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“Israel” as a settler project is decaying rapidly, thankfully. The TRUST plan will not succeed, and I’m not just saying that. The resistance will never disarm themselves. Nearly 100,000 settlers left Israel in 2024 alone, the economy is faltering, and they are losing support internationally.
It was clearly sarcasm.
It’s true, though. The various SSRs and SFSRs had national autonomy while being part of an internationalist socialist economy.
The PRC is not helping the US and Israel disarm the resistance. China has affirmed that Palestinians must control Palestine in their own state, and served as a vital mediator for the 2024 Beijing Declaration, where Fatah and Hamas were brought closer together and the resistance as a whole in Palestine came together to collaborate more closely, alongside China. In the 2024 Beijing Declaration, which China was a core mediator for, it was declared that the resistance must not be disarmed.
China has consistently only ever veto’d at the security council if it is willing to intervene millitarily in order to protect the veto’d outcome. The PRC has veto’d sanctions on the DPRK, and has enforced that veto by increasing trade with the DPRK. The US Empire has never been stopped by a veto, such as when it was determined to stop shipping arms to Haiti, which the US subverted. China vetoing the UNSC declaration on Palestine would mean mobilizing its army to directly prevent the US’s plans for the region.
If we look at how resistance orgs are responding, they aren’t blaming China. Instead, they have similar analysis to China, that is that the plan itself is unworkable and that they cannot implement it in the first place. China also adhered its best to both the PLO, who endorsed TRUST, and Hamas, the PFLP, etc that oppose TRUST.
Personally, I would rather China take a more millitant anti-imperialist stance than their current passive stance. There’s good reason to believe this will be the case in the future, as younger generations in China are more millitant and more overwhelmingly pro-Palestine. However, I don’t confuse imperfect allies for enemies, which is the western-leftist mistake you’ve fallen for. You did the same with Hexbear, calling them “transzionist” and claiming they ban critique of contrapoints because she’s trans. The reality is that Hexbear is anti-zionist and pro-trans, and regularly clowns on contrapoints for her awful liberalism.
China is contributing to a multi-polar world. China’s position in the global stage facilitates south-south trade, which bypasses unequal exchange, where the global north maintains monopolies on high tech industries so as to consistently charge monopoly prices in exchange with the global south. China charges non-monopoly prices, and this is why exchange with China, alongside the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative, has resulted in dramatic development in African and Latin American countries. This is ultimately the single greatest contributor to the downfall of imperialism globally, and is why right now there is such a large cold war with China.
Your confusion of imperfect allies with enemies is why the western left has continued to fail to meaningfully challenge the status quo. Jones Manoel was correct in Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution. Western leftists do the work of the US Empire by making the same mistakes you’ve been making with respect to China, thereby sabotaging allies and making the efforts of the ones actually arming, facilitating, and committing the genocide easier.
TL;DR join an org. Having a practical outlet to test theory to practice, and directly organize against arming and supporting Israel, is a much better use of your time. It will also help you form a more correct understanding of anti-imperialist struggle.
Credit to comrade @RedWizard@hexbear.net for his research on this subject.
Autel, the drone manufacturer in this article, does not ship to Israel nor allow their purchase. These drones are sold overseas, then donated or smuggled to Israel to skirt China’s control over it, then modified to be able to drop grenades. From RedWizard’s post:
As it stands now China will not ship these drones to Israel. According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They’ve made two statements on the matter. Here:
DJI has a similar statement pre 2023:
On Amazon and other platforms you can not get these drones shipped to Israel:
China is not arming the IDF, the west is arming the IDF, and since practically everything is made in China these days it’s cheaper for the west to buy consumer drones from China, smuggle them into Israel, then modify them. The idea that China is directly selling drones to Israel is fake news created directly to sow division on the left with respect to China as US/PRC relations are dramatically in flux right now.
People generally operate by licensing themselves to believe what they want to. Until their material conditions force them into accepting reality, they will continue to license themselves purely to believe that which upholds their present worldview.
We all do this, to be clear, but understanding that process helps us understand our limitations.
When western, pro-NATO outlets are forced to admit and report on ongoing corruption scandals in Ukraine, you really have to wonder how much overwhelming evidence it will take to convince you that something may be afoot in the Banderite-controlled Ukrainian government.
I expect things to come to a head much sooner than that, unless you’re particularly close to death. “Israel” isn’t doing very well, which is exactly why the resistance has fought its asymetric war in the manner it has.