The US military is pissed. Zionists are pissed. A US service member just burned himself alive as a martyr for the cause of the Palestinian people, and pro-Israel reactionaries cannot cope with that fact that a US soldier, someone who is supposed to represent the power of the regime and its ideology would go to such lengths to protest the genocide committed by them. They’re blaming echo chambers and anarchism, and trying their best to make it seem like his actions were somehow illogical. Zionist media is even claiming his actions were comparable to a suicide bombing.
I never thought I would see a soldier of the regime go to such lengths to defend the masses of another nation. However it seems this man came to understand imperialism and the evils of the United States while serving in the military. In a way, he did one of the logical things that someone can do when they realize they exist in a way that advances imperialism and human suffering, which is to self-destruct. This man is a comrade, despite what his uniform may have said. Some people may take issue with the fact that he was a soldier for the US, but this seems stubborn. Wouldn’t you want more soldiers to do what this man did? Or something even half as good? If rogue US military soldiers defend Palestine, why would we go against that? In fact, we should encourage more service members to go rogue so the people of this country can have a formation that actually defends their freedom.
All over the web, people are telling this hero to rest in power. The gods will certainly reward someone who sacrificed everything and was willing to physically burn to death for the people of Palestine. This was almost like self-crucifying. We will most likely hear slander and smear campaigns from the propagandists of the regime soon trying to discredit his actions just as did for George Floyd or any person who became a symbol of resistance. However the masses and our comrades cannot be fooled so easily by bourgeois media. The day of judgment will come for the zionists, and they will be made to pay for their crimes.
From the river to the sea!
In my view, there was probably nothing “better” he could have done. Lobby politicians? A joke. Spark a revolution? USians are still too comfortable living on the dividends of Imperialism to attempt that. Organize a party? We have a few dozen Communist parties already, and even so he’d have been laughed out of any serious Communist party due to his uniform.
The best thing he could do was get a message out. Agitate and Educate. To do that, you need to break past the barriers of the bourgeois manufactured echo chambers.
He did that. He was the very thing US working class white boys like to praise and idolize as heroes and self sacrificing servants of the good ol’ US of A.
And he publicly burned himself alive, making national news for the entire US to see. The protesters in city halls and on the streets would never have reached the people his death reached. The types of people his death and his message reached are the types of people who spit when they see “”“leftist”“” protests in cities.
To see “one of your own” take up a cause so passionately and so unselfishly will turn heads that otherwise would’ve look away, for sure.
In the US, there isn’t much working class people are capable of yet that’d change anything for Palestinians. To make any meaningful change on an issue of this magnitude, the US working class would need to have already been orders of magnitude more organized and aware than it currently is. Most people have never even heard of a cooperative before, and half of the working class is anti-union.
So, to be honest, I don’t think there was much else someone in his shoes could do if they were as passionate about the plight of Palestinians as he was.