September 26, 2024
Stop the genocide in Palestine! No to imperialist-driven war!
BAYAN USA, Migrante Middle East, and Commission 15 of the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) emphatically condemn Israel’s recent escalation of terrorist attacks on the Arab masses in the region as it continues its genocidal assault of the Palestinian people.
There has been no let up in Israel’s genocidal rampage against Gaza almost one year after October 7. The Israeli Occupation Forces continue to bombard refugee camps, such as its war crime in Khan Yunis earlier this month that vaporized the remains of entire Palestinian families with 2,000 pound bombs. According to the most recent medical studies, Israel’s genocide will cost the lives of at lest 186,000 Palestinians.
In response to Israel’s brutality, Arab resistance movements in the region have lent their support to the Palestinian cause. With eyes trained on occupying a greater swath of the Middle East, Israel has taken this moment to carte blanche attack other countries. In the past two weeks, it coordinated a complex terrorist attack by exploding pagers and other communication devices within Lebanon, killing dozens and injuring thousands. It met retaliatory missile fire from Lebanon with a barrage of its own missiles, killing almost 1,000 Lebanese people in the past week, including Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah. The assassination — which happened almost concurrently as Benjamin Netanyahu lied through his teeth to the United Nations General Assembly saying “Israel seeks peace” — is sure to fan the flames of regional war. That the zionist forces have the bloodthirst to commit these kinds of war crimes while still subjugating the Palestinian people shows just how bankrupt and rotten the state of Israel truly is.
But Israel is far from alone. The attacks against the Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, and Arab peoples throughout the region would not be possible without the military financing, arms, and political and moral support provided by U.S. imperialism. Both U.S. presidential aspirants — Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party and Donald Trump for the Republican Party — have wholeheartedly defended the lie that Israel has a “right to defend itself.” Even Harris, who some have praised for calling for a ceasefire, has done nothing substantial to stop the steady flow of weapons to Israel. In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has even deployed more naval warships to the region, signaling that she was serious when she stated she would ensure the U.S. military remains the “most lethal fighting force in the world.”
BAYAN USA and Migrante Middle East, together with the ILPS Commission 15 on migrants, refugees and diaspora displaced by imperialism, continue our resolute solidarity with the Palestinian, Lebanese, and all Arab masses against U.S.-Israeli terror. We also know that any act of aggression by U.S. imperialism and Israeli war criminals also places the Filipino masses in danger, as millions of overseas Filipinos work in Palestine, Lebanon, and across the whole Middle East region because of the Philippine government’s systematic labor export program. Our best defense against such attacks is to link arms with our Arab brothers, sisters, and siblings to build the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist united front against our common enemies.
We call for peace based on justice in the Middle East — and that justice means a free Palestine, a free Lebanon, a free Yemen, and freedom for all Arab peoples under the yolk of U.S. imperialism and its zionist project.
Free Palestine! End U.S.-backed Israeli war crimes! U.S. out of the Middle East! U.S. out of everywhere!