Look at these Israeli soldiers enjoying themselves while destroying the meager property of a poor Palestinian shop owner, remnants of what bombs haven't already obliterated.

I now find myself agreeing, ironically enough, with the US representative to the UN Security Council when he stated that "any ceasefire would be at best temporary." He said that to justify the shameful decision of his government to veto the council's unanimous vote for a permanent ceasefire. But I reiterate this for a different reason:

This madness will only "cease" when Zionist settler colonialism and Israel's apartheid regime end. And what reason do we really have not to believe that these systems will not crumble unless the world imposes severe sanctions and embargoes on this genocidal, racist regime?

But we also know that the large economies capable of such actions are aligned with the occupier, the colonizer, due to their own colonialist and imperialist nature both historically and in the present. Therefore, let's be honest: only a global, mass movement led by the people can create change.

But this is not limited to the century-long humanitarian catastrophe reaching its bloodiest climax in Gaza and the West Bank.

Look at the COP28 extravaganza going on these days, where the CEO of one of the largest fossil fuel companies has been appointed as the chair of the summit! He too has no hesitation in defending the status quo while only endorsing minimalist measures. This carnage of planetary biodiversity too has reached a climax of catastrophic status; and likewise, the perpetrators are placed in charge of looking after the victims. The US, taking a humanitarian gesture, warns Israel to be more careful on mass killings, and climate summit after summit demands that ecological criminals be softer in their destruction.

It is no accident that there are such stark similarities between climate and carnage, between colonizers and "carbonizers."

I am afraid we have reached such a pivotal point in human history where nothing short of mass action targeting the perpetrators will have any effect.

Hasn't fossil-finance capitalism become the "Israel" of so-called "nature"? Hasn't the globalized capitalist system subjected all living beings (except capitalists) to a more than a century-long lethal siege as doomed as civilian life in Gaza?