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Starmer does not speak for the British people
Fourth, we, the British people and especially British workers, do not stand with Israel. We do not recognise the zionist butchers’actions as ‘self-defence’.
On the contrary, it is clear to us that Israel is fighting a genocidal and colonial war on behalf of the zionists’ ‘right’ to live in a supremacist, apartheid state. On behalf of the ‘right’ of the Nato imperialists to colonise and loot the entire middle east – to extract its oil and keep its labour power in the most abject conditions of superexploitation.
Fifth, Israel has no right to demand ‘security’ for itself alone. Truesecurity is indivisible. If there is no security of life and limb for the Palestinian and wider Arab and middle-eastern (indeed global) population; if Israeli settler-colonialism has arrogated to itself the right to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children, dismissing all its innocent victims as “terrorists” and “subhuman”, it has forfeited any reasonable claim to ‘security’ forits own adherents.
Those decent Israelis who stand against the genocidal actions of their government are free to leave Israel, or to join the political and military resistance that is today facing Israel’s fascist rulers. Just as the white population of South Africa were free to join the struggleagainst the fascist apartheid regime. Just as German workers were free to join the fight against the Nazis.
Let us note in passing that those who are willing to stand up in this way are a tiny proportion of the population – precisely because the entire project of Israel is to establish a racist settler-colonial and therefore supremacist base for imperialism in the region. That century-long project has yielded the bitter fruit of modern-day Israel.
Those Israelis who stand with the crimes of their regime are complicit in its actions; they are not innocent. They are belligerents. Armed and ideologically committed to ethnically cleansing first ‘Greater Israel’ (Palestine) and then to expanding relentlessly and waging a perpetual war on their neighbours. As belligerents in an illegal occupation and aggressive war, as perpetrators of a heinous genocide, they have no rights except for the right to cease their crimes and make reparations.
The Palestinian and Arab masses, on the other hand, have the right to self-defence as enshrined in UN resolutions, international law, and their own innate humanity. And this includes the right to bear arms. To deny them this right, the right to defend and liberate themselves, is to deny them their humanity.