As ye sow…

...so shall ye reap was what Paul told the followers of Jesus of Nazareth two thousand years ago. Sadly this lesson is still not understood by many of those who now live in the land that the Apostle knew so well.
The deadly Hamas raid into Israel last weekend that killed over a thousand Israelis and wounded thousands more reflected the pent-up fury of the Palestinian masses in the Gaza Strip who have endured a brutal and often bloody Israeli siege for years. Ignored by the West which has armed Israel to the teeth and betrayed by the feudal Arab oil princes who crawl to the imperialists whose guns prop up their thrones the Palestinians in Gaza have closed ranks behind the Hamas leadership and the other resistance movements that believe that confrontation is the only way forward.
While the Israelis pound the densely populated settlements in the Gaza Strip they are  amassing their forces for a new onslaught. Many thousands of Palestinians will die in the carnage that will inevitably follow.
Assured of blanket Western support the Israelis are clearly out to crush all Palestinian resistance to their occupation. But they never learn.
This seemingly endless cycle of violence started when the first Arab-Israeli war began in 1948. The Palestinians were driven from their homes and robbed of their land. But wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
The refugees have the right to return or receive compensation, if they so want it, for their stolen land. The Palestinians have the right to self-determination; to establish their own independent state as was envisaged by the same United Nations that created the State of Israel in the first place. 
The Palestinians remained determined to fight. They still are and they still will be no matter what the Israelis throw at them.
Russian and Chinese calls at the United Nations for a cease-fire and genuine peace talks to end the conflict were, of course, routinely ignored by the Americans and their lackeys. They still think that victory comes through air-superiority and hi-tech weapons. Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan proved them wrong. And they’ve been taught no end of a lesson in Palestine...  

Terror and hypocrisy in London...

THERE was understandable shock and anger at the deadly terror attack in London last week. The killer, a British-born convert to Islam, drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing five and injuring some 50 more before stabbing a policeman to death in the grounds of Parliament.

Muslim leaders throughout the country have condemned Masood’s killing spree, which appears to be the action of one deranged man. Indeed, we may never know the real motives of Khalid Masood who was shot dead by the police soon after. But this hasn’t stopped the bourgeois media from going into yet another anti-Muslim frenzy to justify more intrusive snooping by the secret police on the British Muslim community.

If the media were simply reflecting public anger at a terrorist outrage this would, perhaps, be understandable. But it isn’t. The synthetic rage of the gutter press and the more sophisticated rants from the media pundits that try to mould public opinion follow a clear ruling class agenda to scapegoat the Muslim minority for all the woes of the ailing capitalist economy and to justify further internal repression against the working class and its allies in Britain.

If the bourgeois press seriously wanted to stop terrorism they could start by urging the British government to normalise relations with the elected government of Syria and cease all support for the rebels who have terrorised parts of Syria for over five years now. They could also campaign for the British government to co-operate with the Damascus authorities in the processing of Syrian refugees to weed out those guilty of acts of terrorism in Syria and return them to their country to face justice. They could but they won’t because the mainstream media in this country exists exclusively to serve the interests of the bourgeoisie.