Palestine, Lebanon:
Zionism-Assassin,
(«Proletarian»; Nr. 2; September 20006)
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.
Down With Zionism, Down With Imperialism!
Solidarity with the Exploited and Oppressed Masses of Palestine and the
Whole World!
Reconstitution of the International Proletarian Party for the Future
World Communist Revolution!
International Communist Party
July 23, 2006
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