Havana, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) — Thousands of Cubans of all ages marched Monday here demanding an end to the genocide committed by the Zionist Government of Israel against the Palestinian people and its attacks on other nations in the Middle East.

Participants in the march, led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top leaders, denounced the complicity of the United States in the Zionist military onslaught that has killed more than 42,000 people in the Gaza Strip, including many women and children, and more than 2,000 in Lebanon.

At the Anti-Imperialist Tribune in Havana, final destination of the march that began at downtown Havana’s Fragua Martiana, Palestinian students in Cuba expressed their compatriots’ will to resist until they recover their nation, and achieve their inalienable rights and a just and lasting peace.

They denounced the expansionist interests of the State of Israel, and its aggression against nations such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the entire region, with the complicity of the United States, while the world remains paralyzed, unable to stop the tragedy.

It is not a war, it is a generalized and progressive genocide, they stated at the political-cultural event, at which they expressed their infinite gratitude to Cuba for its permanent solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people.

The first secretary of the Young Comminist League (UJC), Meyvis Estévez, stated that this march and the mobilizations held nationwide in recent days demonstrate Cuba’s support for the Palestinian people, whom she described as an impressive example of self-sacrifice and patriotism.

She stressed Cuba’s commitment to peace, justice and the defense of Palestinian sovereignty.

We will not close our eyes to the massacre; we will not forget the heroism of those attacked or the barbarity of the aggressors, Estévez noted.

Source: Prensa Latina

Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization honored with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-nuclear activism, drew comparisons between the plight of children in Gaza and those impacted by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

“In Gaza, bleeding children are being held (by their parents). It’s like Japan 80 years ago,” Mimaki said at a news conference in Tokyo. “Children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki lost their fathers in the war and their mothers in the bombings. They became orphans.”

Mimaki expressed his belief that “the dedicated individuals working in Gaza” should have received the Peace Prize, specifically mentioning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), also a nominee for the award.

Mimaki was three years old when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing over 200,000 including deaths from radiation poisoning. 

Three days later, another bomb hit Nagasaki, killing an additional 100,000. About 70,000 of those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were enslaved Korean laborers.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement representing survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.

Nihon Hidankyo, founded in 1956, has been a voice for atomic bomb survivors, providing testimony of the horrors of nuclear warfare and advocating for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Jeremy Loffredo could face the death penalty for reporting on Iranian missile strikes that targeted Israeli military and intelligence bases used to carry out brutal assassinations over the past year

Update:

The U.S. government has yet to comment on the case of Jeremy Loffredo, an independent U.S. journalist who remains in Israeli police detention on suspicion of “endangering national security.” Loffredo may potentially face life imprisonment or the death penalty after reporting the locations where Iranian missiles struck in the attack launched by Iran earlier this month.

U.S. officials refrained from commment despite a Yedioth Ahronoth report from Thursday stating that representatives from the U.S. Embassy attended the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for a hearing on the request of the police to extend his detention.

In his report, Loffredo stated that the strikes hit targets, including the Israeli military’s Nevatim Air Base and an intelligence base in central Israel.

“Since the missile strikes, Israeli authorities have attempted to downplay the significance of the attacks, censored the locations of missile impacts from media publication, and claimed that Iranian missiles targeted Israeli civilians,” Loffredo stated.

“What I saw today, here in Israel, is clear evidence that Iran was targeting the same Israeli intelligence and military infrastructure that has been used over the past year to carry out brutal assassinations and attacks.”

The Grayzone, the outlet for which Loffredo has been reporting since his arrival in Israel, issued a statement saying police are officially holding him “on suspicion of serious security offenses for publicly publishing… the locations of missile drops near or inside sensitive security facilities, with the aim of bringing this to the notice of the enemy and thereby assisting them in their future attacks.”

The Grayzone added that Loffredo’s report showed the aftermath of Iranian attacks on military and intelligence targets inside Israel, which were openly featured in reports broadcast on mainstream U.S. news outlets ABC News and PBS, neither of which currently face such charges.

“He published the information openly and fully, without attempting to hide anything. If this information constitutes aiding the enemy, many other journalists in Israel, including Israeli reporters, should also be arrested,” said the attorney defending Loffredo, Leah Tsemel. “A spy would not have acted so publicly and transparently.”

