By Yorgos Mitralias "And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts if you do not move heaven and earth to come to our aid by the only means available to our people and as soon as possible? (...) For the love of God, do something now, and quickly.“ This desperate cry for help, quoted by Saul Friedländer in his monumental work ”Nazi Germany and the … [Read more...]
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PALESTINE – ORIGINS OF THE CURRENT NIGHTMARE
WIN discussion June 2025. See it HERE. After decades of subjugation under military occupation, the Palestinian people today are facing outright genocide. How did this happen? The Oslo agreement, signed 32 years ago, had been heralded as the first step towards a two-state solution, with promises of Palestinian self-governance, economic growth and a pathway to prosperity and sovereignty. In reality … [Read more...]
Too late for Israel and the Israelis to free themselves from their genocidal demons!
By Yorgos Mitralias After twenty months of daily massacres of civilians—especially women and children—and acts of unspeakable deadly sadism, including the organized starvation of the inhabitants of Gaza, the Israeli state, but also Israeli society, are facing their moment of truth as never before. So, can the Zionist state become “normal,” a state more or less like any other? In short, is it … [Read more...]
Famine as a weapon of genocide
by Yorgos Mitralias The images of the children of Gaza, which most Western media refuse to show, leave no doubt: they are reminiscent of those of the Nazi extermination camps filmed by filmmakers such as John Ford, Samuel Fuller or George Stevens just after their liberation by the American army: living skeletons, skin glued to bones, eyes sunken into sockets, eyes misty! It's clear, then, … [Read more...]
The Holocaust in Gaza is Washington’s Baby. The Class War at Home is Too
from Richard Mellor Although it may seem hopeless, I will not, and neither will this blog, stop sharing the horrific images and stories about the genocide that Zionism is committing in Palestine. The Israeli's are committing this horror with full support of the US and most of the western nations and media. The US provides the weapons, the money and the diplomatic cover. Netanyahu, a … [Read more...]
Gaza: “More than a human being can bear”
By Yorgos Mitralias The report by the UN Independent Commission* on Israel's sexual and reproductive crimes against Palestinians confirms what we already knew: the Zionist state systematically and massively uses sexual violence against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys! But the report also tells us something else: these sexual and reproductive crimes committed by Israel are an … [Read more...]
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST – A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. The fragile ceasefire reached in January between Israel and Hamas is now at breaking point. In Gaza, where tens of thousands are known to have been killed and countless more buried under the rubble, Israel has cut off all food, electricity, water and medical supplies. It has intensified its repression in the West Bank, fought with Hezbollah … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION
A WIN Discussion February 2025. See the meeting HERE. The entire Middle East is in flames. To take just a few illustrations of the region’s instability… · The Assad government in Syria – a dynasty which had been in power for six decades – collapsed on December 8th after just eleven days of fighting. · Casualties of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza … [Read more...]
The truce between Israel and Hamas has begun
By ISL Coordination, Asian Marxist Review, Courtesy International Socialist League Israel finally reached an agreement with Hamas on the first ceasefire since it launched its genocidal offensive in Gaza, and an exchange of prisoners has begun. The Palestinian people celebrated in the streets the end of the bombings and an agreement that they consider a victory of their heroic resistance. … [Read more...]