Reply To: Zionism and anti semitism
Marcos, I often ask this question.
When there is absolutely zero chance that the Palestinian’s could win militarily, why do their resistance groups insist upon the provocative strategy of firing rockets into Israel, which are mostly ineffectual. Israel always retaliates with revenge air-strikes which are disproportionate and harms the civilian population yet the Palestinian militants persist poking the Zionist lion.
I can see only one reason, and that the Hamas require a constant state of war with Israel, perpetual conflict, to divert peoples attention from the existence of a privileged elite in control and who blame the Israelis for the poverty and squalor that exists in Gaza and not Hamas itself.
Nobody is denying the economic blockade is devastating in its effect but it has to be conceded that there is also inequality within Gaza – the few rich and the many poor. And occasionally the true war – the class war – manifests itself, and often Hamas actions once again turns it into a national war against Israeli occupation.
What the article describes as the “revolt of the hungry”