The Gaza "Ceasefire"

Resist Zionist Terror

(Statement by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) salutes the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.  They have survived the attempted genocide. It is not over but the 1^st stage of the agreement gives some relief to the people of Gaza and frees some of the Palestinian hostages that Israel was holding in its prisons.  However, Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement daily and has no intention of ending their genocidal policy towards the Palestinians.  As the statement by the three leading Palestinian resistance organizations makes clear, the resistance will continue till all of Palestine is free.

Both Netanyahu and Trump asserted that Hamas would be destroyed, and they and other resistance groups would be disbanded and disarmed and that that Gaza would be emptied of Palestinians.  But they failed and the resistance organizations maintain the overwhelming support of the Palestinian people.

Israel achieved none of its goals and today they are hated and isolated throughout the world, and the US and its European allies have been exposed as supporters and perpetrators of genocide.  Their military campaign against unarmed Palestinians has been a failure.  Israel and imperialism have been weakened.

On the other hand, at great expense, the Palestinian people have stood firm and today have been embraced by people in every country, including in the imperialist countries of Europe and North America.  Millions have marched in the streets across the world. Performers and athletes have taken up their cause and are refusing to have relations with Israel.  The Italian unions held a general strike, not for wages and benefits, but for Palestine.  Other unions around the world took stands against the genocide and refused to load ships or move weapons to Israel. There is now pressure like never before to end support to Israel.  People today understand the horror that is Zionism as never before in history. 

Israel is the greatest recipient of US aid.  This aid could cover health care in the US and other needs, but instead during this war, Medicaid has been cut. Besides the aid from the US government and other of its imperialist allies, billions get funneled into Israel through bonds and investments from cities and states, from retirement funds and even unions.  This keeps Israel going and pays for the illegal settlements in the Westbank.  Israel is a product of imperialism and can exist only through the support of imperialism.

The US armed Israel to the teeth, but they could not defeat the people of Gaza, who were kept totally unarmed, sanctioned and surrounded. The resistance, at enormous sacrifice, managed to dig tunnels for self defense and repurpose Israeli missiles dropped on them, into weapons of resistance.  They have every right, faced with continuing illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide, to hold their weapons today."

Israel hoped that with an easy defeat of the Palestinians, they could move on to accomplish their goal of a Greater Israel, and especially destroy Iran, but Iran fought back and showed they could greatly damage Israel causing Israel to plead with Trump to intervene, which he did.  But Iran emerged stronger after the 12-day war and today, with the help of Russia and China, have plugged holes in their defenses.  Today, Israel can no longer be seen as an indestructible force, and tens of thousands of Israelis fled the country during the war with Iran, and many will never come back.  Israel and the US were shown to be weak against Yemen and whatever blows they were able to deal, Yemen was able to continue to fight back in support of the people of Gaza.  Even US Navy ships proved vulnerable to the Yemenis.  In Lebanon, Hezbollah remains as a force with massive support.  We in UNAC applaud the role of the Axis of Resistance that supported the Palestinians in every way they could.

The antiwar movement in the US was able to be built during this period of genocide.  For the first time in many years, we were able to hold mass demonstrations against the genocide and the relentless lies of the government and their media that called us antisemitic could not defeat this movement, nor could their repression.  But we must also learn from our actions.  We must learn to be more inclusive and struggle to bring together all forces who support the Palestinian people.  Though there is a relief from the fighting at this moment.  We know that Israel’s goal is still genocide against the Palestinian people and that US imperialism will always push for war and domination.

From the River to the Sea, All of Palestine will be free!