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The USA, although firm in support of Israel, has been caught at a critical moment, that of the presidential handing-over and a redefinition of their foreign policy line.
The European Union – which already has a substantial military intervention force in the Lebanon – has taken on a fresh attempt to bring the parties to mediation, but is paying the penalty of lacking the structures to realise a general Middle Eastern political line: a synthesis that could combine “defending Israel” with safeguards for Europe’s pro-Arab tradition, for long the key to its imperialist penetration in the area.
For the moment, the last word rests with the destructive violence of weapons. The enormous disproportion between the Israeli army and Hamas militias should not cause us to lose the international perspective. The Palestinian proletariat is held hostage by the national issue, which is manipulated by capitalism and imperialism. But none of the many champions of the “rights of the Palestinian people” has ever said a word in support of the “invisible army” of the immigrant Palestinian workers exploited in Israel, and in the lands of their Arab “brothers”. To denounce only one of the two conflicting “barbarisms” leads to supporting one group of capitalist interests against another, and thus to supporting, directly or indirectly, one of the competing imperialist fractions.
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