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Palestine, Lebanon:
Zionism-Assassin, Imperialism-Accomplice!
The Israeli attack in progress in Lebanon received, according to the
expression even of the international press, the «green light» of the United
States and the «tacit agreement» of the other great imperialists States. The
meeting of the «G 8» which was held at the commencement of the hostilities
reserves any even platonic judgment of the Israeli aggression, of any even
symbolic call for peace, being limited to a hypocritical call for «reserve» by
the «two parties» (!): the message was received loud and clear by the Hebrew
State which at once intensified its bombardments in the country, aiming in
particular at civil targets and essential services, with the aim of sowing
terror and provoking an exodus: more than one half-million people were thus
forced in a few days to flee the south of the country, while the death toll was
in the hundreds. Israel also instituted an air and naval blockade of Lebanon,
so much so that the Western ships which evacuate the foreigners must ask for
their authorization for safe passage! None of these great States emitted the
least criticism against this true act of piracy, which they, in fact, ratify.
This demonstrates that the «big 8» which dominate the world and which
claim to be the defenders of civilization, are actually the
terrorists-in-chief, they are the ones responsible for the crimes of
capitalism, even when in fact smaller States undertake their dirty work.
The attack of Israel in Lebanon is a continuation of its attacks against
the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. The pretext of these murderous
imperialist police operations was the capture of three of its soldiers--whereas
thousands of Palestinian and many Lebanese prisoners have been left to rot for
years in Israeli prisons.
On the one hand, their objective is to crush any inclination of
resistance to the permanent oppression undergone by the Palestinians and on the
other, to turn up the pressure on those States in the area (Syria, Iran) which
balk at yielding to the pressures of the United States and the Western
imperialisms. During the civil war Syria sent its troops to Lebanon with the
agreement of the United States, Israel and France to crush the Palestinians and
the disinherited Lebanese masses, now it is subject to very strong American and
French pressures to give up the positions which remain to it in this country,
after having already been forced to withdraw its soldiers a few months ago. The
French imperialists hope that a more or less permanent weakening of Hezbollah
(dependant on Syria and Iran) under the Israeli onslaught will enable them to
regain a part of their previous «presence» in Lebanon, traditionally an
important money market and commercial center of the Middle East. This is why
Chirac called only for the application of the UN resolution against Hezbollah,
and not for those against Israel...
WORLD
IMPERIALISM and the ARAB STATES are COMPLICIT in ISRAELI STATE REPRESSION
The United States and Israel responded to the electoral victory of the
Hamas party; a victory which is explained by its denunciation of the
generalized corruption and compromises of the former leaders (of Fatah); and
the formation of its government, by openly declaring that they were going to
asphyxiate the new Palestinian authorities. With utter contempt for
international agreements, Israel refused to pay the sums due (customs duties,
etc.) to the new government, while right after this the European States stopped
their assistance to the Palestinians, just as the majority of the States of the
Arab League (except that, anxious to avoid an explosion, the European
imperialists sought to put forward that part of the assistance which is used to
maintain the Palestinian police force and the structures of the mini-State by
institutions firmly tied to imperialist domination). The Israelis had formerly
supported Hamas, the reactionary clerical party, in order to weaken the
Palestinian nationalists. But for years Hamas, which presents itself in the
form of the defender of the poor and an irreconcilable adversary of the Jewish
State, unceasingly criticized the negotiations with Israel and the various
agreements of «peace». The arrival in power of this party was thus likely to
call into question, not these agreements which never really succeeded, but the
generally submissive attitude of the Palestinian Authorities to imperialist
order in the area: here for what, from the United States to the European
countries by way of Israel and the more powerful Arab States, all fell into
agreement to strangle by any means the new «democratically elected» government,
in spite of the fact that Hamas itself had begun to align itself on this imperialist
order!
This is a new demonstration that all the international agreements, all
the great principles of right and democracy are only hot air vis-a-vis
imperialist interests: only force counts.
After the capture of a soldier from the Tsahal during a guerrilla action
carried out in reprisal for the of massacre of Palestinian civilians on a
beach, Israel «reacted» by accentuating its campaign of assassinations and
destruction and by capturing a part of the Palestinian government with the
intention of judging it for «terrorism». The Western countries did not emit a
squeak of protest against these gangster actions, the imperialist leaders
repeating that «Israel has the right to defend itself»! The Palestinians
themselves, have only the right to die in silence, if not they become
terrorists... Another demonstration that a Palestinian State will never be
tolerated by Israel and its imperialist godfathers unless it remains a
concentration camp for its inhabitants permanently suspended under the threat
of murderous Israeli operations.
As long as capitalism exists, the various bourgeois States will never
cease competition and armed confrontation, they will never cease exploiting
their own proletarians all the while calling on them for the «unity of the
nation» against the proletarians of the foreign countries, they will never
cease oppressing the populations which fall under their domination. As long as
the world imperialist order reigns, the Israeli State which is its Middle
Eastern pillar and richly remunerated henchman (subsidies in Israel
alone represent more half of the external assistance of the United States...)
will not cease its exactions, it will not cease oppressing the Palestinians and
encroaching on their territory.
NO TO
THE MASQUERADES OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN BOURGEOISIES!
YES TO THE REVOLUTIONNARY STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND ALL CAPITALIST
STATES!
The recent decades have provided the irrefutable proof that all the diplomatic
negotiations, all the «peace» agreements signed under the aegis of the
imperialists were used only to increase oppression and to lead to new
massacres. There is no worse illusion than to appeal to the alleged peaceful
intentions of this or that bourgeois State or the interventions of the UN, a
true «den of thieves» subject to the orders of the imperialist big shots.
Within the framework of capitalism, there cannot be any solution for the
oppressed and all calls for peace are lies.
The only way out lies in the development of the proletarian struggle
because only this struggle will be able to link all the exploited across all
borders, will be able to smash to bits all nationalist unities--including in
Israel. And this will be done on the condition of destroying the international
imperialist order, of overthrowing all bourgeois States, in the Middle East and
everywhere, in order to establish on their ruins an international and unitary
proletarian power, the essential condition to eradicate all oppression, all
exploitation, all repression and all discrimination at the same time as
capitalism.
As remote as this may appear, this prospect is the only realistic one;
it can and it must prepare as of today while bringing to the masses direct or
indirect victims of «our» imperialism the only solidarity which really counts:
the weakening of imperialism by the rupture of the proletarians with the
organizations and parties related in one way or another to the bourgeois order,
by their frontal opposition to the capitalists and in their State, in short by
the resumption of the internationalist and revolutionary class struggle.
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Down With Zionism, Down With
Imperialism!
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Solidarity with the
Exploited and Oppressed Masses of Palestine and the Whole World!
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Reconstitution of the International Proletarian Party for the Future
World Communist Revolution!
International
Communist Party
July 23, 2006
www.pcint.org