What Can We Do About Palestine?

So, the right-wing, fly covered turd, Netanyahu thought he'd consolidate his hold on his fellow extreme racist Israelis by attacking Palestinian Muslims at prayer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque during their holy season while also stepping up expropriations and evictions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem (to make way for extremist Zionist "settlers"). In retaliation for these atrocities, Palestinians in Gaza fired some homemade missiles into Israel which, obviously, made the insanely entitled Israelis feel "justified" in launching a massive bombing campaign, blowing up apartment buildings, media offices, medical facilities, schools and other critical infrastructure. One (intentional) result of this has been to make 58,000 residents of Gaza homeless. These are all clearly war crimes.

Israel gets away with this barbarism because they are enabled by the US government no matter which wing of the Corporate Oligarch Corruption Party is in power. Currently it is the "Democrats" under Joseph P. Biden. US coddling and enabling of Israel's Crimes Against Humanity has no firmer partner than Canada, where both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party vote lockstep to support Israel against the world. (In cases where a country like, say, Australia, might abstain from a United Nations General Assembly vote to censure Israel for some particularly egregious cruelty, Canada will shamelessly vote against censure together with the USA and some tiny Pacific Island nations totally dependent upon the USA's largesse.)

[The NDP, has recently been pushed by its membership to declare its support for the Palestinian victims of Israeli occupation and apartheid. This has been a long, drawn-out process, with the grassroots having to constantly work away at the pro-Zionism of the party brass and leadership.]

And what of the general public? At present, a clear majority of Canadians favour Israel's interests over those of the Palestinians. [That is honestly what I'd absorbed from my very casual, but sustained, experience of opinion polls on this subject. Looking for a link to support that statement, I found this result which certainly contradicts it.] But these numbers have been cratering in recent years. Some Canadians will always support the Israelis over the Palestinians because of a moronic devotion to the Book of Revelations. Others remain steadfastly brainwashed by mainstream news, which is blatantly pro-Israel. But as Israeli behaviour becomes more and more inhuman, and the Palestinians (aside from firing a few rockets in the face of constant provocation and suffering), ... and, I suppose, the memory of The Holocaust fades in the public consciousness, ... it becomes increasingly difficult to see any justice to decade upon decade of Zionist land theft and collective punishment of Palestinians.

So, in response to the latest sickening abuses and slaughters by Zionists, against Palestinians, Canadian leftists and progressives have risen up to stage afternoon protests in many cities across Canada. But what else is planned? Because as I have explained, time and time again, .... and more importantly, as reality has demonstrated, time and time again, ... the present power structures are not terribly inconvenienced by isolated peaceful protests. Please note: We also call them "demonstrations." Because they demonstrate something. That something is supposed to be the numbers of people who will go on to escalate their actions if their demands aren't meant. Demonstrations by people who can't even conceive of escalating are demonstrations of impotence.

So how can we escalate? Deluge our MPs with emails and letters of protest and condemnation? Confronting our MPs with what they're actually supporting (if they're Liberals or Conservatives)? Blockading businesses selling stuff from Israel or the Occupied Territories? Prolonged protests outside of the Israeli Embassy and Consulates? Street blockades? Is anyone thinking of these next steps?

And while we obviously SHOULD commit to sustained activism in the face of the Crimes Against Humanity being perpetrated by Israel, it could be asked why this issue and not so many others. We still have the genocide in Yemen, where a Saudi blockade has already produced millions of deaths and millions more lives have been permanently maimed by malnutrition (and Justin Trudeau's Canada's still sells these monsters weapons!); There is still the malign neglect of First Nations' communities, where communities still endure unsafe drinking water, grossly insufficient housing, and other oppressions deliberately imposed by the Canadian state; There is still Global warming.  

The absence of an organized Leftist movement to win and use power results in our being locked in an endless cycle of reaction to oligarch depredations. We need to think seriously, and full-time about taking power.