Since the October 7th surprise attack by Palestinian fighters in Gaza, Israel, with the full backing of the United States, has declared a brutal genocide against the Palestinian people. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has called up 300,000 reservists to wage a "ruthless war," and U.S. President Biden has repeatedly pledged full political and military support for Israel.

We firmly demand that Israel and the United States immediately stop this unscrupulous and brutal genocidal plan. They call this attack as "unacceptable terrorism," emphasizing the large number of Israeli civilians attacked and killed in the Hamas-led attack. But Israel has routinely attacked and killed far more civilians over the past several decades, ousting, imprisoning, discriminating, and oppressing millions of Palestinians. The U.S. has also consistently supported Israel's systematic racism, characterized by violence and murder, for decades to use Israel as a tool to maintain its imperialist global hegemony in the Middle East and around the world. Israel and the United States have no right or justification to talk about "civilian casualties.” They are the ones who caused this tragedy. Look at their shameless hypocrisy as they talk about "civilian casualties" and then plot a "civilian genocide" of even greater magnitude!

We fully support the right of the Palestinian people to revolt against national oppression. We also fully support their right to engage in armed struggle against the bayonets of their oppressors. However, we never agree with attacks and abductions of civilians. We clearly criticize the methodology of Hamas in this respect, but at the same time we firmly support the Palestinian people's right to resist against national oppression and their right to engage in armed struggle.

What are the alternatives to end this tragedy? Neither "Zionism," which is obsessed with expanding settlements in hopes of driving out all Palestinians, nor "Islamic fundamentalism," which denies the very existence of Israelis and targets civilians, can end this tragedy. History has shown that the "two-state solution" of establishing separate states for Israelis and Palestinians will never work if Israel's oppressive rule remains in place. We believe that the only solution is a single Palestinian-Jewish socialist republic in which Palestinians and Jews live in equal and peaceful coexistence. Such a republic can only be realized by overthrowing the Israeli oppressive regime through working-class internationalism that transcends the ethnic barriers of Palestine and Jew.

The suffering of Palestinians may seem far away, but it's all around us. Excavators manufactured by HD Hyundai Construction Equipment were used by the Israeli army to destroy Palestinian homes and buildings in the West Bank. The West Bank was seized from Jordan by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, and the eviction of existing residents from militarily occupied land and the resettlement of new residents is a clear war crime in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Let's raise the voices of Korean workers and demand that HD HCE immediately end its war criminal business practices!

In the face of tense developments that are shaking the world, we demand the following:

= Israel and the United States must immediately stop their genocidal plans against Palestinians!

= We fully support the resistance of the Palestinian people against national oppression!

= Supporting the struggles of the peoples of the world against imperialist oppression, Let’s vigorously build international solidarity of the working class!

2023.10.10.

March To Socialism.