HEZBOLLAH BATTLING THOUSANDS OF ISRAELI TROOPS
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Wednesday, 2 August 2006
HEZBOLLAH BATTLING THOUSANDS OF ISRAELI TROOPS
THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to
mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to
enter southern Lebanon, to try to carve out an Israeli security zone
from the border to the Litani River.
The 48 hour bombing ceasefire was forgotten almost as soon as it was
announced, as Israeli planes went after targets in southern Lebanon and
the Bekkaa Valley, and took out vehicles entering Lebanon from Syria,
claiming that they were carrying missiles to resupply Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, there was no security issue concerning the transport of 500
pound guided bombs from the US to Israel. These have been killing
hundreds of Lebanese children, and are being sent via British civil and
military airports.
However, everywhere the aggressor forces tried to enter the Lebanon
they were fought bravely by Hezbollah, the Lebanese national liberation
movement, and in most cases they are being held, and in some cases
thrown back with heavy casualties. Hezbollah is making history. It has
already put an end to the myth of Zionist invincibility. Yesterday it
claimed that it had sunk another Israeli warship off the coast of the
city of Tyre, with a guided missile.
We also saw yesterday, with TV cameras entering the town of Bint
Jubayl, the weight of explosives and the firepower that the US-financed
Israeli army is deploying.
In Bint Jubayl, which the Israelis were forced to quit by Hezbollah,
not a single building was left standing, and groups of elderly people
were coming out of the cellars, shell-shocked and confused, not knowing
where they were.
Every little village on every hill top in southern Lebanon is getting
the same murderous treatment.
As for Hezbollah, it was nowhere to be seen. However, it materialised
quickly as a fighting force everywhere the Zionist forces sought to
make a push, to push them back.
There is no way that Israel can carve out a Security Zone reaching to
the Litani River without heavy casualties, and then hold it for more
than a few days. Their forces are already under attack from all
directions and will be rapidly decimated.
The US, orchestrating the Israeli offensive drive, has given Israel up
to 12 days to carve out a Security Zone.
US allies, such as France, are already discussing with Iran that it
should support France taking the lead in a 'stabilisation force'
that will take over the 'buffer zone' from the Israelis, and man it
along with the Turkish army and Arab forces from Morocco, Egypt and
Jordan.
In return for Iran discussing this issue with Hezbollah, it is being
suggested that a certain latitude on the nuclear question could be
organised.
France is also discussing with the Syrian government, and pledging that
if Syria helps to 'stabilise' the Lebanon, and influence Hezbollah,
discussions can begin immediately after the stabilisation force is
established on the southern border, on the issues that concern Syria.
These are the return of the Golan Heights and all of the territories
seized by Israel after the 1967 'Six Day' war.
This is the plot that Bush and Rice have been working on.
However, Hezbollah insists that there can be no discussions until the
Israelis are driven out of the Lebanon, and that they will not stop
fighting until this is the case.
Workers in the western capitalist countries, such as Britian, are
opposed to the role that the UK, US and Israel are playing in the
Lebanon and Palestine.
Workers must demand that their trade unions take strike action to bring
the Blair government down to stop the use of civilian and military
airports for flying deadly 500 pound bombs for the supply of the
Israeli airforce.
A workers' government must be brought in to stop all supplies of
British arms to Israel, and to arm Hezbollah and Hamas and to recognise
Hamas as the government of Palestine.