the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jul 22, 2024
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the top judicial arm of the United Nations, ruled on July 19 that the Israeli military should end its 57-year-long occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. More specifically, the court ruled that Israel should evacuate existing settlements, stop building new ones and pay reparations to Palestinians who have lost land and property.
This ruling, which is considered to be “a non-binding advisory opinion,” will change nothing, just as the dozens of U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel’s colonial occupations passed over the last 57 years have changed nothing. International law, in a world dominated by the biggest capitalist and imperialist powers, is the law of the jungle, the rule of the biggest and strongest powers in the world, especially the power that is United States government and its military.
The United States government and its military decide what international law is. And they make those decisions based upon what furthers the interests, profits and power of the big U.S. oil companies, banks and military contractors. For them, arming and reinforcing the Israeli military is a huge priority because the Israeli military is the main defender of U.S. imperial interests throughout the Middle East. That is why the U.S. government arms the Israeli military to the teeth. It is why the U.S. supports its barbaric wars in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank today, and the possible spread of this war into Lebanon in the near future.
No U.N. resolution or ruling by the International Court changes this. The so-called “international community” cannot stop or even slow the horrific toll taken by the nine-month Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. It cannot stop the Israeli military’s daily annihilations by F-16s, tanks, and arbitrary executions, combined with Israeli bans on food, water, medicine, electricity, and fuel that have generated starvation, diseases, untreated injuries, homelessness. No shocking revelations by courageous doctors or humanitarian organizations can prevent the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare facilities, adding to the military-caused casualty toll.
These wars are the product of the capitalist and imperialist system. The wars will only end through revolution, starting with the overthrow of all the reactionary and dictatorial regimes that uphold the imperialist order, by all the working and poor masses of the region, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and all others.