♥️ The Al-Aqsa Flood did not come out of nowhere. The most successful uprising of the oppressed of the 21st century «Sensitive people, weeping over the horrors of revolution, drop a few tears also over the horrors that engendered it», — Jules Michelet, French historian 🇮🇱 On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance committed an act of retribution against Israel. Western media presented what happened as a terrorist attack, emphasizing the victims, once again reproducing the Zionist manual about «Arab savages and barbarians». All to justify the subsequent genocide, which has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 people and deprived more than 1.5 million of a roof over their heads and the minimum means of subsistence. Netanyahu's right-wing Zionist government hoped to finally cleanse the Gaza Strip — an open-air concentration camp — of Palestinians, to take another step towards «Greater Israel»; however, the war went completely contrary to plan. The Palestinian resistance prepared well, did not allow itself to be physically annihilated and won a moral victory, creating the most powerful wave of solidarity even in Western countries, where young people still take to the streets in support of Palestine's struggle. 🔷 Why is every progressive person today on the side of Palestine? 1️⃣ The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was carried out through five large-scale waves of colonization with the expropriation of land and the expulsion of the Arab population. The first Arab-Israeli war began with the Nakba — a large-scale and cruel expulsion of the Arab population from their land, whose victims numbered more than 600,000 people. 2️⃣ Palestinian Arabs are «second-class people» in Israel's conception. They are deprived of rights in the worst traditions of South African apartheid; 3️⃣ Israel has been methodically colonizing Palestinian lands for decades, hiding behind the «Two States» strategy adopted in 1967. Formally supporting relations with the puppet Fatah administration in the West Bank, Tel Aviv dissolves the territory of Palestine into many small isolated enclaves, depriving local residents of access to basic household amenities, such as access to fresh water. All to expel these people and occupy the territory with Jewish settlers. 4️⃣ The Gaza Strip was turned by Israel into an open-air concentration camp for 2 million Palestinians since the disengagement as a result of the Second Intifada in 2005. After the fall of the socialist camp and the destruction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the liberation movement was deliberately fragmented, and Israel began to slowly strangle Gaza, blocking economic development and tying the region to «international charity», whose thread it can cut in an instant. 5️⃣ Long before the Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians became victims of Israeli police arbitrariness: adults and children were deliberately maimed, having their legs and arms broken, thrown into prisons specially created to hold Arabs on any pretext. Notably, this happened not only under the leadership of «right-wing» Zionism, but also when the «left», which is the other side of the same coin, was in power in Tel Aviv. 6️⃣ Israel, which has created a cult of the superiority of the Jewish nation and occupied a land sacred to all followers of the Abrahamic religions, systematically oppressed the local Muslims and Christians, primarily the Armenian community. The religious tolerance of the Zionists is another myth created in the press and mass culture.