It’s happening all over the world. There are several countries in Africa where people are currently yelling for attention to mass murders — but we in the bit of the world that calls itself The West are used to hearing about death in Africa. We ignore mass murder in Africa and, until recently, when the yells for help came from Palestine, we’d say ‘oh, but that’s an unresolvable conflict’.
But there’s a chink of light at the moment. Israel is so phenomenally bad at PR that most of the world has realized there is a crime going on in Gaza. Thanks to the resilience and resourcefulness of Palestinian people, what Israel did to (and is still doing to) Gaza is well documented, and has led people to actually look into what Israel has been doing to Palestine for decades.
Many are listening to politicians like Andrew Feinstein, or reading historians like Ilan Pappe and amongst feminists, some have taken the trouble to find out who those women are who have held Palestinian life together and reported on it, even in the most impossible of circumstances.
Once you start investigating instead of reading the mainstream press or believing mainstream telly, it doesn’t take much work to uncover the truth. There are no unresolvable conflicts, just a very large and very thick smokescreen between us and those who profit from eternal conflict.
The vast majority of politicians and journalists divide into two categories: those who consciously work for big corporations such as the arms industry, and make a fortune thereby — and those who work for the big corporations unconsciously, by failing to study politics deeply enough to work out when they’re being led by the nose. But those of us who aren’t drawing a fat salary, or chasing one, from politics or journalism, have actually worked out what’s going on and are taking action.
The gathering in Hastings this weekend (header pic) was prompted by the All Eyes on Rafah call-out. Israel has now cut off all aid deliveries to Rafah, and set about attacking the 1.5m Palestinian refugees crowded into what Israel claimed was the ‘safe zone’. So we gathered, to figure out how to respond.
Various actions were announced – and a pleasing list of victories — in particular, several Elbit factories have now been permanently shut down and politicians are beginning to realize they are looking ridiculous. Even the despicable US administration is now muttering that yes, it looks as though Israel might be doing bad things with the weapons it’s been given.
One of the actions announced at the gathering in Hastings this week was this die-in at Barclays, another huge source of funds for genocide.
Click here to see Barclays video.
Each action leads to more conversations in the street. Each message blows away a little more of the smokescreen, and reinforces our natural aversion to murder and violence. Hastings will shortly be once again visiting a local factory now known about the town as Genocide Dynamics.
Please keep the actions going — see you on the street somewhere!
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Kay Green 