Originally, the judge overseeing Loffredo’s case ordered him released, saying that since Israeli military censors agreed to allow Israeli media to publish both “word of [Jeremy’s] arrest and the publications that led to his arrest,” Israel could “no longer justify his continued detention,” The Grayzone added.

However, Israeli police appealed this decision, and Loffredo remains in custody.

The Grayzone stated, “We will fight these charges and ask that you contact the State Department and urge them to act in defense of their citizen detained in Israel. The U.S. has an obligation to defend its journalists who are merely adhering to their ethical obligation to inform the public of pertinent facts.”

The Grayzone and The Cradle contributor Kit Klarenberg said that Loffredo was arrested by Israeli military officers while crossing a checkpoint in the illegally occupied West Bank.

Klarenberg continued, “Jeremy has done nothing wrong, and these are allegations that can lead to life imprisonment or the death penalty.”

He noted further that Israeli Knesset and Likud Party member Revital Gotliv had recently requested life imprisonment or the death sentence for Yuli Novak, the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization that documents abuses of the Israeli government toward Palestinians.

In March, Loffredo embedded himself among Jewish Israeli nationalists who were trying to block desperately needed humanitarian aid at the Gaza border. “They enjoyed pastries with the military while confessing to war crimes and cheering for genocide,” Loffredo reported.

In January, Loffredo reported from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where he documented settler terror attacks on Palestinian businesses. He interviewed local activists who told him they feared arrest and beatings from Israeli police for speaking out against the assault on Gaza.

Source: The Cradle

Al-Aqsa Flood anniversary

Oct. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the Palestinian people’s heroic break through the concentration camp walls built by the Zionist regime around Gaza. 

It is also the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Israeli genocide, while these imperialists have launched a horrific war on the Lebanese people, murdering over 2,000. The resistance forces of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and other parts of the region remain undaunted.

This weekend of Oct. 5-6, people worldwide from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Maryland, have demonstrated solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 

20,000 march for Palestine and Lebanon in NYC

Twenty thousand people came to Manhattan’s Times Square on Oct. 5 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood uprising. Since then, at least 50,000 Palestinian and Lebanese people have been killed by the Zionist apartheid state using U.S.-made and paid-for weapons. The actual figure may be far higher.

Speakers denounced the genocide of Palestinians and the invasion of Lebanon. They pointed out that none of these war crimes would have been possible without the backing of the Pentagon and the Biden-Harris administration. Speakers also linked the Palestinian struggle to struggles in Haiti, Sudan, and Congo.

The militant action was called by the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition. People marched downtown to Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan.

People marched downtown to Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan. There were labor, healthcare, Puerto Rican, Filipino, and Korean contingents in the march.

Along the street, onlookers showed their support. A hot dog vendor kept waving a Palestinian flag even after the marchers passed.

Caribbean women linked their arms together and chanted “Free, free Palestine” while waiting for a bus. Supporting Palestine and Lebanon has become the cause of the world.  

A shorter, very spirited rally was held in Washington Square Park. Palestine and Lebanon will win!

Thousands gather in San Diego to protest Israeli genocide

Over 2,000 showed up in solidarity with Palestine on Saturday, Oct. 5, in front of the County Administration Building in San Diego for a rally and march.

Large banners on the grass with body bags and pictures of men, women, and children honoring 27,000 Martyrs of Palestine killed by Israeli Genocide using U.S. Dollars.

The Rally began with chants in Arabic and English. The Palestinian Youth Movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, National Lawyers Guild SD, Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace, and BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanction) spoke at the rally. Then, the people took it to the streets.

New Orleans coalition shuts downtown in support of Palestine

On Oct. 5, several hundred rallied at the historic African American cultural site Congo Square ann marched downtown, shutting down busy areas, including Canal Street. The action was called by a coalition led by the Palestinian Youth Movement New Orleans and Masjid Omar. 

Contributors: Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau, Gloria Verdieu in San Diego, and Gregory E. Williams in New Orleans

PAL-Awda NY/NJ called protests against the illegal sales of Palestinian land held on Sept. 15 and 16 in Cedarhurst, New York, and South Hackensack, New Jersey. The following is their statement on the Cedarhurst action. 

