Declaration of the Socialist International League. Yesterday Gaza, today Lebanon. Stop terrorism by the State of Israel!

1. Just over a year after the new Zionist genocide that still continues in Gaza, The State of Israel multiplies its attacks against the civilian population of Lebanon. He 17 September caused the simultaneous explosion of thousands ofbeepers. He 18 detonatedlaptops, walkie-talkies and other electronic devices. And the 20 began bombing with American F-35 fighter planes in popular neighborhoods of Beirut - the capital- and throughout the southern region of Lebanon, where there are several Palestinian refugee camps.

To its genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip, West Bank and its military operations in Syria, Yemen and Iran, The Zionist State now adds this unprecedented aggression, in what threatens to be the beginning of a war escalation throughout the Middle East.

2. To date, in just a week, The terrorist attacks and Israeli bombings in Lebanon caused almost 600 deaths, mostly civilians, including more than 50 boys and girls, 80 women and a hundred elderly; nail 2.000 injured people, and close to 500.000 displaced from the south and Baalbek areas, Bekaa and Hermel towards Beirut, mountain regions and Syria.

The detonations affected people in their daily lives, on the street, schools, hospitals, shops. Israel dropped its missiles on homes, health centers, other infrastructure and even caravans of cars fleeing. and almost the 10% of the total Lebanese population today suffers forced displacement. It is the largest attack on that country since the Zionist occupation of 1982.

3. The fascist government of Benjamin Netanyahu, composed of Likud and several ultra-religious Zionist parties, dares to deepen its genocidal attacks thanks to the impunity granted to it by its allies, both by action and by omission: North American and European imperialisms among the first, the Arab capitalist governments and Russia and China among the second.

At the same time, Although the widespread popular rejection in the world of the crimes against humanity committed by the State of Israel has forced the International Criminal Court and the UN General Assembly to issue some sentences, For now, these are limited to a mere formal level but do not constitute effective sanctions..

4. Regarding the military aspect, Israel accumulates troops and reservists on the border with Lebanon. It has clear air superiority over Hezbollah, but not so much on the ground: some 200.000 effective versus 100.000 respectively. Invade southern Lebanese up to the Litani River, as the Zionist extreme right intends, it would mean a high cost. At the same time, So far Hezbollah's response is quite measured: even with some 5.000 Kader missiles 1 long range, launched a single one as a warning towards the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, which was also intercepted by the Israeli defense.

Regarding negotiations for a ceasefire, they are still very stuck: nor does Hezbollah agree to abandon southern Lebanon or recognize the State of Israel, nor does he agree to renounce maintaining military control of Netzarim and Philadelphia, the two strategic corridors that cross Gaza.

• It is important to keep in mind that despite the genocide that Israel is carrying out on the innocent population of Gaza, has not achieved its goals of crushing Hamas and securing the release of all hostages. And that by opening another front with Hezbollah in Lebanon, that serves their interests of continuing and expanding the war, It will cause consequences not only to them but also to their imperialist sponsors..

6. Iran's permissive attitude towards Israeli attacks on Palestine and now Lebanon deserves firm criticism.. As new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian notably moderates the usual anti-Israel rhetoric, The axis of the current negotiation with the United States is Iran's nuclear program and not the rights of the Palestinian people. As usual, Iran manipulates the Palestinian cause according to its own interests.

Since 2005 the reactionary and theocratic regime of the mullahs proclaims the “unity of the fields”, promising military support in case of Israeli aggression on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen o Iraq. But in the face of the current attack on Lebanon and the Zionist genocide in Gaza that has been going on for a year and has claimed more than 40.000 lives, Iran does not support the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance in accordance with real and pressing needs.

7. If something is becoming increasingly clear, it is that there is no peace possible in the Middle East as long as the Zionist State of Israel persists., that theocratic enclave, supremacist, pro-imperialist, colonialist and terrorist by nature. The fallacy oftwo states that imperialism and its partners repeat. And neither is a capitalist and Islamic fundamentalist Palestinian state as Hamas proposes., Hezbollah and Iran: With this reactionary political-religious project and its methods we have insurmountable differences.

There the only genuine solution will come with the socialist revolution throughout the region, to defeat and dismantle the Zionist State, liberate Palestine and establish a federation of socialist republics of the Middle East. This strategy requires the construction of a new revolutionary socialist leadership, task that we promote from the LIS.

8. In this context, Today Lebanon is experiencing an acute crisis. At the political level there is an impasse and power vacuum: since 2022 There is no president but a provisional government and parliament is paralyzed. It is that the popular rebellion of 2019 The retrograde regime of power sharing between the three religious factions collapsed. (Maronite Christians and Sunni and Shiite Islamists), that cannot be recomposed. Both, in a country with very little productive and service development, Israeli attacks worsen economic collapse. And on a social level, The massive forced exodus from the south forced classes to be suspended and schools to be used as shelters., as health care and public assistance run out. Instead of removing the bread subsidy as shamefully done, The Lebanese government should put all available resources at the service of the emergency, including confiscating necessary funds or products from local and foreign companies and banks. One year after the Zionist attack on Gaza, We must unite in one voice the support for the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

9. In the midst of this catastrophe, our young Lebanese comrades of the LIS, through his group “Para el Pueblo”, are carrying out humanitarian tasks to alleviate suffering and contribute to firmness, popular organization and resistance. Specific, They care for several hundred refugee families in five public schools in Beirut, guaranteeing the provision and distribution of food there, Water, mattresses, remedies, medical care of the injured and psychological containment. They have added another commission to the direct aid and needs census commissions to rescue people in neighborhoods hit by the bombings..

Worldwide, The LIS is carrying out an urgent fundraising campaign to contribute to this humanitarian task in Lebanon. We invite you to collaborate through your solidarity contribution.

26 september 2024