Why Israel is claiming that on October 7th Hamas raped Israeli women and why the White House supports this claim

Yossi Schwartz ISL (The section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine)

In the congress only 11% which shows the difference of the ruling class and the people in the U.S.

“U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday December 6th, that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks.

Speaking at a political fundraiser in Boston, Biden said accounts of “unimaginable cruelty” had been shared over the past few weeks.

“Reports of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their bodies being mutilated while still alive, of women’s corpses being desecrated, Hamas terrorists inflicting as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and then murdering them. It is appalling,” Biden said” [1]

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McCarthyism returns to U.S under Biden

Yossi Schwartz ISL (The RCIT section in Israel /Occupied Palestine), 06.12.2023

The American Heritage Dictionary gives the definition of McCarthyism as: 1. The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence; and 2. The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.

In light of the wide opposition to Biden’s support to the genocide of the Palestinians that by itself is a war crime, Biden has begun a witch hunt against the key universities where majority of students stand with the Palestinians and the American congress is holding hearings to the heads of the universities demanding oath of loyalty for Israel under the misname fighting Anti-Semitism.

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Will Netherlands be found guilty for being complicit in Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Yossi Schwartz ISL (the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 05.12.2023

The Netherlands faces a legal challenge over accusations that its role in the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel makes it complicit in war crimes in Gaza. [1]

“Three human rights organizations, including the Dutch arm of Oxfam, have brought the case at the district court in The Hague for the export of the fighter plane parts enables Israel to bomb the Gaza Strip” [2]

Israel disregards the fundamental principles of the laws of war, such as distinguishing between civilian and military targets and the principle of proportionality,” in the bombing of the Gaza Strip, the organizations said in their court filings” [3]

Israel denies having carried out war crimes, saying its forces abide by international law while fighting Hamas terrorists who operate in densely populated civilian areas. If you believe the stories of the Grimm brothers, you can also believe Israel’s lies.

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The genocide and the removal continue

Yossi Schwartz ISL (the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 05.12.2023

By now two months from the beginning of the war on Gaza the more than half a million Zionist soldiers, a very powerful Airforce using many tons of bombs that the U.S. has provided for the genocide of the Palestinian people, heavy artillery and the Zionist navy have not been able to win against the few tens of thousands Hamas’ fighters even in the north of Gaza that has been completely destroyed. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found that even orchards, greenhouses, and farmland have been razed due to Israel’s ground invasion in the north of Gaza. These barbaric actions aim at preventing the return to the north of Gaza. This war has exposed the nature of Israel colonialist settlers. Israel has committed a genocide of the Palestinians. 16,000 people, 70% of them children and women were murdered. Israel has murdered 54 Palestinians journalists, bombed and killed 120 UN workers, bombed schools, hospitals mosques, church and ambulances, doctors and other medical staff. Israel also has spread many lies and the masses everywhere including in the imperialist states oppose the Zionist murdering war backed by most of the Western imperialists.

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The myth of the persecuted Jews for thousands of years

Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/ Occupied Palestine), 04.12.2023

The Zionist apartheid state tries to hide its war crimes in the war on Gaza and West-Bank by the claim that the Jews have been persecuted for more than 2000 years. This is a myth like the claim that the European Jews-the Ashkenazi who founded the Zionist states are related to the ancient Jews.

While Jews were persecuted in different periods of history, of which the most known is the genocide of the Jews by the Nazis, they also persecuted others in other periods of history. Christianity was persecuted in the first three centuries AD. In that period Jewish Jews helped Rome persecute the Christians Jews, as well as Hellenistic Jews.

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The vilifications of UNRWA by the Zionist mass propaganda

Yossi Schwartz ISL (The section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 04.12.2023

To justify the killing of more than 100 UN aid workers channel 13 of the Zionist TV spread another lie that UN workers collaborate with Hamas.

 According to CNN, more than a month ago, “United Nations aid workers have been killed in Gaza more than in any other single conflict in the organization’s 78-year history, the UN said. A stark reminder that humanitarian staff from global agencies have not been spared from Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged strip.” [1]

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On the exchange of prisoners

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.12.2023

According to the agreement between Hamas and Israel, the Zionist apartheid state agreed to release 3 Palestinians prisoners for each Israeli hostage. It also was supposed to release Palestinians according to the principle of seniority-the longest time in jail first.

Israel blames Hamas for violating the agreement and immediately began to bomb south Gaza and on the first day of the resumed war killed more than 180 Palestinians and injured hundreds.

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Netanyahu is planning a new Nakba according to Israel Hayom

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.12.2023

It was clear to us from August 2023 that a war is knocking on the doors of the Middle East and it will begin with the Israeli war on Gaza. In October, or at least the beginning of November, with the carpet bombing aimed at total destruction of the north of Gaza it has been clear that Netanyahu’s plan is a new Nakba. Today 1st December, we got the proof as the daily “Israel today” writes on the plans of Netanyahu:

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The intention of the Zionist criminals – a new Nakba

Yossi Schwartz, ISL The section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.12.2023

As if the genocide of the civilians in the north of Gaza was not enough the Zionist criminals are bombing the south of Gaza. The Zionist Air force dropped leaflets on the south of the enclave telling the people of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to evacuate southwards towards Rafah on the Egyptian side.

“People are asking ‘Where should we go?’ Gaza is unprepared for all of this,” said journalist Hind Khoudary, reporting from Khan Younis.

The Zionist leaflets do not mention where the more than two-thirds of the enclave’s population of 2.3 million who have been displaced since October 7 are now expected to be sheltering as Israel resumes its bombardment.

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The Zionist demagogy in the UN

Yossi Schwartz ISL (The Section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 30.11.2023

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, referred to the alleged rape cases tonight (Thursday) in the X report and stated that it should be thoroughly investigated. The Reuters news agency published that the chairman of a committee on behalf of the United Nations whose purpose is to investigate war crimes by both sides in the conflict, announced that he intended to focus on the sexual violence carried out in the attack in the surrounding settlements.

However, Israel refuses to cooperate with the committee. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, the demagogue Gilad Erdan said that “when it comes to Israeli women, proven sexual violence still needs to be ‘investigated. When it comes to Israeli women, you can doubt, you can wait 60 days and you can call an unknown party to conduct an investigation. There is no recognition here of the crimes committed by Hamas.” The Secretary General was simply trying to calm the justified anger of many around the world for his shameful silence and the silence of the UN. He ignores the shocking sex crimes of Hamas, but when it comes to Hamas’ claims against Israel – there are no doubts and there is no need for investigations” [1]

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Who broke the agreement of humanitarian pauses on Monday 28/11/23

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 29.11.2023

According to the Zionist false propaganda Hamas fighters attacked Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday as efforts continued to extend the ongoing ceasefire, in opposition to Netanyahu who wishes to end the humanitarian pause and renew the war on Gaz mainly on the south of the enclave.

Shortly after the reported incident the spokesperson for Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades Abu Obeidah claimed that Israeli forces had committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire and that Hamas had “dealt with this violation.” Israel mass propaganda claims that the Israeli army did not move from its positions. However, as usual Israel hides its criminal actions in violation of the agreement.

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The Zionist lies and slanders never stop

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.11.2023

The Zionist stupid and ugly propaganda continues even during the humanistic pause.

“On November 23, the Israel account on X, run by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posted an edited video showing an Israeli soldier purportedly navigating a Hamas tunnel near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza adding to a growing set of such videos. Intriguingly, the video references Qatar three times, specifically pointing out the tunnel’s proximity to the “Qatari compound” and the “Qatari building”.”

The Qatari hospital is 3 km away from al Shifa hospital. It is a stupid piece of propaganda as any one can see that Al Shifa and the Qatari hospitals are two separated medical institutions. The mass propaganda of Israel combines the two as if the Qatari Hospital is part of Al Shifa by an imaginary red line.

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The real history of Zionist colonization

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.11.2023

One of the tricks of the Zionist propaganda is to ignore the real history of Palestine and to begin their narrative on October 7th. In this way it is possible for them to try and reach those who are not familiar with the history of the repression of the Palestinian from the beginning of the colonization of Palestine already at the end of the 19th century. In this article we will prove this claim by quoting from articles and books of the founding fathers of the Zionists and their supporters.

Today the Zionists deny that Israel is a society of settler colonialists. However, these documents show that the fathers of the Zionist movement were aware that they were colonialist and also prove that the project of colonialism in Palestine was more important for them than saving Jews from the Nazi genocide.

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The support of Germany for the genocide of the Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.11.2023

Germany has replaced the hate for the Jews with support for the genocide of the Palestinians. On Sunday, Frank Walter Steinmeier, a leading member of the counter revolutionary the SPD and the president of the Federal Republic of Germany, in the course of a solidarity visit to Israel, in the midst of the genocide of the Gazans expressed the hate of German ruling class toward the Palestinian’s struggle for national liberation.

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The delay in the hostage release

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.11.2023

Hamas has handed over 13 Israeli captives and four Thai nationals to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) after a delay of seven hours as Hamas says that Israel had violated two of the terms of a truce.

The first one is the breach of the agreement that Israel will release women and children according to the principle of seniority – those who sat longer were released first. Israel of course claims that Hamas is to blame as it enjoys psychological torture of the Israelis.

Yet it is not difficult to know who is lying. First of all, Israel does not show the written agreement not to the families waiting for their relatives to be freed which is really a form or torture for them. It does not show the agreement to the Zionist reporters who, like parrots, repeat the line of the government. If they saw the agreement, they did not report it.

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The Zionists are attacking the Pope Francis

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.11.2023

The families of the Israeli prisoners in the hands of Hamas went to the Vatican to solicit the help of the pope. He received them and repeated his calls to free those being held.

“Later that day at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square, he spoke of the meetings, saying he felt the pain of both sides. He said that this is what wars do. But here we have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism. He asked for prayers so that both sides would “not go ahead with passions, which, in the end, kill everyone.”

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The imperialist mass media role in supporting the genocide of the Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.11.2023

There is a legend that the mass media role is to defend democracy, namely every one, and not only the ruling class. Israel announced a delay of one day in the humanitarian pause. This delay is used by the Zionist war criminals to further kill Palestinian civilians. So far Israel killed more than 14,500 people, 70% women and children in Gaza alone and more than 200 in the West-Bank. Six people were killed today, including three children, in Israeli airstrikes at two homes in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA correspondent. It also arrested the director of al-Shifa Hospital.

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On the use of the AI in the war on Gaza

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.11.2023

The estimated cost of the war is 8 Billion Dollars a month and the total cost to the state of Israel is estimated to be 51 billion Dollars or 200 billion Shekels which is 10% of the GDP reported the daily Newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. It means serious cuts on health, Education, and food. The Finance Ministry’s assessment indicated that “in the event of war, the recovery will be slow and the economy will not return to its pre-war trend.” [1] In addition there is a growing movement in the entire world that participates in the boycotting of Israeli products which will raise the price of products in Israel.

In early November, the US State Department approved a $320m sale of guided bombs to assist Israel to more precisely hit targets in Gaza. There is a growing call even in the U.S for the suspension of all weapons transfers to Israel.

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The use of the Hanibal protocols in the war on Gaza

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.11.2023

The Zionist Knesset is discussing a law that will allow for the execution of Hamas fighters in the hands of Israel. The National Security Committee today (Monday 20.11) discussed the law, which was returned to the table due to the massacre – despite fears that it would harm the kidnapped Israelis.

At the discussion of the law promoted by Minister Ben Gabir and members of his party, the representatives of the families of the Israeli prisoners in Gaza expressed a protest and an uproar arose. Announced: the bill will not be put to a vote in the plenum before discussion in the cabinet. Son Har Melech yelled at a family member: “Insolent”.

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The arbitrary detentions, torture and lies

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.11.2023

It is clear that Israel has detained many Palestinians simply because they are Palestinians in addition to captured Hamas fighters. Unlike the captured Israelis in the hands of Hamas that in Gaza were not beaten or tortured, the Palestinians detainees have been humiliated, beaten and tortured. This is the case with Hamas prisoners in order to force them to admit to untrue propaganda of Israel. This is true with the workers from Gaza who had permits to work in Israel and they were detained in detention camps where they were tortured and two of them murdered. “Thousands of Palestinians who were from Gaza and working in Israel were suddenly labeled illegal and detained without charge. They’ve relayed stories of abuse and beatings. In two cases, the workers died in prison. Many of them have now been released back into Gaza but are left wondering what lies ahead” [1] This by itself is a war crime.

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The boycott of goods “made in Israel” is spreading fast

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.11.2023

Today, Israel Today in Hebrew wrote: “This is the test hour of the blue-white export: the local businesses that operate around the world have been at the center of boycotts and hatred since the outbreak of the war. Israeli businesses that export their goods abroad do not remember an explosive period like today. They are aware that any statement they make that does not “fit” with consumers around the world, or following a tweet by this or that celebrity who would like to mark their brand as an Israeli brand, can have a substantial impact on the sales of their products. This is not just a fear, but a reality that is already happening. This is what the Israeli and international designer Dodo (Dorit) Bar-Or learned firsthand, who shared a staged video that compared Hamas to ISIS and supported the State of Israel and its actions. As a result, her items were removed One of the biggest sites in the world” [1]

This is the biggest boycott movement by the masses since the boycott movement on Nazi Germany sabotaged by the Zionists.

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Israel does not have the right to defend itself against the occupied Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 19.11.2023

Israel and the Western imperialists that support the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza rely on article 51 of UN Charter that reads: “nothing in the charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations.” However, many experts for example Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said in an address to the Australian Press Club say that this article applies only when one state is attacking another state and it does not apply to attacking occupied lands by Israel and Gaza under Israeli siege is occupied land.

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The killing of children and the fake propaganda

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 17/11/2023

To cover up for its crimes Israel is using various methods. The first one is to deny that the Zionist apartheid state committed the crime and blame Hamas for it. We saw it in the case of the hospital AL Ahli, the case of the female soldier, Noa Marciano, 19, abducted by Hamas fighters on October 7th, and the artillery shooting on Al Shifa Hospital. Another method is fabrication of alleged discussion on the phones. In the case of the murdered babies and premature babies Israel has used a fake nurse to blame Hamas.

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Al Shifa and the Zionist war crimes

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.11.2023

Since Israel’s ground troops invaded Gaza, the fate of its war has become largely entwined with the fate of the territory’s largest hospital Al Shifa.

Zionist soldiers on Wednesday morning stormed that hospital Al-Shifa, searching its corridors and rooms for evidence to support Israel’s assertion that the medical complex doubles as a secret military command center. For 18 hours they hunted for weapons and interrogated those they found inside, according to both Israeli officials and Palestinians at the hospital.

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The killing in Al Shifa

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.11.2023

“President Joe Biden is “wholly responsible” for the Israeli assault on Gaza’s largest hospital, Al Shifa said Hamas. The accusation was made in a statement on Wednesday, a day after the White House said that US intelligence sources corroborated Israel’s claims that Hamas has buried an operational Centre under the hospital. The Israeli forces said they were raiding the complex because Hamas has a command center underneath it and uses connected tunnels to hold hostages, an allegation that doctor Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a surgeon in the hospital denied.

The United Nations children’s agency said that its top official visited the Gaza Strip early Wednesday and met with children and their families in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of the territory.

What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said in a statement. “Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn.”

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The New Nakba dressed up as a humanitarian gesture

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.11.2023

Danny Denon from the Likud and Ram Ben Barak of the alleged center party Yesh Atid published an article In Wall Street Journal calling on the Western imperialists to accept the refugees from Gaza.

“Last month, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an ‘immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce’ and demanded that all parties allow ‘continuous, sufficient, and unhindered’ provision of essential supplies and services into the Gaza Strip,” the two MKs wrote. “As the war continues, however, UN resolutions are doing nothing tangible to help Gaza’s residents.” [1]

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The Zionist state is killing the sick and babies and attacks South Gaza

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.11.2023

The Zionist war criminals not only kill the sick and injured in the hospitals in Gaza but babies and premature babies and in the same time bombed the South of Gaza where the Israeli criminals told the Palestinians in the north of the enclave to move to the south where they will be safe. The same method the Zionists used in Lebanon: Telling the civilians to move to another place and bombing them.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Khan Younis, said the “Israeli military is calling on patients to step out of the hospital with their hands above their heads.”

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Down with the empty resolutions!

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.11.2023

On Saturday an Arab-Islamic summit took place in Riyadh Saudi Arabia dealing with the genocide of the people in Gaza committed by the Zionist war criminals. The summit condemns the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip, war crimes and inhumane massacres by Israel. It also called for an end to the siege on Gaza, allowing humanitarian aid into the enclave and halting arms exports to Israel. The summit called on the UN Security Council to adopt a binding resolution to halt Israel attacks on Gaza.

Originally, only the 22 members of the Arab League were expected to participate, but the meeting was later expanded to include the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a wider association of 57 mostly Muslim-majority states to which the Arab League countries belong” [1]

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How the Zionist lies are created and circulated

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.11.2023

While Israeli civilians were killed on October 7th the story of the 40 babies that beheaded in Kfar Oz is a lie. We know it is a lie because in the three daily news- papers: Haaretz, Jerusalem Post and Israel Today that have listed the names of the Israelis that have been killed on October 7th there are no names or pictures of such babies.

If it was true the Zionist propaganda would use such pictures time and again.

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The Jews who stand with the People of Gaza are fighting Anti-Semitism

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine 07.11.2023

The Jewish organization Jewish Voice for peace opposed the Zionist Apartheid state and demands a ceasefire now. So is another Jewish organization IfNotNow and the ultra-religious Jewish organization Neture Karta. They are very active. They participated in the large demonstrations and organized their own demonstrations as well. This Monday hundreds of JVP activists occupied the Statue of Liberty to demand a Gaza ceasefire.

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Ahed Tamimi is arrested

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine 06.11.2023

While the Zionist apartheid state continues the genocide against the people of Gaza and killed more than 10,000 people, the American imperialists that have provided the weapons and the aircraft to bomb women, old people, injured people and more than 3,500 children, is also sending a submarine carrying nuclear weapons and threatens Hezbollah and Iran if they dare to assist the people of Gaza and open a full military front. At the same time the darling of the American centrists Berny Sanders who falsely claims that he follows Eugene V. Debs opposes the ceasefire because Hamas wants to destroy the state of Israel.

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The killing fields of the USA

Yossi schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT, Israel/Occupied Palestine, 06.11.2023

Even the local ruling classes in the Arab states and small dictators like the so-called President Mahmoud Abbas who collaborates with Israel against the Palestinian fighters in the West-Bank told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “There must be an immediate ceasefire to the war in Gaza during Blinken’s flash visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, adding to a growing chorus of Arab leaders stressing the need for a truce as the death toll in Gaza approaches 10,000” [1]

These servants of the Western imperialism out of fear of the masses that really support the Palestinians are forced to say things they do not believe in them but not to act in support of the Palestinians like by cutting all relations with Israel and the U.S.

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Israel is losing the war militarily, politically, diplomatically and economically

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.11.2023

In the division of work among the imperialists, Israel as Shimon Peres the former PM and President of the Zionist Apartheid state has said, is an important strategic asset of the West: “Hanit in the Hebrew word meaning spearhead. That word explains why Israel is a vital strategic asst not just to Great Britain, but to the West as a whole” [1]

That is why Netanyahu said during the war on Gaza we fight also for the West.

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The war on the Palestinians in the West Bank

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.11.2023

In an article in Jerusalem Post aimed at providing Biden with a story he can use to Justify the attacks of the Zionist apartheid state on the West-Bank and to prevent putting Israel from standing a trial in the International Criminal Court some facts are exposed.

This year is the bloodiest in the last twenty years. Settlers are firing with rifles to attack Palestinians harvesting olives in order to force them to leave their lands. The settlers are in most attacks protected by the army that has killed Palestinians and detained more than 1500 Palestinians in the almost a month since the beginning of the war on Gaza. While the armed settlers are described by Israel to be civilians as a matter of fact, they are soldiers without uniforms that commit crimes that the army claims that were not committed by the Israeli army itself that has killed more than 100 Palestinians in the West-Bank during the war on Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israel also suspended the permits that some 140,000 West Bank Palestinians rely on to work.

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Break the diplomatic relations with the Zionist Apartheid

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.11.2023

We were informed that Bolivia cut its relations with Israel and Chile and Colombia returned their ambassadors. This is likely the beginning of a new stage in the war of national liberation of the Palestinians leading to total embargo on Israel. This is what happened to South Africa apartheid and this is likely to happen to the Zionist monster in spite of the current support of the Western imperialists. The ruling classes in the imperialist states supported South African apartheid almost until the end but they also for their own interests supported the boycott on South Africa.

It is necessary to put pressure on all the two hundred states that voted for ceasefire now to act and cut their relations with Israel. This is the time to put pressure on the Arab states to end the Abraham accord and to throw out the Western imperialists and first of all the U.S from the Middle East.

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The Zionist call everyone who oppose their war crimes, and false propaganda, Nazis

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.11.2023

In the few days following the attack of Hamas fighters against the Zionist apartheid state many people in the Western imperialist states believed the Zionists propaganda that the fighters of Hamas killed and beheaded babies and raped women. But as the Zionists state committed more war crimes more people realized that the Zionist “Hasbara” (propaganda) is no more than lies. Take for example the daily newspaper of the students of Yale university.

An “editor’s note” now appended to sophomore Sahar Tartak’s Oct. 12 column, titled “Is Yalies4Palestine a hate group?” now states: “This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men.” [1]

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The Zionist cheap and poisonous propaganda

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 31.10.2023

While the Zionist army is killing thousands of civilians in Gaza among them more than 3000 children, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan and his delegation wore yellow Stars of David at the UN Security Council meeting on Monday.

The shameless war criminal said: “When Jewish babies were burned in Auschwitz, the world was silent, and today Jewish babies were burned in Be’eri and the towns of the South by the Nazi Hamas – and the world is silent again.”I will make you remember the shame of your silence every time you look at me,” Arden said. “I will wear the yellow patch until the Nazi Hamas is eliminated and until the Security Council stops being silent and condemns the October 7 massacre. Some of you have learned nothing in the last eighty years! Some of you have forgotten why the United Nations was founded. So, I will remind you. From today on, every time you look at me. “Hitler’s Third Reich wanted to create a thousand-year empire spanning continents, just as Khamenei envisions his radical Shi’ite hegemony spanning the region and beyond. The Ayatollah regime is the Nazi regime of our time, and their army includes Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the IRGC, and other jihadists. Instead of shouting ‘Sieg Heil!’ [Hail to Victory!] These radical Nazi Islamists shout, “Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to England!” [1]

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For swap of all political prisoners Palestinians and Israelis

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 31.10.2023

The demand of the Israeli families that their relatives are captured by Hamas and the demand of Hamas to swap all the prisoners are demands that we support, like also the demand for a cease fire. These are just demands because if won they will help Hamas fighters and the Palestinian in Gaza to recuperate. In the same way we support reforms while struggling for revolution. As Rosa Luxemburg wrote in “reform and revolution” at the time the Marxist revolutionaries were still called social democrats before the betrayal of the second international in 1914:

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Israel, war crimes, lies, denial of the holocaust and the killing of its own citizens

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 29.10.2023

For two years the Zionist army was trained to attack Gaza, during these years the Zionist army attacked time and again Gaza while Hamas did not respond but prepared its answer to this aggression of the war criminals.

The Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, spoke this morning (Sunday) at the research conference of the Gazit Institute and referred to the firing from the Gaza Strip towards Israel that took place last night. “If stability is maintained in the Gaza Strip until May, these will be the quietest two years in the south. Hamas does not respond to our attacks and does not even consider responding – and tonight we attacked a very significant target of theirs,” Kochavi said. In response to the rocket fire into Israeli territory: the IDF attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. This is the result of a strategy whose main component was the use of force. The trilogy of A black belt – guarding walls and the dawn – created a very strong deterrent in the Gaza Strip,” Kochavi continued” [1]

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The attack on democratic rights in the Western imperialist states

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.10.2023

Yesterday I went to a meeting in a closed hall called for by the leaderships of the Palestinians citizens of Israel against the genocide of the people of Gaza, but it turned out that the meeting was canceled by the Zionist police. This cancellation is part of the attacks on the democratic rights of Arabs and the Jews who oppose the genocide of the Palestinians.

There is a witch hunt against those who do not support the Zionists war crimes. Those who dare and express their opposition are fired from the place of work, expel from schools and universities, attacked by the police if they try to demonstrate against the war crimes of Israel and support the right of self determination for the Palestinians, arrested and in the West-Bank attacked by the settlers protected by the Zionist army.

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Israel is killing not only the people of Gaza but the captured Israelis

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.10.2023

The Zionist state that engaged in a genocide of the Gazan by bombing and starvation is killing the captured Israelis as well. Israel claims that Hamas captured 220 people but if it is true then in the real world only 194 are alive as Hamas released four women for humanitarian reasons and the Zionist army killed so far at least 22 of them in the bombing.

Since the Zionist apartheid state refuses to have a cease fire and continues its mass bombing most likely Israel will kill more Israelis, so much for its phony claim that it is concerned with the captured Israelis in Gaza. The reason is clear: a cease-fire is a victory for Hamas. Hamas stated that it will release the Israelis if the Zionist state will stop the genocide.

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The Zionist apartheid state has declared a diplomatic war on the UN

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.10.2023

On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said during a Security Council meeting that Hamas attack against Israel on October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum, as the Palestinians have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation”. He was wrong as the suffering of the Palestinians began with the settling of the European settler colonialists more than 100 years ago. He ignored the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1947-8 and all the four previous wars on Gaza.

Guterres on Wednesday morning, added that the “horrendous attacks” by Hamas “cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

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The Zionist propaganda has suffered a real defeat

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.10.2023

Yocheved Lifshitz, an old woman, was one of the two who were released by Hamas for Humanitarian reasons. The Israeli government, expecting a fabricated horror account, organized a press conference that, according to the newspapers, was disastrous for Israel, a PR win for Hamas.