This week, both in Cedarhurst, New York, and South Hackensack, New Jersey, illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land were conducted — sales reserved exclusively for vetted Zionists who undergo an extensive and discriminatory registration process. And yet another is scheduled for Tuesday in Pikesville, Maryland.

In a scene reminiscent of attacks on civil rights marches in the South, protestors of the segregated land sale in Cedarhurst were confronted by a mob of violent bigots and brutally attacked by Nassau County police on horses. Officers on horseback trampled over protesters, including women and children, as they forcibly relocated us into a confined “free speech zone,” out of sight and sound of the venue we were protesting. 

The chief executive and police commissioner were present, overseeing this blatant infringement of our rights. A deputy inspector threatened that anyone who “protested” while walking would be arrested. The Nassau County police and government put the greed of racist real estate interests over the rights of the people. 

The cops chose to assault protesters rather than shut down the illegal land sale, which is being held in violation of U.S. civil rights laws, Biden’s executive order on the West Bank of 2/1/24, and 20 some additional state, federal, and international laws. Nassau County police swiftly arrested a protester for wearing a mask, all while ignoring the both domestically and internationally illegal sale happening in their own jurisdiction, right under their noses. Their selective enforcement of the “law” underscores a troubling double standard and their continuous efforts to protect domestic Zionist terrorists, thereby further facilitating Palestinian land theft, occupation, and Gazan genocide in the belly of the beast.

Super bigot Tom Cotton is no friend of Jewish people

Across the United States, demonstrations have been organized against the illegal sale of stolen Palestinian lands. Protesters compare these events to the “Indian Land Sales” that were conducted in the U.S. West.

Many of these protests have been viciously attacked by police and Zionist thugs. That was the case in Los Angeles at the Adas Torah synagogue on June 25. Brutal police attacks against protesters have also occurred in Pikesville, Maryland (just outside Baltimore), and Nassau County, New York (near New York City.)

These sales of stolen land are usually conducted in Jewish neighborhoods, often inside synagogues. Protesters — many of whom are Jewish — make clear that they are demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians, not attacking Jewish people.

That doesn’t prevent the corporate media and capitalist politicians from smearing these righteous protests as “anti-Jewish.” Arkansas statesman Tom Cotton issued a statement demanding “action from DOJ [Department of Justice] and White House on synagogue attack by pro-Hamas mob.”

This is the same Sen. Tom Cotton who demanded that federal troops be used to smash the protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd. The senator urged invoking the Insurrection Act that was passed in 1807 to crush revolts of enslaved Africans. 

Cotton did so in a June 3, 2020, New York Times op-ed piece. This led to a revolt by the newspaper’s reporters and the forced resignation of editorial page editor James Bennet. 

The following month Cotton described the enslavement of African people by U.S. plantation owners as “a necessary evil.” Cotton was attacking the “1619 Project,” a series of New York Times articles that pointed out the racist foundation upon which the United States was built.

Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP and the Urban League, demanded that the U.S. Senate censure Cotton for his defense of slavery. Cotton’s fellow senators, half of whom are Democrats, refused to do so.

Six senators instead joined Cotton in sponsoring legislation to cut off federal funds to school districts that include material from the 1619 Project in their curriculum. This was really an attempt to drive Black history out of the schools, just like Gov. DeSantis is trying to do in Florida.

Tool of Walmart and Tyson Foods

More recently, Cotton was under fire for his Jan. 31 questioning of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Cotton refused to believe that the corporate executive, born in Singapore, wasn’t a citizen of the People’s Republic of China or a member of the Communist Party of China. 

“Tom Cotton can’t tell Asians apart even when they tell him,” journalist Heidi Moore tweeted. The AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Victory Fund tweeted, “This line of questioning from Senator Tom Cotton is disgraceful, blatantly racist, and deeply dangerous.”

Cotton doesn’t represent the 140,000 poor people in Arkansas who were kicked off Medicaid last year. He’s a political servant of the Walton family who owns Walmart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The reason why the Walton family is so filthy rich with their $267 billion fortune is that 2.1 million Walmart workers are so poor.

