Extermination is Trump’s goal for Gaza, & the U.S. cold war strategy depends on this goal’s success

The U.S. empire has concentrated its aggressions against the Palestinians, and against the other peoples the Zionist entity is assailing. Everything the Trump White House’s neocons wish they could do in East Asia, they’re doing in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and increasingly Iran. They view the Palestinians, and the peoples of these other countries, as obstacles in the path towards a viable war with China; Washington has found itself weighed down within West Asia, and it’s trying to solve this through extermination. Through starving Gaza’s people, and ultimately carrying out a re-invasion where even more Gazans are slaughtered.

That’s the true purpose of Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer the Palestinians: to exterminate the Gazan people. Gazans are determined never to leave, and the occupiers know this, so the plan for them is annihilation. The Nazi state of “Israel” has made this absolutely clear; it’s sent leaflets to Gazans that threaten them with extinction, saying they’ll only get life-saving aid if they flee. In preparation for when “Israel” resumes its pre-ceasefire levels of violence, it’s been regularly violating the ceasefire, bombing Gaza wherever it feels it can get away with this. It wants to maintain an absence of true peace, and then launch its next big assault.

This is the final solution that the Trump administration and Netanyahu have for Gaza. They believe the very existence of Gaza’s people poses a threat towards Washington’s strategic interests, so they’re putting everything into eliminating these people. If we thwart this genocidal campaign, the enemy’s other schemes will be thwarted, and the imperial state will be brought much closer towards getting overthrown.

There are clear weaknesses within the imperial enemy, even as it goes on the offensive. And the event that’s exposed these vulnerabilities is the same event which represents Washington’s biggest recent victory: the fall of Syria. When the U.S. overthrew Assad, the empire faced a choice: keep up the previous degree of attacks against Gaza, or divert its resources towards securing control over Syria. In mid-January, the imperial strategists settled on the latter option. By that point, “Israeli” society had long been in a state of severe crisis, and the imperialists knew “Israel” would collapse if it continued putting so much focus onto Gaza. So Washington had its Zionist proxy pivot towards Syria, seeking to thereby put maximum pressure upon Russia. The next goal is to gain major concessions from Russia, and thereby divide Russia from China. That way, the PRC would be left without its biggest partner, enabling Washington to start war in East Asia.

Now, as Trump’s White House is carrying out the Ukraine negotiations, more than ever it needs the ceasefire arrangement to hold. Trump engages in bluster about being tough on Hamas, but the truth is that the imperialists are frightened of what the Palestinian resistance could do. They’re scared of what will happen to their cold war plans if things go back to how they were before the ceasefire. So they’re trying to starve as many Palestinians as possible, and put off the moment when they’ll have to face Palestine’s resistance again.

This is how the imperial project undermines itself: it’s working towards multiple goals that conflict with each other. The Zionist fanatics want to re-invade Gaza, yet doing so would split Washington’s focus at a crucial moment. It would put the imperialists into a military quagmire that’s too big for them to handle, forcing them to make East Asia less of a priority. That’s the danger which appeared for Washington when Assad left, and decreasing its Gaza involvement was the only way to solve the problem. But it’s certain that the Zionist entity will end up fighting a Round Two with the Palestinian resistance. And when this next confrontation comes, it will break the enemy’s forces.

The Palestinians have brought this struggle so far, and they’re in place to strike the enemy even harder. We are at an unprecedented moment of the anti-imperialist fight, where a guerrilla movement inside a destroyed land strip has become in place to thwart the hegemon’s biggest geopolitical scheme. Amid this hope, though, there remains a great risk: the risk that the Nazi state will succeed in murdering hundreds of thousands more Palestinians. Even though the resistance is poised to devastate the enemy, this victory may come at the cost of Gaza losing a much greater percentage of its people. The aggressors won’t be able to fully exterminate the people, but they could annihilate an extremely large number of them; even larger than the number of Gazans who they’ve already murdered.

Such a price for our cause’s success would be unacceptable. We cannot make the Palestinians collectively sacrifice themselves; we must resist this genocide with more ferocity than ever, and ensure that Gaza’s people won’t have to die for the rest of the world’s sake. We cannot wait for when the re-invasion happens to carry out our next pro-Palestine mobilizations. The extermination effort is ongoing; every day the Nazi state is murdering more Palestinians through engineered malnutrition, weaponized diseases, or attacks from the Israeli Offense Force.

This month, there’s been a global new wave of protests against the genocide; but so far during Trump’s term, the media has managed to keep Gaza out of of the discourse, aside from when it’s had to report on Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan. The genocide’s perpetrators are concealing their latest crimes, perpetuating the myth that “peace” has been reached while distracting from the death camp conditions they’ve created within Gaza. To fight for the Palestinians effectively, we’ll need to rebuild the pro-Palestine movement in a different form, with a strategy that’s different than simply relying upon protest momentum.

We have to establish aid between our local communities and Palestine; an example of such a project is when Boulder, Colorado established a sister city relationship with Nablus in the West Bank. My hometown in Humboldt County, California has an active Palestinian sister city movement, and such movements could spread to other areas if we work to make that happen. We have to bring the pro-Palestine struggle into worker organizing; we must introduce Palestinian solidarity efforts into the unions, while building independent labor orgs that can advance the cause more freely. We have to prepare our orgs for the state’s next repressive attacks, and create structures that can operate underground. This need for organizational security applies to all areas of the struggle, but Palestine is the issue that the state is using to try to criminalize all types of dissident activities; so the Palestinian struggle must be what compels us to prepare for a crackdown.

These are among the actions we’ll need to take in order to avert an even bigger genocidal onslaught. The enemy will try to carry out such an onslaught, but we have the chance to disrupt it. If we can sabotage the effort at eliminating Gaza’s people, the entire global liberation struggle will be advanced towards a new stage. This is a test of our solidarity; should we pass the test, countless lives will be saved, and the enemy will be fatally weakened.

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