Voices of Israeli and Palestinian Anarchists
I started The Right Podcast project about a year and a half ago. One of the things that struck me in research was the need for voices from people in regions that others were talking about. It seemed so evident that narratives and propaganda were being interjected by those seeking to exploit global suffering for their own goals, whether purely financial, ideological, or other. This sentiment was reinforced by those who I’ve spoken with from around the world.
This article was written in that spirit. You don’t need Western intellectuals, media, politicians, or, least of all, me to “explain” what is happening in these regions when those directly involved can do so. I asked Nestor, who I spoke to about the 161 Crew relating to Ukraine if he was aware of any groups in the region. It turns out that 161 Crew interviewed an anarchist account based in Israel called Radical Haifa. The article can be found here. I reached out to Radical Haifa with questions found below.
Finding Palestinian groups to communicate with is difficult, given the current situation. However, Palestinian voices are precisely what we need to hear. Radical Haifa again confirmed the notion that we need to listen to people in the regions that we are inquiring about.
“I recommend listening to Palestinian voices, learning about the history of the resistance, seeking a Palestinian perspective on the situation, and expanding your horizons.”
That is what the second discussion does. This Q&A is with a member of the Palestinian anarchist group Fauda. I have left the original Arabic responses in the article for those able to read it. Both Radical Haifa and Fauda provide links for readers. Please consider clicking them and learning about the conflict through their eyes. - Rob
Radical Haifa
- Describe Radical Haifa.
At this time, basically, an account on Mastodon. It was an attempt to organize locally in Haifa, and later became a platform to share news from occupied Palestine, with anti-authoritarian and pro-resistance perspective. Might be something bigger in the future but we'll leave it at that for now.
- What area or regions are you from?
Haifa, occupied Palestine! A city in which about 70,000 of its original inhabitants were expelled in 1948 by Zionist militias, to make room for the Jewish state.
- What is the reality on the ground in Gaza?
In more than two weeks following the beginning of the war, after Hamas fighters and some other militants from the besieged Gaza Strip initiated a surprise attack on October 7 leading to the massacre of around 1500 Israeli soldiers and civilians, Israel declared a war on Gaza with currently around 5000 people dead, more than a million displaced, tens of thousands of injured and around 50% of the structures in Gaza destroyed. Humanitarian aid, including food, fuel and medicine is not allowed in, and only in recent days was finally allowed in small quantities through the Rafah crossing in Egypt. Hospitals, mosques, schools and entire neighborhoods have been destroyed and evaporated by air raids. Israel has ordered the entire population of the city of Gaza, around 1 million people, to move to the south of the strip, and then bombed the routes of those leaving. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt is closed, so millions of refugees cannot escape the strip. Israeli soldiers are gathering around the borders of Gaza, and preparing for a ground invasion, with the clear intention, according to their words, to wipe out Hamas.
- How would you describe what Israel is doing right now in the name of security and anti-terrorism?
The word genocide comes to mind. Many prominent Israeli figures have been espousing genocidal rhetoric since October 7. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant documented declaring a complete, even tighter siege on Gaza, saying "no food, no water, no fuel. We are fighting human animals." This decision, as said before, was later implemented. The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, said that "There is little difference between Gaza’s civilian population & Hamas", an important statement to remember whenever they're talking about wiping out Hamas. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari made the startling admission that “hundreds of tons of bombs'' had already been dropped on Gaza, adding that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy”. The list goes on. From the rhetoric alone the intention is clear. Israel is turning Gaza into a bloodbath with the full support of the west, especially the US and west European governments.
- Explain the dangers of “two sides” discussions regarding Israel’s attacks on Gaza?
