I WANT TO LIVE

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian doctors surrounded by bodies of dead children begging the world to stop the slaughter.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian children who held a press conference in English to beg the world to stop murdering them because they want to live.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Priest who said "We will not accept your apology after the genocide" to the world.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Imam who used the speakers of the Mosque, not to call people to prayer but to call out to God while the world around them was burning from American supplied Israeli bombs.

I'm never forgetting the grandfather who held his dead grandchild in his arms. Or the father carrying the remains of his two children in plastic shopping bags. Or the mother holding her dead child in a shroud. Or the father sitting among the rubble after he lost his whole family. Or the girl trapped under a broken building begging for people to save her family first. Or the boy who cried when he saw his brother alive. Or the girl who asked if she was still alive after being pulled from the rubble. Or the boy who carried the remains of his brother in his backpack. Or the old man the IOF used for a photoshoot before they shot him dead after getting pictures. Or the little boy wearing plastic gloves to pick up the remains of his family. Or the graves desecrated. Or the body of that small baby girl left alone in a tent because no one knew who she was or if her family was alive, small and alone and not one person who knew her name to bury her. Or the young boy who was shot in the street while his sister watched from the window. Or the men and boys who were stripped naked in winter. Or those tortured. Or those made to stand in open graves. Or the people who were raped by IOF soldiers. Or Palestinian workers kidnapped by the IOF and then labeled with wristbands, each one reduced to a number, then made to walk back to Gaza to be killed in the world's largest open air concentration camp. Or the people of Gaza starving because Israeli Zionists are blocking aid trucks. Or the Israelis dancing and celebrating the death of Palestinians. Or the lies spread by Zionists and their supporters. Or the people profiting off the oppression and deaths of Palestinians. Or the people of the West Bank being killed or kidnapped by the IOF. Or old woman who was older than the creation of the terror state of "Israel" who was shot by snipers for saying that. Or the Israelis dressed up as Palestinians to enter a hospital and kill three Palestinians in their beds. Or every single Palestinian currently kept in an Israeli prison. Or the journalists, doctors, poets, men, women, children, and the unborn all massacred. Or the fact that WCNSF exists now. Or the woman who refused to wash the blood from her hands. Or the dead, unburied and unmourned.

I'm never forgetting those who chose silence in the face of a genocide.

I may not know all their names but I will not forget the over 30,000 Palestinians dead. Or the over 60, 000 people hurt. Or the unknown number of people missing, still lost under the rubble. Or the 12,000 children slaughtered. An entire generation crippled or murdered.

[ToI is Israeli Private Media]

The families announce they intend to stay at the entrance to the Kirya, which houses the IDF’s headquarters, until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly declares that “there is no ceasefire without the return of all the captives.”

The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023, Amnesty International said today. One attack on the town of Dhayra on 16 October must be investigated as a war crime because it was an indiscriminate attack that injured at least nine civilians and damaged civilian objects, and was therefore unlawful, said the organization.

BEWARE OF PROPAGANDA.

If I could convince every person I know to take up arms and just murder every single police officer, or reactionary, or whatever, that they came across, that itself would achieve functionally nothing, politically. It would be a minor spate of terrorism - probably a big news item that month, maybe used as justification for further state security measures, but ultimately leaving little impact on the world beyond a few hundred dead on a planet of billions.

The issue then, is not itself the divide between 'violent' and 'nonviolent' action, between 'institutional' and 'underground' politics - though those are certainly themselves issues, they aren't even yet relevant, because we haven't passed the most basic filter of organised versus individual action. The point we're facing, then, is that there exists absolutely no individual action that can engender social change, not even the most extreme individual action - and that even if there did exist such a thing, it would still remain impossible to actually bring about its widespread conduct without an organisation to do so.

You can say it would be nice, say, for everyone to refuse to buy some harmful product, or for everyone to wear masks to protect others, or for everyone to train themselves in military matters. And, yes, it would be nice, wouldn't it? We can stop there, happily content that we've found a solution. If everyone up and just Stopped Doing Capitalism tomorrow, we could carry out a bloodless revolution, too. The problem is that you, smart person though you are, have no possible means of making any significant amount of people do this. You could exert all the social power available to you, as could everyone you know, and still have absolutely no chance at having your (doubtlessly superior) ideas defeat those of even a small cable-news channel with corporate funding.

Ultimately, then, it is only an actual organisation, a political instrument of an entire social class, which can bring about any significant social change - much less the total restructuring of society through revolution. Unless the interests of a given section of society are organised, refined through political theory, and then structured into action, the matters being discussed are absolutely immaterial. It does not whatsoever matter how individuals vote in bourgeois elections if it firstly doesn't matter what you tell them to vote.