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International appeal: STOP THE GENOCIDE!!

category international | imperialism / war | appeal / petition author Wednesday July 26, 2006 01:00author by Luta Social - Colectivo anti-autoritário de luta de classesauthor email luta_social at sapo dot pt Report this post to the editors

There is no excuse for the slaughter of civilians!

The only chance to avoid a widening of the conflict with very serious consequences in human losses, in the destruction of structures in poor countries and an increase in instability in all the countries of the region and a probable increase in desperate and blind acts of retaliation against civilian populations is a united mobilisation at the grassroots level of all workers, of all the left, to erect a barrier to this MILITARIST ADVENTURE of a super-national force, led by the US...
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International appeal:
STOP THE GENOCIDE!!

There is no excuse for the slaughter of civilians!

We know there is no worse enemy of the people than US imperialism and its government. Nevertheless, they are not alone: too many States are tolerant of the Zionist war crimes in this so-called campaign to "free Israeli prisoners".

The forces that dominate the mass media, as always, present the State of Israel as the victim that is being forced to defend itself from Hezbollah and Hamas. This position is not the result of any sympathy towards the Israeli civilian population. Rather, it is in sympathy with the Zionist power, which is interested in making the leap forward to full war, as in 1982.

The reason now is that they cannot avoid the international legitimization of the government of the Palestinian Authority that persists in not yielding on questions of principle, such as the territories occupied since '67 and the Palestinian expulsions, with the consequent expropriation of their homes and land in the years after 1948 during each crisis or war, leading to the existence of a Palestinian "Diaspora".

The official Arab position still requires that in order for there to be a full and lasting peace in the region, Israel must accept having to give back the territories it occupied in 1967, minus all settlements, and acknowledging the right of return or indemnity for those situations where return is no longer possible for the Palestinians concerned and their descendants, who were expelled or forced into exile as a result of the persecution they were subjected to.

As Olmert is, in diplomatic terms, increasingly isolated, the only possible way out (apart from the obvious one, that is to say whereby the Israeli State abides by international law and submits to UN resolutions!) for him and his Zionist gang is to provoke a war which in turn can provoke a reflex from his friend Bush to "fly to the aid of a threatened ally", also neutralising those - at home or abroad - who defend a negotiated peace solution.

The unmasking of the pseudo-response in military terms, supposedly to "free" hostages (something that cannot be achieved using military means but only through negotiations, if one is serious about saving their lives), exposes the fact that it is merely a pretext to set into motion plans which have long been maturing in the secrecy of military offices.

The attacks against Beirut, Tyre, etc., have so far caused destruction only among civilians. The claim of the Israeli commander-in-chief that the political-military structure of Hezbollah has been significantly affected is one those lies that end up passing for truth if repeated often enough.

Katyusha missiles cannot be fired without immediate localization of their launch point by US spy satellites, which then transmit the data instantly to Israeli headquarters. The fact that Hezbollah missiles have been firing for more than 10 days without being immediately targeted and silenced shows beyond any doubt that the Zionists' purpose in this war is NOT to save the lives of their own civilian population but, on the contrary, to use such missile attacks to "justify" both the atrocities and a lasting occupation of a part of Lebanon. It is the most complete barbarity one can imagine.

Power in Israel is in the hands of a Zionist military hierarchy that uses various schemes to provoke an inevitable reaction on the other side. The present crisis was provoked by the kidnapping of two Palestinian civilians in June by the Israeli army, followed by the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, the latter event being widely publicized in the media, unlike the former.

Zionist invasions of Gaza were then carried out with the aim of killing Hamas leaders and destroying the Palestinian Authority's infrastructure in Gaza, making it totally impossible for Hamas to keep the unilateral truce that had been in place since their victory in the elections, a period of 17 months.

It should be recalled that Sharon used the same tactic when he sabotaged peace efforts by going to the "Moshe sanctuaries", a holy place for Muslims, in order to provoke the wrath of Palestinians and Arabs, and marking the starting point of the Second Intifada.

The true power is held not by Olmert but by the military caste. The civilian politicians of either the "left" or right are just straw men who follow the orders of these who hold military power, the true basis of Zionism.

The explicit approval of the slaughter by the USA, with the EU shamefully following in its footsteps, showed itself in a crystal clear light when Condoleezza Rice said last week, on Friday 21st July, that a ceasefire was not to be reached immediately. As we know, only the US would have the real power to stop the Zionist military machine from smashing civilians in Lebanon, something they are doing with the perfectly false pretext that they are destroying "Hezbollah strongholds".

So what are the goals of the Zionists' American bosses?

  • To deflect attention from the defeat in the Iraqi invasion, which gets worse each day and from which there will be no way for them to get out "with their heads held high".
  • To provide a pretext with which to attack Iran, currently the greatest threat to their total hegemony in the Middle East, which the Bush empire has not yet given up on in spite of the bad turn of events in Iraq or in Afghanistan.
  • To strengthen the most reactionary militarism in the Zionist State, rendering less likely a lasting peace with the Palestinian and Arab world. The USA, in fact, needs an expansionist Israel, able to act as the vanguard of strategic US interests in the Middle East. An Israeli State committed to a peace policy and to normal relations with its neighbours would not be in tune with Bush's policy and the interests he represents.
Secondly, the USA is once again showing that it alone makes decisions regarding the "new world order", and that the UN, Russia and the EU are just secondary actors with regard to any possible solution to the Palestinian problem.

The only chance to avoid a widening of the conflict with very serious consequences in human losses, in the destruction of structures in poor countries and an increase in instability in all the countries of the region and a probable increase in desperate and blind acts of retaliation against civilian populations is a united mobilisation at the grassroots level of all workers, of all the left, to erect a barrier to this MILITARIST ADVENTURE of a super-national force, led by the US, that intends to "make war on terror" in the name of the values of "democracy and freedom", but which in reality will only ensure profits for the arms industry, the great oil giants (even richer thanks to the increased in oil prices), and allow the continuing destruction of every social and political conquest of the working classes, a mass to be exploited increasiongly by large capital.


First signatures:

António Alves,
Daniel Silva,
Flávio Gonçalves,
Fernando Martins,
Manuel Baptista,
Miguel Negrão,
Pedro Alves,
Pier Francesco Zarcone.

Please join the appeal by sending your name and e-mail address to luta_social@sapo.pt

Related Link: http://luta-social.blogspot.com/
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