Gaza is at the same time a place where the greatest acts of human depravity have been committed; and a place where the greatest examples of human resilience and heroism can be found. The more the enemy tries to annihilate the Palestinian people, the harder they fight back, and the more they come up with ingenious ways to turn the enemy’s own tools against it. The resistance has taken advantage of the weaknesses in the occupier’s surveillance technology, used the leftover materials from the occupier’s bombs to build new weapons, utilized the bunkers that the occupier created, and crippled the occupier’s economy. As our ruling class works towards bringing Gaza’s suffering to more parts of the globe, freedom fighters all around the world must take example from the Palestinians.
Their story has shown that when you refuse to appease your oppressors, and instead commit to resistance by all methods available, you will put yourself on the path to victory. Such a mode of practice is not bravado, because it requires that the revolutionary forces fully account for the oppressor’s strengths. And the enemies of the Palestinians do have plenty of strengths; the question for the resistance has been how to exploit the oppressor’s weaknesses, of which there are also many.
The U.S. empire has turned Gaza into a testing ground for new methods of sadism and mass murder, hoping that the global proliferation of these methods—and the sight of Gaza’s horrors—will dissuade the world’s peoples from rising up. This was a crucial part of the Zionist entity’s motivation for perpetrating the genocide: to restore the deterrence powers of the entity (and Washington by extension) through showing everyone what happens when you resist. Yet even now, after Gaza has experienced an apocalypse, the resistance within Gaza hasn’t gone away. The liberation forces have only grown stronger, and the Gazan people have proven they won’t be coerced into leaving their homeland. This means that should the entity try to re-invade Gaza, the Palestinians will bring their oppressors even closer towards final defeat.
The imperialists and their proxies are doing all they can to expand their destructive campaign. They’ve made the West Bank into the extermination effort’s next location, with the Israeli Offense Force intensifying its assaults against the area’s people. The entity’s next plans include annexing all of Syria’s southern region, taking southern Lebanon, and officially annexing the West Bank. Yet even if the entity and its imperial backers succeed in these things, this will not prevent Zionism’s unraveling; if anything, it will make the entity’s downfall come faster. Because the entity’s strength is limited, and if it expends itself in too many areas, this will bring about its demise.
The internal breakdown that Zionism has been undergoing will not be reversed; it’s only going to worsen. The entity’s economic, energy, demographic, and military morale crises have only begun, and a crucial reason for this is the Palestinian resistance. That’s the incredible nature of what the Palestinian liberation fighters are doing: even when their people have had everything taken away from them, and they’ve become confined to a tiny enclave, they continue to bring their oppressors ever-closer towards defeat.
That Gaza has been made so isolated further demonstrates the invincibility of the resistance. Gaza is a small tip of the land that the Palestinians used to have, trapped between the Nazi state of “Israel” and the fascist collaborator state Egypt. In the last year, Iran’s alliance to resist Zionism has largely fallen apart; Syria’s destruction left Lebanon far more vulnerable, while “Israel” became able to invade Syria and accelerate Palestine’s extermination. But if and when the entity picks another fight with the Palestinian resistance, this is going to make the aggressors experience bigger blowback than ever.
The entity cannot handle Syria and Gaza at the same time; that’s why it agreed to the ceasefire. The hegemon would also become overwhelmed by a new fight with Gaza’s liberation forces; Washington is trying to secure control over Syria so that it can pursue its larger strategic goals, and this plan would be ruined by a new Gaza confrontation. It would bring Washington even further from its goal of war with China, forcing it to put more resources towards the impossible mission of subduing Palestine.
Gaza’s resistance can’t be eliminated, and this is because the resistance has been able to exploit its status as a guerrilla force; it’s turned the limitations of its circumstances into a strength. Hamas, PFLP, and the others in Gaza’s resistance coalition have not been able to operate with an official army; the Palestinians in Gaza haven’t even truly had a state either. Over the decades, the occupier has done everything it can to make sure Gaza can’t develop, isolating and strangling it in an attempt to make its people overthrow Hamas. But the people have remained resolute in their efforts to defy the oppressor, and this is shown by their unwillingness to carry out some sort of anti-Hamas color revolution. In turn, the coalition has been able to carry through its plans; it’s put the occupier into a death spiral, and made it inevitable that Palestine will get a state regardless of what the Zionists want.
In reaction to these irrecoverable defeats, the enemy is trying to eradicate the Palestinians. At this point, the Gaza blockade is simply about trying to exterminate the people, because it’s become clear that they’ll never acquiesce to the enemy’s demands. And because the resistance has operated with that same uncompromising mentality, where you’ll take on any and all sacrifices to defeat the enemy, the resistance has become more of a threat than ever.
Gaza’s fighting forces, as well as Gaza’s people, are in place to devastate the imperial structure. A moment is coming in which the hegemon’s forces become split between Syria and Gaza, foiling its wider geopolitical schemes. When that moment comes, it won’t represent the empire’s final defeat; but it will create a crisis that the empire can’t handle. The global capitalist system has long been preparing for a crisis like this, and a large part of this preparation has been to “Israelify” police states around the world.
The Zionist entity has developed new, high-tech methods for surveilling and coercing the Palestinians. These technologies and police training models have then been exported to numerous capitalist states, both in the core imperialist countries and in the Global South. Palestine’s colonization has been instrumental in the rise of our techno-tyranny, giving the ruling class unprecedented tools for restricting the masses. But all peoples can defeat this system of control, even when this system has taken on its most extreme form.
Gaza has proven we can all fight back. This is the message we need to take away from all we’ve seen since October 7: even when the enemy does all it can to crush a people, the people are capable of winning in the end.
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