According to the Times of Israel, freed Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz spoke to the press at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on October 24.

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The Zionist war criminal’s propaganda and the Western imperialists hypocrisy

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.10.2023

Before the war on the people of Gaza close to 500 loaded trucks entered the besieged enclave. Now under Biden’s public relation exercise, Israel allowed 20 trucks via the shuttered Rafah crossing from Egypt, and claims that there is not a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Under the Zionist new policy of a total siege on the Gazan Ghetto, the people of Gaza lack food, clean water, medicine and electricity including for the hospitals.

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The Massacre in Al Ahli hospital in Gaza questions and answers

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.10.2023

Q: While the Palestinians accuse Israel, Israel says that the death was caused by the Islamic Jihad. Who can we believe?

A: You don’t have to believe anyone only analyze the published versions and the known facts

Q: Israel says that it does not kill civilians on purpose can we believe it?

A: In the wars in 2008, 2012, and 2014, the World Health Organization reported that Israeli missiles, airstrikes, and tank assaults damaged or destroyed more than 200 health facilities and more than 150 ambulances. More than 30 health workers were killed on duty, more that 175 of them were injured.

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How do the Zionist and its Western imperialists think that police works?

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Palestine, 20.10.2023

Palestinian officials in the besieged Gaza Strip blamed an Israeli strike for the explosion at al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, while the Israeli army said it was caused by an errant rocket fired by the armed group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which denied the assertion. Israel’s ally and partner in crime the United States has also put the blame on Palestinian fighters, while Arab states have blamed Israel. Palestinian officials blamed an Israeli airstrike for the explosion that Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday had killed 471 Palestinians and wounded 314 others by the Zionist war criminal.

This information is dangerous for Israel and the Western imperialists that support it. So, what can they do? First of all, they have to support the Zionist lie. To understand how it works we should begin with the fabrication by the Zionist propaganda. The Israeli bombs were dropped in the Hospital compound in the center of the Hospital. So, instead of showing the real compound the Zionist army shows a picture of another place, the parking lot of the hospital. Such a distortion of the facts is not difficult to fabricate as in both places, cars were parked.

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The new war crime – the Zionists bombed Saint Porphyrius church in Gaza

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.10.2023

The U.S imperialism at the age of weakness is returning to gunboat diplomacy when in the 19-century dealing with weak nations were forced to grant concessions by the threat of war ships. These days the American imperialists, helping Israel to commit a genocide, sent war ships to threaten any Arab country or Iran from helping the Palestinians.

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The inter-imperialist struggle and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.10.2023

The war between the Palestinian national liberation movement led at present by Hamas, and the imperialist apartheid Zionist state, is taking place in the context of the growing struggle between Western and Eastern imperialists. This was expressed in the UN Security Council in the arming of Israel by the USA, the speeches and in the participation of Blinked and Biden in the meeting of the Zionist war cabinet.

“On Tuesday, widespread condemnation of Israel rippled across the Arab and Muslim world after a huge blast at a hospital in the Gaza Strip killed hundreds of Palestinians who had been seeking treatment or refuge. Palestinian authorities accused Israel of striking the hospital, while Israel blamed a Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad, for an errant rocket launch.” [1]

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The other partners to the crime of Genocide by the Zionist butchers

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 18.10.2023

The first one is American imperialism represented by Joe Biden who landed in Israel and hugged Netanyahu. “The Palestinians have blamed the explosion at the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital in Gaza late Tuesday on an Israeli aerial strike, while the IDF has said that it was a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch. The initial death toll was in the hundreds.

“I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion in Gaza yesterday,” Biden said, but explained that he understood that Israel had not attacked the hospital. “Based on what I have seen it appears that it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden said” [1]

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A New War Crime

A statement by the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 18.10.2023

At least 500 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. To add another crime the Zionist butchers claimed late Tuesday night that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad failed rocket attack damaged a Gaza hospital, leading to a still-unclear number of deaths.

The army spokesperson gave a press conference declaring that “an analysis of army operational systems indicates a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity, to the hospital at the time it was hit. Intelligence from a few sources that we have in our hands indicates that the Islamic Jihad is responsible.”

You have to be an idiot to believe this crime. We have seen that when the Palestinian rockets hit Israeli targets, they kill at most one or two people. Only the heavy bombs of Israel could kill more than 500 people at the same time.

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The worst religion of all is the secular Zionist worshiping of the state

Adam Smith, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.10.2023

There is a famous saying by former MK Zahalka of the Ballad party that “the secular Zionist believe there is no god – but that God gave them Israel.” The current war is going on for a week and half and it is already clear that it is even more destructive than the 2014 one. Already more Palestinians died in a week than in the 50 days of fighting in the 2014 war. Let’s look at a couple examples:

1. Ground fighting: Street fighting door to door is going to be very intense, so rules of fighting have been relaxed – no doubt also to inflict revenge, not just out of “security” concerns. 

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The Zionist Apartheid state in a trap

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.10.2023

Israel that in the arrogance of its leaders and the Jewish -Zionist arrogance have failed to understand Hamas, and have lived in a phantasy, therefore they not only lost the war against Hamas but it has fallen into the trap.

The conventional belief that Israel was so successful in penetrating Arab political and military structures that everybody discounted the possibility of a strategic surprise, like the one it suffered in the October War of 1973 when Egyptian and Syrian armed forces launched a surprise coordinated attack, has proven wrong on October 7th 2023.

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What do we know so far on the war between Hamas and the Zionist apartheid state

Yossi schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.10.2023

The number of Israelis killed is about 1300 according to the Israeli government (breakdown not given). The number of Palestinians killed: more than 2000 (1/3rd women, 1/3rd children). Israel targeted a group of Journalists in Lebanon who are covering the events in the north killing one and injuring several. They also targeted ambulances and medical personnel in Gaza killing nine medics. Israel, having cut off water, medicine, food, fuel, and electricity to 2.3 million Palestinians, asked that 1.1 million of them leave their homes and head south (South Gaza and then to Egypt). The Israeli army then bombed those (a minority) who actually complied with their orders to leave thus killing 70 and injuring over 200 (again wiping out whole families trying to flee). The carpet bombing continues and as medicine, water and food run out, an environmental and health catastrophe is unfolding (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN, and the World Health Organization all warned of catastrophe). Meanwhile the Zionist US Secretary of State (he said he came to Israel as a Jew who supports Israel) bluntly supports Israeli actions that amount to genocide.

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How the lie about the mass killings of Israeli babies was created

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/ Occupied Palestine, 13.10.2023

There were reports of a deadly onslaught unclosing the chopping of 40 babies allegedly by Hamas militants who devastated Israel’s Kibbutz Kfar Aza, located close to Gaza.

This story appears in many western imperialist newspapers. But as the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus around 550 BC said: “The first casualty of war is the truth”.

This monstrous lie began by a report in I24 channel by an American Zionist Nicole Zedeck who did not show any picture of such beheaded babies. She says in defense of her story that she was told about this killing by two Israeli officers.

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The real war criminals

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.10.2023

Using the claim that Hamas has killed a huge number of civilians, the Zionist state is committing systematic genocidal policy in Gaza. The Zionist Minister of war that calls the Palestinians sub human, announced on Monday a “total blockade” to stop food, water, electricity and fuel from reaching Gaza. To starve to death the entire population of Gaza. Humiliated Israel by the victory of Hamas fighters has retaliated with air strikes on Gaza that have razed entire districts as it prepares for a possible ground offensive. The plan so it seems encouraged by the support of the leaders of the imperialist states is to expel the people of Gaza to Sinai desert.

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More News from the War

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 9.10.23

No matter how this war between the Palestinians, fighting a national liberation war, and Israel will end, Hamas already won this war. This victory in the struggle for national liberation makes it clear who is standing behind the Zionist apartheid state- the ruling classes of the imperialist states and who is on the side of the heroic fight of the oppressed – the people of the semi colonies in the Middle East and other countries.

As Trotsky explained:” I will take the most simple and obvious example. In Brazil there now reigns a semi fascist regime that every revolutionary can only view with hatred. Let us assume, however, that on the morrow England enters into a military conflict with Brazil. I ask you on whose side of the conflict will the working class be? I will answer for myself personally—in this case I will be on the side of “fascist” Brazil against “democratic” Great Britain. Why? Because in the conflict between them it will not be a question of democracy or fascism. If England should be victorious, she will put another fascist in Rio de Janeiro and will place double chains on Brazil. If Brazil on the contrary should be victorious, it will give a mighty impulse to the national and democratic consciousness of the country and will lead to the overthrow of the Vargas dictatorship. The defeat of England will at the same time deliver a blow to British imperialism and will give an impulse to the revolutionary movement of the British proletariat. Truly, one must have an empty head to reduce world antagonisms and military conflicts to the struggle between fascism and democracy. Under all masks one must know how to distinguish exploiters, slave-owners, and robbers!” [1]

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The myths and the lies of the war against Gaza as exposed in the second day of the war

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 9.10.23

The Zionist believed in their absolute superiority over the Palestinians, the Lebanese and other Arab nations and that they could kill wounded and arrest Palestinians without serious consequences for themselves. They did not think that the resistance of the Gazans could be effective and their arrogance cost them the image of a super powerful force. In the past in military clashes between the resistance and the Zionist army the rate of the deaths was one Israeli to 20 Palestinians. In this round, well planned by the Palestinians fighters, the rate Israeli deaths is higher than the Palestinians and this is in spite of the small number of Gazan fighters against the fourth strongest army and in spite of Israel flattering whole buildings with the residents. According to what is published 200 Palestinians are dead and 2000 wounded (in reality probably higher) and 400 Israeli are dead and close to 2000 injured. Thus, whatever will be the final results in this round the fear from the powerful Israel is dying.

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50 years after the October War, Israel once again caught by surprise – On the war between Israel and the resistance of Gaza

Statement of the ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.07.2023

For revolutionary Marxists the question is not who began the war but what is the class nature of the fighting side. On Saturday morning 7 of October 2023 according to the Zionist army: Around 2,200 rockets were launched on Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, and that Palestinian fighters infiltrated by “the sea, the air and the land.” Tens of thousands of Israeli army reserve personnel will be mobilized due to the security situation the Zionist army announced. [1]

This is a war between the oppressed nation fighting for national liberation against the apartheid imperialist Israel: “The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt reclaimed the occupied Sinai from Zionist occupation, and is set to alter the direction of the struggle in occupied Palestine, moving from resistance toward revolution and liberation” [2]

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The fruits of a Jewish and Democratic state

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.10.23

From its birth the Zionist movement adopted Jewish Symbols. The flag of the State of Israel is based on the design of the Jewish prayer shawl (tallit), with a blue Shield of David (Magen David). The official emblem of the State of Israel is a candelabrum (menorah), whose shape is said to be derived from the seven-branched moriah, a plant known since antiquity.

These symbols were necessary for the Zionist movement to justify their colonization of Palestine. The justification has been the Jews in exile returning to their ancient land that was waiting for them to return (supposedly empty). There is no need for DNA tests to know that the modern Ashkenazi Jews are not the same people as the ancient Jews. The Modern Jews are of capitalist society while the ancient Jews were tribes and beginning of a slave society. Nevertheless, gene tests show that two fifths of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from four women who lived in Europe a thousand years ago.

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Zionist pigs – hands off the Eritrean refugees

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 04.09.2023

Eritrea was called Mdree-Bahree (which means Land of the Sea). The term “Eritrea” derives from the Greek term Sinus Erythraeus, which can be translated in English as the Red Sea. The name was given to the sea between the Arabian Peninsula and the Africa continent, by Greek tradesmen of the third century B.C. This part of the world is considered the origin of the human race. It’s from this place that our first ancestors migrated to other parts of the globe. The first known inhabitants of Eritrea are the Kunama and Nara about 3500 B.C ago. The ‘Land of Punt’ is believed to be in this part of the world. Around 2000 BC the Beja people from southern Egypt entered Eritrea. The first inscription in the Geez alphabet dates from 800 B.C.

In 1890 Italy colonized the land of Midri-Bahri along the Red Sea, and named it Eritrea. Italian colonization was replaced by the British in 1941 that was annexed to Ethiopia. In 1993 after 30 years of war with Ethiopia it won its official independence. Nevertheless, it has remained a semi colony.

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Israel is losing the war of propaganda

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 30.08.2023

For many years the Zionists were able to present Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. A democracy that is forced to defend itself against the only Jewish state against terror aiming to destroy the only democracy in the region. A terror motivated by anti-Semitism.

Even today you can find in the capitalist newspapers this projected image of Israel. For example, in the British Telegraph: “You may have read by now that the situation in Israel is dire. Here is the Middle East’s only democracy, and our most important ally in the region, falling apart before our very eyes. In recent years, the country has painstakingly built up a reputation for an (almost literally) bulletproof economy, a high-tech miracle that continues to deliver growth and secure investment opportunities despite the threat of war and terror. Now, people are talking of the end of democracy” [1]

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Syria: New Wave of Mass Protests against the Assad Regime

Statement by the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 19 August 2023, www.thecommunists.net

1.            Since 16 August, mass protests are spreading across those regions in Syria which are under control of the Assad regime. These demonstrations have been provoked by dramatically worsening living conditions after the regime lifted subsidies on gasoline and fuel oil. As a result, the price of one liter of gasoline rose from 3,000 Syrian pounds to 8,000 pounds and the price of a liter of fuel oil rose from 700 pounds to 2,000. Such developments will have massive consequences for transport costs and hence for all sectors of the economy. These attacks on living conditions take place against the background of already extremely dire situation where, according to the UN, 90% of the population lives in poverty, and more than half the population is food insecure.

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The Western and Eastern imperialists struggle over the Middle East

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 16.08.2023

Lately we see a new imitative of American imperialism in the Middle East. Biden calls it “peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia“. As usual when the imperialists are speaking about peace, we can be sure it is preparation for possible war.

A year ago, Biden arrived at the Al Salam Palace in Jeddah to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This was part of his strategy to form an alliance between Saudi Arabia-Israel and the USA not only against Iran but against Russian and Chinese imperialism.

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The war drums are heard once again in the Middle East

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.08.2023

The Pentagon announced this week that thousands of US troops were being deployed to the region to help protect shipping lanes, such as those in the Strait of Hormuz, from Iranian “harassment” [1]

“Over the past few months, the US has accused Iran of seizing several international ships going through the Gulf. But analysts highlighted that Tehran’s recent behavior in the strategic waters came after Washington confiscated an Iranian oil tanker as part of its sanctions-enforcement push”.

“Israel has sought since early June to remove two tents placed by Hezbollah in the contested Mount Dov region, also known as the Shebaa Farms, but only one has so far been dismantled after Israel reportedly sent a message to Hezbollah threatening an armed confrontation if it did not remove the outpost. Nasrallah said his forces would attack Israel if it tries to remove the other one” [2]

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The servants of the Zionist apartheid state attack the heroes of Jenin

Statement by the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 04.08.23

During the fight between the Zionist army and the young fighters who defended the Jenin refugees camp the armed forces of the Palestinian Authority (PA) stood aside instead of participating in the battle on the side of the young heroes. They were fighting with light weapons against one of the strongest armies in the world that uses very modern heavy weapons provided by the American imperialists.

Because of this betrayal, the fighters of Jenin led by Khaled al-Ararawi expelled senior Fatah officials Mahmoud al-Aloul and Azzam al-Ahmed during the funerals of some of the Palestinian gunmen killed during the Zionist attack.

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The Zionist State – what’s next?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 26.07.2023

You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand that Benjamin Netanyahu will employ the army to kill more Palestinians in the West-Bank and Gaza with the aim of unifying all the Zionists. Thus, on Monday, the Hooligans in uniforms that are called by the Zionists and their friends “IDF” raided Nour Shams camp outside Tulkarem, an Arab city the North of the West-Bank. According to the newspaper al-Quds, the barbarian forces raided many homes and wreaked great damage.

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The similarity between Jenin’s fighters and the Ghetto Warsaw uprising

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 18.07.2023

Marek Edelman was born either 1919 in Homel, or 1922 in Warsaw and died on October 2, 2009, in Warsaw. Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Long before his death, he was the last one to stay in the Polish People’s Republic despite harassment by the Stalinist regime. Before WWII he was a Bundist and during the war he became the leader of the uprising after the death of Mordechai Anielewicz.

We knew perfectly well that we had no chance of winning. We fought simply not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths. We knew we were going to die. Just like all the others who were sent to Treblinka…. Their death was far more heroic. We didn’t know when we would take a bullet. They had to deal with certain death, stripped naked in a gas chamber or standing at the edge of a mass grave waiting for a bullet in the back of the head…. It was easier to die fighting than in a gas chamber.

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The Zionist war crimes in Jenin and Centrism

ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.07.2023

The only working-class revolutionary position in the war in Jenin was to stand with the freedom fighters against the Zionist apartheid state. It is part of the revolutionary program of Palestine red and free from the river to the sea. The reasons for it are very simple: Israel is a settler colonialist society and an imperialist state while the young Palestinians fighters in Jenin fight a war of national liberation.

The Zionist myth that modern European Jews are descendants of the ancient Jews is no more than a nationalist fabrication. The Ashkenazi Jews that established Israel are Europeans. Since the Zionists tried to prove by DNA tests that they are the descendants of the ancient Jews, this test shows that the Ashkenazi Jews are simply Europeans.

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The impact of the Palestinian victory in Jenin

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.07.2023

While Israel has developed warm approach to far right-wing leaders such as the Czech Miloš Ziman, the Italian Matthew Salvini and the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, the oppressed discriminated Muslim youth in France, the UN, the liberal bourgeois, and even Arab local ruling classes take a position against Israel following it failure in “Home and Garden “operation and the victory of the young fighters from Jenin refugees camp. In response Israel and the U.S push the PA traitors to attack the heroic youth in Jenin and Nablus.

The UN refuses to retract its condemnation of Israel over the Jenin military operation.

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Where is the US Supreme Court going?

Adam Smith, Israel/Occupied Palestine, 06.07.2023

After having overturned Roe vs Wade, the Supreme Court is once again going on the attack. However, bowing to public pressure, they did issue one relatively progressive ruling on gerrymandering. However, gerrymandering, along with the fact that the US has a non proportional voting system for the upper house, and the winner-take-all system creates a very undemocratic electoral system.

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The Victory of the Palestinians in Jenin

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the Section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 06.07.2023

The Zionist so-called Operation “Home and Garden” (Bayit veGan) began at 1:20 AM Monday, with an IDF air attack on Jenin. The decision to launch the attack on the Palestinian people in order to drive them out of the country, was received some two weeks ago, and the Netanyahu government waited for the end of the Muslim Holiday of the sacrifice. According to Kan11 News, the PA in Ramallah was informed ahead of the attack.

In a message to Zionist troops, the Zionist chief of the military’s West Bank division said on Monday the goal of the major operation in Jenin is to “change the situation” in the West Bank city.

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The War Crimes of the Zionist army in Jenin

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 06.07.2023

Unlike the massacre of Jenin in 2002 when the hooligans in uniforms used only bulldozers to destroy houses and roads, this time they used bulldozers and aircraft to destroy houses and roads.

Hamdullah Afaneh, a specialist on Israeli affairs, said:” there is a domestic element to the Israeli operation, which he described as “exporting an internal crisis”.

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The war on Jenin has exposed the weakness of the Zionist apartheid state.

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.07.2023

To fight against the Palestinian young people who defend the refugee camp and the nearby city, the Zionist state used the air force, hundreds of armored vehicles and many thousands of soldiers, policemen and the Shin Bet.

Yes, this large force killed 10 Palestinians including two children, wounded more than 100 Palestinians, arrested 120 Palestinians, and found and took many weapons. For Palestinian freedom fighters, facing airstrikes, drones and armored bulldozers, it is, as ever, an unequal fight. However, most freedom fighters managed to escape even though the Zionist army blocked all exits. They will return, get new weapons and continue to fight for national liberation against the Zionist crusader state backed by Western imperialists.

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The Zionist state’s war on the Palestinians

A statement by the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 03.07.202

The ISL condemns Israel for its latest war crimes. The apartheid state military has launched its largest operation in Jenin since the Second Intifada overnight Sunday, with airstrikes and infantry in the northern city.

Air raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank occupied in 1967, using missile killed at least four Palestinians, according to residents and officials The names of the people killed by the Zionist air force are: Sameeh Abu al-Wafa, Hussam Abu Theeba, Aws al-Hanoun and Nour el-Din Marshoud, noting that they were all shot in the chest and head.

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History of the Crusades

Yossi Schwartz, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.07.2023

The Kingdom of Jerusalem

The period between the end of Rome in the fifth (476) century and the Renaissance was considered the dark ages of Europe. The first one to use the term ”dark age” was the Italian Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of the 14th century who based his concept written in 1330 on the poor literature of his study. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack of Latin literature, but the lack of contemporary written history and material cultural achievements in general. As Marxists we can say that decline of the forces and means of production led to poor super structures including lack of good literature. Today many historians understand that the middle age is divided into at least two periods. The lower one until the eleventh century and the higher one from the eleventh century to the Renaissance.

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For Palestinian self defense!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 30.06.2023

Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 illegal settlements and outposts built by the Israeli government and settlers across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The vast majority of Israeli settlements were built either partially or entirely on private Palestinian land. The settlers are not simply thieves but also a military arm of the Zionist apartheid state that is used for pogroms while the government and the army can say it is not the Zionist state but uncontrolled settlers.

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On the brink of War?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.06.2023

On Sunday once again Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his threats against Iran during a cabinet meeting held as part of a national war drill.

“The reality in our region is changing rapidly. We are not stagnating. We are adapting our combat doctrine and our possibilities for action in keeping with these changes,” Netanyahu said at the meeting We are committed to acting against the Iranian nuclear program, against missile attacks … and against what we call a multifront campaign

Netanyahu also attacked in his speech the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for capitulation to Iran. Last week, the IAEA closed a case investigating heavily enriched uranium particles that had been discovered in Iran. The agency reported that it had received a satisfactory answer explaining the presence of the particles, which had been enriched to 83.7%.

Under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal, Iran agreed to limit its uranium stockpile and to enrich uranium only to 3.67. In return, Iran received relief from sanctions imposed by the US, the EU, and the UN Security Council. However, since the US unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018, Iran has said that it is enriching uranium up to 60% purity. Iran’s uranium stockpile has also grown tenfold since the termination of the nuclear deal” [1]

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The story of Ein Samiya

ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 06.06.2023

The story of Ein Samiya is not told in the Zionist mass disinformation only in Al Jazeera which very few Israelis read.

The Palestinian villagers had to abandon their village under the attacks of the Zionist settlers on them and on their flocks in the West- Bank while the goons in police uniforms watched and laughed.

The villagers dismantled their own homes and fled the relentless Israeli settler attacks on them, their children and even their flocks. The displaced villagers have lost their homes along with the elementary school, a way to make a living and a sustainable future as Bedouins in their new location.

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The Zionist Crusaders

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.06.2023

Introduction: The Long View

The early decades of the seventh century were one of the most eventful periods in the history of the Land of Palestine. Within 24 years, between 614 and 638, the country changed hands three times. The four-centuries long conflict between Rome and Persia ended in a final collision of the Byzantine and Sassanid armies. Both these powers gave way to the rise of a new power, the Islamic forces, which would drive them both out of the region.

The Crusade started in Europe at the end of the eleventh century in 1095. Thirty crusades were launched with the aim of capturing Bayt al-Maqdis and “liberating” its Churches and Christians. The first crusade was successful in creating the first European colonial society by 1099, that ended within a century by Salah al-Din.

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The Nakba day by UN in New York


Yossi Schwartz ISL RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.05.2023

A couple days ago, May 15 was Nakba day. For the first time in history, the United Nations officially commemorated the Nakba, the annual Palestinian commemoration of their mass displacement during the establishment of Israel.

In spite of the Zionist and its western imperialist friends’ effort to block the UN commemoration they failed. For decades, the Nakba had not garnered universal international recognition, as countering narratives have downplayed the plight of Palestinians because Israel is the front line of imperialism in the Middle East.

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The Zionist Goliath Could Not Win Against the Small PIJ

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.05.2023

The Zionist apartheid state and the Palestinian Guerrilla movement, the Islamic Jihad group (PIJ) in Gaza have agreed to a cease fire that has officially been in effect since 10 Pm Israel’s time. Sisi the dictator of Egypt has brokered the ceasefire backed by American imperialism.

In Western imperialist states Israel only defended itself against terrorism. Here come the questions: who are the sides that fought and how did this round began?

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On “Right” to Discriminate – Jewish Law was never progressive!

Adam Smith, the ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.05.2023

Two recent proposals – allowing the Rabbinical courts to meditate in new areas (outside of existing Kashrut and Family law), such as employment and rental law(as long as it is on a “voluntary” basis – another capitalist lie), as well as a “right to discriminate” based on religious rights, have shined a light on the role of the Halacha(Jewish Law).

Firstly, the communist opposition to organized religion is based on the fact that every organized religion has a lot of private property which it uses by its own directive, rather than a democratic decision around land use. In addition, for the vast majority of history, save for a few brief occasions, organized religion has been a tool to promote the ideology of the upper class, and has consistently sided with the ruling class. For example, many religions teach that rich and poor people are equal, or that rich people can “wash” their image by buying indulgences/donating to the local prayer house.

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Pro Zionist McCarthyism has failed in the USA on Nakba Day

Statement of the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.05.2023

The member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Rashida Tlaib planned to hold the Nakba day. In 1947-8 the Zionists carried out 30-40 massacres and ethnically cleansed close to 900,000 Palestinians. The Zionists and their friends are doing everything they can from hiding this war crime 3 years after WWII when the Nazis massacres among others millions of Jews. According to the Zionist’s narrative the Zionists in Palestine were the victims of the terror of the pro-Nazi native Palestinians US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy blocked Tlaib from holding the event at the US Capitol Visitor Center.

