Israel Mimics U.S., Kills Kids

Israeli bosses, with U.S. money and guns, are once again murdering children and workers in Palestine. Thousands of working-class Palestinian youth, on both sides of the apartheid wall, have taken to the streets, spontaneously rising against the Israeli regime’s racist repression.
The events started with the kidnapping and murder of three young Israeli settlers three weeks ago, as well as the murder of a Palestinian teenager by Israeli fascists a week ago, events which triggered the current round in this conflict. All of those teens killed, and those being killed now in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes are all victims of capitalist apartheid and occupation. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 77 percent of the over 200 deaths since July 7 have been civilians, predominantly women and children. The airstrikes damaged water and sewage systems, leaving six hundred thousand people without water.   
Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu, and his fascist friends, are threatening more and more violence after the death of the three young settlers and the rocket attacks on Israel. Israel responded to the murder with mass collective punishment against Palestinian workers in the West Bank. The politicians’ and their bosses’ desire is the continuation and deepening of the war and conflict on the backs of workers.
The background for the kidnapping is the mass incarceration of hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails, under “administrative detention”. According to B’Tselem (the Israeli non-governmental organization whose stated goal is to document human rights violations), over the years, thousands of Palestinian workers have been imprisoned under administrative detention. These workers are held for months without evidence or trial. Legally it is for six months, but, in practice, it is far longer. They can be arrested at will by any military commander.
Israeli Apartheid, Palestinian Nationalism = Dead End for Workers
This echoes the policies of South Africa during the Apartheid, or the fascist Patriot Act in the U.S., which allows for the indefinite arrest of “suspected terrorists” following the 9/11 attacks. All of these are signs of increasing global fascism.
The death of Jews and Palestinians in the last few weeks is the result of the capitalist tragedy from which both groups of workers suffer — the tragedy of continued imperialism, and racism from the dawn of Zionism in 1882.
The Islamist nationalism promoted by Hamas is equally venomous in dividing the working class. Smash  the racist border between Palestine and Israel. Smash all borders. The most dangerous threat to the bosses is multiracial unity. As communists, PLP organizes workers on both sides of the border to smash capitalist oppression.