I think it's just silly when you look at it really. Usually, blaming the violence on 'both sides' means that we're dealing with symmetrical conflict, with two parties who are equal in power, and capable of inflicting the same amount of damage. Two sides exist in conflict between state armies, for example. On the other hands, there were no two sides during slavery, in apartheid's South Africa, and in nazi Germany between the Germans and the Jews. Generally, when we talk about oppressor vs oppressed, the "two sides” argument serves the function of distracting from the fact that we're not dealing here with two equal powers in the conflict, but an aggressor and victim, who has every right to resist the aggression. In the context of what happened on 7 October, we're talking about Israel, a nuclear superpower with the support of the strongest imperialist nations in the world, versus Hamas, a militia with primitive weapons in a besieged enclave. Whatever we think of Hamas, they still represent a part of the Palestinian resistance. That is not to justify the events, but to put things in perspective.
- What does it mean to fully accept the Palestinian cause and to be an ally from the West?
A Palestinian might be able to answer this question better. I would say, just generally, listen to Palestinian voices, learn about the history of the resistance, seek Palestinian perspective on the situation, and expand your horizons. Many leftists have different opinions on the subject, some of them completely racist and Islamophobic and lack any context on the region and its history and politics, just the assumption that one can import Euro-centric ideologies and viewpoints to other regions of the world. Fully colonial mentality. In my opinion it stems mainly from the fact that anarchists historically didn't really talk about colonialism. In the end, I do expect people to join the struggle on the terms of the oppressed, and there's plenty of democratic, progressive and revolutionary Palestinian organizations to join and support.
- Criticism of Israel or support for Palestinians is often conflated with antisemitism. Explain why this is not the case and what might be gained by giving up oppressive identities.
For Israel it is way too easy to pull the antisemitism card whenever faced with unwanted criticism. This weaponization of antisemitism for silencing and censoring critical voices is not only cynical and effective tools to shut down conversations on Palestine, but also harmful to the actual fight against real antisemitism. It stems, I think, from an antisemitic assumption to begin with; that Judaism, an ancient thousands-of-years religion, is now conflated with a political and national ideology: Zionism. In its quest to represent all Jewish people, the Israeli state is pushing away many Jewish voices, histories and traditions that opposed Zionism and the creation of the state even before 1948 and have stood for Palestinian liberation ever since. The essentialist notion that the Jews are a monolith, and all should support Israel, and therefore criticism of Israel is a sin to all Jewish people, is dangerous and poisonous. The idea that Israel is some kind of 'safe space' for Jewish people is not accurate to say the very least, as we have seen, and stems from the liberal notion that states protect their citizens.
I would definitely encourage people in privileged positions to rethink their relations and place on the system. The biggest revolutionaries and figures in the anarchist and socialist tradition- Marx, Bakunin, Kropotkin- were people in higher classes that betrayed their class of origins to join the proletariat and give them tools to analyze and fight. This is the very least I would expect from any revolutionary. In a settler-colonial context, I do think that settlers have a lot to gain by joining the resistance under the terms of the oppressed and fight alongside them for freedom for all. The idea that remedy for one people's genocide would be for that people to become prison guards of other people should be unacceptable. Jewish people should wholeheartedly refuse to be the foot soldiers of imperialist powers and global geopolitical superpowers that use them to enlarge their influence in the region. We must find a way out of it and the only way is joint struggle, co-resistance.
- How can a future democratic state of Palestine be realized?
I would quote Edward Said on this one:
The beginning is to develop something entirely missing from both Israeli and Palestinian realities today: the idea and practice of citizenship, not of ethnic or racial community, as the main vehicle for coexistence. In a modern state, all its members are citizens by virtue of their presence and the sharing of rights and responsibilities. Citizenship therefore entitles an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Arab to the same privileges and resources. A constitution and a bill of rights thus become necessary for getting beyond Square 1 of the conflict because each group would have the same right to self-determination; that is, the right to practice communal life in its own (Jewish or Palestinian) way, perhaps in federated cantons, with a joint capital in Jerusalem, equal access to land and inalienable secular and juridical rights. Neither side should be held hostage to religious extremists. [..] The alternatives are unpleasantly simple: either the war continues (along with the onerous cost of the current peace process) or a way out, based on peace and equality (as in South Africa after apartheid) is actively sought, despite the many obstacles. Once we grant that Palestinians and Israelis are there to stay, then the decent conclusion has to be the need for peaceful coexistence and genuine reconciliation. Real self-determination. Unfortunately, injustice and belligerence don't diminish by themselves: they have to be attacked by all concerned.