This clear act of McCarthyism this time has not worked. Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders helped to host the Nakba event. Sanders let Talib hold the event in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing Room, which he chairs and where McCarthy does not have the authority to block an event. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also does not have the jurisdiction to stop chairmen from hosting meetings in their committee rooms.

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The Zionist Butchers

Yossi Schwartz of the ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.05.2023

15 Palestinians, including four children, were killed by Zionist missile attacks on Gaza during the night between Monday and Tuesday 8-9 of May. 40 Israeli military aircraft, including drones, carried out a series of early morning missile attacks on Gaza, killing 15 people, including three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement as well as their wives, several children, and other civilians. [1]

The Israeli military said they knew of ‘collateral’ in their operation to kill three PIJ (Islamic Jihad) members. “It was a civilian residential building”, al-Rabai an eye witness said, standing in front of the bombed six-story building. “Israeli missiles hit the fourth, fifth and sixth floors which were partially destroyed. Civilians live in those apartments, women and children.” [2]

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Sudan and the permanent revolution

Yossi Schwartz, ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 07.05.2023

More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on 15 April between the forces of army (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his number two Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commonly known as Hemedti, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Both were the official military forces in the country at the time.

The two rival generals have agreed to multiple truces but none has effectively taken hold and the number of civilian deaths continues to rise and chaos is spreading in the capital, Khartoum. Susan has known many civil wars but it is the first time it is in Khartoum, where 5 million people live.

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Zionists hand off Haram al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary)

Yossi Schwartz of the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.04.2023

While the Muslim Palestinians break their fast by eating the Iftar meal at the end of Ramadan, the hooligan in uniforms (The Zionist police) are busily halting the renovation work at the Bab al-Rahma (Gate of Mercy or Golden Gate) prayer hall, located east of the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Noble Sanctuary.

The Muslims including the Palestinians and Jordanians consider the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall a mosque and an integral part of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), which is administered by the Waqf (formally known as Wakf-alal-aulad is an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law, typically denoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes) Department of Jordan.

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Zionism and the Jewish Genocide by the Nazis

Yossi Schwartz the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.04.2023

This year, the central theme of Holocaust Remembrance Day marked in Israel will be the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

“A recent survey by the Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims revealed that 22% of the supported survivors had to give up products and services they needed, including clothing, medical tests, absorbent products, electrical appliances, home maintenance and other services. Starting next month, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, as part of its ongoing support for the Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims, will donate approximately $100,000 to subsidize the electricity bills of approximately 300 Holocaust survivors” [1]

The question to ask is what is the connection between Israel and the Jewish Holocaust?

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The ISA’s popular front politics

The ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 09.04.2023

On March 31 the right-centrist – ISA published an article with the title: “General Strike Wins Postponement, but Government Re-Organizing. No Compromise with the Trampling of Rights!”

From the very beginning of the protest movement against Netanyahu’s government, the Histadrut – the state Zionist Trade Union refused to join the protest. Then on Monday, March 27 all of a sudden, the Head of the Histadrut Bar David decided to start a general strike. Why this change?

“Several reports in Hebrew-language media have claimed that the Prime Minister’s Office coordinated with the Histadrut on Monday when the major labor union announced a general strike throughout the country, a move that played a part in the government’s decision to pause its judicial overhaul legislation to allow talks with the opposition.”… Kan news, citing unnamed sources, reported that Yonatan Urich, an adviser to Netanyahu, coordinated with Histadrut officials throughout the day on the timing and content of press conferences held by Netanyahu and the labor union’s Bar-David. It also said the premier’s wife Sara spoke with officials close to Bar-David, telling them to pressure the government to work towards broad agreements on judicial reform” [1]

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U.S and Israel Partners in Crime

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 07.04.2023

Is Israel an American outpost?

When Shimon Peres was the President of Israel, he said that: “For our existence, we need the friendship of the United States of America. It doesn’t sound easy, but this is the truth,” he added. It’s not easy for a client state to admit that its own survival depends on a global patron.” [1]

Does it mean that Israel is an outpost of American imperialism? If this is true the White House makes the decisions for Israel. However, the growing tension between Biden’s administration and the government of Netanyahu shows that the USA does not control the Zionist state but Israel is a Junior ally of American imperialism.

As a matter of fact, even before the last crisis with President Biden, Israel began to examine whether the time had not come for Israel to prepare itself for a day of distancing in its relations with the United States and initiate a gradual and cautious disengagement from dependence on American military aid, as it used to do in the past with civilian aid. [2]

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The attack on the Al-Sharif

The ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 07.04.2023

As could be expected the Zionist Police raided Al-Aqsa for a second night. The hooligans in uniform fired stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian worshippers. Videos from the site show armed troops forcibly emptying the mosque from worshippers who had gathered there for Ramadan prayers (see tweet at al Jazeera). The second raid came hours after the detention of 400 youths protesting the dozens of right-wing Jews who entered Haram El Sharif to pray there as part of the growing Zionist movement that calls for the destruction of Al Aqsa, and replace them with the third Jewish Temple. At least six Palestinian people were wounded in the latest raid. Dozens of Israeli settlers entered the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli police on Thursday morning. Earlier, Israeli police prevented Palestinian worshippers from entering the mosque for Fajr prayer.

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Once again, the police murdered a Palestinian

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.04.2023

On Friday after midnight, the Zionist police murdered in cold blood a Palestinian man 26-year-old Mohammad Khaled al-Osaibi at an entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. The young man is from Houra, a Bedouin Arab village in southern Israel. The killing took place at about midnight near the Chain Gate, an access point to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Palestinian worshippers at the entrance of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound said police shot the man at least 10 times after he tried to prevent them from harassing a woman who was on her way to the holy compound. The police alleged al-Osaibi tried to take a gun from an officer and fired it in a scuffle.

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The Zionist lie and Palestine

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.04.2023

“Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל יוֹאֵל סְמוֹטְרִיץ׳, born 27 February 1980) is a far-right Zionist politician and lawyer who has been the Minister of Finance since the end of 2022. He is the leader of the Religious Zionist Party and was a Knesset member for Yamina” [1] (to the Right) of Naftali Bennet (The former PM). He is known for his racism and homophobia. He is a resident of the settlement Kedumim in 1967 occupied lands in the West-Bank, in a house that was also built illegally according to the Zionist’s laws, as it was built outside the settlement proper. Recently he became known outside of Israel for his denial of the existence of the Palestinian nation and for his broken poor English in a speech he made in the U.S.

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Zionism and the Bourgeois State

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.03.2023

The state and bourgeois ideology

The huge demonstrations against Netanyahu’s government with chants of “Democracy” and “No to the dictatorships” raise the questions: What is Democracy? What is the relationship between Democracy and Dictatorship? What do they mean when they chant: “We want Democracy”, while Israel is an apartheid state?

It is even more interesting when we observe that a large part of the big capitalists finance this movement and that generals, internal security service(!), air force pilots, settlers from the West Bank, and different war criminals are leading this crowd.

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The IMT on the crisis of the Zionist State

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.03.2023

For almost three months the right centrist IMT led by Alan Woods has ignored the worst crisis of the Zionist apartheid. Then it published an article by Ben Curry on 15 March 2023[1] that claims that the demonstrations are mobilized by the majority of the big capitalist class against the government of Netanyahu. By this thesis, he ignores, due to the nature of right-wing centrists, the fact that the essential nature of the Zionist state as an apartheid state is supported by all the Zionists of all classes and ignores the reality that the regime of this state is not a liberal democracy but ethnocracy.

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On the History of Al-Aqsa

The ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 03.02.2023

If you ask most non-Muslim people: What is the Western Wall in Jerusalem? The answer will be “What is left from the Jewish temple” and that this is the most holy place for Jews.

If you ask Muslims, they will tell you that Al-Aqṣā Mosque, is the place the Prophet Muhammad’s Isrāʾ journey. According to Islam, (the Qurʾān17:1) Muhammad was miraculously transported one night from Mecca (al-masjid al-ḥaram, or “the sacred place of worship”) to this site in Jerusalem (al-masjid al-aqṣā, “the farther place of worship”). On that spot he led Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other messengers (rusul) of God in ritual prayer (ṣalāt). The same night he was taken up to heaven from the site of the Dome of the Rock for a meeting with God. For this reason, it is the third holy place after Mecca and Medina.

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The pogrom and its supporters

By Yossi Schwartz the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.03.2023

“Get up and walk through the city of the massacre,

And with your hand touch and lock your eyes

On the cooled brain and clots of blood

Dried on tree trunks, rocks, and fences; it is they.

Go to the ruins, to the gaping breaches,

To walls and hearths, shattered as though by thunder:

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The Intifada is spreading in the West-Bank and Gaza

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.02.2023

According to a record via Al Jazeera[1], the Zionist butchers have killed from the starting of the 2023 sixty five Palestinians, thirteen of them children, and wounded many hundreds. It is the bloodiest killing since 2000. On Thursday they murdered Mohammad Jawabreh, a younger man aged 22 in Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron. Jawabreh was once a police officer with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and labored in Bethlehem city. He was once also an undergraduate student in media technological know-how at the Palestine Technical University Kadoorie.

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The massacre in Nablus in the West-Bank

A statement by the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 24.02.2023

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded in an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. 82 were hit by live ammunition, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Six are in critical condition. According to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry, aside for Aslim, Dahil, and Fatah, the Palestinians killed in the raid included Adnan Sabaa Ba’ara, age 72, Abd al-Hadi Abd al-Aziz Ashqar, age 61, Muhammad Khaled Anbousi, age 25, Tamer Nimer Ahmed Minawi, age 33, Musab Munir Muhammad Awais, age 26 and a leader of a local terrorist group called the Balata Brigade, Muhammad Farid Shaaban, age 16, and Jasser Jamil Abdel-Wahhab Qaneer, age 23. [1]

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Is it possible to predict earthquakes? And what to do about that?

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.02.2023

We do not know as yet how many people died from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria but we know that the governments of both states are guilty of criminal negligence and that there are scientific methods for predicting approximately time and location for the coming earthquake.

While the official scientists in the Western imperialist state deny that it is possible to predict the arrival of earthquakes, the question is do they try to hide the responsibility of their government by denying the possibility to predict earthquakes? We saw it very clearly about their role in the Covid-19.

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Racists Hands off MK Offer Kasif!

ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.02.2023

The State Attorney decided to issue an indictment against off MK Offer Kasif now awaiting the final decision of the legal advisor to the government, attorney Gali Beharev-Miara, who is expected to summon Kasif for a hearing before the indictment is filed.

The police, on the advice of Harv-Miara, decided to summon MK Kasif for questioning with a warning, for alleged assaulting a police officer in an incident that occurred during a demonstration held in the south of Hebron in the West Bank in May 2022, in which, according to the police, Kasif was recorded attacking a police officer with a punch in front of him. H. Kasif came to a demonstration in Safar Yatta against the intention to evict the Palestinian residents from their homes.

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The Earthquake and Capitalism

Yossi Schwartz, ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.02.2023

On February 6, massive earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, inflicting ghastly damage across a geographic region that has already borne a great deal of earthly devastation in recent decades. The ongoing war in Syria has produced millions of refugees, many of whom have now found themselves victims of seismic activity in the Turkish south. An untold number of people remain buried beneath the rubble. Traumatized survivors contend with frigid temperatures and aftershocks; refugees contend with the loss of any semblance of refuge” [1]

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Democracy or Ethnocracy?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL, 08.02.2023

While the Zionist army kill every day at least one Palestinians and wounding tens of Palestinians for the fifth Saturday the supporters of the former government of Bennett and of Lapid demonstrated against Netanyahu government focusing on the legislative reform that will weaken the Supreme Court in favor of the Knesset (Zionist parliament) controlled by this government without one word on the war crimes of the apartheid state. The demonstrators waved with the Zionist flags and some carried posters saying: “soldier if the Supreme Court is weakened you may be arrested and brought to trial abroad”.

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The Zionist war criminals attacked on 26 of January Jenin’s refugees’ camp

On January 26 the Zionist army killed at least 9 Palestinians and injured at least 20 others in Jenin refugees’ camp. The dead included an elderly woman, according to Palestinian officials. She was identified as Magda Obaid by the Jenin hospital authorities. The number of Palestinians killed by the Zionist forces during raids in the 1967 occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in January is at least 29 people, including five children. At least 15 of those killed were from Jenin. At least 170 Palestinians were killed in such raids in 2022, many of them civilians.

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The ISA participated in the racist demo in Tel-Aviv and polished it

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.01.2023

What is racism?

The Stalinist distortion of historical materialism begins with the reduction of the superstructure of society to the economic base. On this issue Engels wrote: “According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. Other than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted. Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase” [1]

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The New Extreme Right-Wing Government and the Arab Revolution

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel (Occupied Palestine), 8.1.2023

The new far right government in Israel

It is clear to those who follow up the news from Israel that the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is the most right-wing government in the history of Israel. It is an extreme nationalist and racist government committed to the annexation of most of the West Bank and in support of open discrimination which means for example the right of doctors not to treat Arabs or members of the LGBT community. It intends to give itself the power to override, by a simple majority in the Knesset, any of the Court’s objections to their laws, even if they violate the Basic Laws, which serve as Israel’s elements of constitution. A full constitution is beyond the vision of the racist MK’s. They also want to allow the appointment of judges according to the political majority of the moment, like in the United States. And similarly for the attorney general and the government’s legal advisors.

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The Zionist slave labor camps in 1948

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 29.12.2022

It is clear to those who follow up the news from Israel that the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is the most right-wing government in the history of Israel. It is an extreme nationalist and racist government committed to the annexation of most of the West Bank and in support of open discrimination which means for example the right of doctors not to treat Arabs or members of the LGBT community. It intends to give itself the power to override, by a narrow majority in the Knesset, any of the Court’s objections to their bills, even if they violate the Basic Laws, which serve as Israel’s elements of constitution. A full constitution is beyond the power of the racist MK’s. They also want to allow the appointment of judges according to the political majority of the moment, like in the United States. And similarly for the attorney general and the government’s legal advisors.

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The killing of Ill Palestinian Prisoners

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.12.2022

Palestinian prisoner and freedom fighter Nasser Abu Hmeid died in the morning of Tuesday, 20 December 2022 after falling into a coma. Abu Hmeid, 51, from Al-Amari refugee camp, passed away in Assaf Harofeh hospital, having been repeatedly denied release and return to his family even after his terminal cancer diagnosis and the severe deterioration of his health.

Yesterday the Zionist mass media were very happy to tell their readers that “Mass-murdering terrorist Nasser Abu Hmeid dies of cancer in Israeli custody” [1]

Then the Times of Israel tells its readers that Nasser Abu Hmeid was a founding member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and was serving multiple life sentences for role in terror attacks that killed 7 Israelis; he also murdered 5 Palestinian collaborators. The newspaper does not say who are these Israelis, that he was involved in what Israel calls the lynching of the Israeli soldiers in Ramallah.

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The war crime of the deportation of a Palestinian human right activist by Israel

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.12.2022

You have to be a real stupid or a hypocrite not to know that the political and the military leaders of the Zionist apartheid state are committing war crimes. The latest war crime of Israel is the deportation of the human right activist Salah Hamouri, 39 years old from East Jerusalem occupied in 1967 and annexed a few years later. In July 1980, the Zionist parliament – the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law as part of the country’s Basic Law, that declared unified Jerusalem the capital of Israel, formalizing its effective annexation. The United Nations Security Council ruled the law is “null and void” in United Nations Security Council Resolution 478. This has not moved Israel.

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The emerging struggle of US Railway Workers

Adam Smith, The ISL, 14.12.2022

More than a century of federal legislation has been written to prevent railway strike[1]. The railway industry is arguably the most first one that comes to mind when thinking of labor strikes and militancy, along with the miners. Beginning with the Pullman strike of 1894 and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, federal forces as well as private ones like the Pinkerton, have been sent to deal with labor militancy. The Taft-Hartly act was passed after the postwar strike wave, reversing the gains of the Norris-LaGuardia and NLRB acts of 1932 and 1935. Apart from ban on wildcat strikes, secondary strikes, jurisdictional strikes, closed union shops, section 301 also allows for employers to bring lawsuits against striking employees for damages for “interfering” in their business or not following a “no-strike” pledge.

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American imperialism once again back the Zionist army’s murder of Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel (Occupied Palestine), 14.12.2022

On December 11, 2022 another Zionist murderer in uniform killed in cold blood 16 years old Jana Majdi Assam Zakarna. The Zionist army and the government of Yair Lapid claim of course that her killing was an accident.

“Jana was killed was on the roof of her home as a fierce gun battle broke out in Jenin following a raid by the Zionist army. According to the goons they return fire after being shot at by Palestinian gunmen, who also launched explosives at the Zionist soldiers.” [1]

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The dead-end future of “socialist Struggle” (ISA Israel)

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 05.12.2022, https://the-isleague.com

Socialist Struggle” is the section in Israel of the right-centrist ISA (a split from the CWI in 2019). The main problem with this group and the ISA, when it comes to Palestine, is their equation of the Zionist settler society and the Zionist imperialist state wars against the native Palestinian people and with the heroic struggle of the Palestinians led by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Behind this pro-imperialist position is their support for the right of self-determination to the Zionists and their support for two states as a solution to the repression of the Palestinians.

On 22 March 2022 the Palestinian resistance killed 11 Zionists. Two dead and five injured in uniforms, the majority of the dead were Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The Zionist state retaliated by killing many Palestinians. According to a report from April 2022, Israel killed five times as many Palestinians in 2022 than it killed in the same period in 2021.

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The Zionists are not welcome in Qatar

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Palestine, 28.11.2022

The Abraham Accords is a series of treaties normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, facilitated by the U.S. Administration] between August and December 2020. The agreements were called “The Abraham Accords” in honor of Abraham – the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

These rotten agreements change a decade that had consistently linked prospects for Israeli peace with Arab states to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The agreements of 2020 reflect a significant improvement for Israel’s strategic position in the region and the open betrayal of the Arab local rulers, servants of imperialism, of the Palestinian people.

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The Palestinian heroic struggle continues!

Yossi Schwartz of the ISL, the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.11.2022
The Zionist oppressive army with the assistance of the traitors Palestinian Authority (PA) was able to damage seriously the freedom fighters of the Lion’s Den. This does not mean that the Zionists have been able to destroy the organizations of the armed resistance. The brigades of Jenin and of Nablus organize the resistance in the North of the West–Bank, what the Zionists call the northern Shomron (part of the ancient kingdom of Israel).

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On the US Midterm election

Adam Smith, Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.04.2022

The US Midterm election will take place shortly. Some of the keys issues are going to be the state of the economy, abortion, immigration and the far-right threats. Other issues are related to LGBT rights in schools, climate change, gun violence and crime. Both parties are the parties of capital, albeit with the Democrats being slightly to the left of the Republicans. We can see this, for example, in the virtually unanimous support for sanctions on China. [1] In short, we call to abstain from voting for either one of them. Let us briefly go over the record of the Democrats on some of the issues to see why they are a “fig-leaf” of capitalism.

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The latest elections in Israel 

ISL, the RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.04.2022

The outcome of the parliamentary elections in Israel may have shocked some pro Zionists supporters who love to say that Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East. They hoped that Lapid would win and that they would be able to present Lapid’s block as a liberal progressive format. In the real world by now when 93% of the votes have been counted the Likud’s block has gained 65 seats, Likud by itself 32 seats, the ultra -nationalist religious Zionism won 14 seats and the conservative religious parties won more than 20 seats. Lapid’s block won 50 seats. 

The Jewish Zionist population did not vote for Gantz to be defense minister or Lapid to be foreign minister. It voted for Netanyahu, and the ultra-racist Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the extreme nationalists Bezalel Smotrich, and the conservative religious Arye Deri and Yitzhak Goldknopf. It means letting Netanyahu form a very right-wing, very religious coalition. That is what the Zionists want, that is what they voted for. Which means an ultra -reactionary majority.

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The struggle in Nablus

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/occupied Palestine, 26.10.2022

Today the war criminal Zionist army killed six Palestinians freedom fighters and wounded 21 others attacked by a large number of the criminal army soldiers in the old city of Nablus in the West-Bank. Among them killed is a known hero of the resistance, a leader of the Lion’s Den Wadee al-Hawah. The others were Ali Khaled Antar, 26; Mishal Baghdadi, 27; Hamdi Qayyem, 30; and Hamdi Mohamed Sharaf, 35. A fifth Palestinian, Mashal Zahi Baghdadi, 27, died of his earlier wounds.

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Does having Ben Gvir as a Minister means Israel Will Have Fascist regime?

The ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.10.2022

There is no doubt that Itamar Ben Gvir, a Kahanist and a leader of the Israeli far-right Otzma Yehudit party Known for his extreme racism, is a political propagator whose aim is to annex the West Bank and to expel the Palestinians citizens of Israel who oppose the 1967 occupation. His entire political life is of an extreme right winger. He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated transferring Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party. Thus Ben-Gvir was a follower of extremist Meir Kahane, whose party Kach was outlawed and deemed a terror organization. He had a framed picture of Baruch Goldstein, who in 1994 murdered 29 Palestinians at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, hung in his living room. He is openly for an apartheid state from the river to the sea. He carried out a series of far-right activities that have resulted in dozens of indictments. Ben-Gvir was indicted 46 times and convicted eight times, including for rioting, vandalism, incitement to racism, and support for a terror organization. Yet he was not sent to jail and allowed to be a member of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament).

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The Arab Revolution is knocking on the doors of the states in the Middle East – the new struggles in Tunisia

Yossi Schwartz, ISL, the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.10.2022

The new struggle in Tunisia

The previous revolutionary wave known as the Arab spring began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their regimes, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab countries.

In Tunisia the revolutionary movement was known as the Jasmine Revolution. A popular uprising against corruption, poverty, and political repression that forced President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to step down in January 2011. The revolutionary wave in Tunisia began after Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian, set fire to himself outside a municipal office in the town of Sidi Bouzid on December 17 2010. Bouazizi, who supported his family by selling fruits from a cart, was enraged when local officials repeatedly demanded bribes and confiscated his fruits. After authorities refused to hear his complaint, he doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire.

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Zionists shoot not only journalists but doctors as well

Yossi Schwartz, ISL, the RCIT section in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 16.10.2022

Today, Friday 14.10 the armed Zionist forces have shot and killed two Palestinian men. Among them was a physician Dr. Abdullah al-Ahmad, during a raid on the city of Jenin in the northern 1967 occupied West Bank.

He was shot in the head by Israeli forces in front of the Jenin public hospital. He was murdered by Zionist snipers while he helped an injured Palestinian to enter Iben Sina hospital. The second freedom fighter killed on Friday morning is 20-year-old Mateen Dabaya. He was a local commander in the Jenin Brigades, a Palestinian armed resistance group formed last year.

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Lebanon’s Gas and the Robbery by the Zionist State

Article by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 9 October 2022, https://the-isleague.com and www.thecommunists.net

On 5 October 2022, Zionist PM Yair Lapid rejected the Lebanese proposals stating they reverse Israeli security and economic gains from the former US-mediated agreement. The war minister of Israel (or to be more precise the pirate chief) Benny Gantz, instructed the defense establishment “to prepare for any scenario in which tensions increase in the northern arena – including defense and offense readiness,” his office said…” If Hezbollah tries to harm [Israeli infrastructure or sovereignty], the military cost to Lebanon and Hezbollah will be very high,” he said.” (1)

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Iran and the Permanent Revolution

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 8 October 2022, https://the-isleague.com and www.thecommunists.net Like in all countries that have not gone through the democratic revolution, the revolutionary movement in Iran has begun with democratic demands. It began after the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody on 16th September, three weeks ago. The protests are directed against the repressive regime of the Ayatollahs that disposed the hated Reza Shah Pahlavi reign, established as a monarchy in 1921.

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The Zionists are worried by the new Intifada

Article by Yossi Schwartz. Internationalist Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 04 October 2022, https://the-isleague.com/ and www.thecommunists.net

If anyone had doubts whether a new Intifada is taking place in the West-Bank, the statistic of the Zionist Shin Bet confirms our position: A new Intifada against the Zionist oppression is occurring. According to the Jerusalem post report from 3rd October, close to 50% rise in shooting attacks in West Bank on the Zionist army.

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Palestinian one day general strike on the call of the militia Lions’ Den

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 13.10.2022


There cannot be a doubt that the oppressed Palestinians decided to raise their heads and fight back against the monstrous apartheid Zionist state. The Palestinians in the West-Bank on Wednesday observed a one-day general strike in protest of the closure of Shuafat Refugee Camp and its surrounding neighborhoods. Clashes erupt near the closed-off Shuafat checkpoint as Palestinians throw stones while the Zionist racist policemen used tear gas and rubber bullets that can injure and even kill.

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The new Palestinian freedom fighters known as the Areen al-Usood (Lion’s den)


ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/ Occupied Palestine, 27.9
23 old Saed al-Kuni, the Palestinian fighter that was shot dead by IDF soldiers last week, was the fifth member of the Lions’ Den armed group to be killed in the past few weeks by Zionist apartheid state terror.
The Lions’ Den, which is based in the Old City of Nablus, was founded by 25-year-old Mohammed al-Azizi, nicknamed Abu Saleh, who was killed during an armed clash with IDF soldiers last July together with his 28-year-old friend, Abdel Rahman Suboh, who was also known as Abu Adam.

