Cuba raised its voice for Palestine

For a Free Palestine. Photo: Dunia Álvarez

It is impossible not to feel deeply the pain that Palestine is suffering today. Words can hardly be sustained without being flooded by tears, without impotence becoming the strength to raise our voices in the face of so much cruelty.
Thousands of lives have been taken and, as if that were not enough, today there is a latent threat that many more will be massacred in what has been called a final offensive.
When it seems that humanity is more committed to history, Israel, with terrifying impunity, brings back an updated version of the Holocaust.

All voices count. Photo: Dunia Álvarez

The images that travel around the world are extremely harsh, they carry within them the bitter taste of vestiges of a past that has become more absurd and inhuman.
So how can we not cry out from the depths of our hearts, how can we not demand from those who believe they have the right to snatch dreams, the imminent peace for the Palestinian people?
From this side of the earth, where a society is built with all and for all, where the life of every human being matters; from this Cuba that earned with its own merit the right to dream and be happy, we demand the cessation of genocide against the Palestinian population.
“Palestine deserves to live in peace, the world deserves peace to live”.

Photo: Dunia Álvarez
Photo: Dunia Álvarez
Cuba raised its voice for Palestine. Photo: Dunia Álvarez

Cuba acusa y grita: ¡Basta!

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Foto: JORGE

Si Israel no se empecinara en seguir masacrando a la humilde, sufrida e indefensa población palestina en la Franja de Gaza, el mundo pudiera estar clamando hoy por el fin de otros (también innecesarios) conflictos; por la paz, la hermandad y la cooperación que tanto necesitan los pueblos; por una distribución más justa y equitativa de la riqueza y los recursos naturales, por la mejor preservación del medio ambiente…

Pero con más de 100 000 víctimas desde octubre, entre muertos y heridos (con brutal impacto en niños y mujeres), una población en condiciones de hambruna y bloqueo de medicamentos, lo mínimo aconsejable es elevar voces, unir voluntades, exigir una solución, tal y como ocurre hoy, cuando miles y miles de cubanos colman las principales arterias y plazas en todas las provincias y en el municipio especial Isla de la Juventud.

Gigantesco, multitudinario, el desfile no es –desde luego– el que cada año protagoniza Cuba para festejar el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, colmado de alegría, de júbilo obrero, de iniciativas, de razones para la celebración.

Esta es una jornada de denuncia, de condena, de consternación y tristeza por tantas víctimas mortales, de indignación frente a la impunidad con que Tel Aviv bombardea, incendia, destruye y mata; de exigencia para que los organismos correspondientes hagan valer el derecho internacional.

Así ha ocurrido durante meses en los que, por igual motivo y con no menos sensibilidad, habitantes de distintas ciudades han expresado idéntico reclamo ante los ojos y oídos de un mundo que abochornaría a la especie humana actual y, sobre todo, a las nuevas generaciones que él engendre mañana, si permaneciera ciego, sordo, mudo e impasible ante un genocidio que, a la luz del lente fotográfico y cinematográfico, puede parecer ciencia ficción. Lamentablemente, es una cruda e inaceptable realidad.

Que sea hoy la oportunidad no despreciable para fundir en un solo grito, a coro, en un puño común, las innumerables frases, gestos y todo el sentimiento de repudio que diariamente brota en el hogar, en el centro de trabajo, en cualquier espacio público, frente a la magnitud de una masacre que, lejos de cesar, cada vez es más infierno, por el modo en que sigue desbordando muertes.

Cuba siente, como en carne propia, el dolor tremendo del pueblo palestino,

al que desea extinguir el Gobierno abusador y criminal de Israel.

Cuba acusa y grita: ¡Basta!

In Palestine, is there genocide or not?

 

Four trucks, with flour and other products, approach, but over the crowded multitude, with more hunger than hope, suddenly it rains shrapnel. Airplanes appear, and tanks shoot and pass their mats, even over the bodies of the wounded and dead.
Such a scene, as Dantesque as it is unimaginable, occurred yesterday in the Gaza Strip. At the end of the carnage, 112 dead bodies and more than 700 wounded in the blitzkrieg offensive of the Israeli forces against starving Palestinians.
There seems to be no salvation for a people that is being massacred before the eyes of a world that watches in astonishment, but does not act to stop the crime. More than 30,000 people have been killed and 60,000 wounded since the Zionist government began its attacks.
It will be like this as long as the UN Security Council does not pass a resolution to put an end to the massacre – vetoed today by the US – it will be like this until the International Criminal Court orders a cease-fire. Will it be?
Thursday’s was a crime against starving children waiting for a plate of food, or a glass of water to quench their thirst. Hispantv called it a “slow motion massacre”. The blockade to the entry of humanitarian aid puts more than 1,100,000 children on the brink of death, according to the NGO Save the Children.
While this was going on, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that he was “very concerned about the negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages”.
With abhorrent cynicism, Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, commented in x that “full support should be given” to the “heroic fighters” of the Israeli Armed Forces operating in the area, who “performed excellently against a mob in Gaza that tried to harm them,” RT quoted him as saying.
And still there are those who question it: Israel is reprising the horrors of the greatest known holocaust.

The left must unite in a common front

Photo: Prensa Latina

A declaration of solidarity with Palestine, which condemns the clear violations of human rights committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and denounces the genocide against that people, and their forced displacement, as well as the complicity of imperialism in such crimes, marked the final day of the Second International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Left Parties and Movements, which concluded yesterday in Havana.
In the wide-ranging debates held by 97 foreign delegates and 59 Cubans, from 43 organizations and 36 media, the formation of a collective thinking on the essential aspects that occupy the left in the world was stimulated.
Enrique Ubieta Gómez, director of the Cuba Socialista magazine and coordinator of the event, alluded, in his summary remarks, to significant issues that marked the meeting, such as the confrontation to cultural colonialism and the challenges of leftist youth in times of neo-fascism.
Ubieta referred that the call is to unity in the face of the great global problems, to the unity of the oppressed, which is strengthened from the diversity and plurality of the left movements, and the participation and criticism to find the necessary paths.
In this purpose of articulating a “symbolic common front”, some proposals were to create a permanent mechanism of work between meetings, which Cuba will cover; to establish a network that systematizes the diversity of publications, and a repository of contents; to create an international advisory council; and to stimulate cooperation between universities, research centers and organizations.
Rescuing the memory of Marxism, keeping revolutionary paradigms alive, denouncing blockades, and supporting just causes and struggles were other aspects mentioned by Ubieta, who recalled the need to generate confidence and certainty that a better world is possible and essential.