- Are there suggested organizations for mutual aid or assistance?
Care For Gaza is an NGO that provides assistance to the people of Gaza: https://twitter.com/CareForGaza . Gaza Mutual Aid Collective is also a very recommended resource to support: https://twitter.com/GazaMutualAid
Mastodon: @radicalhaifa@kolektiva.social
Fauda
- Describe the Fauda movement.
تأسست حركة فوضى بفلسطين على يد عدة شباب فلسطينيين أكاديميين من داخل فلسطين وخارجها. جاءت فكرة تأسيس هذه الحركة بعد مشاهدة العديد من الأخطاء الاستراتيجية والتكتيكية من قبل الشباب الفلسطيني المناضل في طريقة مواجهته للاحتلال الصهيوني.
بما أن بعضنا درس في بريطانيا وأميركا وكانت لدينا علاقات مع بعض الإخوة الأناركيين ، تعرّفنا على المبادئ الفكرية والايديولوجية للأناركية وبعض الأساليب في مواجهة الدولة ومطالبة حقوقنا البشرية وحرياتنا الفردية والاجتماعية.
لهذا قمنا بتأسيس شبكة من الطلبة الجامعيين في داخل فلسطين وخارجها وقمنا بتنسيق فكري وعملي وحددنا أهدافنا وبدأنا نشاطاتنا رويدا رويدا في الضفة الغربية وبعدها في الداخل المحتل وأيضا في غزة بشكل محدود جدا.
The chaos movement in Palestine was founded by several Palestinian academic youth from inside and outside Palestine. The idea of establishing this movement came after witnessing many strategic and tactical mistakes by Palestinian youth struggling in the way they confronted the Zionist occupation.
Since some of us studied in Britain and America and had relations with some anarchist brothers, we were introduced to the intellectual and ideological principles of anarchism and some methods of confronting the state and demanding our human rights and individual and social freedoms.
Therefore, we have established a network of university students inside and outside Palestine, coordinated intellectually and practically, defined our goals, and started our activities little by little in the West Bank and then in the occupied territories and also in Gaza in a very limited way.
- What types of activities has the group been engaged with?
طريقة المواجهة في فلسطين المحتلة التي كان الشباب الفلسطيني يمارسها ، كانت على أساس أساليب قديمة ومحلية ومكررة وهي عبارة عن: المواجهة المسلحة فقط.
على الرغم من أننا نؤمن بالمواجهة المسلحة ونرى أنّه من الضروري أن نخصص قسما من نشاطاتنا إلى هذا الأمر المهم ، إلا أننا نعتقد أنه يجب أن تكون مواجهتنا أمام الاحتلال في كافة المجالات ، لا أن نركز على جانب واحد وهو المواجهة المسلحة.
على سبيل المثال نحن نحتاج أن نقوم بتعليم وتدريب شبابنا على الأساليب الأناركية الجديدة التي تُمارس في الدول الأخرى في أنحاء العالم ولهذا قمنا بإقامة ورشات تعليمية للشباب وأيضا نشرنا بوسترات تعليمية وتكتيكات حديثة أناركية في قنواتنا على المنصات المختلفة ، منها تكتيك الكتلة السوداء وطريقة مواجهة الشرطة وقوات الأمن والهروب من المنطقة بعد تنفيذ العمليات وتعليمات أخرى لا يمكنني أن أكشف عنها بسبب خطورة الاوضاع هنا في فلسطين، لأنه من المحتمل أن يتم الكشف عن بعض عناصرنا في الحركة. ولكن إذا أردنا أن نبيّن الفكرة بطريقة أوضح يجب علينا القول أنّه في السابق الشباب الفلسطيني كان يقوم بتنفيذ عمليات مسلحة (بعضها ناجحة والكثير منها فاشلة) وبعدها كان يُقتل برصاص الاحتلال أو يلقى القبض عليه ويسجن لعدة سنوات (10-20 سنة أو أكثر) ويعذّب في السجون.
