On our portal, we have already written several times that the war in Palestine is not something that happened by itself, without any hint or preparation – it is first of all a qualitative jump in the conflict that lasts much longer. Like any other military conflict, it must be seen as a continuation of politics by other, violent means, but which must have its foundation in the material – class relations that rule in Palestine.
From the perspective of Palestine, this is a struggle for national liberation, which includes the national bourgeoisie, the working class and the classes close to it. This is reflected in the joint military and political performance of the Palestinian side.
Likewise, from the perspective of Israel – or rather its ruling class, it is clear that this is a war for new territories, new markets, new resources, simply put – a new territorial addition to its lebensraum.
Israel’s plan to destroy Hamas as an organisation and recover the hostages, who have been held captive since the beginning of the war, not only failed, but never should have, nor could have, come true. If it was not clear to anyone then, now it is evident that it was just an excuse to start a war that was supposed to be easy, quick and victorious. A series of military defeats, despite the general destruction of Gaza, denied this in practice.
There is no need to talk much about the lucrative jobs for the military industry sectors around the world, which appeared after the start of the Israeli offensive on Gaza. “Democratic and civilised” Europe, together with the USA, hastened to feed the Israeli military machine with additional weapons, rockets, mines and ammunition, aware that this is the only way to defend its trade routes in the Eastern Mediterranean and its political influence, and to come can also make enormous profits. A slice of that war cake was taken by Serbia and Croatia. It is known that by 2022, Croatia sold over 600,000 euros worth of weapons, while Serbia exported weapons worth about 14 million euros in 2024 alone.
However, even the genocide that is carried out is not the result of simple decrees and orders – that act has its own economic motive. The continuation of colonisation and land grabbing politically and economically strengthens the position of the Israeli capitalist class, both internally and externally.
The announcements of the construction of a hotel on the Gaza coast, while the war is still going on, actually show why that territory is so brutally bombed. The greater the destruction, the greater the destruction of already existing infrastructure and capital – the greater the space for “new investments” and for new profits. It is not just hotels, new settlements can be created on the site of the destroyed Gaza, with new infrastructure, industry, banks and shopping centres, which can provide enormous profits for the Israeli bourgeoisie in peace.
Israel is not the only one to whom this war has brought some new lucrative business. The diplomatic distance of some countries from Israel, like Turkey, is just a formality behind which new trade deals and agreements are hidden, concluded through the mediation of a third party. In one such case, Turkish goods reach Israeli ports via Greek ships.
Another consequence of the war is the enormous impoverishment of the Palestinian people, especially their working class. The more misery afflicts these masses during the war, the more willing they will be after it to sell their labour power for lower wages and worse working conditions. This is what the Israeli capitalists, who have been mass-employing Palestinians as cheap labour until now, are hoping for, but also the bourgeoisie of the surrounding Arab states. The example in which Egyptian politicians and capitalists deliberately raised the price of crossing from Rafah to Egypt, and that in the period of the greatest destruction by Israel, speaks volumes for why the surrounding countries turn their heads from this disaster.
After the war, if there is an Israeli victory, the reconstruction and “regeneration” of Gaza will serve as a formal excuse under which to hide the most terrible exploitation and robbery that multinational capital will be able to carry out and which, through its institutions and companies, will throw the Palestinians into even worse dependence and subjection. In that case, the Israeli military occupation will be the guarantor of loans, financial control and throwing the Palestinians into even deeper slavery.
Other Arab countries in the immediate neighbourhood also show interest in prolonging the war. Not only because of the potential workforce, but also to link their interests more closely with the American and other imperialists. If Israel proves in the long run incapable of maintaining passable routes through the Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, Western imperialists will have to look for another, more capable protector of those profit margins. There are certainly those who see this as their chance to position themselves as a “regional factor of peace”.
In addition, there are other projects that hide behind the supposed humanity an attempt to strengthen their influence – such as the project to build docks that would serve to deliver food and aid. Behind such projects, there is a struggle for immediate economic, military, and intelligence presence of a number of countries that would hide behind such outposts. These plans are categorically opposed by groups from the Palestinian resistance because they are aware that this would represent an even deeper dependence on countries such as the USA, Germany, France, Britain and the like.
That is why the struggle led by the Palestinians is so important, because as we stated, it is not only a struggle against the Zionist regime, but it is also a struggle against the system that created such a regime and that maintains it. It is a struggle against imperialism as such, and that struggle already includes not only the Palestinian masses, but also far wider sections of the working class, which, although they still appear anarchic and disorganized on the global level, are slowly learning that the main weapon they possess – the weapon of organisation – and that the armed struggle itself is only a form and an indispensable part of the general struggle that must be launched sooner or later for the liquidation of exploitative systems.
