal nature of “Israel” from Americans quite well, as the USA’s pro-Palestine movement was at first highly marginal. There was a lack of scrutiny on what the imperial powers were doing to Palestine; the world’s focus was on the crimes which had just been committed against Jews throughout Europe, so the U.S. could position itself as the country which was supposedly rectifying these crimes through backing “Israel.”
Since then, though, more and more of the globe has come to see that “Israel” represents a continuation of the Holocaust, with the mass murder campaign being redirected towards Palestinians. The U.S. has also since married itself to “Israel,” making whatever “Israel” does impact Washington’s image. So Khalidi figured that the past likely wouldn’t be repeated.
Six years after Khalidi’s book came out, and over a year into the expanded new phase of the Palestinian genocide, that worst-case scenario has come about. The entity is orchestrating a forced transfer that can absolutely be described as a new Nakba, and is happening on the same scale. After “Israel” has murdered at least 200,000 Palestinians, it’s working to coerce 700,000 people in northern Gaza to flee under threat of murder. The short-term goal is to turn the north into a military zone, and the ultimate plan is to establish settlements; that’s what the most extreme Zionist faction is pushing for, and Netanyahu has every reason to grant this faction’s wishes. As Gazans are pushed into an even smaller space, “Israel” hopes that they’ll all leave, die, or become permanent captives within the entity’s concentration camps.
A nightmare that once seemed improbable has become reality. But the defeat of Zionism and imperialism is closer than ever. Washington and its imperial partners have continued to support “Israel,” despite this making them further isolated, due to how desperate they are for control. Washington’s Ukraine proxy war has backfired, and turned BRICS into a force that can seriously weaken the dollar. In reaction, the imperialists are scrambling to begin a series of destabilization campaigns, directed at the countries that have been falling into China’s orbit. And to increase this plan’s chances for success, they’re doing all they can to extend Zionism’s lifespan; to hold onto their “Israeli” west Asian strategic outpost for as long as possible, and gain more time to cause global damage. Among the imperial strategists who understand which direction history is headed, this is the primary motive for backing “Israel.”
The Zionist project’s demise can’t be stopped. Its actions have brought about such global momentum for Palestine that a Palestinian state is unavoidable. “Israeli” society is undergoing such internal crises that many more colonizers will certainly leave. The technocratic wing of the imperial apparatus sees this self-destructing fascist state, and views it as a tool that can be used to advance the hybrid warfare goals, even though this tool’s time is limited. It’s because of this desperate will within the empire to prop up “Israel” that the Zionist leadership felt it could get away with doing another Nakba. Netanyahu saw that his Washington backers were increasingly leaning upon “Israel” as U.S. hegemony declined, so he knew the White House would keep assisting him no matter how far he took the depravity.
Beyond delaying the loss of Washington’s most important Eurasian strategic asset, there’s another goal the hegemon aims to fulfill by assisting this genocide: making Gaza the new normal. The empire will replicate the Gaza genocide in many other places if it can get away with doing this; it’s already expanded the devastation into Lebanon. This is supposed to be a way of telling countries: “this is what we’ll do to you if you challenge us.”
It’s not a plan that has serious chances for success, because everyone knows Washington can’t actually do this in most places. The hegemon needs to be discerning in which targets it goes after next, because it can’t simply declare war against every BRICS member. There’s an apprehension even to start full war with Iran, since that would create an unprecedented economic crisis; this was just shown by how Washington pressured “Israel” into only striking Iranian military targets, preventing economic apocalypse for the time being. The empire’s range of damage is increasingly limited. Moreover, the Palestinian resistance is in place to make the Gaza ethnic cleansing project fail. Hamas has grown in its membership since October 7, and the ideas driving it hold more power than ever; that’s why, as reported by Press TV, Hamas has put out a statement declaring it will make the new Nakba unsuccessful:
It said the plan sought to tighten the regime’s siege against the area, cut off humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside, and label those who remain there as combatants so it could target and kill them…So far, the campaign has killed more than 342 Palestinians, most of them women and children, the group noted. “All of this confirms that we are facing one of the most degenerate, brutal, and Nazi military plans known in modern history, devised by fascist generals devoid of any human morals or military honor, in a blatant violation and disregard for all international laws, treaties, and humanitarian norms.” Hamas, however, asserted that the plan “will shatter against the rock of the firmness, will, and steadfastness of our patient people, and the valor and courage of our heroic resistance.” The failure would mirror the collapse of the other plans that the regime had intended for Gaza, through its genocidal war against the coastal territory.
Hamas and the other Axis of Resistance members will defeat the entity, creating the conditions for Palestine’s statehood and accelerating Zionism’s downfall. The hegemon will intensify its offensive against the China-aligned camp, which is going to speed up Washington’s own demise. To make this final victory arrive sooner, and to save as many lives as possible, we must take example from those who’ve been winning against the imperial beast.
Hamas, Iran, Russia, and the other triumphant anti-imperialist forces have succeeded because they’ve embraced an active role in combating the enemy. On its own, BRICS is not necessarily something that can take on this role, and it has members which are in many ways aligned with the United States; Brazil just did some of Washington’s sabotage work for it by preventing Venezuela from joining the grouping. We must support BRICS against the hybrid attacks, while struggling against the capitulationist ideas of the actors who seek to weaken BRICS from within. This is what the genocide has made apparent: we can only get justice by treating our enemy like the savage aggressor that it is.
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