Notorious American gangster Al Capone defined the concept of Western corrupt Capitalism: ‘Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.’ Therefore, the people’s struggle fight to bring down Israel; apartheid state must be anti-capitalist

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The Israeli state and its imperialist backers have relied on two crucial arguments, and both are falling apart. One claim is that to understand what’s happening in Gaza now, you need only to look at the events of 7 October. In this mainstream version of events version, the Hamas assault was impossible to explain except as savage and inhuman bloodlust.

The second media claim is that the scale of the murder in Gaza might be unfortunate, but the victims don’t have the same importance as those Israelis who were killed.

One of the great gains of the last two months of revolt is that many more people know that to understand 7 October, you need to know what came before. You need to know what happened in 1948 when Israel reared its ugly anti-Semitic head in a storm of colonial and racist violence.

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The use of murder, intimidation and violence, which ethnically cleansed and drove almost a million Palestinians from their homes as Israel was established 75 years ago, is not some distant memory. Many surviving Palestinians are older than the vampire state of Israel.

That catastrophe, known as the Nakba, shapes the oppression that Palestinians face today. US and British politicians in harmony with the largely Jewish-owned media barons support for Israeli war crimes is nothing new.

Western powers gave vital support in 1948 and in 1967 when Israel grabbed East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. It underlines how Western imperialism saw Israel as a useful outpost in the Middle East then, just as it does now.

Ruling elites based on dodgy democracies seek to erase such history because it echoes so strongly today. Israel is repeating the ethnic cleansing of 1948 backed by genocidal calls. This is what settler-colonial states do.

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The mainstream media doesn’t want to make that connection. But Israel has done it so openly that it has led to vast opposition across the world. Most of those who’ve taken to the streets know that, although the specifics of truces, ceasefires and prisoner exchanges matter, there is a deeper battle for Palestinian freedom.

The solidarity movement also challenges the second argument about the downgrading of Palestinian humanity and lives. The deaths in Gaza are not some collateral damage. They are as important as anyone else’s deaths and are outrageous and inexcusable. As their arguments fall apart, Israel’s supporters are forced back to the claim that those who back the Palestinians are anti-Semites. A ridiculous claim as Palestinians are a Semitic people whilst the invading and occupying Zionists are invariably Khazar (central European) ethnicity.

It is a central part of the drive against inequality, exploitation and colonial oppression across the world. The struggle of the Palestinians should be central for all those who want to tear down the Western concept of capitalism – the legitimate racket of the maverick ruling classes.

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