[Marxism] Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground operation

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sobuadhaigh:
 
What does a critical observation about the political leadrship of 
Hamas  have 
to do with Puritans or Puritanism?
 
Reply:
 
This is not the time for any critical observation. It is a time for  
solidarity. Marx was critical of the Paris Commune when it began. When it came  under 
siege he offered his unequivocal support for those struggling for their  
survival.
 
Marxism, if it is about anything, is about praxis, saying and doing the  
right thing at the right time, and always in the knowledge that our enemy is at  
home. For those residing in imperial centres in the West this is doubly so and  
places an especial obligation on us to challenge our respective govt's 
support  for Israel.
 
sobuadhaigh:
 
I agree this is no time for paternalism and it is definately not 
time  for
unqualified political support for Hamas.
 
Reply:
 
Here you manage to agree and disagree at the same time. The question is not  
unqualified support for Hamas. The question is unqualified support for the  
Palestinians. Hamas happen to be leading the resistance at present. To remind  
you, they were democratically elected precisely because of their  
uncompormising stance in resistance to Israeli ethnic cleansing and  occupation. The 
secular resistance of which you speak no longer  exists. It was defeated due to both 
the corruption and mistakes of its  leadership and the efforts of Mossad.  
 
To criticise Hamas is to criticise the Palestinians' right to choose their  
own leadership. We lead by example not prescription.
 
In the current period there are no good Palestinians or bad Palestininans,  
as the Israeli's and Western govts are trying to project. There are only  
Palestinians, a people currently struggling for their survival in the  face of a 
settler colonialist project which fits into an imperialist  project to colonise 
the entire region. We support the resistance not  just out of moral outrage, 
however important, but out of material  necessity, given that it is in the 
interests of the international working  class to see this imperialist project 
defeated. 
 
Looking for a perfect secular, left leaning resistance at a time when  it 
does not exist in Palestine is merely an exercise is paternalism on the part  of 
those who would relegate Marxism to the status of dead theory, an excuse  for 
inaction rather than a guide TO action.