Yossi Schwartz ISL (the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 09.12.2023

Already on October 16 Human Rights Watch wrote:  While some videos Israel presents are genuine, “shared alongside those videos were falsehoods, too, both subtle and blatant. Some misinformation claiming to be from Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere appears intentional: doctored footage, manipulated video, false translations, realistic footage from video games and more. But much seems to be shared unintentionally by journalists, officials and concerned citizens alike. This includes footage from previous conflicts, incorrect geolocation, and false context” [1]

“A country like Israel should have the means to do rigorous testing to confirm if people were sexually assaulted in a more systematic way, said Nidhi Kapur, a specialist on sexual abuse in situations of armed conflict. Forensic testing should have been a priority to build a full picture of the attack, said Kapur, who has worked in the region. “In a conflict you first take care of the survivors, you don’t count bodies” [2]

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.

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.

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]

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:

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.“

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.

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.

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.

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 14^th 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.

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]

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 23.9
In his speech before the UN General Assembly Yair Lapid the interim PM of Israel said that he is for a two states solution as it serves Israel and the only condition he asks for is that the Palestinian state will keep the peace.

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.

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.

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:

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.“

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.

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’.

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:

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]

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.

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.

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]

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:

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

Adam Smith, the ISL/RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine, 19.01.2022

Boric, a left wing candidate has been elected to the presidency of Chile. He is more reformist than his rhetoric suggests.

According to Al Jazeera:

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.

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]

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.

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]

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.

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:

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]

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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]

Adam Smith, ISL(RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 09.10.2021

The rich and powerful in virtually every country have been named in the Pandora Papers, a leak that showed how offshore companies can be used to evade taxes and transparency requirements. Let’s talk a look at some:

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”!

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.

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.  

By Yossi Schwartz, International Socialist League (Section of the RCIT in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 06.09.2021, http://the-isleague.com/

Freedom Road was a 1979 American TV historical drama mini-series starring boxer Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, based on the 1944 novel by Howard Fast.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 1.7.2021, http://the-isleague.com

As we of the RCIT have said time and time again the Arab revolution is not dead but instead it will return. Anyone who follows the news must have been aware of it. A new powerful wave of the Arab masses’ uprising is engulfing the region.

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“.

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?

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)

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)

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

By Adam Smith, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 30.03.2021, http://the-isleague.com

For many years this question has come back to haunt the Zionist state. The many rulings, often contradictory, have shown that this is first and foremost a political question.

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 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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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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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 »

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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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

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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Israel: Hands Off the BDS!

A Statement of the Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 27.12.2018,http://www.the-isleague.com

The Internationalist Socialist League (section of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency in Occupied Palestine) denounces the decision of DonorBox to freeze the accounts of the BDS.

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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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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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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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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 »

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/.

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 »

Austria: Islamophobic Racism on the Rise!

Solidarity with the Muslim Brothers and Sisters! No to the Closure of 7 Mosques and the Expulsion of 40 Imams and their Families!

Statement of the RKO BEFREIUNG (Austrian Section of the RCIT), 8. June 2018, www.thcommunists.net

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