On August 5, 2024, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said: “In today’s global realities, no war can be waged. No 1 in the planet will let us to starve 2 million Gazans, although it could be fair and moral until they give us hostages." He added that if Israel had controlled the separation of aid alternatively than Hamas, the war would have ended and the hostages would have returned home.
Smotrich longs for the good old days erstwhile starving the people of the country with which you are at war was average – during planet War II Germany did this to Britain and during the first British Germans. The Minister accidentally made the best argument for globalisation: it is precisely due to the fact that we are immersed in "today's global realities", specified atrocities are impossible – even the US, which supplied Israel with bombs to destruct Gaza, simultaneously dropping food packages there.
Why did Haniyeh die?
Smotrich’s message fits perfectly into what is happening in Israel. About 50 people die all day in Gaza, and the panic against Palestinians in the West Bank is unrestrained – but this is already written mainly in brief mentions at the bottom of the page, due to the fact that it has become part of a fresh normality. Human rights activists of the B’Tselem Group public opinion credible evidence on how "violence, utmost hunger, humiliation and another abuses against Palestinian prisoners have been standardised in the Israeli prison system", but even specified apparent cases of "institutionalised abuse" are ignored or mocked by Israeli stand-ups.
We are now more focused on the tension between Israel and Iran: whether Iran's possible revenge for killing Ismail Haniyeh will launch a large-scale The mediate East War? Let us quit Israeli panic – the US immediately assured that they would unconditionally defend Israel in the event of an Iranian attack.
It is seldom mentioned in this context that the winner of the Iranian presidential election in 2024 was Masoud Pezeshkian, a very average politician who promised the end of Iran's militant attitude and its reintegration into the global community. The sad conclusion is: what if that was the real reason why Israel killed Haniyeh in Tehran? What if the real intent was to prevent the normalization of Iran at all costs? Israel clearly succeeded. The same applies to the attitude towards Hamas: after this 1 chose Yahya Sinwar as its fresh leader, Tel Aviv treats this – the expected – choice as the final proof that Hamas is an organization with which neither peace nor negotiation is possible.
Which bastards do we prefer?
Israel, Hamas, and hardheads in Iran clearly want war. They follow the same logic as any “radical” leftists in the West, whose position best returned Jannis Warufakis: “I would alternatively have in power bastards who claim to be bastards representing aristocracy than bastards who pretend to represent people working.” But even if it makes sense in the case of the UK (though if Sunak He was truly better than Starmer?), in most developed Western countries there are no "students in power who claim to represent aristocracy". There are bastards. Trump rod Le Pen) claiming to represent (the right or white) working class, and who are against elites and immigrants and minorities accustomed to utilizing state support. And on the another hand, bastards convinced that they represent endangered (sexual, racial) minorities in opposition to the intolerance of fresh nationalist fundamentalists. And what about the working class who prefers the bastards who claim to represent her?
But in today's confusing times, we should like hypocrisy to violent realities, and average center to the extremist right. Hypocrisy, in which the center is profoundly immersed, leaves open space for criticism (attacking those in power for not increasing up to the principles they preach). Yes, the fresh populist right is simply a symptom of the failure of a average center (in the sense that its hypocrisy has enabled the emergence of right-wing populism), but the regulation of right-wing radicals poses a threat on an unimaginable scale. In the late 1930s, communists and Marxists tirelessly repeated that fascism was an organic growth of liberal capitalism (according to Adorno, this was the fundamental motive for the dialectical description of fascism by the Frankfurt School – fascist movements were not any exception within liberal democracy, but an interior and structural mark of its defeat), but did not prevent the extremist left from joining forces with liberals and even conservatives (like Churchill) in clashing with fascists.
Looking for a common enemy
That lesson is more current present than ever. It is easy to say, with a convenient “radical” left-wing position, that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are yet the same, i.e. financial elite instruments. However, who wins the election in 2024 is simply a substance of life and death for millions of blacks and women. An example not marginal: if Trump wins, mediocre white women will be the main victims of further limitation of the right to abortion.
The same applies to the fresh frightening symptoms of the moral distribution of public space in Britain: large anti-immigrant protests, which broke out in late July 2024 after a murderous assault with a knife on respective children in a dance class in Southport. The minute of the fact of these protests appeared clearly in North Irish Belfast, where a group of nationalist Irish Catholics joined British loyalists, and this 1 Unity Fetish racist demonstrators: “At last we stand united before the actual enemy.” This is the logic we know from the times of anti-Semitic fascism: alternatively of focusing on our interior disputes, we should all (workers and capitalists) unite against the Jews, our common enemy.
About these protests, the left has said and written enough: the elite of power that condemns their brutal obsceneness are de facto the partners that led to them. Elon Musk, owner of the X portal, published on 4 August on his platform entryin which he stated that "the civilian war is inevitable". This was a consequence to another tweet that blamed the violent demonstrations for “mass migration and open borders”.
Musk is part of the problem: his decision to open X to hatred speech has greatly contributed to creating an atmosphere that favoured racist protests. Owen Jones So he was right.: The elites who present look at riots with distaste have asked for them and created the ground for them, blaming the crisis of immigrants – alternatively of themselves. The fact is that if immigrants were truly expelled from Western Europe, the economies of Germany, Italy and the UK would stand. Western Europe needs fresh workers, due to the fact that even if local residents do not have jobs themselves, they are not ready to take any kind of activity, especially physical or care. Furthermore, it was our elites who caused immigration through their economical and military policies: it is adequate to mention the key function of the American attack on Iraq, the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya or the full mess in Syria. What is now happening in Gaza and the West Bank is just the tip of the iceberg, which consists of over a century of Western force in arabian countries.
False Conflict
However, that is not the full fact – 1 should mention at least 2 another issues. First, average people actually suffer, only they aim for the incorrect target. Secondly, Islam has fundamentalists among its representatives whose views are incompatible with the liberal lifestyle of the West (or why should we leave this concept to the right?). If otherwise, why should so many African and mediate east states complain that the West is destroying their way of life, imposing the values of liberal individualism?
The sad conclusion is, therefore, that Israel and Hamas with Iran, as well as British anti-immigrant racists and Muslim fanatics, play the same game: the game of full war, which can only consequence in common demolition and which is simply a false conflict that obscures the real causes of problems, or the dynamics of global capitalism.
I do not postulate soft, Gradualistic politics – on the contrary. The only way to build foundations for extremist change is to stay distant from false conflicts, like a vampire from garlic.