ولكن رأينا ان بعض أساليب الأناركية في العالم تجدي أكثر نفعا على أرض الواقع. فلهذا قمنا بتدريب الشباب على بعض الاستراتيجيات التي تضمن أولا تحقق أهدافنا بطرق أخرى غير الطرق القديمة والمسلحة والتي تعرفها قوات الأمن للكيان المحتل بشكل جيد. وثانيا تضمن الحفاظ على أرواح وحياة الشباب الفلسطيني.
The method of confrontation in occupied Palestine, which was practiced by Palestinian youth, was based on old, local and repeated methods, which are: armed confrontation only.
Although we believe in armed confrontation and believe that it is necessary to devote part of our activities to this important matter, we believe that our confrontation should be in front of the occupation in all fields, not focus on one aspect, which is armed confrontation.
For example, we need to educate and train our youth on the new anarchist methods that are practiced in other countries around the world, and for this we have held educational workshops for young people and also published educational posters and modern anarchist tactics in our channels on various platforms, including the black bloc tactic, the way to confront the police and security forces, flee the area after carrying out the operations, and other instructions that I cannot reveal because of the seriousness of the situation here in Palestine, because it is possible that it will be detected. But if we want to explain the idea in a clearer way, we must say that in the past, Palestinian youth carried out armed operations (some successful, many of them failed), and then they were killed by Israeli bullets or arrested, imprisoned for several years (10-20 years or more) and tortured in prisons.
But we have seen that some of the methods of anarchism in the world are working more in practice. Therefore, we have trained young people in some strategies that first ensure that our goals are achieved in ways other than the old and armed methods that the security forces of the occupying entity know well. Second, it ensures the preservation of the lives and lives of Palestinian youth.
- What is the reality on the ground? How are conditions deteriorating?
ما نشهده الآن على أرض الواقع هي عمليات إبادة جماعية تقوم بها إسرائيل في غزة وسلسلة قتل واعتقالات ممنهجة تمارسها في الضفة الغربية وحتى في الداخل المحتل.
أولا دعني أشير إلى هذه النقطة أن البعض يظن أن العرب في الداخل المحتل يعيشون حياة مرفهة ولهم علاقات جيدة مع الصهاينة والمحتلين ولا يواجهون أية مشاكل. ولكن الحقيقة هي أمر آخر. أولا العرب في الداخل المحتل يعتبرون مواطنون درجة ثالثة ورابعة ويعانون من التمييز الذي يلحق بالمجتمع العربي. ثانيا الكثير من الصهاينة أتوا إلى إسرائيل على أساس أيديولوجية متطرفة لا تقبل أطراف أخرى في ساحة المجتمع أبدا. فمثلا الكثير من هؤلاء الصهاينة يعتبرون أنفسهم أنهم "الشعب المختار" الذي اختارهم الله وباقي الناس من شتى الأديان ومن شتى الأعراق خُلقوا لأجل خدمتهم ولأجل أن يكونوا عبيدا لليهود. لهذا لا يبالون أبدا بقتل الأطفال والنساء والرجال من سائر الأعراق والأديان. لأنّ حياة هؤلاء ليس له أي قيمة أمام الشعب المختار.
لعلكم تستغربون كثيرا من هذه الرؤية الكونية والنظرة الأيديولوجية ، ولكن هذا صريح كلام بعض حاخامتهم الذين لهم نفوذ سياسي كبير في الدولة الصهيونية.
لهذا نرى أن إسرائيل تقوم بقطع الكهرباء والماء والطعام وفي الأيام الأخيرة قطعت شبكة الانترنت على غلاف غزة التي يعيش فيها أكثر من مليوني نسمة (2 مليون شخص).
هذا جزء بسيط جدا من الجرائم التي يقوم بها الاحتلال في غزة.
