Anyone who does not support the Palestinian resistance is complicit in the Zionist genocide.
By: Francesco Ricci
As we are finishing this article, we have received news of the Zionist attack on the Sumud Flotilla. We will return to this topic in future articles.
Trump’s ignominious “Peace Plan” is an ultimatum to the Palestinians: give up the fight, or the Zionists will have Trump’s backing to continue the genocide unhindered. The objective of the genocide is to achieve the Zionists’ true goal of expelling the Palestinians from the small areas (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) to which they were confined in 1967. This is after they were expelled in 1948 from half of their land (assigned by the UN to “Israel”). Then, with a new expansion, the Zionists seized 80% of Palestine in 1949. They continue to colonize small pieces of the West Bank, which, together with Gaza, were assigned to the “State of Palestine” in the Oslo Accords of 1993.(1993-1995), should have become the so-called “State of Palestine” at an indeterminate future time.
Trump’s “Eternal Peace”
The plan presented recently by Trump and Netanyahu is clear. Some hypocrites claim that the details need to be worked out, but the plan is clear. Essentially, the Palestinian resistance must surrender its weapons and relinquish its right to defend itself and fight. Meanwhile, the Zionist army, which kills an average of 100 Palestinians daily in Gaza, will slowly and partially withdraw from an invasion that has proven impossible due to the resistance. This withdrawal will make way for other colonial troops under the control of Trump and former British “socialist” Prime Minister Blair. Blair boasts of feats such as the imperialist aggression against Iraq in 2003, which caused around one million deaths.
The twenty-point plan details a gradual, slow, and incomplete withdrawal of the IDF from the Strip in exchange for the immediate release of Zionist hostages captured on October 7 and the disarmament of Palestinian fighters.
In turn, the Zionists would release approximately 2,000 Palestinians out of the more than 10,000 they are holding and torturing in concentration camps. They would also grant safe passage to fighters who renounce combat. Only then will humanitarian organizations, which have been blocked or expelled until now, be able to access Gaza and provide its inhabitants with food, water, and electricity.
Other troops, with the collaboration of Arab regimes complicit with the United States (starting with Jordan and Egypt), will then occupy the Strip under the command of Trump and Blair. They will install a puppet government chosen by Trump and Netanyahu that will devote itself to the “reconstruction” of Gaza—the “New Gaza,” the tourist coastline that Trump raves about. According to Trump, the administration could eventually be transferred to the Palestinian National Authority, which already effectively performs the function of a collaborationist “government” in part of the West Bank.
As a final prize, Trump does not rule out the possibility that, in the distant future, a “Palestinian state” may emerge in some corner of that land. However, to earn that promised land, Palestinians must forget that they have been oppressed for a century and demonstrate that they understand “the values” represented by the “only democracy in the Middle East” that is massacring them. Regarding this last point, Netanyahu has made it clear in a press conference with his accomplice that there will never be a Palestinian state. In fact, on his propaganda tours around the world, he shows maps of a new Zionist expansion into neighboring countries.
As for the U.S. administration, Trump—the self-nominated candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize—continues his strategy of maintaining control of the region by “pacifying” conflicts to divert U.S. resources to the real conflict (currently economic) on which the world order depends. This order is currently in crisis and hinges on the conflict with Chinese imperialism.
Abu Mazen and the PNA have thanked Trump and declared their willingness to serve him, which comes as no surprise to those of us who have always denounced the PNA’s complicity with Zionism.
Some Resistance forces, on the other hand, have already rejected the blackmail of Trump and Netanyahu. Hamas, a key component of the heroic Palestinian resistance, will officially announce its position in the coming hours. At the time of writing, it has not yet done so.
We have no doubt that only the naive (or malicious) could believe that, after a more or less long truce, “Israel” will not resume its genocidal plan. In other words, this is infamous blackmail imposed on an exhausted population deprived of food and water in order to disarm and then more easily attack the Palestinians. It’s a story that has been repeated many times in recent decades.
The pro-Zionist bourgeois front is regrouping
As expected, all the imperialist governments immediately approved this criminal plan because “Israel” is, in fact, their military base in the Middle East, and anything goes to preserve it.
Trump has received praise not only from governments closely aligned with him, such as Meloni’s, but also from those that, while arming Israel and suppressing pro-Palestinian demonstrations, made the gesture of “recognizing Palestine” in an attempt to pacify their countries. This includes the “socialist” (sic) prime minister of the Spanish state, Sánchez.
In other words, all bourgeois governments hope that decimating the Palestinian resistance will demobilize their own citizens, whom they greatly fear.
Criminal Putin, who continues imperialist aggression against Ukraine, also shows his full support, as will the other major countries leading the so-called BRICS+. This is unbeknownst to those on the left who spread illusions about an alternative “pole” to the “West” or magnify Xi Jinping’s “Chinese socialism,” which has never ceased trade relations with Israel.
After the last-minute electoral infatuation with Palestine, the calls to “recognize a Palestinian state” (which actually refers to a future mini-state on a piece of land), the praise for the flotilla mixed with calls to stop it as suggested by Mattarella, and the Palestinian flags displayed in town halls governed by the center-left, the so-called opposition is quickly realigning itself as well. The pro-Zionist front of Italian imperialism, from Meloni to Schlein, is regrouping. When fundamental class interests are at stake, the response is immediate. The existence of the Zionist entity, which defends economic and military interests, is indispensable to imperialism. This is why Palestine must stop being devoured by the racist and supremacist monster.
