How should we interpret the propaganda from the US and Israel on Trump's ordering Netanyahu to end the genocide? Grasp the 4 Gaza wars now underway...
On TRT tv last night, I explored the need to recognize three ongoing Gaza wars-- political, military, propaganda -- and a critical new one in global activism and resistance for equal justice for all.
The humanitarian aid ship that Israel hijacked and the Great March to Gaza underway via Egypt are just two examples of efforts by people across the world to support Gazans who are being starved to death by Israel. The US-UK-Israel imperial mentality calls these PR stunts and publicity pranks, because it cannot handle serious popular resistance across the world to Israel’s genocide, like the global resistance boycotts that ended South African apartheid. The expanding and intensifying populist movement to support Gazans and all Palestinians and oppose US-UK-enabled zionist war crimes reminds me of the anti-apartheid and anti-Vietnam protests I personally experienced in the US and the Arab region in the 1970s and 80s. Each incident — whether a ship carrying symbolic food and medicine to Gazans or the Berrigan brothers priests in the US throwing pig’s blood on US army draft files — does not aim for a specific quick policy change or other result. Rather, these actions are part of a global movement by civil society activists to politicize, organize, and mobilize entire populations in the West and the Global South who in turn can pressure the Israeli state to end its genocide. These kinds of protests take years to achieve their goals, which they always achieve… Israelis and pro-zionist Western governments, media, and groups do not know how to react to such resistance and activism other than to call them Nazis, terrorists, or publicity seekers — just as the US and South African governments did in the face of the protest-based resistance they encountered, and which ultimately defeated the criminal government policies. The US FBI did the same thing in the face of the resistance protests it faced by African-Americans and other allies across the US, calling them Communists, agitators, and trouble-makers.
So it is important to keep in mind that we now have 4 arenas of warfare and political contestation around the world, anchored in the zionist-Israeli genocide in Palestine: a military war, a political war, a propaganda war, and now a global popular resistance war by activists. The protest activists will keep using innovative ways to politicize, mobilize, and organize their populations to force their governments to stop assisting the genocide and work for equal rights for all in Palestine-Israel. Every protest action in the world moves us closer to that goal.
The news from Israel and the US that Trump is angry with Netanyahu and ordering him to end the genocide is fascinating, but not supported by the facts — which show the US supporting the Israeli military, joining the propaganda war in the mainstream media, participating in the new ‘humanitarian food distribution’ hoax that is killing hundreds of Gazans, criminalizing support for Palestine in the public arena, and protecting Israel’s war crimes in the UN and other international fora. So it’s best to ignore US and Israeli media reports on alleged changes in US policy on Gaza, and demand factual evidence instead.