ولكن في الضفة أيضا نشهد سلسلة اعتقالات كثيفة وحتى اشتباكات عنيفة يمارسها الكيان المحتل ضد الشعب الفلسطيني. الشعب الفلسطيني في الضفة الغربية قد سلبه الاحتلال أقل حقوقه الاجتماعية والانسانية وحرياتها الفردية. حيث أننا نرى في كثير من الأحيان الفلسطينيين من المدن المختلفة لا يستطيعون أن يذهبوا إلى المدن المجاورة ليزوروا أقرباءهم وأصدقاءهم. هناك حواجز أمنية في كل مكان في الضفة الغربية. هناك عدد كبير جدا من المسلمين في الضفة الغربية لم يزوروا لحد الآن مسجد الأقصى الذي لا يبعد عنهم إلا ساعة ونصف.
تحدّثت مع الكثير من الشباب في عمر 20 - 30 ولدوا في الخليل وفي مدن أخرى قريبة جدا عن القدس ولكنّهم لم يستطيعوا أن يزوروا المسجد الأقصى لحد الآن. يحاولون كثيرا ولكنهم بمجرد أن يصلوا إلى الحواجز تمنعهم قوات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي من أن يمروا ويدخلوا القدس.
أليس هذا مخالفا للحريات الفردية والاجتماعية؟
ببساطة: الاحتلال والصهاينة سرقوا أراضينا وبيوتنا وسكنوها ومنعونا أبسط حقوقنا في عقر دارنا ، بل حتى انتهكوا حقنا في الحياة وقتلوا عددا كبيرا منا ولهذا لن نسكت أبدا أمام جرائمهم. لقد طفح الكيل. صبرنا 75 سنة آملين أن نصل إلى حل ما في التعامل مع هذا الكيان المحتل ولكن دون أي جدوى. سلكنا كل الطرق المتاحة للوصول إلى حل ما ، ولكن لا فائدة. نحن لا نريد شيئا كثيرا. نحن نريد استعادة أراضينا وبيوتنا وحرياتنا وحقنا في الحياة. لهذا لن نسكت هذه المرة. إما الموت وإما استعادة حقوقنا وطرد عدونا من أراضينا.
What we are witnessing on the ground are Israel's genocide in Gaza and a series of systematic killings and arrests in the West Bank and even in the occupied territories.
First, let me point out that some people think that the Arabs in the occupied territories live a luxurious life, have good relations with the Zionists and the occupiers, and do not face any problems. But the truth is something else. First, Arabs in the occupied territories are considered third- and fourth-class citizens and suffer from the discrimination inflicted on Arab society. Second, many Zionists came to Israel on the basis of an extremist ideology that never accepts other parties in the community arena. For example, many of these Zionists consider themselves to be the "chosen people" chosen by God and other people of different religions and races created to serve them. That is why they never care about the killing of children, women and men of all races and religions. Because the lives of these people have no value before the chosen people.
You may be very surprised by this cosmic vision and ideological view, but this is explicit in the words of some of their rabbis who have great political influence in the Zionist state.
That is why we see that Israel is cutting off electricity, water and food and in recent days has cut off the internet on the Gaza envelope, home to more than two million people.
This is a very small part of the crimes committed by the occupation in Gaza.
But in the West Bank as well, we are witnessing a series of massive arrests and even violent clashes by the occupying entity against the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people in the West Bank have been robbed by the occupation of their least social and human rights and individual freedoms. We often see Palestinians from different cities unable to go to neighboring cities to visit relatives and friends. There are security checkpoints everywhere in the West Bank. A very large number of Muslims in the West Bank have not yet visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is only an hour and a half away.
I spoke to many young people between the ages of 20 and 30 who were born in Hebron and other cities very close to Jerusalem but have not been able to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque until now. They try a lot, but as soon as they reach the checkpoints, the Israeli occupation forces prevent them from passing through and entering Jerusalem.
Isn't this contrary to individual and social freedoms?
Simply put: the occupation and the Zionists stole our lands and homes, inhabited them, denied us our most basic rights in our own backyard, and even violated our right to life and killed a large number of us, and therefore we will never be silent in the face of their crimes. Enough is enough. We have been patient for 75 years, hoping to reach some solution in dealing with this occupying entity, but to no avail. We took all the available routes to come up with a solution, but no use. We don't want anything much. We want to reclaim our lands, homes, freedoms and right to life. That's why we won't be silent this time. Either death or we regain our rights and expel our enemy from our lands.