They all line up, with the inevitable blessing of the Holy Father, to support Trump’s “Peace Plan,” more or less critically.
The so-called “broad camp” of Italian political parties (PD, M5S, and the AVS tail) must perform linguistic juggling acts to avoid breaking with imperialist demands while also avoiding paying a price in terms of electoral consensus. They know that, since October 7, 2023 — after the heroic action of the Resistance, in which all fighting forces participated with the support of the population — the Palestinian cause and the discrediting of Zionism have grown in society.
As we write this article, Elly Schlein, the secretary of the PD, is still searching for the words to make this plan palatable to her electorate without paying too high a price. Conte and the Five Star Movement are trying to capitalize on their apparent left-wing consensus on this issue. They talk about “opening a crack” and the need to “better specify the details of the plan,” etc. The Five Star Movement’s position is further clarified by Conte’s mentor, Marco Travaglio, who hopes that “the two terrorist organizations” (a term he uses to equate Zionist oppressors with the Resistance) will accept the plan. To avoid losing his pro-Palestinian readers, who look to his newspaper for news, Travaglio states that the plan is not ideal but the “lesser evil.” He then refers to Trump’s plan: “If no better one emerges, we can criticize it as much as we want, but we should keep it” (5).
This is how those who pretended to be friends of the movement and Palestine have fallen into the trap.
Developing a united movement and internal debate
After the historic day of mobilization in Italy on September 22 and the October 4 demonstration, the task is to continue developing a growing movement that involves not only students, who have been the isolated vanguard for two years, along with a few political and trade union organizations and Palestinian youth organizations, but also workers. The dockworkers’ struggle in Genoa, Livorno, and other ports, where they are blocking ships from the most racist state in the world, is exemplary. The massive participation in the September 22 strike, called by rank-and-file unions and boycotted by the CGIL bureaucracy, has been fundamental.
Since October 7, 2023, we have been among the few defending that historic day of struggle by the Palestinian Resistance. In the last two years, the Palestinian cause has become the symbol of struggle and redemption against the barbarism of capitalism for millions of workers and young people, thanks to the unparalleled heroism of the Palestinians. Capitalism is a system based on exploitation and oppression, wars, and environmental devastation.
As a bearded internationalist murdered some sixty years ago in Bolivia said, it is not a question of sympathizing platonically with the oppressed in other countries; it is a question of fighting alongside them because we are fighting a single enemy on different fronts in different countries. Each of our victories is theirs, and each of their victories is ours.
The growth and radicalization of the movement must mean unity in the squares and in the mobilizations. At the same time, it must mean a real debate on the prospects of the Palestinian struggle, which must become one with our struggle against the Meloni government, imperialist rearmament, and this system, of which Zionism is one of the armed wings.
That is why, as we have always done, we will continue to defend our position, knowing it contrasts with that of most current political leaders who participate in the movement, including Rifondazione, Pap, the Network of Communists, and the PCR (formerly SCR).
We have addressed this issue in many articles, particularly in “Who fears a free Palestine from the river to the sea?” (6).
We will limit ourselves here to saying that we are fighting for a single, secular, non-racist Palestine—a Palestine returned entirely to the Palestinians, not only within the pre-1967 borders. This implies the destruction of the Zionist entity. Only then can Palestine be established as a place that recognizes the full rights of the non-Zionist Jewish minority. This process requires extending the struggle beyond Palestine in order to overthrow the reactionary regimes in the region and establish a Socialist Federation of the Middle East.
This differs greatly from those who continue to talk about “two peoples, two states” (implicitly or explicitly recognizing the existence of the Zionist colonial entity and confining Palestinians to a false mini-state) or those who advocate for a federal state, seemingly a more radical variant. These variants all effectively eliminate the right of return for millions of Palestinians who were forced to emigrate. They also eliminate the necessary link between this struggle and an internationalist and revolutionary perspective. Our position differs from those who, in the name of an abstraction of “socialism,” eliminate the national question. On the contrary, the national question is an integral part of the revolutionary process and its trigger (7).
Therefore, mobilization must grow in a unified manner. The unified strikes being prepared are a positive indirect result of the mobilization that has also forced the CGIL bureaucracy to take a position. However, a united struggle does not mean remaining silent about the role of the leaderships of most left-wing organizations. These leaderships do not want to confront the interests of capitalism. This is the issue. They introduce erroneous positions into the movement and fuel confusion. They deprive our common cause—that of Palestinians and proletarians worldwide—of a real revolutionary solution.
There will be a strike on the 3rd. On the 4th, take to the streets! On October 7, there will be an assembly via Zoom.
We will address these issues in more depth in other articles. Currently, like everyone else, we are focused on the situation off the coast of Gaza (which belongs to the Palestinians, let us not forget), where the flotilla has already arrived.
We must not lose sight of the ongoing massacre in Gaza, countered by the heroic Palestinian resistance. Despite the imbalance of forces, they continue to strike back at the occupiers. On October 4, we will all be in the streets of Rome. We will also be there on October 3 for the strike against the attack on the flotilla.
(October 1, 2025)
