Reddit reviews Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

> Definitely not apartheid please don't use that word flippantly

no... its apartheid.. when people like Desmond Tutu(someone who has actually lived under apartheid) call it apartheid, its apartheid. Im guess you aren't familiar with what is going on in the west bank...

As for the other thing, I recommend reading Noam Chomsky or Israeli Historians like Ilan Pappe and maybe look into the Nakba and specifically the Deir Yassin Massacre or the Lydda Death March.

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

An excellent anti-Zionist tag team.

Obviously as Marxists, we should all be supporting PFLP.

I don't think it makes sense to preclude violence right off the bat. We don't do that for any other movement, so we shouldn't preliminary exclude it here. Of course, it's important to distinguish what kind of violence.

The PFLP, however, does have a really good formula for this. They have been open about their participation in the recent armed struggle, and have basically taken a book out of Che's "Guerrilla Warfare": on the ground fighting only, no indiscriminate rocket fire, and absolutely no killing civilians, not even off-duty reservists.

I happen to believe that the four pillars of the ANC (nonviolence, international support in the form of BDS, sabotage, and armed struggle, which were all equally important) is a good framework for the Palestinian fight to end the occupation. Obviously a strategy like this needs to be highly sensitive to timing, but each pillar has a role to play here.

There should also be a pretty strong emphasis on Guevarist fighting tactics, because as it stands, most of the IDF is made up of silly teenagers who conflate military service with day camp. If you have a group of guerrillas that draw out more and more soldiers in hit and run attacks (it's harder to employ rural warfare, but certainly doable--even urban guerrilla warfare suffices) rather than stones alone, it will impress upon the Israeli populace that there are two choices: serve in the IDF and face a terrifying and relentless opponent, or take your chances and deny service.

Of course, the only place where I would diverge from the ANC framework is the platform. There exists an economic apartheid in contemporary South Africa just about as racial as it always has been, and it's all because

1. Regime supporters were not prosecuted and were even allowed to hold all the assets they gained in an unfair way.
   
   
2. There was no implementation of even basic socialism, and the free market is more or less allowed to dominate. Since the accumulation of labour is already entrenched, nothing really changes except for appearances.
   
   By supporting a Marxist-Leninist Palestinian political party, there will still be problems with implementation, internal disagreements, corruption, etc., but at least the foundation of a Marxist solution has been laid.
   
   The good news is also that PFLP is a secular one-state party, so in theory, everyone would be welcome to live in equality, regardless of religion.
   
   I would also read "Gaza in Crisis" by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe. Although the former isn't quite a Marxist (pretty sure he's an anarchist, but Chomsky always changes his mind), he does have some interesting stuff to say about states in this context.