Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 25.07.2025
It is very clear that while Hamas wants to end the war and is ready to release all Israeli captives, the Zionist government is prepared to have a ceasefire for maybe 60 days, release 10 living captives and 18 bodies, and then to continue the war, to put the people of Gaza in a concentration camp, and continue the ethnic cleansing.
According to Al Jazeera, United States special envoy Steve Witkoff has said he is cutting short talks aimed at reaching a truce in Israel’s war on Gaza, after the latest proposal from Hamas showed “a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire”.
Witkoff announced his statement on Thursday, just hours after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel recalled its negotiating team from Qatar.
Witkoff’s announcement came after Hamas sent its response to the latest ceasefire proposal to mediators. It was an abrupt about-face from the optimism earlier in the day, when the Associated Press reported that an Israeli official said the Hamas offer is good.
According to the Guardian, Witkoff said the US would consider “alternative options” to recover the hostages and “create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza” without elaborating on what those alternatives might be.
You don’t have to be a genius to understand that Trump agrees to let the Zionists continue with the genocide, including starvation, and remove those who will stay alive from Gaza, at the same time killing the rest of the Israeli captives. Israel, backed by American imperialism and European imperialism, is committing the worst war crime in this century.
Twenty-eight states signed a statement this week. Asking Israel to agree to a ceasefire, end the war, and stop the violence of the Jewish settlers in the West Bank. But these are empty words announced to cheat the majority of the people who oppose the war crimes of Israel. Behind the backs of the people who oppose the Zionist war crimes, these states continue their economic and military trade with Israel. At the same time, they violently oppress the masses who are truly against the war crimes of the Zionist monster, declaring that they are anti-Semites.
This is not new in history; those people who joined the international brigades to fight fascism in Spain were persecuted in the so-called democratic states, such as the US and Canada. At the same time, Canada settled a whole division of the Ukrainian SS, and the US helped Nazis to escape to Latin America.
Upon returning home, International Brigades volunteers faced varied experiences, depending on their country of origin and the prevailing political climate. While some were celebrated as heroes, particularly in countries that later faced Nazi Germany, others faced suspicion, discrimination, and even imprisonment.
The same is true in the Yeshuv (The Zionist settlements) to the 300 people who went to fight against Franco, supported by Germany and Italy as documented in the movie from Hanita to Madrid. This 2006 documentary looks at the complex and rarely-heard story of 300 Jews from pre-Israel Palestine who departed to fight fascism and joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939.The film tells many stories of the Palestinian volunteers. It follows them into the aftermath of 1948, when the veterans of the International Brigades were primarily marginalized in the newly founded state of Israel. Mostly members of the Communist Party and anti-Zionists, they were not part of the Israeli narrative on the armed resistance to fascism. When in the 1980s, they were finally accepted into the Israeli pantheon of heroism, their internationalist solidarity with the anti-fascist struggle was sidelined for the sake of emphasizing Jewish national motifs instead. While they fought fascism, the Zionists were busy stealing Arab lands during the Palestinian uprising, 1936-9.
The Zionists called these theft operations Tower and Stockade. A settlement method used by Zionist settlers in Mandatory Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt. The Mandatory authorities legally restricted the establishment of new Jewish settlements. Still, the British generally gave their tacit accord to the Tower and Stockade actions as a means of countering the Arab revolt. During the Tower and Stockade campaign, some 57 Jewish settlements, including 52 kibbutzim and several moshavim, were established throughout the country. The legal basis was a Turkish Ottoman law that was still in effect during the Mandate period, which stated that buildings erected in one night didn’t require a building permit and couldn’t be demolished by authorities.
