We support our troops… when they shoot their officers!

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It’s been more than 20 months since the massive bloodbath began in Gaza. The extermination campaign similar to the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto is in a full swing. “Smart” bombs, “dumb” bombs, white phosphorus, nerve gas, summary executions, death marches, torture, rape… AI controlled systems like “Lavender” and “Where’s daddy?” – an algorithm designed to locate supposed Hamas members when they are at home with their families – choose the targets for military drone operators to turn the whole building they are in into dust. Famine and cholera and polio epidemics deliberately engineered by Israel is finishing the job in the insanely overcrowded remnants of the strip for sake of dreams of the future capitalist development, once the inconvenient surplus proles are removed. As sung by Israeli children in the extermination anthem named in an Orwellian fashion “a Friendship song” – “… we will come back to plow our fields…”.

But besides the fertile fields these pipe dreams include also luxurious seaside resorts for Trump, gas field exploration for ENI and high-speed rail from Tel-Aviv to Cairo for Siemens. Of course, it will be hard to achieve the realization of this capitalist paradise in area littered by explosives, thoroughly poisoned by asbestos from the destroyed buildings, heavy metals, white phosphorus, depleted uranium… and with underground aquifers full of seawater that Israeli army deliberately pumped there.

Meanwhile another thousand of dead and tens of thousands of crippled soldiers in Israeli uniforms already joined the victims of the October 7^th massacre and many more are to come as the bourgeois factions led by Iran and USA respectively are trying hard to pull the proletarians living on their turfs into this carnage. Israel, where the oneness of the capitalist war and the capitalist peace has always been nakedly obvious, is already developing into a major “theater” of the incarnating global military catastrophe.

As we write this, all these military preparations are starting to bear their poisonous fruits as on June 13^th Israel has launched its long-planned attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and now bombs, missiles and drones are wreaking havoc upon Iranian and Israeli cities. As it is happening, the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are encircling Iran and positioning themselves in the Red Sea against Houthis and U.S. Army bases in the Persian Gulf are on high alert, as are the armies of many other regional countries. Trump is preparing to bomb Iran; Khamenei is preparing to strike the U.S. Army bases.

In recent months, however, the one-time small numbers of refuseniks and deserters in Israel started to grow. So far hundreds of reservists publicly refused to serve, refusing to participate in the massacre of the proletarians of Gaza by the Israeli State and denouncing it, even if that means going to prison. While as much as 100 thousand or around a third of all reservists just simply didn’t show up. There are also “rumors” of “fragging incidents” already happening inside IDF…

The propaganda of our bourgeois enemies is trying to lessen the importance of this movement in order to hide the widening cracks in the Israeli inter-class national unity.

They insist that the latter don’t really care about the Palestinians and their refusal is “just” because they are exhausted, they don’t want to die or be crippled or because they are fired from their work each time they are called to arms and are left destitute in the midst of skyrocketing costs of living. As if these things were not united by the material reality of fighting for the interests of our class enemy! This is nothing, but another of their attempts to prevent us from recognizing that what unites us across the trench line is our position as the exploited class, as the labor force mobilized or disposed of according to our capitalist masters’ needs! To prevent us from seeing each other across the trench lines as brothers and sisters in the class struggle!

Since May there have been several anti-war protest marches towards the border of Gaza, one of which ended up in fight with “Tzav 9” organization – nationalist plague who came to block the food from entering Gaza. Also among the protesters demanding “the ceasefire” and release of the Hamas hostages the realization of the ongoing horrors in Gaza is spreading.

At the same time, the starving proletarians inside Gaza held several angry protests recently, as they did many times before October 7^th despite of what the bourgeois propagandists will tell us, which called for stop of the bloodbath, demanded food and denounced both Israeli State butchers and Hamas Kapos and slumlords! Of course, the false friends of the proletariat from the camp of “Palestinian National Liberation” are denouncing these protesters as “traitors” and “fifth column”.

As for the Iran, in the recent months, a new wave of militant oil workers, truckers, teachers strikes has been erupting in many parts of the country, while the proletarian anger and want for vengeance against the bourgeoisie for brutal repression of movements of the last decade is still boiling under the surface. Movements that in their highest moments included part of army soldiers and even some Basij militia members switching sides and joining the protests. And let’s not forget, that soldiers of Iran know how to organize themselves, how to refuse the orders, how to desert, how to turn their guns against their officers – as they showed during the so-called Iran-Iraq war!

The bourgeois program is always the same:

– To slaughter proletarians in Gaza and West Bank… The willingness of the Israeli State to “mass Hannibal” anyone as shown by military helicopter machine gunfire on October 7^th.

– To send proletarians to kill other proletarians or to die to Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria or elsewhere… for the interests of the Capital and its State…

– Never-ending exploitation and spiraling misery in the Middle East region and in Israel itself…

The proletariat has no choice but to fight back and to develop its own perspective, the practice of revolutionary defeatism:

– The proletariat is fighting against its own bourgeoisie, against the bourgeois forces that are directly exploiting and repressing it. Thus, the proletariat in Gaza protests against Hamas as well as against the Israeli State, while the Israeli proletarians demonstrate against their government.

We can see growing class resistance against the war in Gaza and West Bank, in Israel, in a form of countless protests and riots around the World, in a form of striking workers refusing to supply arms to Israel…

– There are recently developing workers strikes in the Middle East region – Turkey, Iran and in Israel itself…

– All those actions together organically constitute an attack against the bourgeois domination as a whole. To express solidarity with the proletariat in the “Middle East” means to fight “our own” bourgeoisie here and now.

Let’s develop them further:

– The proletarians in uniforms of the Israeli State and the Iranian State have to put the final nail into the coffin of the bourgeois myth of “Jewish national unity” and of the “Islamic Revolution” – take an inspiration from the American soldiers in Vietnam and recently both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and turn their weapons against their “own” officers and exploiters and their enforcers!

Every IDF brass, Israeli politician, military or government propagandist, loyal drone operator or fighter jet pilot willing to continue flattening Gaza, military prison torturer, military cop enforcing the draft… deserve to cower in fear for his or her life…

Every piece of military or government infrastructure, office, warehouse… deserve to be a target for sabotage, occupation, looting… and reduced to ashes…

Against all bourgeois ideologues – be it “Hasbara” or “Palestine National Liberators” or the “Axis of Resistance” – we have to put forward the perspective of the proletariat as a worldwide class united by its interests whatever the uniform, the nationality, the colors… We have to resist to all different bourgeois attempts to draw us into massacres, to be turned into cannon fodder, to impose to us war economy sacrifices…

Deserters and refuseniks of Israel, resist the imprisonment with your weapons in hands!

Proletarians of Israel, comrades – the only alternative to the present capitalist catastrophe is to rise up in the insurrection against the State together with your Palestinian, Arab, Iranian, Turkish, American, European… proletarian brothers and sisters!