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The heroic struggle of the people of Iran against the reactionary regime is intensifying


ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 24.9
The times of Israel reports (1) that according to Iran’s controlled state TV 35 people were killed in the last 8 days in Iran. However according to the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights, 50 people were killed by Iran’s so called security forces on more than a week of protests following the death of 22 old Mahsa Amini, after she died in police custody. She was arrested by the morality police. The Kurdish woman was pronounced dead after spending three days in a coma following her arrest by Iran for wearing the hijab headscarf in an “improper” way.

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Down with the Iranian regime – for a socialist revolution!


ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 21.9.2022
Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. The 22-year old from the small town of Saghes in the western province of Kurdistan had been on a visit to Tehran with her brother last week.

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The revolutionary Marxist strategy and tactic in the coming parliamentary elections in the Zionist state

ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 17.09.2022

In November this year the next elections to the Zionist parliament will take place. This raises of course the question what position revolutionaries in Israel should take. To answer this question, it is necessary to review the revolutionary strategy and tactics and apply them to Israel and its nature as settler-colonialist society and to the actual existing conditions.

The revolutionary strategy’s aim is not to become a majority in the parliament. Becoming the majority of the parliament is a reformist strategy, as opposed to the revolutionary strategy of building a strong revolutionary party of the working class and the oppressed vanguard able to stand at the head of the masses and smash the capitalist state apparatus and replace it with a working class state. A revolution that is part of the regional and world revolution.

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Long live the Armed Intifada!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.09.2022

As this article is written we are informed by the Zionist mass media that an officer of the oppressive Zionist army was killed in an exchange of fire with two armed Palestinian gunmen near the village of Jalma, close to the West Bank fence [1]. The two are Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed, from the village of Kafr Dan near Jenin. One of them was part of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces. These freedom fighters were killed by the Zionist army.

Since the escaped of four Palestinian political prisoners from Gilba prison last year that humiliated the Israeli state, the Zionist army has daily raided and killed Palestinians in Jenin and Nablus to show the Palestinians who is the master. This brutal Zionist campaign aiming at crushing the increasingly organized Palestinian armed resistance in Jenin and Nablus since May 2021. Since May 2022 the raids and the killing are part of a campaign Israel calls “Break the Wave”. [2]

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The sociopolitical crisis of Iraq

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 2.9.2022

In Iraq, following its occupation and its destruction by the Western imperialists the masses began in October 2019 to take to the streets and called for the overhaul of the country’s political and corrupt ruling elite. These days the Prime Minister is Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Kadhimi who became director of Iraq’s National Intelligence Service in 2016, and was appointed by the president Barham Salih as Prime Minister of Iraq in May 2020 in an attempt of the local ruling class to control the angry masses. He left Iraq in 1985 to go to Iran, before moving to Germany and the United Kingdom, which he later became a citizen of. After the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, al-Kadhimi returned to Iraq and co-founded the Iraqi Media Network, for the purpose of documenting the crimes under Hussein’s Baath regime. In simple words he was a servant of American imperialism. After he became Prime Minister, he promised elections that took place in October last year.

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The Palestinian armed resistance as part of the Arab revolution

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 30.08.2022

The Palestinians armed resistance of the past few months shows that there is a real possibility to return to the days when Palestinian freedom fighters roamed the streets of Palestinian cities villages and refugee camps.

Armed Palestinians fired in the air during the funeral of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a senior commander of the Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who was killed in armed clashes with the Zionist repressing forces, in Nablus in the West Bank August 9, 2022.

Since the end of the Second Intifada, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the collaborator with the Zionist state against the resistance has stated his support for a nonviolent “popular resistance” against Israel as opposed to the shooting, throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails. It now appears that the Palestinians in the West Bank have adopted the armed struggle.

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The historical crisis of the imperialist system

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 29.08.2022

When we speak on the crisis of capitalism, we should be clear that there is a periodical economic crisis and there is the general-historical crisis of the world capitalist system. The two crises are connected but are not the same.

Marx wrote that capitalism, driven by its three laws, accumulation of capital, concentration of capital and increasing misery of the working class and other popular classes would come to revolutionary crisis, paving the way for the transition to socialism. There are two basic ideas in Marx’s analysis:

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On Mahmoud Abbas and the use of the term Holocaust

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.08.2022

Last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has provoked the Zionist outrage by his misuse of a Holocaust analogy during a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz. In response to a question on whether he would apologize for the 1972 Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes in Munich, he said: “From 1947 until today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian villages”, and then added, “50 slaughters; 50 Holocausts”. [1]

What is the difference between massacres and the Holocaust? It is a question of quantity that turns into quality. Holocaust is massive amount massacres that reach that level of destruction.

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The Zionists’ lies have very short legs

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 17.08.2022

On August 6, during the last war of Israel on Gaza the Zionist army claimed that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed 4 Palestinian children in Jabaliya. The next day the office of PM Lapid said the same thing.

“On August 6, an Islamic Jihad rocket misfire claimed the lives of at least nine people in Jabaliya, including 4 children. The IDF published a video to support its claims.

“Tonight, Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket towards Israel, which fell short inside Gaza, hitting a Jabaliya neighborhood and tragically killing at least four children,” said the Prime Minister’s Office International Spokeswoman Keren Hajioff, in a video published on August 7.

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On Public Transport and Education in Israel

By Adam Smith, ISL/RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 15.08.2022

For the coming new school year, there has been a new round of negotiations between the Finance Ministry and the School teachers union. While it seems that the Finance Ministry demands for getting rid of tenure will not pass, any pay increase, if any, will be very small. This goes hand in hand with the opening of private schools by parents, which are not unionized and cost a lot more than public ones.

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The lies of the state about the war on Gaza

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 09.08.2022

In the book 1984 by Orwell the ruling party invented a language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. According to the Newspeak, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”  Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thought crime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.

In the war on Gaza the Zionist government of Yair Lapid with the full support of the Zionist mass media spread many lies, some lies to be used by the Western imperialists that support the Zionist war crimes, some lies are an attempt to turn the people of Gaza against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and some lies are meant to provide the Israeli Jews with the feeling that the war was necessary and that the Israeli war is for pure reasons and only against barbarian terrorists.

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The Zionist apartheid state commits a new war crime

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 07.08.2022

The new elections to the Zionist parliament will take place in November 2022. Lapid who became the Prime Minister of Israel on 1 July 2022 loves this position and he is ready to do anything to be next Prime Minister including a war on Gaza.

Gaza has two million people living in a territory that is 41 kilometers (25 mi) long, from 6 to 12 kilometers (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 sq mi). They are children of the refugees expelled by the Zionists in 1947-8 in the ethnic cleansing known as the Nakba. Gaza under the siege of the last 15 years is no more than a ghetto.

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Israel will not be able to keep the Jewish agency open in Russia

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 03.08.2022

There was a time that anyone who dared to criticize the crimes of the Zionist state against the Palestinian would be silenced and under tremendous pressure to apologize. These days have gone with the wind. Today most Human right organizations like Amnesty International, Human rights Watch, Trade unions, Student organizations and even a government like South Africa calls for Israel to be declared an ‘apartheid state’.

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Is it the beginning of a gang clash?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.07.2022

For many years Israel tried to have close relations with both the Western imperialists and with the Russian imperialists. Yet the souring of relations began in April this year. The close relations began with Mikhail Gorbachev that under his regime one million Russian Jews were permitted to immigrate to Israel. Furthermore, the relations between Israel and Russia became closer when Israel opposed the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as well as the Israeli support for IMF loans to Russia. This was the time when the butcher Ariel Sharon was the Foreign Minister of Israel before he became the PM of the Zionist state.

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On the midterm elections in the USA and Zionism

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.07.2022

In 2019 Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of the Democratic Party came under attack even by the established leadership of the Democratic party for saying that the Zionist Jews are buying political support. She tweeted about “it is all about the Benjamins baby” a reference to a song about $100 bills. She referred to AIPAC a pro-Israeli lobbying group. In response the Jewish Committee Relations Council of Minnesota said:

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When two hypocrites meet in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.07.2022

The imperialist mass media has informed us that Biden in his visit to Saudi Arabia raised the issue of the journalist Khashoggi who was murdered by the Saudi local ruling class. Biden said after the meeting that he “made it clear what I thought of [the Khashoggi killing] at the time and what I think of it now.” [1] A CIA report presented to Biden says that the crown prince had ordered the hit on Khashoggi, in which Saudi operatives killed the journalist and dismembered his body after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

Today we learn what was the reply of the Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who raised issue of the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The White House’s position is that it is not sure who killed Abu Akleh and if it was an Israeli soldier, it was by an honest mistake…

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On the visit of the President of the USA to Israel

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 13.07.2022

According to Jerusalem Post Palestinian activists have called for a protest in Ramallah on Thursday against US President Joe Biden’s visit to Ramallah and meeting in Bethlehem with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “The protest express rejection of Biden’s humiliating policies toward the Palestinian issue” and Washington’s “blatant bias” in favor of Israel. The poster is calling for the protest denounces the US as the “head of the snake” and said, “America does not liberate people but only enslaves them” [i]

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Russia’s Failure to Pay Debts – Another Sign of Imperialist Dominance

Adam Smith, The ISL, RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 05.07.2022

It appears that due to Western sanctions, Russia has defaulted on its debt.

Because Russia wants to pay and has plenty of money to do it, he denied that this amounts to a genuine default, which usually occurs when governments refuse to pay, or their economies are so weak that they cannot find the money. “Everyone in the know understands that this is not a default at all. This whole situation looks like a farce.” Defaulting nations usually find it impossible to borrow any more money, but Russia is already in effect barred from borrowing in Western markets by sanctions.” [1]

Given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years. But still, it’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast. The nation’s eurobonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of March, the central bank’s foreign reserves remain frozen, and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system.” [2]

Let us compare to the case of a semi colony failing to pay its debts:

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On September 11 – Israel, the best friend of Pinochet

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.07.2022

Most people associate September 11 with al-Qaeda deliberately crashing two planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. However, a few people outside Chile remember that on September 11, 1973 general Pinochet made a coup against the elected government of Chile.

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The US Supreme Court leads the attack on working class women

The ISL, RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.6.2022

Parades, pickets, demonstrations, marches, rallies, protests of millions of Americans during the war of Vietnam and the struggle for equal civil rights were common. With carefully-planned act of protest, refusing to give up her seat on a bus, NAACP activist Rosa Parks gave new vigor to the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Black women were among the protesters arrested during a May 1963 civil rights march on Birmingham, Alabama, and were key organizers across the country for the 1963 civil rights March on Washington that featured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1973, activists organized “Take Back the Night” marches and vigils around the country, which protested sexual assault and other violence against women.

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On the Istanbul Convention, Ukraine, and Israel

Adam Smith, the ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.06.2022

While all Zionists are reactionary, some care about their optics, and some don’t. This is the root of the recent debate about the Istanbul convention. The hardline right wing campaigns under the slogan “The curse from Istanbul” (a pun on the popular Turkish drama “The Bride from Istanbul”). I note in passing how the right wing was not shy about using a slew of Orientalism, from fez hats, coffee to other props in opposition to this convention, as well as the status of labor organizations, called Ottoman Associations by Israeli law.

The right wing Zionists call for the rejection of the convention due to its stance on migratory issues (protection from deportation for non-citizens, currently there is no protection statute the only options are to leave the country or remain in an abusive relationship [1] [2]), its instance on changes to education curriculum regarding women’s rights, and financial compensation for gender violence.

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Zionists kill Palestinian workers who seek work in 1948 Occupied Palestine

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.06.2022

On 19.6.2022, Nabil Ahmed Ghanem 53 was killed as he tried to cross Israel’s separation wall in Qalqilya city in the 1967 occupied West Bank. He was shot dead while he tried to cross the separation wall seeking super exploited employment. He was among the tens of thousands of West Bank Palestinians who regularly seek work in Israel mostly in construction where the capitalist do not provide safety and many die while the criminal capitalists are not punished.

“An Israeli army spokesperson said forces had shot at “a suspect who vandalized the security fence”, which the Palestinians and many rights organizations have dubbed an “apartheid wall” [i]

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The Flag March, a Pogrom in Jerusalem

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 06.01.2022

Pogrom is a Russian term that means “to wreak havoc, and it is associated with attacks on Jews though the word has been extended to the assault of other groups as well. In 1819 anti-Jewish violence had been accompanied by the rallying call “Hep! Hep!” The origins of this phrase are unclear – It is possible that the cry was an acronym for “Hierosolyma est perdita,” a Crusader chant meaning “Jerusalem is lost.”

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The soft and not so soft Zionism of the ISA

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.05.2022

While not covering for long weeks the Palestinian struggle against the Zionist oppression on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the right-wing centrists – the ISA has published an article that distorts history in order to recruit some naïve pro Palestinians to their pro Zionist program.

This article begins with decent account of the Nakba:

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The Zionist brutality continues

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.05.2022

Following the cold blood murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Zionist army the Zionist propaganda was that most likely she was killed by Palestinians’ fire or may be by a mistake of a soldier. In addition, the Israeli government said that it will investigate the shooting but it needs the cooperation of the Palestinian Authority. Today we are informed that the Military Police will not open an investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.

“The unsourced Haaretz report said military prosecutors do not consider Abu Akleh’s death one in which there is suspicion of criminality. But the newspaper pointed to another possible reason for the decision not to open a Military Police probe: Such an investigation would necessitate interrogating troops that participated in the battle under caution, which would likely ignite a storm of controversy within Israeli society” [1]

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Down with the reactionary regime in Iran – Down with American imperialism!

ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 16.05.2022

A wave of protest against the reactionary regime and the economic conditions of the masses has continued in Iran on Sunday night, while the brutal Iranian security forces violently attack the protesters. According to the Jerusalem Post, a video shared on social media reportedly from Shahrekord, a city of about 150,000 people 512 km. southwest of Tehran, showed Iranian security forces violently cracking down on protesters, beating them and firing at them. Another video from the city showed demonstrators tearing down a banner featuring Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. [i]

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Not only they kill but they also attack the funeral

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 16.5.2022

On May 11 2022 the Zionist army murdered in cold blood the known and highly respected Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akia. As soon as the Zionist army realized they killed a well – known American citizen and her murder which is an act of state terror and a war crime is damaging the image of the Zionist state in the USA and EU the Zionist propaganda machine began to spread lies. The main line of the lies is that it is likely she was killed by Palestinians’ fire and the secondary line of lies is that she was killed by mistake by an Israeli sniper.

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The evidence proving Israel assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.05.2022

The journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday. The Palestinians blamed Israel for her death, while Israeli officials said Palestinian gunmen may have fired the fatal shot. Palestinian Minister Hussein al-Sheikh tweeted on Thursday morning that: “Israel has requested a joint investigation and to be handed over the bullet that assassinated the journalist Shireen, we refused that, and we affirmed that our investigation would be completed independently. All of the indicators, the evidence and the witnesses confirm her assassination by Israeli special units, al-Sheikh emphasized.

The troops from the Zionist elite Duvdvan unit have said that they did not see Abu Akleh or fire at her, the Walla news site reported, adding that troops responded with precise gunfire, which was determined by the number of rounds fired and their location.” [1]

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Zionist Army shoot reporters because they are armed with cameras

ISL statement, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 11.05.2022

On Wednesday morning the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who worked in Al Jazeera was shot dead in the Jenin refugee camp. Al Jazeera condemned the Zionist army for her death. In a statement Al Jazeera said:

In a blatant murder, violating international laws and norms, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh, targeting her with live fire early this morning, Wednesday, May 11, 2022, while conducting her journalistic duty, clearly wearing a press jacket that identifies her a journalist, covering the Israeli occupation forces storming of Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Al Jazeera Media Network condemns this heinous crime, which intends to only prevent the media from conducting their duty. Al Jazeera holds the Israeli government and the occupation forces responsible for the killing of Shireen. It also calls on the international community to condemn and hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable for their intentional targeting and killing of Shireen.The Israeli authorities are also responsible for the targeting of Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samudi, who was also shot in the back while covering the same event, and he is currently undergoing treatment” [1]

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Who said Stalinism is dead?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.05.2022

After voting with the right-wing government, the general secretary of the Joint List’s Hadash faction says it will back the bill to dissolve the Knesset.

From the perspective of the international working class and the Palestinians citizens of Israel the difference between Bennett’s government and a government led by Netanyahu is the difference between syphilis and cholera. The only principled way to deal with a motion of non-confidence brought up by the opposition led by Netanyahu is to abstain. Not to support one or the other.

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The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians has not stopped

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.05.2022

Introduction

According to the reactionary ADL that spread fake information, the Palestinian refugee issue originated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when five Arab armies invaded the State of Israel just hours after it was established. During the ensuing war, as many as 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled their homes in the newly created state as a result of many factors. Some of the Palestinian Arabs who fled did so to avoid the ongoing war or at the urging of Arab leaders, and expected to return after a quick and certain Arab victory over the new Jewish state. Other Palestinians were forced to flee by individuals or groups fighting for Israel. [i]

As we shall show the above statement is no less than 3 lies:

A. It is a lie that the Palestinians were expelled as result of the war that began in May 1948, it originated in the mass expulsion between December 1947 to May 1948.

B. It is a lie that the Palestinians fled the country at the urging of the Arab leaders with expectation to return to Palestine with the victorious Arab armies. As a matter of fact, the Palestinian leadership demanded from the Palestinians not to flee. The Zionists carried out at least 40 massacres. Among the most known massacres were in Dir Yasin, Lydia (Lod), and Daumia.

C. It is a lie that only individuals or groups carried out massacres. The main massacres were ordered by Ben Gurion and according to plan D.

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The right-wing government of Bennett-Meretz is allowing the far-right Zionists to enter the Al Aqsa compound during the Zionist independent day

ISL statement, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 05.05.2022

Like other imperialists when Israel says that X or Y happened you can never trust that it is true.

“The Israeli government has repeatedly said it is committed to the status quo. But footage of police turning a blind eye to Jewish worshipers has repeatedly cropped up in recent years, angering Muslims. [i] “The Jewish groups say they plan to wave the Israeli flag and sing Israel’s national anthem at the holy site in celebration of Independence Day” [ii]

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After robbing their lands, the Zionists are hunting Palestinian human right activists outside of Palestine

Yossi Schwartz ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.05.2022

Khalid Barakat a Palestinian refugee, who resides in Vancouver, has been named by Israeli intelligence services as a leader of PFLP, and it alleged that he is connected to the PFLP affiliated NGO Samidoun. According to the right-wing National post the Zionists in Canada demand that Canada will remove him from Canada.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims Hitler was a Jew

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.05.2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attacked Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday during an interview in Italy, claiming that “the fact that he is a Jew does not negate the Nazi elements in his country. I belive that Adolf Hitler also had Jewish blood.” [i]

FM of Israel Yair Lapid said in response that “The Jews did not kill themselves in the Holocaust. The Nazis killed my grand- father. This makes me angry not only as Foreign Minister but as the son of my father. To say that Hitler was a Jew is like saying: “The Jews killed themselves” [ii]

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The Poverty of the Zionist ideology

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.05.2022

It is amusing to see how ignorant the Zionist professors are. Their ideology simply stupefies them. Take for example Prof. Yehuda Bauer who spoke at the Vert Hotel in Jerusalem on Tuesday night at a dinner hosted by the World Jewish Congress and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations on the eve of the SECCA (Special Envoys and Coordinators Combating Anti -Semitism) forum, hosted by the WJC, in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission. The forum was timed to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day. His speech was a great success. The facts that these gentlemen and ladies had a special dinner on the eve of the Holocaust by itself tell us a lot about this mob.

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The Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.04.2022

In Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day began Wednesday evening with the official state ceremony at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square in the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett both delivered their speeches.

Speaker of the Knesset MK Mickey Levy (Yesh Atid) has invited the President of the German Bundestag, Bärbel Bas of the SPD, to take part in the various events the Knesset holds this week to mark Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2022. Bas has accepted the invitation.

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On the Breakdown of the Russian Army

Adam Smith, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.04.2022

One of the (correct) arguments against centrists’ opposition to NATO sending weapons to Ukraine is that in the real world, wars are stopped with weapons and not with words. However, if we advise against direct NATO involvement, we can also be accused of naivety. Against this charge, let us look at the Vietnam war and how socialist agitation can lead to the collapse of a powerful army. Of course, the opposition of the working class in the civilian sphere in the US, as well as the armed resistance by the Vietcong played a significant role.

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The elections in France

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 26.04.2022

In the presidential elections in France, both Macron and Le Pen counted on far-left votes. Jean-Luc Mélenchon had a strong support in the first round, winning 22% of the vote.

To win, Macron must secure the support of a large chunk of the 7.7 million who voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Most of those voters detest Macron’s policies and most of them abhor his persona. The latest figures on the eve of the second round showed that 42% may vote for him, but 25% may choose Le Pen and 33% may abstain. In the words of some Mélenchon voters, it is a case of “choosing between plague and cholera” [i]

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How did the clashes in Al Aqsa begin?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 26.04.2022

The very long nose of Lapid

In a very famous children’s story Pinocchio, the wooden child lies and as he lies his nose becomes longer and longer. If this was true the nose of FM of Israel Lapid would be a few meters.

“Israel will maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday, pushing back against “fake news” spreading in the Arab world. “We have no intention to change the status quo or prevent freedom of worship, but we will keep the order in the capital of Israel,” Lapid stated “Israel is the sovereign and we can be the moderate force taking the public welfare into consideration. Our goal is for Jerusalem to be calm on the holiday…We will not allow fireworks to be thrown from the mosque at Jews on the Temple Mount or anywhere,” he added.” [i]

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Centrists, learn to think!

Yossi Schwartz ISL the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 24.04.2022

There are not only Stalinists but centrists who call themselves Marxists and even Trotskyists who oppose the delivery of weapons to the Ukrainian army fighting the Russian imperialist’s invasion of the Ukraine. The argument for this position is the reactionary nature of Zelensky’s regime that for some is turning Ukraine into an appendix of the USA-NATO.

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The Zionists call the Palestinian protesters in Al Aqsa rioters

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.04.2022

The Zionist police has attacked Muslims in Al Aqsa during the Ramadan and have caused a lot of anger amongst the Arab and Muslim people. It has forced the local ruler’s allies of Israel like Jordan, Morocco UAE and Turkey to condemn the Israeli government in spite of the Abraham accords. The right wing government of Bennett-Mertz has accused the Arab rulers of lying.

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Down with the Zionist Hooligans!

ISL Statement, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.04.2022

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that at least 50 Palestinian civilians were injured this Tuesday when Zionist soldiers fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated metal bullets at them to secure a march of 20,000 super nationalist Zionists in a provocative activity in an area the settlers call Homesh, an illegal settlement by the standards of the Zionist government, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

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For the fraternization of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers!

Yossi Schwartz ISL RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 18.04.2022

According to the Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, the (GUR) growing number of Russian soldiers refuse to serve in the military amid the imperialist invasion of Ukraine. This refusal has been observed specifically in the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Army of the Southern Military District. The report claimed that in several units 60%-70% of all soldiers are refusing to serve.

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Down with Israel’s state terrorism!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.04.2022

According to the Palestinian presidency on Friday very early in the morning a large force of the heavily-armed Zionist police entered Al-Aqua Mosque compound and broke into the Al-Qibli prayer hall, a 1,000-year-old domed building, beating Palestinian worshippers in the main prayer hall inside the mosque, forcing them to lie face down. Images of worshippers tied up and lying on al-Aqsa’s carpeted prayer hall during the second Friday of Ramadan quickly went viral. Some footage circulated online showed Israeli forces beating the detainees. The Police fired tear gas into the hall, smashed some of its windows and detained 400 people.

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The ISA, by opposing the delivery of weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian imperialism, serves Russian imperialism.

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.04.2022

Among other things, wars expose the political nature of organizations that claim to be Marxists but are swinging between reformism and revolutionary Marxism. Marxists call these organizations centrists. The Russian imperialist invasion of Ukraine has shown us that Reformism gives shelter to the innumerable shades of Centrism that pretend to be working-class revolutionaries. The Fifth International cannot be formed in any other way than by the struggle against reformism and centrism. By ideological struggle on one hand and flexible united front policy on the other.

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Down with the Zionist state terror!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 13.04.2022

In response to several attacks made in Israel, most of them against civilians since the beginning of Ramadan, 8 Palestinians were killed, including 2 women and one child. The Bennett-Meretz government has increased the number of army units deployed in the West Bank and launched several attacks on the Jenin refugee camp, killing and wounding several Palestinians.

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In Defense of Ayman Odeh – Hands off the Joint List

Yossi Schwartz, ISL-RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.4.2202

As could be predicted Bennet-Meretz’s government has been using the terrorist act of the Palestinian Raad Hazem from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank to launch state terror against the Palestinians in Jenin and other places. This is happening while the government had suffered a desertion of MK Idit Silman, who until Wednesday was chairwoman of the coalition. This desertion puts a question mark on the possibility of this government to survive. To prevent another desertion this government needs the support of the Joint List.

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Jenin and the West Bank under attack

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.04.2022

Jenin is a Palestinian city in the north of the West Bank. Its population is around 50,000 people, while the Jenin refugee camp has a population of about 15,000 people. It is an ancient city and was known in the Bronze Age as Ein-Ganim. The refugee camp is the result of the ethnic cleansing by the Zionists in 1947-1948. During the war of 1948 around 75% of the Palestinians became refugees. While the UN resolution No 194(III) calls for the right of the refugees to return, Israel ignores this resolution without any sanctions. The resolution says: “resolving that “refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.” To prevent the possibility of the return of the refugees to their home Israel destroyed around 500 villages and settle Jews in the Palestinian home that were not destroyed. In 1967 in a pre- mediating plan Israel occupied among other places the West-Bank including Jenin.

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On the latest terror attacks

A statement of the ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.04.2022

On April 7, 28-year-old Ra’ad Fathi Zaydan from Jenin refugee camp shot 14 Israelis and killed two, in Tel Aviv and was killed by the Zionist armed forces. This was an act of individual terror by an oppressed Palestinian. We define it as terrorist act because the targets were civilians.

