Yeni Dönem Publishing (Turkey)
On 17th September, the Zionist state of Israel detonated the pagers used by the members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, which were pre-planted with explosives, and a day later, the same Zionist entity detonated the radio devices used by the members of Hezbollah. Dozens of soldiers, civilians and children were killed in these explosions, which brought the war in the Middle East, or better and more accurately in West Asia, to a new stage.
It would be better to say like this: “The Zionist entity which wants to take the war to a new stage, has blown up the pagers and radios used by everyone, military and civilian, in order to realise this aim. There is no doubt that this was an act of terrorism aimed at instilling fear.
Seeking answers to questions such as how the pagers and radios were detonated, who set them up, and how and at which stage explosives were planted inside them is the technical side of the matter. Dealing with this side of the matter no one will take a step forward from a political point of view. The important point is to seek an answer to the question of why Zionist Israel wants to take the war to a new stage and carry it to a wider geography.
It would be appropriate to start by recognising two points. First, Israel which has no roots, past, or historical reason for its existence, is an entity organised as a state. In an article written in 1979, the American writer James Baldwin writes the following:
“The state of Israel was not founded for the liberation of the Jews; it was founded for the liberation of the interests of the West (i.e. the imperialist-capitalist states)”
There is no reason to doubt the truth of this statement. The terrorist state called Israel did not arise out of a struggle for the right of the Jewish people to self-determination. Nor was it born out of the aim of a nation to establish its own sovereign state. Neither a people’s struggle nor a nation’s struggle was behind the creation of this terrorist state.
Behind the establishment of the Zionist state was not the Jewish people, but British imperialism. The first step towards the founding of the present terrorist state was the Balfour Declaration of the British Empire. This historical fact shows how right the American writer James Baldwin was.
The second point, directly related to the first, is the question of Israel’s population structure. Since Israel was not founded by the uprising or struggle of a people or nation for self-determination, it did not have its own population at the beginning of its foundation. Almost the entire population of Israel was formed carrying Jews from various regions and countries worldwide. Zionists call this “aliyah”. When the State of Israel was declared in 1948, its population was about eight hundred thousand. In about seventy years, the population of Zionist Israel has increased tenfold to 8.6 million. This growth was not mainly the result of fertility but of immigration to the occupied Palestinian territories, encouraged and supported by the world bourgeoisie.
We come to the following important conclusion: The steady increase in the population is a condition of life for the Zionist state of Israel; it is a matter of existence or extinction. The proof of this is the panic of the Zionist circles after the “Aqsa Flood” war, when the so-called “settlers” from the north of Israel, bordering Lebanon, fled their homes for fear of war. This point is the Achilles heel of Zionist Israel.
To prevent the worsening of weakness, the Zionist state and government leaders are trying to bring back the “settlers” in the north by any means necessary. In order to return the occupying, mostly fascist, population of so-called “settlers”, they want to drive back Hezbollah, which has settled in the south of Lebanon, and build a “safe zone” where so-called “settlers” can feel safe. Therefore, for the Zionist government, the war against Hezbollah and the Lebanese revolutionary forces is not a matter of choice, but of necessity.
This is the biggest dilemma of Zionist Israel. And this is the contradiction that will lead it to destruction. The war leads to the emigration of the population, on the other hand, there is no other way to bring them back but war. The population that fled from Zionist Israel with the last war is not limited to the “settlers” in the north. It was announced that six hundred thousand people fled/emigrated from all parts of Zionist Israel, especially Tel-Aviv, during the war. There are many reasons to believe that the real figure is much higher.
Since the population is a vital issue for the Zionists, during the 70s, the Jewish population living in Ethiopia, called “Beth-Israel” and often humiliatingly called “Falasha”, was secretly smuggled into the occupied territories. However, this was not a solution either. When the Beth-Israelis reached a certain number, ethnic conflicts broke out within Zionist Israel between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews and between the Jews of Beth-Israel.
The Zionists are trying to expand their territory through wars in order to find land to settle their population, which has increased tenfold in seventy years. This is the main reason why they are committing genocide against the Palestinian Arab people and trying to drive them out. It is an extremely shallow approach to attribute the problem to whether Netanyahu or any other Zionist “politician” remains in the government or not. There is no other way for Zionist Israel to survive than to wage war and capture new and new territories. However, this war has become the most important factor in reducing the population it is trying to increase.
The reason is obvious. With the last war, Israel has reached a point where it is under fire from all sides and where the protection of the imperialist states is of little use. The war that started on 7th October last year was the longest in Israel’s history. Except for the 1948 war, all the wars that Zionist Israel fought ended within days, weeks or even a few months. However, the current war has completed its first year, and it is unpredictable when it will end.
By blowing up pagers and radios with so-called high technology, Zionist Israel is trying to make a show of force, to rebuild its deterrence with this show, and to create the myth of invincible and untouchable. It is trying to give its own people the feeling that they are safe. But all this is in vain. After all, no force can bring back those who fled from the north of the occupying state for fear of their lives. No force can convince the six hundred thousand people who fled (and those who continue to flee) to return.
Everyone understands this: Not only has Zionist Israel’s deterrence and the myth of its invincibility collapsed, but the protective umbrella of the imperialist states, especially US and British imperialism, has also become useless. The fighters of Yemen, who were humiliated as “slippers”, proved the uselessness of that umbrella.
The imperialist-capitalist system is collapsing. Small poodles cannot be expected to survive while this system collapses. Therefore, the collapse of the occupying state is now on everyone’s minds. Including the former Zionist Minister of War Benny Gantz!