“There was an attempt to organize a boycott of Nazi goods. It is of interest the Nazi response to the boycott by Jewish businesses, organized in the United States and other countries in protest against Nazi persecution of Jews. The Nazis reacted with a one-day nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany on April 1, 1933. This was presented as a counter-protest, and the Nazi regime threatened to make it permanent if the international protests against their policies continued. The global pressure stopped immediately, partly because the Zionists, led by Ben Gurion, opposed the boycott of Germany. At that time, Ben-Gurion made the deal with the Nazis known as the transfer, but it was not finalized until April 1, 1933. That marked the beginning of a nationwide campaign against Jewish citizens and businesses in Germany.
According to the Hebrew University, the Transfer Agreement of 1933 between the Jewish Agency and Nazi Germany undermined, in fact, the Jewish boycott of German goods and thus evoked much criticism. Polish Jewry supported the boycott because it viewed the situation in Germany as dangerous for the entire Jewish population and regarded the boycott as its only weapon against Nazi anti-Jewish policies. Most of German Jewry opposed the boycott and supported the Transfer Agreement; the Yishuv, led by Ben Gurion, also endorsed the Agreement for developing the economy of settler colonialists. Most Zionist leaders deliberately gave the interests of the Yishuv precedence over those of the lives of the Jews. While Labor supported the Agreement, the Revisionists were mainly critical of it. [i]
Today, the movement for boycotting the Zionist monster is considered Anti-Semitic by the supporters of the Zionist monster and its crimes. But the isolation of the Zionist state is growing with every passing day.
The newspaper Der Spiegel reports that within the German government, “there is disagreement regarding the war in Gaza. It is part of a campaign by the aid organization Medico International, which accuses Germany of supporting “Israel’s murderous warfare. In recent weeks, postcards and posters could be seen in the corridors of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin on the doors of the offices and in the cafeteria. The postcards display pictures of destruction from Gaza with the inscription “One day everyone will always be against it” and “In front of everyone, the killing in Gaza continues.”
After October 7, German solidarity with Israel was beyond doubt but as the number of Palestinian civilian casualties increased, public opinion polls show that a large majority of Germans condemn Israeli actions in Gaza.
This tension led to an unprecedented organization within the Foreign Ministry: some 130 diplomats joined a group demanding a change in German policy toward Israel. They call themselves “non-conformist loyalists” and communicate through channels and informal meetings. Most of the members of the group are young diplomats between the ages of 30 and 40, at the beginning of their careers – diplomatic attachés, advisors and deputy heads of departments. They write professional opinions but do not participate in the decision-making.
The ministry sees this as a generational conflict: the veteran diplomats adhere to the principle of support for Israel, while the younger ones argue that Germany should treat the Israeli government like any other violator of international law, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Myanmar junta. Former veteran diplomats are also joining the internal protest: 13 of them published an open letter calling on the government to take “a more restrictive stance on arms exports and military cooperation with Israel.”[ii]
The Zionists do not understand that they are walking on the same path that demolished the apartheid state of South Africa. The Western imperialists supported South African apartheid as an anti-soviet force and important trading partner.
South Africa was viewed as a valuable trading partner, particularly for its mineral resources, such as chromium, manganese, and vanadium, which were essential for Western industries. South Africa’s location was also important for strategic reasons, including its naval base and access to the African continent. The West, particularly during the Cold War, viewed South Africa as a bulwark against the spread of communism in the region, leading them to overlook the human rights abuses of apartheid.
While some Western nations imposed limited sanctions or restrictions, they were often resisted by the US and UK, who viewed them as detrimental to their economic and strategic interests.
However, by the late 1980s, with the tide of the Cold War shifting and mounting internal and external pressure on South Africa, Western attitudes began to change. Increasing pressure from within South Africa, as well as international calls for sanctions, led to the passage of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in the US in 1986, which imposed significant economic sanctions on South Africa. This led to the end of SA apartheid. However, the ANC and the Stalinists betrayed the workers and the poor blacks, and the outcome is a corrupt regime.
Endnotes:
[i] Yifat Weiss Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry 1988
[ii] https://www.maariv.co.il/news/world/article-1217750