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The End of Bennett’s Government?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section In Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.04.2022

Bennett’s government that includes Meretz a “left” Zionist party is crumbling after Yamina MK and the coalition whip Idit Silman announced her resignation from the government. Her resignation means that Bennett’s government loses its majority in Knesset (the Zionist parliament), leaving him with 60 members the same number the opposition has. If an additional person were to leave the coalition, the government could be brought down by the Opposition that would disperse the Knesset.

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On the War Crimes in Ukraine

Yossi Schwartz ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.04.2022

Massive evidence of Russian war crimes in areas the Russian army withdrew from around Kyiv has surfaced. The videos are graphic and horrid, and the stories being told by survivors paint a picture of Russian forces committing sexual assaults and shooting civilians. Videos show bodies in places like Bucha near Kyiv. “Dozens of corpses were found in the streets of Bucha, outside of Kyiv, shortly after Ukraine retook the town from Russian forces, AFP News Agency reported Saturday night. Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP in a phone call that the streets of Bucha were “littered with corpses” and that 280 bodies have been collected and buried in mass graves since the location was retaken by the Ukrainian military.” [i]

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The connection between the defeat of the US in Afghanistan, the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people against Russian imperialism, the summit of Israel with the repressive Arab regimes, and the growing resistance of the Palestinians.

A statement by ISL, RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 31.03.2022

In the last few days, we witnessed a sharp increase in the instances of armed Palestinian resistance to the Zionist state and to hysterical nationalist-racist reaction on the part of the ultra- right PM of Israel.

It begun last week in shooting of Israelis in in Beersheba and Hadera, later in Bnei Brak on Tuesday night, an exchange of gun fire in Jenin in the West Bank where a Zionist soldier was wounded and the knifing of a settler after Palestinian attacked him with screwdriver on bus outside Nave Daniel south of Jerusalem making these events one of the most significant resistances since the Second Intifada.

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Down with the summit of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, US and the Zionist counterparts

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 29.03.2022

On Sunday, foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt American and the Zionist counterparts met at the Sde Boker farm in southern Israel, where Israel’s first Prime Minister Ben Gurion who was responsible for the Nakba, lived.

In the last years, a number of Arab autocrats, threatened by the Arab Spring, normalized relations with Israel under American pressure ignoring the oppressed conquered Palestinians, in open betrayal. The aim of this summit is to form a military alliance against Iran and its allies and against the people of Western sub-Sahara led in their struggle for independence from Morocco by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Polisario Front.

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On the attitude of revolutionary Marxists to Imperialist War

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 24.03.2022

The masses in Europe at this moment raise the demand: End the war of Russia in the Ukraine which is a pacifist position. When the masses raise pacifist demands it is a step in the right direction. It is a different story when organizations claiming to be revolutionary Marxists adopt pacifism. Different Stalinists and centrist organizations adopt their position to this pacifist mood rather than being interested in a revolutionary program of revolutionary defeatism for Russia and revolutionary defense of Ukraine – namely military victory of the Ukrainian people without giving Zelensky’s government any political support.

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What do we know about Zelensky’s government?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.03.2022

A few days ago, nearly 40 European lawmakers penned a letter to the Nobel Committee urging them to extend the nomination deadline to March 31 to nominate Zelensky, who has received global fanfare for hunkering down in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv – rather than evacuating, as US officials offered – and emboldening Ukrainians to defend against the Russian onslaught.” [i]

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Racist Zionism and the Ukrainian refugees – Continuation

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.03.2022

The Bennett government’s response to Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine and the suffering of the Ukrainian non-Jewish refugees not only brings to mind the US policy of closed gates to the Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany but its inhuman approach to the Palestinian refugees it forced out of Palestine and its barbaric bombing of Gaza and Lebanon.

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Racist Zionism and the Ukrainian refugees

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 13.03.2022

In her first decision, Interior Minister Shaked announced that only ‘halachic’ Jewish Ukrainians – those who are born to Jewish mothers – would be accepted into the country. Under Israel’s Law of Return, every child or grandchild of a Jew is eligible to immigrate to Israel with their family and be granted citizenship.

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A statement by the ISL on the Russia-Ukraine War

The ISL League, Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.03.2022

Russia has announced the establishment of safe corridors to allow civilian refugees to leave, but the evacuation routes lead mostly to Russia and its ally Belarus, a route opposed by Zelensky, while Russia continues to pound some cities with rockets even after the announcement of corridors. From Putin’s perspective, Ukrainian refugees escaping to states that are members of NATO is to allow the refugees to join his enemies while for Zelensky escaping to Belarus is to be controlled by his enemy. Short of socialist revolution in both states it will be very difficult to find a solution.

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Internationalism versus Hypocrisy, Demagogy, Racism and Centrism

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 08.03.2022

The invasion of Russia to Ukraine has exposed once again not only its imperialist nature but the danger for the survival of the human race by all the imperialists. In addition, it exposes the reactionary nature of the Ukrainian ruling class, the heroic resistance of the people of Ukraine, the opposition to the invasion by many Russians, a massive movement against the danger of world war, the cynicism and hypocrisy of the ruling classes of Western imperialism, the possible use of biological weapons, the social imperialism of some of the Stalinist parties and the lack of revolutionary programs by centrists (mis)calling themselves Marxists.

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Down with the Anti-Semitism of the Zionists

Yossi Schwartz, ISL The RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.02.2022

According to the Israeli daily newspaper “Israel Today,” 16% of American Jews support the BDS. It relies on a survey conducted by the Mailman group.

A significant portion (16%) support the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, a poll conducted by the Ruderman Family Foundation has found” [i]

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Down with the counter-revolution in Tunisia and in Canada!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT the section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 15.02.2022 

The Arab revolutionary struggle began in Tunisia in December 2010 after Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor protested his treatment by local officials by burning himself. . A protest movement, dubbed the “Jasmine Revolution” spread through the country and brought down the dictatorship of Ben Ali. Lacking a working-class revolutionary leadership the revolution was unfinished and the capitalist class remained in power. As part of the counter-revolution in democratic dress, President Kais Saied replaced Ben Ali. This dictator issued today a decree that formed a new provisional Supreme Judiciary Council, granting himself the power to control the country’s supreme judicial body.

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Ra’am head Abbas serves the Zionist Apartheid state

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 14.02.2022

Amnesty International last week joined two other well-known human rights groups in saying that Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians within its borders and in the West Bank and Gaza amount to apartheid. Israel rejects those allegations as anti-Semitic, saying that, among other things, they ignore the rights and freedoms enjoyed by its Arab citizens” [i]

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Defeat Saudi Arabia-led coalition backed by the USA and Britain in Yemen!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 03.02.2022

In the last few days, we have learned that Israel joined Saudi Arabia and Oman in naval exercises for the first time amid heightened Gulf tensions. That the Zionist war Minister Benny Gantz landed on 2 February 2022, in Manama, Bahrain for an official visit to the Kingdom. No doubt about a military agreement against Iran and the Houthis in Yemen. We also have seen vicious airstrikes by Saudi Arabia on the civilian population.

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The Myth of the Jewish Race

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 02.02.2022

The black actress Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” talk show on Tuesday for asserting a day earlier that the Holocaust was “not about race. This is white people doing it to white people, so y’all going to fight amongst yourselves,” Goldberg said at one point” [i]

Goldberg and her “View” co-hosts were discussing the Holocaust after a local school board in Tennessee voted to remove the graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum. [ii]

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Crusaders, settler colonialists, or strategic assets for American imperialism?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 30.01.2022

Israel, an apartheid state

There is overwhelming evidence that the system instituted by the Zionist state against the Palestinian people meets the UN definition of apartheid defined in Article7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002).

The Rome Statute defines the Crime of apartheid as: “inhumane acts…committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.

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On the Genocide of the Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel /Occupied Palestine, 28.01.2022

The Zionist propaganda is based on the myth of the purity of the weapons. Namely, Israel uses its weapons only for self-defense and if some Palestinian civilians are killed is because the so-called terrorists use women and children as shields. For many years many people believed in this myth. In Israel itself, the propaganda is that the Nakba is a fabrication of the Palestinians who fled Palestine because their leaders like Haj Amin the Mufti of Jerusalem ordered them to flee and come back with the Arab armies.

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On the UN resolution on the Holocaust

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 26.01.2021

In January the UN adopted a “draft resolution titled “Holocaust denial” (document A/76/L.30) without a vote, the 193-member organ also urged the Member States and social media companies to take active measures to combat anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial or distortion in cyberspace. “L.30”, tabled jointly by Israel and Germany, was co-sponsored by more than 100 Member States” [i]

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The isolation of the Zionist state keeps growing while the Palestinian left-wing is in the news

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.01.2022

The Zionist state assumes contrary to the position of virtually the entire world except the US, that East Jerusalem occupied in 1967 belongs to Israel. Any criticism of the destruction of Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem is perceived by Israel as an attack on the Zionist state.

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The Zionists are losing the propaganda war

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 16.01.2022

The more the Zionists are accusing the left and the liberals, who support the Palestinians of Anti-Semitism, and at the same time forge close relations with the real Anti-Semites, the more this weapon of propaganda is losing its power. There was a time and not so remote when the accusation of Anti-Semitism was a powerful weapon in the hands of the Zionists and their supporters. A clear example was the witch hunt and the purging of Jeremy Corbyn and the left of the British labor party.

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The rebellion of the Bedouins in the Negev

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 13.01.2021

When Ra’am the conservative Islamic party (Southern branch) in Israel entered the government of Bennet we denounced it as a betrayal of the Palestinian people. Ra’am claimed that participating in this right-wing government will improve the condition of its social base, the Bedouins living in the south of Israel. This was a pie in the sky.

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Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are

The ISL, the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.01.2022

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett is a full-fledged Zionist. He follows Herzl’s writing: “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies. We want to emigrate as respected people.” [i]

This week we have been informed that Bennett will hold a warm talk with Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban.

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How the PLO Became a Tool in the Oppression of the Palestinians

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 04.01.2022

The collaboration of the Palestinian Authority with the Zionist state

The Zionist war minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha-Ayin on Tuesday night. It was the second meeting between the two. “Gantz emphasized the parties shared interest in deepening security coordination, maintaining regional stability, and preventing terror and violence” [i]

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The Palestinian resistance is growing despite the repression by the Zionist state

Yossi Schwartz, ISL/RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.12.2021

The settlers’ attacks on Palestinians in the West-Bank

On August 12, the Chief of the Zionist army Aviv Kochavi announced that the army will come down harshly on combat soldiers who do not follow regulations in the field. This was a response to the many killings of Palestinians by soldier’s fire in the West Bank. 40 Palestinians were killed by the soldier’s fire in the West Bank from May 2021 until August 2021. [i]

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Unless we destroy the imperialist states, the human race will die

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 27.12.2021

The Zionist state is an apartheid state

In 1975 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 determined that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. Needless to say Israel and the USA opposed this resolution. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the United States ambassador to the United Nations said that the United Nations is about to make anti-Semitism international law. In Israel, they changed the name of a street from the UN (for its support of the 1948 resolution) to Zionism.

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Zionism and Terrorism

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.20.2021

The Zionist Bonaparte’s government of Bennett is as bad if not worse than the government of Netanyahu.  It has the left cover by the Labor Zionist party Meretz and also the Ra’am that speak somewhat differently than the right parties of this government, but when it comes to action the right-wing parties decide. This government seeks war with Iran, attacks time and time again targets in Syria, accelerates the counter-revolutionary policy of closures for the economic and political interest of the ruling class, and expands settlements in the West Bank. The violent actions of the more extreme settlers in the West Bank have increased by 50% this year. The settlers in the West Bank know that the government is behind them. Following the discussion of public security minister (Minister of police) Omer Bar-Lev with US under-secretary about the settlers’ violence, the Prime Minister of Israel has stated: 

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Down with the Zionist warmongering in Syria!

A statement by the ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.12.2021

The Zionist state is escalating its attacks on Syria. There have been many attacks in the form of missiles – as well as assassinations and air raids carried by Israel since the civil war in Syria began in 2011. Israel attacked the Syrian army when stray fire – whether by the Syrian army or by rebels – fell within the Israeli-occupied Syrian Heights in 1967, when arms convoys delivering to Hezbollah passed near the border, and also launched attacks on Iran-backed fighters when they launched rocket fire. Israel acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in Syria during the 10-year civil war between the revolutionary forces and the butchering regime, to end what it calls Iran’s “military entrenchment” and to stop shipments of Iranian weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and other Shia militias. Many attacks took place in the southwest of Syria, where Iranian forces and Shia militias have bases, but also in the central cities of Homs and Hama, the northern city of Aleppo, and the town of Albu Kamal on the eastern border with Iraq. On 24 November, Syrian state media reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in Homs province. The SOHR put the death toll at four, including two who it said lost their lives when a Syrian surface-to-air missile fell to the earth. [I]

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Down with the Zionist Warmongers!

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 15.12.2021

The Zionist apartheid state that wants to attack Iran’s nuclear sites is very frustrated with the unwillingness of the American imperialists to join this war against Iran at least for now. The war criminals in Jerusalem understand that Israel by itself cannot attack Iran without the backing of the USA. The Zionist government requested to speed up the delivery of the two US Air Force tankers the KC-46A which is scheduled to be delivered in 2023-2024. Israel war Minister Benny Gantz in his visit to Washington has failed in his attempts to convince the US to deliver the tankers ahead of this schedule.

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The hypocrisy of the Zionist Imperialist Settler-Colonialist State and its Imperialist friends

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 08.12.2021

Day after day we are bombarded with news about Iran’s developing nuclear weapons and how it is blackmailing the USA to first agree to the removal of its sanctions on Iran before Iran will sign an accord to stop the development of its atomic energy. Day after day we hear the Zionist’s state declarations that it will attack Iran if the negotiations fail. We are told that Iran should be prevented from developing nuclear weapons for the sake of peace on earth.

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Zionist Meddling in North Africa – Libya and Morocco

Adam Smith, ISL(RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 06.12.2021

The Zionist state is continuing its reactionary “normalization” offensive. In Libya, both leading candidates(or their proxies) in the coming election have ties to Israel. General Haftar’s son has offered “recognition agreement to Israel in exchange for support after December elections…Though it is unknown who he met while on the ground in Israel, his father Khalifa Haftar has in the past reportedly met with members of Israeli intelligence…

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Down with Israel and the Palestinian Authority!

The ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 06.12.2021

How Fatah and the PA became servants of the Zionist apartheid

Fatah (Arabic: “Conquest” or “Opening”), inverted acronym of Ḥarakat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī al-Filasṭīnī (“Palestine National Liberation Movement”), was, founded in the late 1950s by Yassir Arafat and Khalīl al-Wazīr (Abū Jihād) aiming for the liberation of Palestine from Zionist control by waging guerrilla warfare. The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council July 1-17, 1968 stated among others:

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How the Zionists help the Holocaust Deniers?

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 3.12.2021

The Zionist propaganda that claims that the Jews from the Arab and Muslim states suffered from the holocaust is based on the technique of the big lie. The Times of Israel for example writes:

“The expulsion of 850,000 mostly Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) and Sephardic Jews from Arab and Muslim countries took place before, during, and after the Holocaust. As nationalist Arab leaders aligned with Nazi Germany in the name of oil and expelling the British, Jewish communities were targeted for pauperization, expulsion, and murder… By all accounts, the infiltration of Nazi leaders and policies into the Middle East was a tipping point in the history of the region’s Jews. Beginning with Iraq’s notorious Farhud pogrom on June 1–2, 1941, Jews in Iraq and elsewhere faced intensified persecution akin to what took place in pre-Holocaust Nazi Germany as leaders such as Iraqi Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani sought to emulate Hitler’s tactics”. [i]

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The false equation between the Palestinian refugees and the Arab Jews as refugees

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 30.11.2021

The lie about the agreement of the Zionist to have a Palestinian state

Yesterday, the 29 of November, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called the decision to hold an event in the General Assembly aimed at strengthening the Palestinian “right of return” on this day “outrageous.” He also said: “The Palestinians and the Arab countries not only attacked Israel, the Jewish state, they also persecuted, massacred, and ultimately expelled the Jewish communities in their own countries,” he added, accusing the international community of ignoring those events and only focusing on the Palestinians” [i]

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Why did the Australian ruling class support the Zionist apartheid state?

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 25.11.2021

Australia, in support with the Zionist state, has declared Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Australia like Britain has first-hand knowledge of terrorism. It has a history of terrorism against the aboriginals. Moreover, Australia committed war crimes in the war against Iraq. The Australian military supported the use of cluster bombs against civilians during the 2003 invasion, and senior Australian military commanders are responsible for planning and carrying out multiple purported war crimes during the attack on Fallujah in late 2004. This declaration like the British conservative government’s declaration of Hamas a terrorist organization comes as Israel is declaring day after day that it is preparing a war against Iran and its allies.

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In All Major Issues, Bennett’s Government is as Bad if not Worse than Netanyahu’s Government

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 24.11.2021

There is no doubt that Netanyahu is corrupted, that his wife is mentally unbalanced and his son Yair is a fascist. Yet as we warned, the politics of a government led by Lapid, Gantz, Sa’ar, or Bennett will not be politically different. We were surprised of course by the fact that Bennett, with only six members of parliament, became the Prime Minister. As to our estimation of the new government, we were not wrong. A Zionist government cannot but reflect the nature of Israel: a settler colonialist’s state that with the massive support it got from imperialist states has become an imperialist state itself and the front line of imperialism in the region. A government that will do everything it can to annex most of the West Bank as part of an apartheid state and will attack Iran no matter what. At the same time, its policies are the anti-working class which is easy for them as the Jewish workers are not a threat to the capitalist class as they are prisoners of the Zionist racist ideology and their relative privileges comparing to the Palestinian workers.

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On the Kyle Rittenhouse Shooter Case

By Adam Smith, ISL in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.11.2021

There is no doubt that is court victory is a boost for the right wing, it has nothing to do with self-defense. The latest alt-right star has already been offered internships, and in the next round of Black Lives Matter protests, there is no doubt that it will encourage more right-wing vigilance violence towards Black Lives Matter protesters. There is also no doubt that a black man would be treated very differently.

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No Tears for a Zionist Soldier Executed by Palestinians

ISL, the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.11.2021

An Israeli Paratrooper in the Zionist army who recently moved to Israel from South Africa, was executed amongst three others: an Israeli settler, and two Zionist police officers were injured. The Palestinian who used a sub machinegun and a knife, 42-year-old Fadi Mahmoud Abu Shkheidem, a teacher resident of Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp, was killed. Hamas said in a statement Abu Shkheidem was politically affiliated with the Gaza-based armed movement that governs the occupied Gaza Strip. [i]

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On the British government’s decision to outlaw Hamas as a terrorist organization

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 22.11.2021

 “This decision will make it more difficult for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to form a Palestinian national unity government, Palestinian sources said on Saturday. In recent weeks, reports have surfaced in a number of Arab and Western media outlets claiming the US administration, Egypt and other parties were working toward persuading the Palestinians to end their differences and form a unity government” [i]

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Zionism, Haj Amin and the Jewish Holocaust

Yossi Schwartz, ISL in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 15.11.2021

During WWII the Zionists in Palestine and North America who did not send a single bullet to the Jews fighting the Nazis, like in the famous rebellion of the Warsaw Ghetto have learned how to manipulate the memory of the Jewish Holocaust for their political aims. The manipulations have various aspects. The first one is to get the UN’s and the US’s recognition for the creation of a Zionist state in Palestine even when most people in Palestine were native Palestinians. The Zionists of course did not rely only on the fresh memory of the Jewish holocaust.

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On the Structural Weakness of Trade Unions in Israel

Adam Smith, the ISL(RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine),12.11.2021

The Histadrut (the official trade union in Israel) has signed a new deal with the state and the employers. Mainly, on the positive side (if it can be called that) is a rise in the minimum wage to 6000 (from 5300) NIS over 5 years (aka barely keeping up with inflation), an increase of a single day per year in the vacation allowance, and the (limited) ability for the self-employed to access unemployment funds. In return, the Histadrut signed up for an industrial peace for 1 year, freeze on wages in the public sector, and agreed for overtime to be computed on a monthly rather than daily basis.

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Israel is lying once again, while preparing a war on Iran

ISL, the RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.11.2021

It is clear even to the Israeli government that it has failed to prove that the six Palestinian NGOs are a front for the national liberation organization the PFLP, and it tries desperately to convince its imperialist friends to accept this lie. Its latest cheating act is to rely on a plea bargain of a woman by the name of Juani Rishmawi who admitted to defrauding donors on behalf of the PFLP for a reduced sentence. She worked for the Health Work Committee, a different human rights organization that is not connected to any of the six NGOs. For her admission the state asked the military court to give her a reduced sentence of 13 months in prison and a NIS 50,000 ($16,000) fine.

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How stupid and blind can the Zionists be?

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 10.11.2021

Some figures from Arab folklore are well known to many people in the West. Amongst them is Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. A less known figure that is very popular in Arab society is Juha. An old figure that sometimes appears as a wise old man and at other times as a foolish old man. For example, Juha was resting in bed in the afternoon hoping to fall asleep. The sounds of the children playing outside prevented him from falling asleep. He called the children and told them a lie that at the far corner of the village there is a wonderful fig tree with ripe figs. The children ran to the far corner of the Village. Juha told himself if they ran it must be true that they would find ripe figs and he ran after them.

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What is Behind the Ban of Six Palestinians NGOs?

By Yossi Schwartz, ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 1.11.2021

Gantz, the zionist minister of war that was responsible for the killing of more than 2000 Palestinians in 2014 has been relying on a right-wing Zionist organization calling itself “NGO Monitor” to ban six Palestinian NGOs. He claims they are fronts for the PFLP. In this article, we want to deal with the super reactionary political nature of the “NGO Monitor” and what is behind Gantz’s decision. For us the PFLP (The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) is a national liberation organization while Israel uses state terrorism. Oppressed nations have the right to use the armed struggle. Nevertheless, it is important to deal with the facts.

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We Can Hear the Drums of a New War in the Middle East!

The ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 01.11.2021

Today we were informed that Israel is carrying out a major drill as it expects that in the coming war against Hezbollah the Lebanese organization will fire 2,000 rockets a day causing internal strife. The drill is simulating a large-scale war in which civilians are evacuated from the northern border. Israel expects that the Israelis will hide inside bomb shelters for an extended length of time. According to a 2020 Zionist State Comptroller report, millions of Israelis do not have basic protection means near their homes. The drill will also deal with the ability of hospitals to handle a large number of wounded soldiers needing urgent care, as well as the moving of patients to hospitals in the center of the country. [i]

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The Massacre of Kafr Qasim

Yossi Schwartz, ISL – the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 28.10.2021

A government to the right of Netanyahu

It is a common mistaken belief that the massacres the Zionist state committed against the native Palestinians ended in 1948. On October 29 1956, the first day of war on Egypt by the British, French and Israel imperialists, members of the Border Police were directed by general Shadmi to shoot and to kill anyone violating a curfew that was placed on Kafr Qasim, while the peasants worked in the fields and were not aware of the curfew. The Border Police shot and killed 48 men, women and children. One of the female victims had been pregnant.

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The New Terrorist Act of the Zionist State

Yossi Schwartz, ISL- the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.10.2021

The minister of war and state security, Benny Gantz, issued military orders alleging that six Palestinian human rights groups and civil society movements are “terror organizations” and fronts for the Palestinian PFLP (The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), a guerilla movement designated by Israel as a terrorist organization. The PFLP considers both the Fatah-led government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip illegal because elections to the Palestinian National Authority have not been held since 2006. From 2015, the PFLP boycotts the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian National Council (The Palestinian parliament).

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The New Generation of Young Palestinians is not Afraid of the Zionist Repression in 1967 Occupied East Jerusalem

Yossi Schwartz, ISL-the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 20.10.2021

Zionist settlers protected by the army attack Palestinian villages and residents harvesting their olive trees on a daily basis. The attacks include beatings of farmers and the destruction of trees, in order to prevent the olive harvest. According to the Zionist law (inherited from the Ottoman law) if Palestinians are unable to work in their fields the land become a state land that can be allocated to the settlers. At the same time for the second day the Zionist armed forces violently have raided Damascus Gate and surrounding streets in occupied East Jerusalem during a Palestinian national holiday for the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. At least 49 Palestinians were injured and 22 were arrested according to Aljazeera’s report based on local media.

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For a Red Striketober!

Adam Smith, ISL, RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.10.2021

After a long time, it appears that labor militancy is on the rise in the US. 

“Thursday morning, more than 10,000 John Deere & Co. workers went on strike, the first major walkout for the agricultural equipment maker in 30 years. Nationwide, unions representing as many as 100,000 workers have walked out or are threatening to do so this month, amid rising corporate profits, a severe labor shortage, and a widening income gap.” [1]

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Release All Palestinian Political Prisoners!

ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 17.10.2021

Since the escape and capture of the six Palestinian political prisoners last month from the Gilboa prison, the Zionist state has used punitive measures against all 4600 Palestinian political prisoners, including 35 women and 200 children, and most of all against the 400 prisoners who belong to the Islamic Jihad. A number of prisoners belonging to the Islamic Jihad were transferred to solitary confinement, and leaders of the movement were transferred to interrogation cells for torture.

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Lebanon on the Verge of a New Civil War

Yossi Schwartz, ISL the RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 15.10.2021

“At least six people have been killed and dozens of others wounded when gunfire erupted as Hezbollah supporters gathered to protest, and demand the removal of Tarek Bitar the Catholic judge from the north of Lebanon from the Beirut Port explosion probe, accusing him of bias. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan accused the judge of “politically targeting” officials in his investigation.” [1]

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The Growing Isolation of the Zionist Apartheid State

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL, the RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 12.10.2021

While still some of the declining imperialist states like the USA, Britain and the right-wing regimes in Europe support Israel diplomatically, military and economically the isolation of the Zionist Apartheid state is growing daily. On Monday, 11.10.21, the United Nations Human Rights Council which is composed of 47-members passed a pro-Durban resolution 32-10, after the United Kingdom demanded a roll call vote, preventing the text’s expected consensus passage.

