The New Dark Age

ALBA, Granada, North Africa Editorial Comment: We receive and send to you this important appeal from Lebanon following the redeployment of three US warships and 2,500 Marines to the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon for imperialism to protect its colony in occupied Palestine and destabilize the Lebanese-Palestinian resistance and the Yemeni offensive. Iran, the Lebanese resistance and Yemen should launch a joint military operation targeting the colonial entity after the vile assassination of one of the greatest Palestinian resistance fighters, the martyr Ismail Haniye, by the AngloZionist counter-revolution. Maximum distribution is requested.

Ten months have passed and the criminal Zionist aggression against Gaza, the occupied Palestinian West Bank and Lebanon continues, with the support of global imperialism, led by the United States, which has provided and continues to provide the aggressors with money and deadly and internationally prohibited weapons, in addition to political and diplomatic support and the use of the veto to provide protection in the face of international resolutions that oblige them to stop the policy of annihilation and aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, after the number of martyrs has exceeded 50,000, most of them children and women, and after the war of annihilation and aggression has displaced millions and caused hunger to hundreds of thousands.

Today, US fleets are massing in our seas, threatening our peoples with more destruction and death, in response to the call of the criminal Netanyahu and his group, some of whom have not hesitated to threaten to use nuclear weapons against the people of the Gaza Strip and surrounding countries in preparation for the subjugation of the region and the implementation of the “New Middle East” project that the US administration  put in place decades ago to maintain its control over energy sources and supply routes.

We affirm our right to resist aggression and occupation, in accordance with all international treaties, and our right to live in peace on our land, which is now being incinerated with white phosphorus and other internationally prohibited weapons, and we call on you to take action to restrain the aggressors and their NATO backers. We also call on international organizations to play the role assigned to them in order to preserve the right of peoples to self-determination and to resist the occupation and liberation of their land.

Finally, we address the workers, intellectuals, women and youth of the Arab world, calling on them to take action to stop the use of our Arab land and wealth to kill the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.

We also call on them to shake off the dust of humiliation represented by normalization with the enemy and the transformation of a dear part of our countries into military bases from which the imperialist powers benefit to subjugate our peoples and plunder the wealth of our land.

We also call on the peoples of the world, their national political forces and their national and popular bodies to further support the Palestinian cause and the rights of its people, and move to stop the Zionist genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, lift the siege, bring in immediate humanitarian aid unconditionally, and struggle to stop the barbarism of the fascist Zionist scheme that is trying to drag the entire region into a total war.

Long live Arab and international solidarity in the face of Imperialist-Zionist aggression.

The Follow-up Committee for the Meeting Of Lebanese-Palestinian Trade Union and Popular Organisations In Support of Palestine and Lebanon

Beirut on 7/8/2024

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