The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 25th October 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 25th October 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
While Biden’s chief envoy struts around the Middle East posing as a ‘media tor’, US imperialism gives the Zionists the green light to continue their genocidal war against the Palestinians and step up the bombing of Lebanon. The UN peace-keeping force in southern Lebanon says it will remain in place despite ongoing, deliberate attacks against its members by the Israelis. UNIFIL also said it has found evidence of the possible use of banned white phosphorus weapons near one of its bases. And the Arab resistance keeps up the fight in south Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Waves of Hezbollah rockets and drones have hit military targets in Israel, including a symbolic strike on the Israeli leader’s private residence in Caesarea, and an Israeli colonel was killed in a battle with Palestinian commandos in northern Gaza.
People’s China repeats its call for an end to the fighting at the BRICS summit in Russia this week. Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for “no more destruction in Palestine and Lebanon” at the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan this week. The Chinese president said it was important to continue pushing for “a ceasefire in Gaza, re launch the two-state solution and stop the spread of war in Lebanon...there should be no more suffering and destruction in Palestine and Lebanon” Xi said. “We should come forward together to form a stabilising force for peace and explore solutions to address both symptoms and roots of hotspot issues”.
The American foreign minister, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, landed in Tel Aviv for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders this week. Blinken’s team claim his trip is aimed at reviving cease f ire negotiations but nobody believes a word they say. The Biden administration contin ues to reject calls for an arms embargo against Netanyahu’s government while US military assistance to Israel soars to re cord levels. Calls are growing for US officials to investigate reports that Israeli command ers are using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, often forcing them to walk ahead of their troops to inspect under ground tunnels and buildings.
While the Israelis step up their indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon Hezbollah hits back with pin-point missile and drone attacks on targets in northern and central Israel. All air traf f ic at Ben Gurion airport, Isra el’s main international air hub, was halted on Monday and a state of emergency declared in the Tel Aviv area, following a wave of Lebanese resistance attacks that included a drone that exploded when it hit the bedroom window of Netanya hu’s residence in Caesarea just south of Haifa.
In Paris Lebanese Cabinet member Nasser Yassin said Lebanon will need $250 mil lion a month to help over a million people who’ve been displaced by Israel’s assault. Speaking on the eve of an international summit on Leba non in the French capital later this week the Lebanese minis ter said: “You know, overnight we’ve seen more than one mil lion people being displaced by the attacks, hostilities, by the aggression. And this is similar to an earthquake. You don’t see this number in scale and the speed of it, except in major natural disasters. And this is what happened in 48 hours.”
The Israelis are trying to drive the Arabs out of south ern Lebanon telling civilians to abandon their homes in advance of Israeli air-raids – the same terror tactics they’ve used to great effect in the Gaza Strip. But it works both ways. Israeli media outlets report that hundreds of workers at the port of Haifa have now received text messages in Arabic stating that they work in a location that could be targeted by the missiles of the resistance…