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Zionism and the Palestinian refugees in the Diaspora

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL(RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 3.10.2021

Those who believe the Zionist myths will not change their support for racist Zionism and will continue to claim that those who call Israel an apartheid state are racist anti-Semites. No rational argument nor the facts will change their mind. For a long time, the Zionists’ false narrative dominated in the imperialist states. However, with every passing day the isolation of the Zionists is growing in the universities, the trade unions and even in the British labor party in spite of its right-wing bureaucracy. Those who see the brutal nature of Israel need factual information going back to the very origin of the issue of the Palestinian refugees and for them this article is intended, from the belly of the beast.

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The Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians: Zionist Lies and the Real History

ISL(RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 24.9.21

Imagine that in 1980 a pro South Africa apartheid rally took place in France. The participants shouted; “Long live white South Africa”! “Long live the white race”! “Support our white heroes killing the black terrorists”! South Africa is the promise land that belongs to the white race”!

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The Durban Conference

BY ISL, the RCIT section in Israel (Occupied Palestine), 17.9.2021

The First Conference 

In August 31, 2001, the first Durban Conference converged in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban to discuss discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerances. In that conference Zionism was declared to be racism. The meeting attracted 2,300 representatives from 163 countries, including 16 heads of state, 58 foreign ministers, and 44 ministers. The Durban Conference aimed to combat the legacies of slavery, imperialism, and colonialism.

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Occupied Palestine: The Gilboa Prison Break and the Heroic Resistance of Jenin

Unite in the struggle to fight and defeat the Zionist enemy!

By Yossi Schwartz, International Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 08.09.2021, http://the-isleague.com/

There is speculation that the six Palestinian political prisoners that escaped the Gilboa prison are in Jenin. This article tells the story of Jenin’s refugee camp in the framework of the new intifada.

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Israeli Government is Afraid of Palestinian’s Resistance

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 1.9.2021, http://the-isleague.com

Following the military victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan that encourages the Palestinian’s resistance the right-wing government of Bennett and the Palestinian Authority, that collaborates with the Zionist state, against the Palestinian people are afraid.

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Palestine, Tel Motza, and the Zionist Myths

By Yossi Schwartz the ISL- the RCIT section In Israel (Occupied Palestine), 16.9.2021

The Zionist state has not Broken the Will of the Palestinians to Fight the Oppression

The escape of the six political prisoners from the Gilboa jail, and even the catching of four of them, not only did not break the will of the Palestinian masses to struggle against their systematic repression but has shown the brutal nature of the Zionist army and police. After Zakaria Zubeidi was caught by the police, they abused him physically so badly that he was sent to a hospital. In a collective punishment, they arrested relatives of the escaped prisoners and in the Zionist prisons, and they have canceled rights like family visits.  

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The Freedom Fighters and Their Enemies

By Yossi Schwartz of the ISL the section of the RCIT in Israel (Occupied Palestine), 15.9.2021

The Slander of the Freedom Fighters

Gideon Levi, a journalist of Haaretz wrote that the six Political prisoners who escaped the Gilboa jail are freedom fighters. This of course led to his condemnation by the Zionists. In reply, the mainstream Zionist by the name of Emanuel Gross wrote in Haaretz: “How can you call them freedom fighters? Freedom fighters fight an oppressive occupation and kill only soldiers.”

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Israeli Government is Afraid of Palestinian’s Resistance

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 1.9.2021, http://the-isleague.com

Following the military victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan that encourages the Palestinian’s resistance the right-wing government of Bennett and the Palestinian Authority, that collaborates with the Zionist state, against the Palestinian people are afraid.

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The Ramification of the Defeat of Western Imperialism on the Middle East

By Yossi Schwartz, International Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 27.08.2021

This is the time to examine the ramification of the defeat of Western imperialism in the Middle East. One of the most important historical laws is that the defeat of the imperialists in a war leads to the encouragement of the struggles of the working class and the popular classes of oppressed nations to fight the imperialists and their local servants.

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Gaza: Israel Injured 41 Palestinians Demonstrating Against the Ongoing Criminal Siege

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 24.08.2021, http://www.the-isleague.com

The Internationalist Socialist League (ISL) condemns the new right-wing government led by the ultra-nationalist Naphtali Bennett injuring 41 Palestinians among them 10 children and one child aged 13 who was shot in the head and died, at the fence blockading Gaza. One Zionist Border Police officer Barel Shmueli was shot in the head by a Hamas militant who had been able to approach the perimeter fence and fire a handgun into Shmueli’s firing position used by him to shoot children. We do not have any tears for this killer. The Zionists are sending reinforcements that will include two units of Special Forces, an armored company, and snipers.

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The Fake Trotskyists and the War in Afghanistan

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 19 August 2021, www.thecommunists.net

In a war between oppressed nations and the imperialists, revolutionary Marxists support the military defeat of the imperialists and the military victory of the oppressed nations regardless of the political nature of the movement and parties that lead the fight against the imperialists. That does not mean we give political support to bourgeois or petit-bourgeois leadership of these movements whether they are secular or religious.

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Israel: The Real Face of the Left-Wing Zionists

Yossi Schwartz, the ISL (RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 11.08.2021

Meretz is considered in Israel a very left-wing party. In this party Mossi Raz is considered the left of the left. Yet this party joined the government of Bennett, an ultra–nationalist. In April this year the leader of this party stated that Meretz will not join a right-wing government (read: he will join).

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Afghanistan: The Rats Are Fleeing!

The fall of Kabul is a historic defeat for Western imperialism and a victory for the oppressed peoples!

Statement by the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 17 August 2021, www.thecommunists.net

1.            The chaotic scenes at the airport of Kabul are symbolic for the defeat, or let us better say, the comprehensive humiliation of Western imperialism and its treacherous collaborators. The Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and all socialists join the oppressed masses in Gaza, Idlib and many other places who are rejoicing this historic defeat of the Western Great Powers. This is a defeat for the oppressors and a victory for the oppressed of no less significance as the desperate flight of the rats last time in Saigon in 1975!

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Afghanistan: The Hypocrisy of Western Imperialism

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 17 August 2021, www.thecommunists.net

There is no doubt that thousands of Afghans are trying to escape from Afghanistan as the Taliban is taking over Kabul. Who are these people? Why do they believe that they are going to suffer under the Taliban’s government? At this time, it is not clear, but we should not be surprised if these are people who served America’s puppet government as civilians or in military roles. The USA claims that it built an army of 300,000 strong. It is clear first that this army collapsed as if it was made out of paper and no doubt some of them would like to escape to the USA for fear, not necessarily from the Taliban, but fear from the Afghani poor villagers.

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Afghanistan: Another Proof of the Decline of U.S. Imperialism

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 14 August 2021, www.thecommunists.net

During the military intervention of Stalinist Russia in Afghanistan that began on December 24, 1979, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978, Moscow stood behind Babrak Karmal, the exiled leader of the Parcham faction of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) – the Stalinists of Afghanistan.

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Israel: Are Current Green Taxes Proposals Progressive?

By Adam Smith, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 06.08.2021, http://www.the-isleague.com

The Israeli Treasury has proposed a congestion tax of 37.5 shekels per day for those entering Tel Aviv starting in 2024, as well as eliminating discounts on tickets for public transport.[1] This proposal (for the congestion tax) has received support from many “left-wing” supporters, therefore it is important to take a closer look at its effects.

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Defeat the Israeli Aggression against Iran!

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 05.08.2021, http://www.the-isleague.com

The Internationalist Socialist League, the section of the RCIT in Israel (Occupied Palestine), supports the uprising of the Ahvaz people in Khuzestan against the repressive regime of Tehran, a capitalist state in religious clothes. We call for a workers’ and poor peasants’ government as a transitional demand in the Arab revolution leading to a socialist federation of the Middle East. In this context, we condemn the Iranian regime’s support for the regime of the butcher Assad in Syria against the Arab revolution. We want to bring down the reactionary regime by a socialist revolution, not by imperialist economic and military means aiming at restoring the Shah’s regime.

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From the NSO Group to Ben and Jerry: the Zionist State and its Supporters are on the Front Line of Reaction!

by Yossi Schwartz, ISL (Section of the RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 25.07.2021

The months of June and July have further exposed the class and political nature of the Zionist apartheid state and the new right-wing government led by the ultra-nationalist Naftali Bennett. On June 30, the new government reached a deal with the settlers of the outpost Givat Eviatar near the city of Nablus in the 1967 occupied West Bank. The settlement, according to the state of Israel, is illegal. According to this deal, the Zionist army will remain in the outpost, the Zionist state will decide whether the land is state land and then the settlers will return to Givat Eviatar. Palestinian private lands are declared state lands when the Palestinian peasants do not work the land for 10 years. The settlers protected by the Zionist army shoot the Palestinian peasants who try to work on their land, and thus the private land becomes state land. This, of course, is pure robbery by the Zionist apartheid state.

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Israel/Occupied Palestine: An Important First Test for the New Government

When the “Left-Wing” is to the Right of the “Right Wing”

By Adam Smith, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 06.07.2021, http://www.the-isleague.com

The government is facing its first real test in the parliament. The law on the prohibition of family unification of (Palestinian) citizens of Israel with PA residents, was passed for the first time in 2003, and has ever since been renewed every few years. It has been scheduled for renewal in July 2021, otherwise its status will lapse.

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Israel/Occupied Palestine: From the Power of Logic to the Logic of Power

A Statement by the ISL (Section of the RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), on the Palestinian uprising, 06.07.2021

This weekend thousands of Palestinians organized by various factions and youth organizations have been demonstrating in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Ramallah against the corrupt and oppressive Palestinian Authority (PA). They demanded the end to the PA, the collaborator with the Israeli and the American imperialists against the Palestinian people.

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Occupied Palestine: A criminal negligence, willful blindness or another planned crime?

Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 21.06.2021, http://the-isleague.com

While we do not know yet what will be the side effects of the vaccines against Coronavirus and whether it is effective against another round of COVID 19, it is clear that these vaccines have been effective for now. Israel is proof of it. Yet even on this issue Zionist racism against the Palestinians has manifested for many months. Israel transported batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deep inside the West Bank, but they have only been distributed to Jewish settlers, and not the roughly 2.7 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza who have to wait for weeks or months.

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The new right-wing government has the same politics as the former one!

A statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 21.06.2021, http://the-isleague.com

Last Tuesday, two days after the new right-wing government led by Bennett was formed, the new government permitted the yearly racist flags march in the 1967 occupied East Jerusalem. 5000 extreme right Zionist nationalists protected by the Zionist police marched through parts of Jerusalem’s Old City, with the Zionist flag-waving march chanting racist slogans: “Death to the Arabs“.

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Down with Racist Zionism! Down with Anti-Semitism!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 1 June 2021, http://the-isleague.com/

In the last few weeks there are many reports of rising of Anti-Semitism. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says there is a 75% increase in anti-Semitism reports after the Israeli-Palestinian fighting began. The figure jumped from 127 incidents in the two weeks prior to fighting to 222 in the two weeks after the Zionist state’s war on Gaza. (1)

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There are no left-wing and right-wing Zionists, only shades of right-wing Zionism!

A statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 3 June 2021, http://the-isleague.com

A new government headed by the far-right politician Naftali Bennett has been formed. It is composed of 8 parties of the Anti- Benjamin Netanyahu block. The first question to ask is who is Naftali Bennett? Who are his partners?

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On the Coalitions Negotiations in Israel

On the Coalitions Negotiations in Israel

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 30 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

In Israel there is a political storm in a glass of water. It is now more than possible that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be replaced by Yair Lapid, from the Yesh Atid party, who will form a new government headed by the far-right politician Naftali Bennett whose Yamina party has six key seats in parliament. Yamina leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked spoke in favor of forming a unity government with Lapid on Sunday. The other far-right party led by Gideon Moshe Sa’ar of New Hope demands six ministries for its six MK. “New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar turned down offers from Likud on Sunday morning to rotate as prime minister with Benjamin Netanyahu and then Bennett in a three-man rotation.” (1)

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War and Intifada in Palestine: A Turning Point in the World Situation

The current war reveals the changes in the relation between the Great Powers

Joint Statement of the Liaison Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and Convergencia Socialista (Argentina), 22 May 2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/ and www.thecommunists.net

Introduction: The document at hand is the result of discussions between leadings comrades of RCIT and CS since the beginning of the Fourth Gaza War. Its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive analysis of all features of the world situation. Rather, the document focuses on the consequences of the war for the Middle East and the world situation and on the tasks for revolutionaries following from these. In order to keep the document as short as possible, we will limit ourselves to a condensed presentation of theses – even more so as many issues have been already elaborated in more detail somewhere else.

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Israel: Anti-Netanyahu Protesters blame PM for Gaza Escalation

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 24 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

In a new provocation, aimed at showing the Zionist public that Israel won the war, Netanyahu’s government decided to open ‘al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf’, “the Noble Sanctuary”, (الحرم القدسي الشريف)(Al Aqsa) or as the Zionists call it “Temple Mount” complex to Jews beginning on Sunday amid simmering tensions at the holy site that led to clashes across Israel and the war with Gaza. “Some 50 Jewish settlers, flanked by heavily armed Israeli special forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem in the early morning, hours after Palestinian worshippers were beaten and assaulted by Israeli police, according to the Islamic authority overseeing the site.” (1)

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The Fourth Gaza War Ended in a Historic Victory for the Palestinians!

Joint Statement of the Liaison Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and Convergencia Socialista (Argentina), 21 May 2021 (UTC: 10:00), https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/ and www.thecommunists.net

Introductory Note: This is a brief emergency statement on the ceasefire in Gaza a few hours ago. It focuses only on the assessment of the immediate outcome of the war and not on the long-term and international implications. These issues will be dealt with in a separate document which we hope to publish very soon.

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Fourth Gaza War: The Opportunist Left in the U.S. and the Biden Administration

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 19 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

The Zionist state takes pride in the number of the Palestinians in Gaza it has killed including more than 60 children. It is very proud of the number of buildings it destroyed and if it will be able to, it would like to double and triple these figures. Like in all of its wars it wants to roll back the Palestinians and Arabs living conditions back to the stone age. We have seen it time and again in Lebanon and in Gaza. There is a name for such behavior and it is barbarism.

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Occupied Palestine: The Lie of Coexistence

On the reality behind the Zionist propaganda

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 19 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

Israel has always used lies and myths in its propaganda based on the technique that if they repeat the myths and the lies again and again, people will believe it. They are able to do it because of the support they received from other imperialist states like the USA and Europe.

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Palestinians in All Parts of Historic Palestine Declare General Strike!

Strike actions in West Bank and in Israel to take place on 18 May in an unprecedented show of unity

By Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 17 May 2021, www.thecommunists.net

The Third Intifada – fighting against the new wave of Zionist aggression against Al-Aqsa, against Sheikh Jarrah and against Gaza – has mobilized all sectors of the Palestinian popular masses. This great event has resulted in an unprecedented show of unity – uniting the Palestinian masses in joint actions in all parts of Historic Palestine.

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The Zionist War Criminals and Their Friends

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 15 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

Today in 1948, the Zionists removed by way of massacres most of the native Palestinians from Palestine in order to form the Zionist state. On this day, this year the Zionists are committing a new massive crime against the Palestinian refugees in Gaza.

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Fourth Gaza War: European Governments Try to Suppress Pro-Palestine Protests

Another expression of the global tendency of the ruling class towards chauvinist state bonapartism

By Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 14 May 2021, www.thecommunists.net

The dramatic upswing of the glorious Palestinian liberation struggle – expressed in the heroic defence of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds/Jerusalem, the beginning of the Third Intifada and the Fourth Gaza War – is one of the most important global events in recent times. [1]

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A Jewish Anti-Zionist in Israel Says: For Military Victory of Gaza against Zionist Apartheid!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 11 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

The Gaza Strip is home to a population of approximately 1.9 million people, including some 1.4 million Palestine refugees expelled by Israel in 1947-8. The socioeconomic situation in Gaza has been in steady decline. The blockade on land, air and sea imposed by Israel continues to have devastating effects.

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Occupied Palestine: Stand with our Brothers and Sisters in Jerusalem!

Forward to the Third Intifada! Down with the Zionist State! Long live the Struggle for a Free Palestine!

Emergency Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and Convergencia Socialista (Argentina), 10 May 2021 (UTC 10.00)

Comrades, brothers and sisters!

In these hours, Israeli forces are invading the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem – one of the most important symbols of the Palestinian people, the Arab world as well as the Muslim umma. They fire tear gas and sound bombs against thousands of brothers and sisters who are heroically defending the compound.

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Israel Hands Off Sheikh Jarrah and Out of Al Aqsa!

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 8 May 2021, http://the-isleague.com

The struggle of the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah district near Jerusalem’s Old City, the home to 3,000 Palestinians, against the eviction of four Palestinian families continues. On Monday, at least 20 Palestinians were injured in a brawl after Israeli police stormed a solidarity demonstration with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah. While the police are using extreme violence against the protesters, armed Jewish settlers protected by the police walk around to provoke more police oppression. Israeli border police have attacked the sit-ins using skunk water, tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and shock grenades over the past few days.

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The Fourth Gaza War Has Begun! Defend the Palestinian People – Defeat Israel!

After their failure to conquer the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds/Jerusalem, the Zionists wage a new war

Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and Convergencia Socialista (Argentina), 11 May 2021 (UTC: 8.00), https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/ and www.thecommunists.net

Comrades, brothers, and sisters!

Yesterday, the Zionist state suffered a humiliating defeat. Despite mobilizing thousands of police and army, they failed to conquer the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Thousands of Palestinians, mostly youth, heroically defended this holy symbol of the Palestinian people, the Arab world as well as the global Muslim umma. Despite hundreds of injured and hospitalized, the heroic youth successfully stood their ground.

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Occupied Palestine/Israel: The Racist Oppression of the Arabs in Lydda/Lod

Defend the Oppressed! Down with the Curfews on the Palestinian Citizens of Israel!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 13 May 2021

While Netanyahu planned to divide the “Anti-Bibi” bloc and for this he ignited the events, he did not expect that the outcome would be such a disaster for the Zionist state. So far, the Palestinians have won in this conflict. The Israeli army does what it knows best – kill children in Gaza while Hamas and the Islamic Jihad retaliate with rockets that reach every corner of Israel including Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv and even paralyzed Ben Gurion airport. The government of Israel may plan an invasion of Gaza, but invasion of Gaza will cost Israel a very heavy price and the longer they will stay in Gaza the price will be higher.


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Middle East: Is a New Regional War in Preparation?

Middle East: Is a New Regional War in Preparation?

Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 19.08.2020, www.the-isleague.com and www.thecommunists.net

Last week Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) established diplomatic relations. Yesterday the chief of the Mossad Yossi Cohen has visited the UAE for so called security talks. Cohen’s trip to Abu Dhabi marked the first visit to the UAE by an Israeli official. According to the UAE, “The two sides discussed prospects for cooperation in the fields of security as well as exchanged points of view on regional developments.” (1)

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The Revolution in Iraq Continues

The Revolution in Iraq Continues

By the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine) http://www.the-isleague.com

We live in a pre-revolutionary period around the world, a period we characterize as a pre 68’. In country after country, the class struggle is sharpening. The immediate cause for the upsurge of the different struggles can be different but behind all of these struggles is the revolt of the forces of production against the relationship of production, namely the revolt against the control of the world economy by the imperialists, using their local servants. 

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THE ONLY WAY IS SELF DEFENSE

THE ONLY WAY IS SELF DEFENSE

By Yossi Schwartz

The violence committed by organized, as well as street crime, in the Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel communites, is a very seroius problem. According to a police report published on October 3rd, 2019, there have been more than 70 killings this year, nearly as many as in the past two years combined and more than half of all murder victims nationwide. 

There are a few questions to ask: why is there organized crime in the Arab communities? Why have these gangs been allowed to accumulate so many weapons and kill so many? Does the police have an interest in ending organized crime in the Arab communities? And assuming for a moment that the police wants to eliminate organized crime, is it even capable of disarming gangs? How to protect communities against such criminals? 

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Lebanon: A Revolutionary Situation

Lebanon: A Revolutionary Situation

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 20.10.2019, www.thecommunists.net

Tens of thousands of protesters came out to protest for the third day across Lebanon against the rising cost of living, increases in taxes and governmental corruption. The government is in crisis. Four ministers of the Lebanese Forces party, an ally of the Prime Minister Saad Harriri, have resigned.

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For Revolutionary Unity in a World Full of Explosive Tensions!

For Revolutionary Unity in a World Full of Explosive Tensions!

Call for an internationalist perspective in the struggle for a socialist future

Joint Statement by Revolutionary Organizations, August 2019 

Capitalism is experiencing unprecedented crisis and decline. It is unavoidable that the tensions and clashes between classes and states are accelerating. Revolutionaries around the world must intervene in their class struggles on the basis of an internationalist and anti-imperialist program for socialist revolution and working class power. We fight for the following:

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Puerto Rico: US Colony in Revolt!

Puerto Rico: US Colony in Revolt!

To Hell with All of the Corrupted Capitalist Politicians! For a Workers and Popular Government!

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 12 August 2019, www.thecommunists.net

Last week the former governor of Puerto Rico Rosselló was forced to step down following weeks of massive anti-government protests. Protests were sparked by the release of private chat messages that exposed Rosselló and 11 top aides and Cabinet members exchanging profanity-laced, homophobic and misogynistic messages.

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Defend Gaza! Defeat Israel!

Defend Gaza! Defeat Israel!

For an international solidarity campaign to support the Palestinian people!

Emergency Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 05.05.2019 (23:00 UTC Time), www.thecommunists.net

  1. Once more, the Israeli government has escalated its terror campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza. In the last 48 hours the Israeli air force and navy have killed 24 Palestinians, among them Falastine Abu Arar, a 37-year-old pregnant mother, and her 14-month old niece Siba. About 70 Palestinians were wounded in the attacks. In addition, the Israeli army destroyed the building which had housed the Gaza bureau of the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency. Three Israeli have died as a result of Palestinian rocket fire in retaliation. Read more »

Our Position on the Elections in Israel

Our Position on the Elections in Israel

A Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 10.03.2019, http://www.the-isleague.com

The Internationalist Socialist League(ISL), as a revolutionary Marxist organization and the section of the RCIT, is calling to vote for Balad in the coming elections. While the “Blue and white” new list is not known for corruption, of the little we can understand of its politics is not much different from the right wing Likud party.

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Sudan: Rally in Solidarity with the Popular Uprising against the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir

Sudan: Rally in Solidarity with the Popular Uprising against the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir

Report (with Photos and Videos) from a Rally in Vienna on 13 January 2019, Austrian Section of the RCIT, www.rkob.net andwww.thecommunists.net

Nearly 100 people, most of them from the Sudanese migrant community, assembled in the centre of Vienna to protestagainst the brutal dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. The rally was also attended by a number of activists from the Syrian as well as the Egypt migrant community which have organized numerous protests against the dictatorships of the butcher Assad as well as Killer-General Sisi.

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Occupied Palestine / Israel: Campaign for One Democratic State

Occupied Palestine / Israel: Campaign for One Democratic State

https://www.thecommunists.net/forum/odsc-for-one-democratic-state-in-palestine/

Note of the Editorial Board: Below we reprint a statement of the Campaign for One Democratic State which has been launched by a number of activists in Occupied Palestine / Israel. The Revolutionary Communist International Tendency(RCIT) strongly supports this initiative as it attacks fundamental pillars of the Zionist Apartheid state.

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Open Letter: Great Tasks demand Great Initiative!

Open Letter: Great Tasks demand Great Initiative!

A Call to All Revolutionary Organizations and Activists to Fulfill Our Responsibility in this Historic Time!

Open Letter from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 7 January 2019,www.thecommunists.net

Comrades, Brothers and Sisters!

We are living in historic times. Everyone with open eyes can see that the imperialist world order is in severe turmoil. We are heading towards a political volcano eruption.

The stock markets are in panic, reflecting the capitalists’ fear of another, imminent Great Recession which will be even worse this time than in 2008/09.

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The Zionist’s Attack on the Progressive Movement

The Zionist’s Attack on the Progressive Movement

A Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 03.01.2019, http://www.the-isleague.com

This coming year will be a year of sharp contradictions among the imperialists themselves, and between the ruling class on one side and the growing resistance of the workers, the oppressed, women, youth and the lower middle class on the other side.

As we wrote in the RCIT’s Greetings for the New Year of 2019: Prepare for a Political Volcano Eruption:

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Opportunists and sectarians on Iran

Opportunists and sectarians on Iran

An analysis of the positions of the IMG (Fourth International) and the Sparticist league on the Iranian revolution

by Dave Stockton

Originally published by Workers Power (Britain) in 1979

Note from the Editor: Workers Power (Britain) and its international organization, the LRCI, were the predecessor organization of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency.

The International Marxist Group

The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USEC), and their record of opportunism with regard to the Iranian revolution, will prove a fatal guide to its followers in Iran.

The position they have argued is identical to that of the Mensheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia who argued, against Lenin and the Bolsheviks, that the workers movement should focus on the struggle for bourgeois democratic demands aiming later to utilise the freedoms afforded by bourgeois democracy to build a workers party in preparation for the next stage of the historical process-the struggle for socialism.

