This past week felt like a Seussical-themed opposite day – suddenly, the genocide in Gaza is correctly being called a genocide, votes against Israeli arms deals are stacking up, and Palestine is (almost) a state?! Blink and you might’ve missed it, but after 21 months of relentless terror across Gaza, do the US and other imperialist nations finally have a conscience? Of course not. But the headlines would sure like you to think so. Let’s break it down, because a lot has happened.

There is only one solution… and it’s not two states. 

The two-state solution has long been touted as the only way forward to lasting peace in the Middle East. On July 29th, 68 countries, including the Arab League and the entirety of the European Union, signed onto a UN declaration urging for just that: two states, Israel and Palestine. France is pushing recognition of a Palestinian state; Britain is using it as a threat, dangling statehood as punishment for Israel’s latest starvation campaign in Gaza. While an interesting shift, the idea that two states will resolve decades of occupation, ethnic cleansing, and destruction is delusional. For over 70 years, Israel has operated as though two states already exist, where one state is fully armed and sovereign, the other under siege.

Formalizing a two-state agreement won’t make Israel respect Palestinian autonomy; it would simply repackage occupation with international endorsement. Worse, the solution calls for Hamas to hand over control to the unpopular Palestinian Authority, an unelected, US-backed subcontractor of Israeli control. The two-state solution is not a reward for Palestinian resistance nor penance for the suffering caused by the US-Israeli War Machine, but rather serves as a pacifier, meant to turn the “conflict” into something more palatable so that the world can go back to business as usual, allowing Palestinians to suffer and imperialism to go on unchecked. For anti-imperialists, the goal is not to coexist with imperialism, but to overthrow it altogether. 

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“Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Israel’s campaign in Gaza a genocide” is not a headline we expected. We wouldn’t have bet on “Israeli human rights group calls it genocide” either. And yet, here we are. All the while, more Democrats than ever voted (unsuccessfully) to block U.S. arms sales to Israel amid unprecedented death and devastation. Is mass starvation finally a red line? Are the tides turning?

While some celebrate a changing narrative, let’s be real: after 21 months of live-streamed attacks, bombed churches, and snipers treating children as target practice, people are just now saying the word “genocide”? So let’s be clear: these aren’t moral leaders. They’re not allies. They’re opportunists. They’re late, complicit, and morally bankrupt. They’re not joining the cause; they’re covering their asses. This isn’t some enemies-to-lovers redemption arc. History won’t be made by Marjorie Taylor Greene or the Democrats casting symbolic, meaningless votes — it will be made by those who never needed 100,000 dead to speak up. 

US imperialism isn’t folding under pressure; it is adapting to survive. Politicians and governments will make calculated decisions to uphold power. The growing recognition of genocide, the calls for a two-state solution, and the performative votes against arms deals are not signs of moral awakening. They’re strategies meant to maintain power and suppress resistance. We cannot be fooled or distracted by these shifts. But rather, we must make an unwavering commitment to the people of Palestine. We know the international community recognizing Palestine as a state—or calling the genocide for what it is—won’t bring an end to the US-Israeli War Machine. To really bring an end to the occupation, the genocide, and the horrors of US imperialism, we need to step it up and engage in struggle. There is only one solution… an overthrow of US imperialism! Join us in Behind Enemy Lines as we fight against US imperialism in the heart of empire.