The violence engulfing Gaza has become a spiral that threatens to consume the entire Middle East. From Our America, we watch with deep concern as this humanitarian tragedy reaches unprecedented dimensions: 43,000 lives lost, mostly children, women and the elderly, in what can be described as a modern holocaust broadcast in real time.
Yet in the midst of this devastation, the unshakable capacity of the resistance emerges. The Axis of Resistance, far from being weakened, demonstrates a remarkable capacity for reconstruction. The loss of leaders like Nasrallah, rather than being a definitive blow as Israel hoped, has barely – perhaps – delayed its operations. Hezbollah maintains its operational firmness, as evidenced by the 48 military operations against Israel reported in a single Friday.
History provides undeniable lessons: popular resistance movements transcend their individual leaders. The selective elimination of leaders, a strategy favored by Anglo-Israeli intelligence, has proven ineffective against movements that represent the collective will of peoples in self-defense. Lebanon is living testimony to this reality: Hezbollah persists as a key force in the Axis of Resistance.
Paradoxically, Israel’s failure to achieve its military objectives in Gaza has catalyzed a multiplier effect: resistance has expanded and strengthened throughout the region and beyond.
Thinking about and deciphering this new component of reality, resistance, is essential for Latin America. Social movements, popular organizations and political parties (those with an anti-systemic vocation) face the challenge of proposing, organizing and building from a popular perspective. This challenge becomes more urgent in the face of a neoliberal and extremist counter-offensive that is increasingly aligned with Zionism, which is an attack on humanity itself.
Israeli genocide cannot be understood in isolation from U.S. policy. Resistance, whether in Gaza or Latin America, confronts the same hegemonic system. The struggle for the dignity and self-determination of peoples transcends borders and unites liberation struggles.
by Commander Antonio GarcĂa
Source: ELN Voces