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Prominent Israelis Protest against EU Propaganda to Identify Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism

Prominent Israelis Protest against EU Propaganda to Identify Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism

Introduction by the Editorial Board

Below we republish an Open Letter which has been signed by 35 prominent Israelis, including Jewish-history scholars and Israel Prize laureates. It was released before a conference in Vienna what was billed as a “High Level Conference ‘Europe beyond anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism – securing Jewish life in Europe’”. This conference, which took place on 21st November, was organized by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

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The Barbaric Slaughter of Jamal Khashoggi

The Barbaric Slaughter of Jamal Khashoggi

A Commentary by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 13.10.2018, www.thecommunists.net

Unfortunately, there is almost certainty about the tragic fate of Jamal Khashoggi. He entered the Saudi embassy in Turkey on 2 October in order to get the necessary papers to marry his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz. He has not been seen since then. According to numerous accounts (including audio and video recordings), he was awaited by a 15-men assassination team which arrived from Riyadh on the same day in order to kill him. They detained, interrogated, tortured and finally brutally slaughtered him. Among the assassination team was a forensic expert who brought a bone saw to dismember Khashoggi’s body after killing him. “It is like Pulp Fiction,” a senior US official familiar with the investigation has been quoted as saying.

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A Zionist Rabbi Praises Europe’s Right-Wing Racist Parties as Friends of Israel

A Zionist Rabbi Praises Europe’s Right-Wing Racist Parties as Friends of Israel

by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 19.10.2018,www.thecommunists.net

A right-wing Israeli website published remarks of the influential Rabbi Eliezer Melamed. Melamed heads the ultra-reactionary Zionist Har Bracha Yeshiva – an Israeli-Jewish settler institution in Samaria (close to Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank).

This article reports: “Rabbi Melamed wrote in his widely-read weekly column in Besheva Magazine Friday that Israel need not fear creating strong bonds with the European Right, including the Austrian Freedom Party, which is a member of the Austrian governing coalition.” (1)

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Gaza: The Day after the Cease Fire

Gaza: The Day after the Cease Fire

Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 14.11.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

Following Hamas’ statement that it will fire rockets at Israeli towns of Beersheba and Ashdod if raids on civilian buildings in Gaza don’t stop, Israel’s security cabinet agreed on a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism
By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 16 November .2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

Anti–Semitism among the masses, as the socialist August Bebel put it, is the socialism of the fools. Today, Anti-Semitism in the world is on the rise. This ugly phenomenon is proof that the Jewish question will be solved only through a global socialist revolution. Zionism as we will show in this article is not the solution but merely part of the problem.

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Gaza: Israel is Responsible for the New Deaths!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 13.11.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

On Sunday Israeli undercover forces entered the Gaza Strip in a civilian car for reasons Israel refuses to explain and were discovered. Hamas forces exchanged fire with the Israeli soldiers near the city of Khan Younis. A pursuit ensued and Israeli aircraft fired dozens of missiles into the area to provide cover for the commandos to escape.

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Capitalist Trade and the Looming 3rd World War

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 15 July 2018, www.thecommunists.net

Thirty years ago Fukuyama announced the end of history in the form of American capitalism. At that time he could point out to some facts in support of his claim. The Berlin Wall was about to fall and the Soviet Union was collapsing. For the prophets of profit everything seemed to suggest that only liberal capitalist democracy would allow people to thrive in an increasingly globalized world, and that only the steady advance of laissez-faire economics would guarantee a future of free, democratic states, untroubled by want and oppression, living in peace and contentment. Read more »

Global Trade War: No to Great Power Jingoism in West and East!

Neither Imperialist Globalization nor Imperialist Protectionism! For International Solidarity and Joint Struggle of the Working Class and Oppressed People!

Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), Marxist Group ‘Class Politics’ (Russia), Alkebulan School of Black Studies (Kenya), Pan-Afrikan Consciousness Renaissance (Nigeria), Courant des Jeunes Penseurs Congolais (Democratic Republic of Congo), and Sınıf Savaşı (Turkey), 4 July 2018

1. A global trade war is looming between all Great Powers in West and East – the U.S., China, the European Union, Japan, Russia and other imperialist powers. Economic sanctions between Great Powers started already in 2014 when the U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions against Russia and vice versa. Currently, the Trump Administration is about to impose much more far-reaching sanctions against its rivals with the latter implementing retaliatory action. Obviously, an escalation of the global trade war would have devastating consequences for the world economy and the living conditions of the working people. Read more »

[VIDEO] Down with the Rouhani Regime in Iran!

[VIDEO] Down with the Rouhani Regime in Iran!

A Statement by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 4 July 2018

In this statement, we explain why the RCIT opposes the reactionary policy of the Iranian regime both at home as well as abroad. We continue to stand in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution. However, we reject any aggression and interference of US and Israeli imperialism.

The RCIT has published a number of booklets, statements and articles on Iran and the Syrian Revolution which can be read on a special sub-section on this website: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/

The RCIT publishes articles on its website www.thecommunists.net on a daily basis.

 

Austria: Rally against Iranian President Rouhani

Austria: Rally against Iranian President Rouhani

Report (with Pictures and Video) from the Austrian Section of theRevolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 04.07.2018,www.rkob.net

Today, about more than hundred Syrian and Ahwazi migrants and refugees hold a protest rally in the centre of Vienna. The protest was caused by the visit of Iranian President Rouhani who met the Austrian right-wing government. According to news agencies Russia’s and China’s foreign ministers are also supposed to join the negotiations.

 

The demonstrators expressed their protest about the reactionary dictatorship in Iran. They condemned the regime’s oppressive policy against the Arab minority inside Iran. They also condemned the regime’s foreign policy of support for the genocidal regime of Assad in Syria.

 

The Austrian section of the RCIT was invited to participate in the rally. Comrade Michael Pröbsting, the International Secretary of the RCIT, was asked to address the rally (see the video of his speech below). He stated our solidarity with the liberation struggle of the Syrian people as well as of the Ahwazi people. He said that we are protesting against the Iranian regime but not against the Iranian people who rightly protested repeatedly against the regime in the past few months. Furthermore he made clear that we absolutely oppose any interference of US or Israeli imperialism.

The RCIT has published numerous articles and documents on Iran as well as the Syrian Revolution which can be read on the RCIT’s website at https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/.

 

Western Hypocrisy and the Saudi War of Aggression against the Yemeni People

Western Hypocrisy and the Saudi War of Aggression against the Yemeni People

by Michael Pröbsting, 10 April 2018

Note of the Editorial Board: The following article has been translated and published in Arab language in a Yemeni newspaper and its website. See النفاق الغربي والحرب السعودية العدوانية على الشعب اليمني (http://www.laamedia.com/news.aspx?newsnum=20560# resp. https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9/saudi-aggression-against-yemen/)

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A famous phrase, attributed to the Greek tragic dramatist Aeschylus, goes: “In war, truth is the first casualty.“ The Saudi war of aggression against the Yemeni people and the Western hypocrisy is a prime example for this idiom.

 

As a socialist living in Europe I can not fail to point out the sheer hypocrisy of the Western Great Powers and their media. Just compare this: The Western media report about the war crimes committed by Assad’s army in Syria and condemn them in strong words. They do so because Assad is a close ally of Russia, a chief rival of the U.S. and European Great Powers.

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Israel as a Colonial Entity

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 26.06.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

By June 18, 132 unarmed Palestinians have been murdered in cold blood and 13,000 injured by the Israeli army in Gaza, since March 30, according to AFP. This type of pathological murderous behavior isn’t out of character for regimes which represent a colonialist social strata. Examples are too numerous to count, however, two especially vicious ones come to mind – the Sharpeville Massacre committed by the South African Apartheid regime resulting in 69 Africans dead and 186 wounded, most of whom shot in the back, and the 1919 Amritsar Massacre carried out by the British army in India killing 379 Indians. Read more »

[VIDEO] No to US Listing of Syria’s HTS as “Terrorist Organization”!

[VIDEO] No to US Listing of Syria’s HTS as “Terrorist Organization”!

 

A Statement by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 4 June 2018

 

 

US imperialism has listed Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a “terrorist organization”. While we are , as revolutionary socialists, politically opposed to HTS and consider it as a petty-bourgeois Islamist force, we strongly condemn this decision of the Trump Administration as another attack on the Syrian Revolution.

 

The RCIT has published a number of booklets, statements and articles on the Syrian Revolution which can be read on a special sub-section on this website:https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/collection-of-articles-on-the-syrian-revolution/

 

The RCIT publishes articles on its website www.thecommunists.neton a daily basis.

 

Remember the Martyr Razan al-Najjar – the Heroic 21-year old Palestinian Nurse, Killed by an Israeli Sniper

Remember the Martyr Razan al-Najjar – the Heroic 21-year old Palestinian Nurse, Killed by an Israeli Sniper

A Tribute from the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 3 June 2018,www.thecommunists.net

On Friday 1 June, the Israeli army killed another unarmed Palestinian in Gaza. This time they murdered a young woman, Razan al-Najjar. Sister Razan, who wore a very visible medical uniform, was shot in the chest by a so-called “butterfly bullet“, which explodes upon impact, pulverising tissue, arteries and bone, while causing severe internal injuries. She has become the latest martyr in the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people.

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Jordan: Mass Protest against IMF-imposed Austerity Package

Jordan: Mass Protest against IMF-imposed Austerity Package

For an indefinite General Strike to Bring Down the Government of Prime Minister Hani Mulki!

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 04 June 2018,www.thecommunists.net

  1. Jordan is hit by a wave of mass protests. In response to the reactionary austerity policy of the government of Prime Minister Hani Mulki, the trade unions called a general strike on 30 May. This strike was very successful with a massive participation of the workers and small business people. Since then, spontaneous protests take place on a daily basis – in Amman, the capital city, Ramtha, Maan as well as other cities.
  2. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put a stranglehold on Jordan, as it does with so many other countries of the semi-colonial world. Currently, Jordan’s public debt is about 94% of GDP. Not satisfied with the millions of US-Dollars it already squeezed out of the Jordan, the IMF demands further attacks on the living conditions of the popular masses. Even now, unemployment, according to official estimations at 18.5%, and poverty are widespread.

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Syria and Great Power Rivalry: The Failure of the „Left“ (Part 1)

Syria and Great Power Rivalry: The Failure of the „Left“ (Part 1)

Note of the Editorial Board: This chapter contains figures and one map which can only be viewed in the pdf version (download here).

Introduction

Karl Marx, whose 200th birthday we have just commemorated, emphasized in the second thesis of his famous Theses on Feuerbach that the truth of theory must be sought in practice, i.e. in the objective reality.

The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.” [1]

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Warmongering in the Middle East: Down with all Imperialist Great Powers and Capitalist Dictatorships!

Warmongering in the Middle East: Down with all Imperialist Great Powers and Capitalist Dictatorships!

Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), Alkebulan School of Black Studies (Kenya),Pacesetters Movement (Nigeria), Pan-Afrikan Consciousness Renaissance (Nigeria), Marxist Group ‘Class Politics’ (Russia), and Sınıf Savaşı (Turkey), 13 May 2018

  1. We take note of:
  2. The vicious oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli Apartheid state which already led to three wars against Gaza in the last ten years;
  3. The never-ending warmongering of Israel against Iran;

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Israel’s Attack on Iranian Forces in Syria

A Vivid Lesson on the Politics of War in the Epoch of Imperialism

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 14.5.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

Last month Israel attacked Iranian forces in Syria in T4 base. “An Israeli military official confirmed that Israel carried out last week’s strike on Iranian forces in a Syrian airbase, the New York Times reported. It was the first time we attacked live Iranian targets — both facilities and people,” an unnamed senior military source told The Times’.” [1] Read more »

On the Escalating Greek-Turkish Tensions

By Max Bonham, The Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine), 30 April 2018, www.the-isleague.com

“Once I’ve seen so many dreadful things— my sons butchered, my daughters hauled away, their houses ransacked, their little children tossed down on the ground in this murderous war.” (Iliad, Book 22)

“Rome creates a desert and calls it peace” Tacitus

“Shameless—armored in shamelessness—always shrewd with greed! How could any Argive soldier obey your orders, freely and gladly do your sailing for you or fight your enemies, full force? Not I. no.

It wasn’t Trojan spearmen who brought me here to fight. The Trojans never did me damage, not in the least, they never stole my cattle or my horses, never in Phthia where the rich soil breeds strong men did they lay waste my crops. How could they? Look at the endless miles that lie between us …”

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May Day 2018: Greetings to All Revolutionaries

Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), Pan-Afrikan Consciousness Renaissance (Nigeria), Alkebulan School of Black Studies (Kenya), Sınıf Savaşı (Turkey), and Marxist Group ‘Class Politics’ (Russia)

On the occasion of May Day 2018, we send our warmest greetings to all revolutionaries around the world and to all militants fighting for the liberation of the working class and the oppressed. Read more »

On Trump’s attack on Syria

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 15.04.2018, www.the-isleague.com

Following Israel’s new round of killing and injuring unarmed Palestinians in Gaza and its attack on base T4 in Syria, killing at least 8 Iranians, US President Donald Trump, together with the UK and France, striked the Syrian capital on Friday evening, allegedly in response to a suspected chemical attack on rebel-held Douma last Saturday. Read more »

The Zionist Murderers and the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel / Occupied Palestine), 07.04.2018, www.the-isleague.com

The Friday Demonstrations

For the second consecutive Friday, tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza, demanding the right of return of the Palestinians refugees to their lands. And once again, the Israeli army met this demand with shooting, killing and maiming. Read more »

From Sharpeville to Gaza – Apartheid and its Butchers Will Be Crushed!

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine), 01/04/2018, the-isleague.com

On March 30, 30,000 -50,000 Palestinians from Gaza, demonstrated for their right to return to their country and lands, stolen by the Zionist state. During the ethnic cleansing during 1948-1947 Zionist forces removed 750,000 Palestinians and made them refugees. Survivors, their descendants and their supporters demonstrated in Gaza behind the fence that makes Gaza a Palestinian ghetto under siege. Read more »

On Recent Guerrilla Attacks against Israeli Soldiers in the West Bank

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 22.03.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

If you listen or watch the Israeli news, you may get an impression that all of a sudden for no other reason other than hate for Jews, a Palestinian terrorist killed two innocent Israelis and wounded two others near Jenin. Read more »

Defeat the US-Israeli Imperialist Warmongering!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 12.6.2017, http://www.the-isleague.com

During his election campaign, Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, which he said would protect Americans from Jihadist attacks. His racist message was cheered by many of his supporters who opposed former President Barack Obama’s decision to increase the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the US. Read more »

Occupied Palestine: Break PA Collaboration with Israel!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 20.2.2018, http://www.the-isleague.com

Following Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, many Palestinians hoped that the Palestinians Authority would cease all forms of collaboration with Israel, especially against Palestinians engaged in military actions against armed Zionist oppressors. The case of Jarrar has proven to many Palestinians that the PA continues to collaborate with Israel. Read more »

The Zionist War on the African Migrants

By Max Bonham, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 11.03.2018, http://the-isleague.com/

1. Israel has signed a secret treaty with a “third (i.e. not Sudan or Eritrea) African country” to extradite African refugees and migrants back to Africa while paying them 3500$ to leave. The new regulations allow imposing a jail sentence on any migrant refusing to leave Israel – as opposed to the “voluntary departure” policy before. Several migrants have already begun serving sentences and approximately 700 went on hunger strikes. Read more »

Israeli Warplane Shot Down over Syria

Stop the Israeli aggression! In any conflict between imperialist Israel and Syria, Iran or Hezbollah: Defeat Israel! Continue to support the Syrian Revolution! Victory for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle!

Joint Statement of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel / Occupied Palestine), 11.02.2018, www.thecommunists.net and http://the-isleague.com/

1. Yesterday an Israeli warplane was shot down during an Israeli attack on Syria. The Israeli army claims that it launched “large-scale” attacks inside Syria after intercepting what it said was an Iranian drone and the subsequent downing of an Israeli fighter jet, which crashed after it came under fire from Syrian air defense forces. The Iranian government denies that it had launched a drone. Unsurprisingly U.S. imperialism declares its full support for Israel. At the same time Russia’s foreign ministry “urges all parties involved to exercise restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an even greater complication of the situation”. Read more »

Marxism and War

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 30.1.2018, www.thecommunists.net

1. Introductory Remarks

Since 2008 we live in a historic revolutionary period caused by the tendency of the rate of profit of capitalist production to fall. This tendency leads to capitalist governments serving the very rich to attack economic social and democratic rights of the workers and the poor. Read more »

Israel / Occupied Palestine: Free Ahed Tamimi NOW!

Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (Section of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 17.01.2018, http://the-isleague.com/

The 16-year old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi is threatened with up to 10 years in Prison for standing up to Israeli soldiers! She was arrested on 19 December 2017 along with her mother, Nariman Tamimi, and cousin Nour Tamimi for “slapping” an Israeli soldier. Read more »

Palestine: A New Intifada is a Real Possibility! Long Live the Palestinian Heroic Struggle!

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 7.12.2017, http://the-isleague.com/ and www.thecommunists.net

Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the US formally recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and it will begin the process of moving its embassy to the city, breaking with decades of US policy. This is a real provocation against the Arabs and the Muslims and may push the Palestinians to a new Intifada that may reignite the Arab revolution. Read more »

Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine!

Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital “Will Open the Floodgates of Hell to the West”! Mobilize for a Popular Intifada – in Palestine, in the Arab and Muslim World, Globally!

Joint Statement of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel / Occupied Palestine), 06.12.2017, www.thecommunists.net and http://the-isleague.com/

1. Today US President Donald Trump has officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He set in motion the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to this city. This is a break with Washington’s decades-long foreign policy which: while the U.S. has always supported the Zionist Apartheid state politically, economically and militarily, it at least formally tried to preserve the facade that it would respect international law which does not recognize Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem. The decision of the US Administration officially supports Israel’s policy of occupation. Read more »

The Lambertists – Road to Nowhere

The Pseudo-Marxism of the so-called “Fourth International” founded by Pierre Lambert and its historical background

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), November 2017, www.thecommunists.net

Part I: Historical Background

In 1938 the revolutionary Communists, who opposed counter-revolutionary Stalinism, formed the Fourth International, led by Leon Trotsky. While it was small it had a perspective of becoming a mass party following the war, based on the assumption that Stalinism would not survive the war, and a very sharp class struggle will spread in the world. That would enable the Fourth International to become a mass party of the working class. Read more »

On the Hamas-PA Reconciliation Treaty

By Boris Hammerschlag, Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League, 4.11.2017, http://the-isleague.com/

It seems that the decade-long split in the Palestinian leadership, between the secular Fatah dominated Palestinian Authority and the Islamist Hamas, has come to an end. Most Palestinians, suffering under an immeasurable number of layers of external as well as internal oppression, heaved a sigh of relief. Read more »

72 days is long enough! – Hadash, Let the Rotation Go Through!

Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League

By Boris Hammerschlag

27/09/2017

The necessity of the formation of a united anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist front of the Palestinian citizens of Israel has been crystal clear for a long time, not only to socialist revolutionaries well-educated in Marxism and well-trained in class struggle, but also to most major ‘48 Palestinians. The ideological differences between the 4 parties – Hadash – socialist (albeit reformist), Balad – left-nationalist, Ra’am – Islamist, and Ta’al – center-nationalist, were significant but had no practical implications as far as participation in the Zionist parliament is concerned, since none of the parties ever stood a chance of being accepted as part of a coalition with any major Zionist party, and for obvious reasons, nor dramatically influence any major decision. Read more »

Israel – Hands Off Sheikh Ra’ed Salah!

Condemn Netanayhu, Father and Son for Siding With the Nazis in the US Against the Anti-Fascists

By: Yossi Schwartz (The Internationalist Socialist League – Israel / Occupied Palestine)

In November 2015, based on the 1945 British Defense (Emergency) Statutes, the Israeli Security Cabinet declared the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, an illegal organization. These statutes have been used by Israel since the founding of the state, mostly against Palestinians. Read more »

Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia – Hands Off AlJazeera!

By Adam Smith & Boris Hammerschlag

The Internationalist Socialist League

13.8.2017

Last week, it has been announced by Israel’s Minister of Communications, Ayoub Kara, that a legal process has begun to shut down the Qatari-based media outlet’s offices in Jerusalem, following similar measures taken by other reactionary regimes in the region, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Read more »

Lessons of the alQuds Clashes

 

By: Yossi Schwartz & Boris Hammerschlag

The Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine)

26.07.2017

In the last two weeks the Zionist state has proven in action, that the widespread Palestinian belief that Israel is acting to take over the alAqsa compound has substantial merit to it. This battle for sovereignty over the holy places between the Zionist colonialist society and the native Palestinian population proves right before our eyes what we have been claiming for the past decade. The idea that a colonialist society, as a whole, is in any way shape or form capable of self-containment, is ludicrous at best. Read more »

Israel – Hands Off Al-Aqsa! Revolutionaries – Defend the Rights of Muslims!

By: Boris Hammerschlag

Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine)

www.the-isleague.com

22.07.2017

Yet another wave of violence is sweeping AlQuds (Jerusalem) and the holy al-Aqsa compound. A guerilla shooting attack by three Muslim Palestinian citizens of Israel, which happened last week (14.7) and led to the death of two Israeli Policemen, has been expectedly used by the Israeli government as an excuse to enact collective punishment, political arrests and murderous repression. The clashes that soon followed have claimed so far the lives of 3 Palestinians and 3 Israeli West Bank settlers with ~140 Palestinians injured. Read more »

Revolutionary Statement for May Day 2017

In a World of Crisis, Wars and Revolutions, the creation of a new World Party of Socialist Revolution is more urgent than ever!

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), www.thecommunists.net

Comrades, Brothers and Sisters on all continents!

The Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) sends its May Day greetings to all fighters for the liberation of the working class and oppressed peoples throughout the world. There can be no doubt that we are living in historical times. The course of human history is changing at an accelerating pace. We are living in the midst of this vortex so that, in a very few years, the world will be very different from what it is today. Therefore, our most urgent task and responsibility as revolutionaries are to intervene in these events with a correct program and orientation. Only then will it be possible to create an organization that will unite all the fighting vanguards; one which will make a revolutionary imprint on the struggles of the coming epic. Read more »

For a Red Democratic Palestine from the River to the Sea

The Murder

11 months ago on March 24, 2016, in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, a Palestinian youth, stabbed an Israeli soldier of the occupation force. He was shot and wounded. No medical attention was offered  after he was immobilized by the gunfire. While he was lying bleeding on the ground he was shot again in the head by Elor Azaria, a sergeant medic of the Israeli Oppression Forces. Read more »

Statement of Solidarity: Protest against the Parliamentary Inquiry launched by the Right-Wing Opposition Party in Austria against the RCIT Section and the Egyptian Migrant Community!

Stop Prosecution for Solidarity with Palestine and for Opposition against the Military Dictatorship in Egypt!

We, the undersigned, are aware that a group of deputies of the Freiheitliche Partei, an extreme right-wing racist party led by HC Strache, has initiated a parliamentary inquiry against the Austrian section of the RCIT as well as against the leading organization of the Egyptian migrants in Austria. Referring to solidarity slogans chanted at an anti-racist demonstration in Vienna on the 26 November 2016, in support of Palestine as well as slogans which supported the resistance of the Egyptian people against the military dictatorship the parliamentary deputies of the Freiheitliche Partei have called for the Federal Ministry of the Interior to officially investigate these two organizations with the view of taking legal steps against them. Irrespective of our perspectives about the future of the Palestinian as well as the Egyptian people’s struggle for liberation, we protest against holding a parliamentary inquiry and we also oppose any state investigation and prosecution against these organizations.

Please send this short letter by email to the Austrian Parliament (medienservice@parlament.gv.at) as well as to the Austrian ministry of interior (pressestelle@bmi.gv.at). Please forward this email also to us: rcit@thecommunists.net

Azaria Guilty of Manslaughter – Another Proof for the Necessity of an Arab Revolution to Save Israeli Jewish Society from Itself

Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 07.01.2016, http://the-isleague.com/

Today an Israeli military court has found an Israeli soldier, El’or Azaria, guilty of manslaughter over the cold blood murder of a wounded Palestinian last year. [1] The Palestinian youth Abdul Fattah ash-Sharif, 21, was killed as he lay overpowered on the ground. The killing was filmed by a Palestinian human rights activist who received his camera from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. Read more »

The Arrest of Basel Ghattas – the Political Persecution Reflects the End of Zionism

A Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine)

1. We, members of the Internationalist Socialist League, candidates for membership in the Balad party, wish to condemn sharply the arrest of MP Basel Ghattas, one of our party leaders. Firstly, we must note that Dr. Basel Ghattas was the only MP who signed, at the time, our petition calling the Austrian authorities not to prosecute the leader of our international organization, the “Revolutionary Communist International Tendency” (RCIT), Michael Probsting, for “sedition”. Now, that he himself is becoming a victim of political persecution at the hands of the Zionist establishment, it is an opportunity to publically thank him for that. Of course, even if he had refused to sign, it wouldn’t have changed a thing about our principled support for his immediate release. Read more »

Israel Loves Donald Trump who Loves Israel but Dislikes Jews

By Yossi Schwartz (Member of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency [RCIT] and Central-Israel Branch of Balad), 20.11.2016, http://the-isleague.com/

As soon as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned of the victory of Donald Trump, he telephoned, tweeted, issued a statement and posted a video celebrating the victory, calling Trump “a true friend of Israel.” Trump, on his part, invited Netanyahu to the U.S. to meet “at the first opportunity.Read more »

Israel – Hands Off Balad!

