The colonial fascist Israeli regime has carried out a massacre of Lebanese civilians, killing 492 in a bombing on Tuesday 24th of September in which thousands more were injured. This immediately follows the pager terror attacks that injured thousands and the strike on southern Beirut last week.
This violence is justified by the new Israeli war aim to bring settlers back into the northern towns depopulated by the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in the North that started on the 8th of October, 2023. Israel’s propaganda, echoed by its sycophants in the bourgeois media is eerily similar to its lies justifying ongoing genocide in Gaza, claiming Hezbollah uses ‘human shields’, claiming that they are only fighting against Hezbollah and only targeting their sites. They claim that pushing Hezbollah behind the Litani River is the only path to ‘peace’ despite the Israeli rejection of multiple ceasefires deals in Gaza that would have ended the fighting in the North. These tactics are further mirrored in the similar use of evacuation orders in southern Lebanon now being used to cause mass displacement.
Every standard bearer for western imperialism has pressed their concern that all sides to ‘prevent any further escalation’ while providing Israel with the material to continue forward with its ‘de-escalation though escalation’. The piles of paper and hours of spokesperson press conferences from the world imperialist powers including Australia affirming their commitment to a ceasefire and their desire to prevent regional war are not backed up by serious action, unless it is to increase the flow of weapons to the terrorist State of Israel.
This latest round of aggression is driven by the political interests of the Israeli government. It has been unable to achieve its war aims in Gaza aside from the total destruction of civilian life in the strip. Hamas and other resistance groups have not been wiped out and remain operating after nearly a year of Israeli attacks. To commit to a ceasefire, as the only viable option for ending the war on Gaza without would spell the collapse of the current Israeli coalition, and the continuing existence of militants in Gaza and the West Bank following the October 7th jail break would be an intolerable scar on the Israeli national psyche. So, to continue the war, Israel must expand it and continue it indefinitely before it is forced to stop.
It is unlikely that Israel will be able to destroy Hezbollah, and it will be dragged into further military problems if it commits to a land invasion as it did in 2006. And while the US has been reluctant to back the full Israeli invasion of Lebanon it is also reluctant to restrain Israel.
We cannot rely on the imperialist powers to end this conflict!
The various nationalist forces in the region have stalled the liberation struggle of the region into a game of international brinkmanship. We support nationalist forces to the degree that they fight the imperialists, and we oppose them to the degree that they drag out the struggle against the imperialists. The only way to end the imperialist occupation of the Middle East is through revolutionary war waged by a new Red Army of the whole region’s working class. The road to Jerusalem runs through Cairo, Baghdad, and Amman!
-Israel out of Lebanon!
-Free Palestine!
-Fight the imperialist world system!
-For a Socialist Republic of the Middle East!
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