"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has gained significant media prominence following the recent attack carried out by Hamas against Israel, which involved missile launches and the incursion of armed fighters onto Israeli soil. In line with historical recurrence, the present situation has also been instrumentalised to polarise public opinion and reduce its complexity to Manichaeism, with the aim of obscuring its actual essence — as an epiphenomenon of the warlike dynamics of crisis neo-imperialism at the heart of late capitalism. The unequivocally genocidal and colonialist project carried out by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, evident in the latter’s confinement within the Gaza strip through technological terror and systematic violence, has been going on for more than half a century. Nevertheless, it is essential to reject the stigmatising conflation of the Israeli population with its state apparatus. Its daily existence, permeated by rigid racial divisions and chronic militarisation, not only subjugates this people — subjecting them to the servitude of a neo-fascist government — but also brings them suffering (evident in the civilian victims, both in the context of the attack, the Arab-Israeli war, internal repression, or even strategic-military sacrifices, as occurred in Be’eri kibbutz). The Enlightenment left, in its eagerness to express its synthetic anti-imperialism anchored in bourgeois reason and the nostalgic dichotomy of the Cold War, has shown itself to be complicit in this utilitarian appropriation, neglecting the scrutiny demanded by the situation. The counter-offensive in question does not originate from the spontaneous movement of the people against oppressive forces; on the contrary, it arises from a jihadist, nationalist, and anti-Marxist organisation — Hamas..."
https://medium.com/@ascentreact/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-critical-and-historical-analysis-d6a796e3fcf7
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