- How would you describe what Israel is doing right now in the name of security and anti-terrorism?
إسرائيل هي أكبر منظمة إرهابية في العالم. لهذا لا يحق لها أبدا أن تتحدث عن الإرهاب. أكبر منظمة ارهابية تقوم بقتل الاطفال والنساء هي إسرائيل. أكبر منظمة إرهابية تقوم بقصف المدنيين هي إسرائيل. أكبر منظمة إرهابية تطلق القنابل المحرمة دوليا (مثل القنابل الفسفورية التي استخدمتها عدة مرات في قصف غزة وبعض المناطق في الشمال) هي إسرائيل.
إسرائيل تأسست على أساس الإرهاب. قتلت ملايين الفلسطينيين لكي تقيم دولتها في هذه المنطقة.
من الذي يكافح الإرهاب إذاً ؟ نحن أم إسرائيل؟
Israel is the largest terrorist organization in the world. That's why she has no right to talk about terrorism. The largest terrorist organization that kills children and women are Israel. The largest terrorist organization that bombs civilians is Israel. The largest terrorist organization that launches internationally banned bombs (such as phosphorous bombs, which it has used several times to bomb Gaza and some areas in the north) is Israel.
Israel was founded on the basis of terrorism. It killed millions of Palestinians in order to establish its own state in this region.
So who is fighting terrorism? Us or Israel?
- How can those in the West help Palestinians?
الدعم الإعلامي هو أكثر أمر نحتاجه في الغرب. للأسف الدول الغربية تتحكّم بالإعلام الغربي وتقوم بتعتيم الكثير من الحقائق وقلبها وتزييفها. تقوم بتضخيم بعض النقاط التي تخدم الكيان المحتل وتصغير أو حتى عدم تغطية الكثير من النقاط التي تضر بكيانه وتشوه سمعته في العالم.
هذا هو واقع الإعلام الغربي. نحن نطالب جميع إخوتنا الأناركيين وغيرهم أن يكسروا هذه الحواجز الفكرية والتعتيم الإعلامي الذي يمارسه الغرب ضد شعوبه. وهذا لا يتم إلا عبر تغطية الأخبار مباشرة من الاعلام الفلسطيني. على الأقل انشروا الرؤية الفلسطينية بشكل متساوٍ مع الرؤية الإسرائيلية الزائفة. قوموا بمتابعة القنوات الأخبارية الفلسطينية والعربية في القنوات المختلفة في تليجرام والمنصات الأخرى وترجموها وانشروها لحظة بلحظة حتى يستوعب الناس في الغرب حقيقة ما يجري في فلسطين. حتى يتضح من هو الإرهابي ومن هو الضحية.
لقد نشرت امرأة حقيرة إعلامية غربية خبراً كاذباً تماما -وهذا ما اعترفت به هي لاحقا- أن حماس قام بقطع رؤوس الأطفال وتم نشر هذا الخبر بشكل غير طبيعي في الإعلام الغربي. دون أية وثائق توثّق هذا الخبر والجميع صدّق الخبر دون أن يسألوا عن الصور والفيديوهات أو أي ادلة أخرى.
ماذا صنع الغرب بعد نشر هذا الخبر؟ ماذا فعلوا بعد أن اتّضح أنّه لم يكن هذا الخبر سوى أكذوبة؟
أساسا هذا المنهج هو إحدى المناهج الذي يمارسه الغرب دائما. تذكروا الذريعة التي تذرّع بها جورج بوش عند غزو العراق. قالوا أنه يوجد في العراق أسلحة الدمار الشامل! وبعد أن اتّضح أنّ هذه الذريعو لم تكن سوى أكذوبة ماذا فعلوا؟
لا يوجد أي عقاب للساسة والقادة الغربيين؟ لماذا؟
لماذا لا يحاكموا على أفاعيلهم وقراراتهم التي راحت ضحيتها ملايين من البشر؟
للأسف الوعي الإعلامي لدى الشعوب الغربية ضعيفة جدا. الحكومات تتحكم بأذهان الغربيين عبر تحكمهم بالإعلام.
