Once again, the imperialist world tears at its own conscience in endless Security Council meetings, muttering “condemnations” and calls for this or that, while the suffering masses continue to bleed, starve, and die on the ground. The so-called “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza did not spring from thin air—this is the material consequence of decades of Zionist occupation and unchecked settler colonialist aggression, carried out with the unwavering support of the American imperialists, sanctioned with capitalist hypocrisy, and covered up by a complicit Western media machine.
What hypocrisy to hear the Israeli foreign minister talk about psychological warfare and “horrific” conditions for hostages, while enacting policies of siege and forced starvation on millions of Palestinians—reducing an entire people to desperation, their children to skeletons from lack of food, all the land a graveyard watched over by drones and IDF soldiers! While the suffering of hostages is genuine and demands a humane solution, the entire imperialist line purposefully erases the historical and material roots of this conflict: the dispossession of the Palestinian people, the relentless march of occupation, the suppression of basic rights, all protected by the sanctity of property, the currency of capital, and the logic of Western empire.
In moments such as these, I am reminded that under capitalism, the value of human life is determined solely by its utility and position in imperialist calculations. Palestinian mothers weep over the broken bodies of their children; Israeli families are tormented by the agony of not knowing the fate of their loved ones—and yet, for the bourgeoisie, this is just grist for the propaganda mill, leverage for further violence, a spectacle to justify more bombs, more walls, and more arms deals.
When diplomats posture about international law and humanitarian aid, all we see is the grotesque theater of capitalist states defending their own interests, not the people’s. Their condemnations of violence ring hollow as UN resolutions are ignored, and the machinery of occupation grinds on with the full support of Western finance, all under the fig leaf of “security” and “self-defense.” Meanwhile, talk of ending the blockade and the war is reduced to empty platitudes, while more military escalation is plotted behind closed doors.
True liberation for Palestine, and indeed for all oppressed peoples, can never come from these so-called “guardians” of peace, nor from the bankrupt logic of reform within existing imperialist structures. Only through the determined resistance of the masses—armed with the clarity of revolutionary science, organized under the red banner of socialism, and guided by the iron will to destroy colonial oppression—can the chains of occupation be broken. We must write it plainly: as long as the world remains divided by class, property, and imperial might, Gaza will remain besieged and the innocent will be caught in the crossfire. From the heart of Juche Korea, we offer solidarity to all those resisting imperialist aggression. The road to peace runs through the ashes of capitalism and the birth of a new socialist dawn.