R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland–

A media report from the Washington Post has revealed the plans of the Trump Administration and the Israeli government for the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The leaked 38-page document proposes the so-called GREAT Trust (Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation), a plan to at first pay Palestinians to abandon their homes or to coerce the rest out of Gaza, and subsequently to invest in the Gaza Strip, jointly. A space has been carved out for Trump himself to be converted into the “Great Trump Riviera,” where he plans to build a massive resort on the blood-soaked ruins of the Palestinian people. The release of these documents nearly coincide with plans announced by the Knesset to completely annex the West Bank, nominally under Palestinian control, eroded over these last several decades by IDF incursions and the epidemic of illegal Israeli settlements across the region. 

The lauded Israeli claim to the land of Palestine, allegedly promised to them thousands of years ago in the Bible and other holy texts, is apparently for sale and lease. Indeed the Israeli bourgeoisie seem to have found, at long last, some manner of compensation for the hundreds of millions of US dollars that have fueled their “self-defense” genocide against the colonized people of Palestine.

The working people of the United States have shown in historic protests over the course of these last two years that we would never accept any mercenary compensation, that we do not consent for the empire lording over us to pave the way for the occupation in Palestine. This brazen theft of Gaza and the West Bank will not benefit the American proletarian, living paycheck to paycheck, sinking deeper into debt, poverty, and exhaustion, staring down the maelstrom of fascist erosion of what few democratic rights we have won in hard-fought struggle in this country!

This predatory dismemberment of Palestine will not even benefit the vast laboring masses of Israel itself, not when landlords, corporations of Israeli and international origin (as shown by the investments of global corporations from the US to France to China) will only serve to further the growing pauperization and exploitation of all living under the yoke of private property. 

Trump is a president who aided the dismantling of the pathetic ceasefire declared by Biden and Harris as they waved their way out of the White House with blood-soaked hands. Trump is the president who urged Netanyahu to “finish the job” against the Palestinian nation, granting legitimacy to Israel’s occupation by moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and like all US presidents since 1947, funneled countless dollars to the Israeli regime to fund their crimes.

Now, Trump is seeking to cash in. In following the money, it is blatantly exposed that this cannibalistic campaign these last 75 years have as their aim the annexation, expropriation, and the plunder of Palestinians and other peoples. We must not forget Israel’s similarly colonialist designs for southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights of Syria, and their meddling in Yemen — even assassinating the Prime Minister of the Houthis this summer. 

The web of imperialism is so transparent, working people in the United States, in Europe, and indeed the whole world, must begin to see the cause of survival and liberation of the Palestinian nation as the opening salvo in the deepening, inevitable crisis of imperialism, a scheme of militarization and plunder that will widen the gap between rich and poor, lay the foundation for more effective repression at home, and set up yet another global economic crisis that working people will suffer for the avarice and greed of the capitalist class. And it is bought with the deaths of tens of thousands, the imposed famine of millions, and now this brazen scheme to turn this horrifying crime scene of what was a civilization into a damnable tourist attraction!

Beyond recognition, the solidarity of the global proletariat must find new resolve and determination, be it in direct aid to Palestinians as is being done with the attempted Freedom Flotillas, in boycotts building toward divestment and sanctions, in strikes such as those of dockworkers throughout Europe, on the streets, and in every campaign by all revolutionary organizations, so that we must outpace the extremity and determination of the most earnest and villainous representatives of the bourgeoisie seen since the 1940s. If we permit, in silence, this nightmare to reach its climax, the working people of the world will never know the end of horror, the ruling class will know we will accept anything, ignore anything, and on that day, we open the door for the “novelty” of this 75-year genocide to be visited on every corner of the world.

Categories: International, Palestine