Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 19.11.2024
According to data from the ABS company (Automated Bank Services), spending money in the evacuated northern cities, Kiryat Shmona and Shlomi, fell in October 2024 compared to the first month of the war last year. The expansion of the shooting By Hezbollah fighters led to a decrease in the volume of credit card purchases, and other cities in the north, such as Tiberias, Acre, Safed, and Kiryot, also experienced a decrease in economic activity.
The data shows that the northern evacuated cities, Shlomi and Kiryat Shmona, experienced the most dramatic decline. In October 2024, their credit expenses dropped by more than 55% compared to the first month of the war, October 2023.
As the war continues, more cities collapse, the blockade on Israel grows, and many small businesses collapse while prices go up and up.
The interest of the people in Gaza and the popular classes in Israel is to end the war now. However, Netanyahu wants to continue the war for many years to avoid prison for his corruption.
The opposition to Netanyahu is growing. Protesters fired flares at Netanyahu’s home, and the justice minister has fanned the flames. The act of the protesters allows Israel’s failing government to legitimize a revival of the judicial overhaul and to divert attention away from the abandoned hostages, the political war in Gaza, the high cost of soldiers’ lives, the draft evasion, and daycare bills. This act of the cowards brings to mind the historical case of Rasputin in imperial Russia.
The “mad priest” Rasputin had risen rapidly through Russian society, transforming himself from an obscure Siberian peasant into one of the most prominent figures in the czar’s inner circle. The imperial couple had consulted unconventional spiritual advisers in the past. Still, Rasputin surpassed their expectations with his ability to discern their inner hopes and tell them what they wanted to hear. He encouraged Nicholas to have more confidence in his role as czar, and Alexandra found that his counsel soothed her anxieties. By the beginning of World War I in 1914, Rasputin was providing political advice and making recommendations for ministerial appointments, much to the dismay of the Russian elite. Rasputin’s political sway increased during the war when Nicholas left the capital to take command of the Russian Army. In her husband’s absence, Alexandra assumed nominal control of the empire, relying heavily on Rasputin as an adviser.
Yusupov and his co-conspirators, who opposed the politics of Alexandra, believed that Rasputin’s removal would give Nicholas one last chance at restoring the reputation and prestige of the monarchy. With Rasputin gone, they hoped, the czar would return from military headquarters and once again govern from St. Petersburg, taking the advice of his extended family, the nobility and the Duma—the Russian legislative body—instead of listening to Alexandra. Thus, they murdered Rasputin because they did not dare to kill Alexandra.
The Tzar compared the killing of Rasputin to the classification of Jesus and increased the repression.
Trotsky wrote:
“The comparison of Rasputin and Christ was customary in that circle, and by no means accidental. The alarm of the royal couple before the menacing forces of history was too sharp to be satisfied with an impersonal God and the futile shadow of a Biblical Christ. They needed a second coming of “the Son of Man.” In Rasputin the rejected and agonizing monarchy found a Christ in its own image. “If there had been no Rasputin,” said Senator Tagantsev, a man of the old regime, “it would have been necessary to invent one.” There is a good deal more in these words than their author imagined”.[i]
Down with the Zionist monster!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
[i] LeonTrotsky the history of the Russian revolution