Statement by the Internationalist Socialist League (Israel/Occupied Palestine), Section of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 28.09.2016, www.the-isleague.com, www.thecommunists.net

On 18 September tens of activists of the National Democratic Assembly Party – Balad were detained by the police over unclear suspicions. The Israeli police and court have kept the allegations secret and were withholding them from both the public and those that have been arrested. Read more »

Israel / Occupied Palestine: Next Year will mark 100 years to the Balfour Declaration

By Yossi Schwartz (member of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency – RCIT and Central-Israel Branch of Balad), 8 August 2016, www.thecommunists.net

The Palestinian Authority is preparing a lawsuit against the British government over the issuing of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. The PA’s Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told Arab League leaders gathered in Mauritania, Monday, that London is responsible for all “Israeli crimes” committed since the end of the British mandate in 1948. (1) Read more »

The Economic Boycott of Israel is Essential in the Struggle Against the Apartheid Regime

Important notice: This article was submitted as a response piece to the editorial board of “Local Call” (the Hebrew version of “+972 Magazine”) on July 24th, after it published a pro-Zionist guest article opposing the BDS aiming at sawing demoralization among its supporters. After it already underwent a series of amendments and proof-reading, we were notified, on the 27th, that the editorial board chose to reject our article stating “style and content” as the reason. While hoping that in the near future we might be able to produce an article which meets the standards set by “Local Call” as far as “style and content” goes, we wish to wholeheartedly thank our fellow Balad member, Orly Noy, for her proof-reading, constructive criticism and genuine attempt to have the article published in “Local Call”!

By: Yossi Schwartz (member of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency – RCIT and Central-Israel Branch of Balad)

Translated from Hebrew by: Boris Hammerschlag

Yonathan Mizrachi article (Why an economic boycott of Israel cannot succeed) is interesting but wrong. Its core premise is that given the shifts in the focus of capital and industrial production in the capitalist world, boycotting Israel cannot possibly be effective. Additionally, it claims that Israel’s propaganda accusing the BDS as a movement rooted in anti-Semitism is effective and therefore supporting it does more harm than good. Read more »

Revolutionary May Day Statement 2016

May Day 2016 – In Mexico and around the Globe:

For a new World Party of Socialist Revolution in Order to Advance the Struggle for Liberation of the Workers and Oppressed!

Statement of the Liaison Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and the Agrupación de Lucha Socialista (ALS), April 2016

The RCIT and the ALS send their May Day greetings to all fighters for the liberation of the working class and the oppressed people throughout the world. The current world situation is marked by an accelerated economic, social and political crisis of the capitalist world system. The capitalist system is in decline since the beginning of the world historic revolutionary period in 2008 with the outbreak of the Great Recession. The world economy never recovered from this recession and stands now before the imminent next, even worse, recession. We see an acceleration of the rivalry between the imperialist Great Powers USA, EU, Japan, Russia and China (Ukraine, South and East China Sea, Africa, Latin America). Furthermore, the working class faces an intensifying wave of counterrevolutionary offensives of the ruling class – austerity programs, police state, imperialist wars in the Middle East etc.. However, the worker and oppressed are continuing their heroic resistance against these counterrevolutions. Read more »

Occupied Palestine / Israel: Dead End for the Two-State Solution

The Palestinian Liberation Struggle and the CWI’s Centrist Adaptation to Zionism

By Yossi Schwarz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 12.11.2015, http://www.the-isleague.com/

Prior to Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu visit to the US, many reporters around the world had expectations that the visit will be a failure as the US is distancing itself from Israel and, as a result, US military support for Israel will be reduced. Today the right wing in Israel is celebrating this visit as a great victory for Netanyahu’s policies. Read more »

Israel / Occupied Palestine: Victory to the 3rd Intifada!

No Peace with Apartheid – Mass Resistance, International Solidarity and Popular Struggle Will Free Palestine!

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 13.10.2015, www.thecommunists.net

In recent days we have witnessed an impressive upsurge of resistance by the Palestinian masses against the Zionist occupiers. Until now, more than 20 Palestinians have been killed brutally by the Israeli occupation forces, including a pregnant women and her three year old daughter as well as two youths in Gaza one 13 and the other 15 years old. Read more »

Israel and the Arms Trade

By Yossi Schwarz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 2.9.2015

On August 30 we learned that a major industrial union, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers in the US has voted to endorse the (BDS) movement against Israel. “The endorsed resolution points to Israel’s long history of violating the human rights of the Palestinians, starting with the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-48 that turned most of Palestine into the State of Israel. It calls for cutting off US aid to Israel, US support for a peace settlement on the basis of self-determination for Palestinians, and the right to return. ….” The resolution also endorses the worldwide BDS– Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – movement to pressure Israel into ending its apartheid over the Palestinians just as similar tactics helped to end the South African apartheid in the 1980s. UE is now the first U.S. national union to endorse BDS”. (1) Read more »

An open letter from anti-Zionist Jews to the workers, the poor, and the oppressed by Zionism – Part B

No Peace, No Security, No Social Justice – No Future in Zionism!

 – An open letter from anti-Zionist Jews to the workers, the poor, and the oppressed by Zionism –

Part B

By Adam Sharonksy

IV- State, Religion and Race

The Israeli state definition as a Jewish state turns into a virtual race state. This is not because all Jews belong to a certain race or because there exists such a thing as race.[1] The Zionist idea adopts the Nazi “race theory” definition for who a Jew is (especially on the question of the Law of Return). A state based on those ideas must fanatically impose a racial hierarchy – a social order in which some ethnic groups equal more than others in all areas of life, from healthcare to personal security. Read more »

An open letter from anti-Zionist Jews to the workers, the poor, and the oppressed by Zionism – Part A

No Security, No Peace, No Social Justice – No Future in Zionism

– An open letter from anti-Zionist Jews to the workers, the poor, and the oppressed by Zionism –

Part A

By Adam Sharonsky

Friends, when the Israeli government repeatedly goes to war and the economic crisis continues to deepen, it is a good time to reconsider support for the Zionist idea.

The Zionist Idea and Its Implications

The basis of the Zionist idea is the notion that Jews are not able to live in peace, equality, and security in the same country as gentiles, and therefore they must establish their own state in the territory of the “Land of Israel.” Such a notion echoes the anit-Semitic idea that the Jew is a foreign element in the countries in which he lives. But as we all know, this very “Land of Israel” was inhabited along its length and breadth by another people, Arabs, who saw it as their homeland and called it Palestine. Read more »

Nuclear Agreement Signed: Will Iran Become the Policeman of Imperialism in the Region?

By Yossi Schwartz
07/23/2013
http: //he.theisleague.com

In mid-July this year six imperialist powers, the US, Russia, China, France, England, and Germany, signed an agreement with Iran which will limit the latter’s ability to produce enriched uranium to develop nuclear weapons. In return, sanctions which were imposed on Iran by the United States after the Islamist revolution of 1979 have been removed, sanctions which were expanded by the UN in 2006. These sanctions severely damaged Iran’s economy and caused much suffering (including a doubling of the poverty rate) for the Iranian masses. Read more »

Defend Yemen against the Al-Saud Gang of Aggressors!

No to Sectarian Divisions and Civil War! For a Workers’ and Popular Government!

Joint Statement of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and the RCIT Yemen, 3.4.2015, www.thecommunists.net

(1) Since the night of 25 March, a military alliance of reactionary foreign powers has been attacking Yemen. This gang of aggressors is led by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and includes all other monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula (except Oman) plus the reactionary regimes of Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Morocco, and Pakistan. In addition, it is also supported by Western imperialist powers like the US, Britain, and France as well as Israel. In an assault which Riyadh has dubbed “Asifat al-Hazm“ (Operation Decisive Storm), about one hundred Saudi warplanes plus allied forces are attacking the advancing Houthi rebels in seven different Yemeni cities. During the first nine days of this aggression, they have killed at least 519 people, including many children, and injured more than 1,700. Egypt has also sent warships to the coast of Yemen. In addition, Saudi Arabia has assembled as many as 150,000 troops along its border with Yemen, and Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan have expressed their readiness to take part in a ground offensive as well. Read more »

Israel: Ten Years of Struggle against the Theft of Bil’in’s Land – Solidarity and Struggle until Victory!

We, members of the Internationalist Socialist League (ISL) in Israel/Occupied Palestine, as well as our comrades in the world-wide revolutionary communist organization with which we are affiliated, the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), wish to transmit to you today – residents of Bil’in and its neighboring villages, activists in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Anarchists against the Wall, and all the other activists, organized and independent, Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals – a message of solidarity and support for your just struggle until victory! We salute you! Read more »

Elections in the shadow of a coming Intifada: Vote for the United Arab Party But Don’t Trust the Petty-Bourgeois Leadership!

Short statement By the Internationalist Socialist League

10.02.2015

[The full statement will be published within the next few days]

  1. On March 17th, citizens of Israel will vote for the Knesset – the Israeli Parliament. We view the Knesset as an undemocratic organ of the Zionist apartheid state. Voting for it cannot ever change this fact. In ideal circumstances the correct position would be to boycott these elections in favor of establishing a constituent assembly of all residents of Palestine – Jews, Arabs, Palestinian refugees and immigrant workers (from the river to the sea). Sadly, this is not the case today.

Read more »

The Racist Character of Charlie Hebdo and the pro-imperialist campaign “Je Suis Charlie”

The Racist Character of Charlie Hebdo and the pro-imperialist campaign “Je Suis Charlie

Solidarity with Muslim People! NOT Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo!

By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 17.1.2015, www.thecommunists.net

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 Note of the Editorial Board: The following document contains 19 pictures. They can be viewed in the pdf version of this document (see below). We alert Muslim brothers and sisters that this file contains racist cartoons from the Charlie Hebdo magazine presenting the Prophet Mohammed. We reproduce them in this file exclusively for the purpose to demonstrate the reactionary nature of this magazine.

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All socialists and democrats in Europe are aware that the ruling classes in France and throughout the entire EU are working day and night to exploit the terrorist attack against the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, depicting it as a European 9/11. [1] In France, we are already witnessing clear signs of a Bonapartist police state as 10,000 soldiers patrol the streets of France. The Belgium government has also mobilized 300 soldiers for their “Anti-Terror Operation” – for the first time in three decades. The attack againstCharlie Hebdo is also serving the imperialists as justification for extending of France’s and the US/EU’s wars in the Middle East and Africa, as well as the intensification of surveillance and intimidation of Muslim migrants in France and the EU. Read more »

After the Paris Attack: Socialists must Join Hands with Muslim People Against Imperialism and Racism!

Reformist and Centrist Forces try to derail the Workers Movement by Failing to Stand up for Solidarity with the Muslims and Against Imperialist War-Mongering!

By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 17.1.2015, www.thecommunists.net

The ruling class in France and the whole EU are attempting to utilize the terrorist attack against the Charlie Hebdo office as a kind of European 9/11. [1] This attack serves as a justification for a hysterical media campaign (“Islamists terrorists are planning attacks everywhere”) and for the mobilization of the army to increase domestic repression. It also serves as justification for the extension of France’s and the EU’s war in the Middle East and Africa. [2] It serves also as a justification to increase surveillance and intimidation of Muslim migrants in France and the EU. [3]

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The violent price of Zionist elections: Bring the police murderers to justice! Give the Bedouins their lands back!

By Yossi Schwarz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 20.1.2015, also at www.thecommunists.net

The elections to the Zionist parliament, the Knesset, are coming soon. These elections are scheduled way ahead of time because of the crisis faced by the Netanyahu government. This crisis developed as a result of its political failure to win the last war against Hamas this summer (i.e. operation “Protective Edge”). This war proved that the fossilized thought of Israeli governments could not only result in the killing of Palestinian civilians, destruction of infrastructure, but also in the death of Israeli soldiers. The general atmosphere of these elections is created by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris which intensified the already existing Islamophobia. Read more »

France after the Attacks in Paris: Defend the Muslim People against Imperialist Wars, Chauvinist Hatemongering, and State Repression

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 9.1.2014, www.thecommunists.net

 On 7 January, jihadist militants attacked the headquarters of the journal Charlie Hebdo and, after separating men and women, killed 12 men including the editor-in-chief, journalists, and policemen. The following day, another person shot at cops and killed two people. At the same time, several mosques were attacked by gunshots and bombs. 88.000 police across the country have been mobilized to hunt the jihadist militants. The social-democratic and liberal Hollande government, supported by the Communist Party and the Front de Gauche as well as the bourgeois media, is attempting to place the country in a state of emergency. In this way they hope to utilize the attack against Charlie Hebdo as a pretext to mobilize support for their reactionary imperialist policy. Read more »

Women are not transparent – they make revolutions!

On the role of female socialist revolutionaries in the struggle against gender discrimination in the education system (in Israel)

By: Rotem Elisha

Forward

Hello everyone, my name is Rotem Elisha, I am a high school student from Ramla – Israel. At the beginning of 2014 I initiated a struggle by opening a Facebook page titled “No More Silence – Fight for Freedom and Equality”. The idea for this came up as I was confronted with the discriminatory rule in my school which prohibits female but not male students from wearing short pants and skirts. The excuse that was given to me by the school management was that school girls should dress in a “decent” manner. If girls should be allowed to show off their legs at school, they further explained, it might prevent boys from concentrating fully on studying and cause sexual harassment. Read more »

Israel, Hands Off Al-Aqsa!

Down with the Israeli Apartheid State!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 5.11.2014, www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

As I write this article, Palestinian medical officials have announced that a Palestinian was seriously injured in clashes which erupted Wednesday morning on the site of Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. According to reports (Haaretz, November 5), the man was wounded by a sponge-tipped bullet fired by Israeli security forces. Read more »

Down With the New Imperialist Attack on Iraq and Syria!

The Renewal of the Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Workers Movement

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 2.10.2014, www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

In mid-September the US ruling class decided to bombard the Islamic State (IS, often called Daash in Arabic) in Syria. Already on the first day, American war planes killed or wounded dozens of Islamic State fighters in air strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa and surrounding areas. It already started to attack IS fighters in Iraq in early August. Thus, we see that the imperialist war on Iraq did not end in December 2011. The official declaration, then, of US President Obama that the imperialist war had ended was an empty promise. The US is once again involved in a war against Iraq and Syria. Imperialism cannot survive without wars; but, as Lenin wrote, for humanity to survive we must destroy the imperialist system. Read more »

The CWI’s “Socialist” Zionism and the Palestinian Liberation Struggle

 A Reply from the RCIT

By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 15.9.2014, www.thecommunists.net

Peter Taaffe, the CWI’s long-standing leader, recently published a response to criticism against the position of his organization regarding the Palestinian liberation struggle. (1) In addition, on 31 August a public debate took place between representatives of the Austrian sections of the RCIT and the CWI in which the participants debated strategy for the Palestinian liberation struggle. (2) Furthermore, RCIT comrades in Israel / Occupied Palestine as well as socialists inside the Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) in South Africa regularly hold discussions with CWI activists on this issue. Read more »

Israel lost the 51-Day War but the Palestinian Liberation Struggle Continues

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 30.8.2014,
www.thecommunists.net 
and www.the-isleague.com

The ceasefire agreed to by Israel and Hamas in Cairocame after 51 days of fighting. During this war Israel killed 2,142 people, most of them civilians including more than 490 children; it injured more than 10,000, and destroyed thousands of homes; it bombed mosques, hospitals, and schools. 69 Israelis were killed, nearly all of them soldiers. Read more »

Who Won the Gaza War?

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 8.8.2014, www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

After almost a month of butchering, the Zionist propaganda line is that Israel won the war against Hamas. If the 1,900 Palestinians killed, 80% of whom were children, elderly, and non-combatant men and women, plus thousands of wounded, is to be the measure of victory, then Israel certainly won. If the number of destroyed homes, schools, mosques, and hospitals is used, then, once again, Israel won the war. And if the number of destroyed tunnels is taken as the measure of success, then Israel won the war. However, if the weakening of Hamas is the factor which determines who was the victor and who was the loser, then Hamas won the war. Read more »

Defend Iraq against another Aggression of US Imperialism!

Support the Kurdish Right of Self-Determination against IS! Unite the Struggle against the US Attack with the Palestinian Resistance against Israel!

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 9.8.2014, www.thecommunists.net

1.            The Obama administration has announced another military intervention of US imperialism in Iraq. It has launched air strikes against the advancing forces of the extreme Salafist Islamic State (IS) which are advancing in the North of Iraq. The recent developments are a powerful confirmation of the total failure of the US aggression against Iraq in 2003 and the following occupation which lasted until 2011. The decision of the US government reflects the desperate attempt to stop its declining influence in the Middle East and to regain control over Iraq. Read more »

Israel: Report on antiwar rally in Tel Aviv on 26 July

Report by Boris Hammerschlag, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine),
27.7.2014, www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

On Saturday night, July 26, we attended an antiwar rally in Tel Aviv organized by the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and its Hadash front. Initially, towards evening, we were informed that the police had revoked the permit for the demonstration, but at the last minute this decision was rescinded and the rally took place, as planned. While, undoubtedly, fewer participants reached the scene due to the last minute changes, the rally itself was the largest against the Gaza war, in Israel, since the beginning of the military operation, with 5,000-7,000 people taking part. Participants held signs distributed by Hadash, Daam, and some Israeli NGOs. There were three Zionist flags and dozens of red flags. Read more »

PETITION: Jews Say: End the War on Gaza — No Aid to Apartheid Israel! BDS!

Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, July 22, 2014,

http://chn.ge/1o76rOC

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Introduction by the RCIT and the ISL:

Below we reprint a very progressive statement initiated by the Jews for Palestinian Right of Return. Our comrade Yossi Schwartz, a well-know, lifelong communist and Anti-Zionist, and key representative of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), was among the initial signers of this petition. Read more »

Israel’s War against the Palestinians

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 23.7.2014,
www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

Israel’s barbaric war in Gaza is not merely against Hamas, but rather is the latest round of violence used by the Zionist project to create, fortify, and defend a colonialist settlement state for “the Jewish people” at the expense of the displaced indigenous population of Palestine. In this war, as in all colonial wars, it is the interest of the international working class to call for the victory of the oppressed over the oppressor, specifically, the Palestinians over Israel. Until now, more than 600 Palestinians, including many women and children, have been killed during the fighting in Gaza. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, in Shuja’iya alone, located in the eastern part of the city of Gaza, more than sixty people were killed by heavy artillery and tank fire during the twenty-four hours between last Saturday and Sunday. Read more »

Israel Starts Ground Offensive: Defend Gaza! Defeat Israel’s War!

Support the Palestinian Resistance! For a Workers’ and Popular International Campaign to Boycott Israel! Down with the Regimes which Collaborate with Israel! For a Free, Red Palestine!

Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), the Communist Left of Australia and the Editor of the Blog vansterparlan.v-blog.se (Sweden), 22.7.2014

1.            Israel’s ground offensive marks another escalation in its terrorist campaign against the Palestinian people. Until now, at least 604 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed and more than 3,700 have been wounded. This is not a conflict between two religious or national groups. Rather, this is an arch-reactionary war of oppression on the side of the racist apartheid state of Israel and a just war of defense on behalf of the Palestinian people! Democrats and socialists can’t help but enthusiastically support the heroic Palestinian resistance and work for the defeat of Israel. Read more »

Israel / Occupied Palestine: Fascists Attack Pro-Gaza Demonstration in Haifa

Report by Boris Hammerschlag, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 21.7.2014,  www.thecommunists.net  and www.the-isleague.com

On Saturday night, July 19, we attended a pacifist, anti-war demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Israel and its Hadash front, held in Haifa starting from 21:30. Read more »

Austria: Tens of Thousands march in Solidarity with Palestine

Report with Pictures and Videos of the RKOB (Austrian section of the RCIT) on the demonstration in Vienna on 20.7.2014,  www.rkob.net  and www.thecommunists.net

On 20 July Vienna saw the biggest mass demonstration for Palestine in Austria’s history. Between 20 and 30.000 people marched through the streets of Vienna and expressed their outrage about Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Most participants were Turkish migrants but many came also from the Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Bosnian and Albanian community. Read more »

Stop Israel’s Terrorist War against the Palestinian People! Boycott Israel!

http://bit.ly/StopImpunity

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!

Supporters of the ISL and RCIT – please add this message to your signature.

Stop Israel’s Terrorist War against the Palestinian People! Boycott Israel!

We, the undersigned, are citizens of the Israeli State. We condemn the terrorist war which the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has launched against Gaza. It is a one-sided war which kills countless Palestinians, most of them civilians. Equally we condemn the indiscriminate repression against the Palestinian people in the West Bank as well as Israeli Arab citizens. Read more »

Down with Israel’s New War!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 9.7.2014, www.thecommunists.netand www.the-isleague.com

This article is being written on July 9, 2014, while Israel is bombing Gaza and rockets are falling in the region of Tel Aviv. We are being told that the Israeli government is considering a ground assault on Gaza which may be true or not. So far, at least twenty-seven Palestinians, many of them civilians including children, have been killed and more than 152 wounded. No Israeli has been killed. Ironically, Israel’s propaganda campaign claim is that Hamas, unlike “humanistic” Israel, is firing rockets because it wants to kill civilians. Anyone who thinks differently is branded an anti-Semite. Read more »

Victory to the 3rd Intifda!

We have been waiting for too long! The 3rd Intifada is here!

A general strike and a democratic popular mobilization is the key to victory!

Down with the Israeli apartheid’s assault on the Palestinian people!

Fascist murderers – you shall not pass! You shall not escape fierce justice!

Israelis, Arabs and all others – UNITE for democracy, UNITE against apartheid!

Firstly, we call upon the Palestinian political, religious and community leadership to immediately call for a general strike of protest on the basis of the following demands: Read more »

Palestine: Masses Rise Up after the Killing by Burning Alive of Palestinian Youth

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 6.7.2014,www.thecommunists.netand www.the-isleague.com

The kidnapping and killing by burning alive of Mohammed Khdair, a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager, last Wednesday led to some of the sharpest clashes since the year 2000. Palestinians in Jerusalem and in cities in the north of Israel – which is all Palestinian lands occupied since 1948 – have fought on the streets for several days now against the forces of oppression. These clashes are raising fear in the hearts both of the Israeli government and of the Palestinian Authority of a new intifada against Israel and the PA. Read more »

Israel: Hands Off Hamas!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League
(RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine),
25.6.2014,
www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

During the past week and a half, the attention of Israeli society has been focused on the reported abdication of three young settlers and the barbaric actions of the Israeli army against the Palestinians, actions which most Israelis support under the pretext of searching for the missing three. Read more »

Israel/Occupied Palestine: Release All 400 Hunger Strikers! Release All Palestinians Political Prisoners!

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 13.6.2014, www.thecommunists.net and www.the-isleague.com

Israel marked 47 years to its 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by pushing through ultra-nationalist legislation which recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, and removes the facade of a Jewish and democratic state. Meanwhile, around four hundred Palestinians prisoners are in the midst of a hunger strike with the support of Palestinians outside the prisons. Read more »

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Enough with Symbolic Protests! For an Authentic Popular Struggle!

Drawing Conclusions – and the Change in Direction that They Dictate

Statement of the International Socialist League (ISL) the RCIT’s Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine, on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the first Land Day (1976),www.the-isleague.comand www.thecommunists.net

The 30th of March – Land Day – has become a symbol for the mass struggle of the Palestinians, citizens of the apartheid Zionist state, against dispossession and oppression. The key question before political activists who oppose both oppression and the regime’s attacks upon their standard of living and democratic rights is how to turn this vital symbol into a winnable struggle. To do so, we must first draw revolutionary conclusions about the political situation throughout the world, across our region, and locally at home. If we won’t reach such conclusions and then act according to what they dictate, Land Day will be relegated to remaining nothing more than a symbolic struggle. Read more »

Long Live International Women’s Day!

The only solution to violence and discriminationa socialist revolution!

By Hila Slutsky and Boris Hammerschlag

Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. This day, steeped as it is in socialist tradition for more than a century, has two visages. On the one hand, this is a day when women all over the world celebrate the achievements of their struggle for full equality with men and against all forms of discrimination and violence against themselves. On the other hand, this is a day when women look a harsh reality straight in the eye and define their goals for the future – a critical examination which will lead, in the final analysis, to the next social revolution, one which will eliminate all forms of oppression, non-equality, and violence among women and men. This will be the socialist revolution. Read more »

Free Abdel Qader Altlitha, Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners

Free Abdel Qader Altlitha! Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners!

Palestinians fight on both sides of the civil war in Syria

by Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 25.12.2013, www.thecommunists.net, www.the-isleague.com

On Monday, Feb 10, Lod District Court sentenced Abdel Qader Altlitha, a Palestinian resident of the town of Taibe (inside Israel’s 1967 borders), to 15 months in prison for attempting to join the Syrian rebel forces Nusra Front. Read more »

Egypt: Down with General Sisi’s pro-Army Constitution! Boycott the Referendum!

Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT)
2.1.2014
www.thecommunists.net

Egypt will hold a referendum on its newly-drafted constitution on January 14thand 15th. The vote will be the first stage of what it is called the political “road map” outlined by the Egyptian army after it overthrew Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president, on 3rdJuly 2013. While we in the RCIT opposed Morsi’s rule and supported the progressive mass protests against him, wetotally opposedhis removal by the army. He was deposed by the army because the US and the Egyptian generals couldn’t trust him to put down the popular revolution.  Read more »

Israel: Release All Palestinians Political Prisoners!

by Yossi Schwartz
Internationalist Socialist League
(RCIT-Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine)
3.1.2014
www.thecommunists.net
www.the-isleague.com

This week Israel released 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners, the third group of four that she has been forced to release under American pressure. Most of the 26 were imprisoned for more than 20 years. Their release is part of an American-brokered deal, a condition for the current round of the farce known as the “peace negotiations.” US Secretary of State John Kerry’s plan for “peace” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is part of a Pax Americana for the entire region, and is presented as a plan that will integrate West Bank security units in a planned US-led, anti-Al Qaeda regional force. Simply speaking, it is a plan whereby US imperialism gets to control the region, and is thus part of the Western counter-revolutionary assault on the revolution in Egypt and other Arab states. Read more »