أكرر: نحن نطالب جميع إخوتنا الأناركيين وغيرهم بأن يقوموا بالتأكد من الأحداث أولا ، وثانيا أن ينشروا الحقائق على نطاق واسع في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي وغيرها.
Media support is what we need most in the West. Unfortunately, Western countries control the Western media and obfuscate, overturn and falsify many facts. It inflates some points that serve the occupying entity and minimizes or even does not cover many points that harm its entity and distort its reputation in the world.
This is the reality of Western media. We call on all our anarchist brothers and others to break these intellectual barriers and the media blackout practiced by the West against its peoples. This can only be done through direct coverage of the news from the Palestinian media. At least spread the Palestinian vision on an equal footing with the false Israeli vision. Follow the Palestinian and Arab news channels in the various channels in Telegram and other platforms, translate them and publish them moment by moment so that people in the West understand the reality of what is happening in Palestine. So that it becomes clear who is a terrorist and who is the victim.
A despicable woman in the Western media published a completely false news – and she later admitted – that Hamas had beheaded children and this news was spread abnormally in the Western media. Without any documents documenting this news, everyone believed the news without asking about photos, videos or any other evidence.
What did the West do after this news was published? What did they do after it turned out that this news was nothing but a lie?
Basically, this approach is one that the West has always practiced. Remember the pretext that George W. Bush invoked when invading Iraq. They said that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction! Now that it turns out that this pretext was nothing but a lie, what did they do?
There is no punishment for Western politicians and leaders? Why?
Why aren't they judged for their actions and decisions that have claimed the lives of millions of people?
Unfortunately, the media awareness of Western peoples is very weak. Governments control the minds of Westerners through their control of the media.
I repeat we demand that all our anarchist brothers and others first verify the events, and secondly to spread the facts widely on social media sites and others.
- How can a democratic state be realized?
هذا السؤال في غاية الأهمية وللأسف لا يسعنا أن نبحث عنه هنا لأنه موضوع ذو شجون ويحتاج إلى وقت كثير لنناقشه بموضوعية تامة.
ولكن بشكل مختصر جدا بإمكاننا أن نقول نحن نسعى وراء إقامة دولة لها أقل الصلاحيات فقط لتنظيم بعض الأمور الإجتماعية وأن تملك القدرة في الدفاع عن شعبها. وفي المقابل تمنح جميع الحريات الفردية والاجتماعية لجميع أفراد المجتمع فردا فردا. ولكن طريقة الوصول الى هكذا دولة تحتاج إلى بحوث نظرية وتطبيقية بالتفصيل وكما أخبرتك ، المجال لا يسمح لنا بالبحث عن هذا الموضوع المهم جدا هنا.
This question is very important and unfortunately, we cannot look for it here because it is a controversial topic that takes a lot of time to discuss it objectively.
But very briefly, we can say that we are seeking to establish a state that has the least powers only to regulate certain social matters and to have the ability to defend its people. In return, all individual and social freedoms are granted to all members of society individually. But the way to get to such a country needs theoretical and applied research in detail and as I told you, the field does not allow us to research this very important topic here.
- Are there suggested organizations that people can contribute to for mutual aid?
ي كثير من الأحيان لا تصل المساعدات الدولية للفلسطينيين. لهذا لا يمكنني أن أخبرك بالضبط أن تثق بأي منظمة أو مؤسسة للمساعدات المتبادلة. ولكن هناك شبكة تسمى ب"شبكة صامدون" في ألمانيا يمكنك أن تثق بهم. أعتقد أنهم يستطيعون أن يساعدوك في هذا المجال.
International aid often does not reach the Palestinians. That's why I can't tell you exactly to trust any mutual aid organization or institution. But there is a network called the "Samidoun Network" in Germany that you can trust. I think they can help you in this area.
https://t.me/fauda_ps
https://t.me/+Uz2ogH-g4BIyNDkx
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