Another billionaire Tom Cotton serves is the dead animal capitalist John H. Tyson. His family’s Tyson Foods — based in Springdale, Arkansas — had sales of nearly $53 billion last year. 

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, John Tyson took out full-page newspaper ads demanding that all meatpacking and poultry plants be immediately reopened. Within two days, President Trump issued an executive order doing so.

This resulted in 2,866 cases of the coronavirus in Tyson’s Arkansas plants from May 19, 2020, to April 8, 2021, nearly a third of the state’s workplace COVID cases. Across the country, twice as many workers died in Tyson’s plants than any other meatpacker. 

Unite against hate

Eleven Jewish people were murdered by a neo-Nazi at the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation – synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018. The local Muslim community raised more than $150,000 for the victims. 

The gunman, Robert Gregory Bowers, blamed Jewish people for transporting migrants on his Gab.com account. Anti-immigrant hate is a weapon used by all reactionaries. 

Anne Frank’s family and thousands of other Jews were prevented from escaping the Nazis by the bigoted 1924 U.S. Immigration Act. It was repealed in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was passed after demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, were clubbed by George Wallace’s state troopers.

Tom Cotton, J.D. Vance, and two other senators are sponsoring legislation that would strip citizenship from the children of immigrants. 

This unconstitutional bill would overturn the 14th Amendment, which was written in the blood of hundreds of thousands of Union Army soldiers who died in the Civil War. Cotton is a neo-Confederate.

President Biden also catered to anti-immigrant bigotry when he curbed the right to asylum for immigrants. 

When he began his first presidential campaign, Trump denounced Mexican immigrants as “rapists.” The next day, on June 17, 2015, Hitler supporter Dylann Roof murdered nine Black people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina.

It’s been Black places of worship that have been the biggest targets of racist violence. Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Alabama on Sept. 16, 1963. Four Black girls — Addie Mae Collins (14); Carol Denise McNair (11); Carole Robertson (14); and Cynthia Wesley (14) — were murdered.

Everybody knew it was the Klan or some other hate group that was responsible. Not so the National Review, which in its Oct. 1, 1963, issue asked: “Whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur – of a Communist, or of a crazed Negro.” Today this rag supports the genocide of Palestinian and Lebanese people.

The same Los Angeles Police Department that attacked demonstrators on June 25 protesting the sale of Palestinian land, attacked the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 27 on April 27, 1962.  

They shot Mosque secretary Ronald X Stokes in the heart, killing him. Six other NOI members were wounded, including William X Rogers who was left paralyzed. 

The campaign to stop the sales of stolen Palestinian land is linked to every other progressive struggle. Palestine and Lebanon will win!

Oct. 4, Baltimore – Peoples Power Assembly holds a rush hour banner drop in answer to international calls for Friday actions to end aggression on Palestine and Lebanon.

The last two weeks have seen Zionist escalations against Lebanon, and really the entire Arab world, not seen in decades. This escalation began with the U.S.-Zionist mass murder of more than a thousand Lebanese people through explosive electronic devices on Sept. 17 and 18. 

Occupation forces followed the grizzly pager attack with widespread air strikes on southern Lebanon. In the six days following the initial pager attacks, the Zionist air force launched over 2,000 air strikes against targets across Lebanon. These targets included everything from Hezbollah rocket sites in the south to densely packed apartment complexes in the Beirut suburbs. The strikes resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, including many children and health care workers.

As if those events weren’t filled with enough terror, the regime assassinated Hezbollah Secretary General and liberation icon Hassan Nasrallah and announced a ground offensive into Lebanon proper. 

While there is no doubt that the racist, imperialist project known as “Israel” is the direct weapon used against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc. – there is a hand that holds that weapon, and that hand is drenched in blood. 

Every single drop of Lebanese blood shed in this recent onslaught covers the hands of the United States. As Zionist aggression has continued, so has a noxious narrative in U.S. media – mainstream or otherwise. This narrative portrays the U.S. government and military as benevolent actors attempting to restrain Israel, described as a rogue actor.

On Sept. 24, as the Zionist air strikes on Lebanon escalated, CNN reported that “U.S. officials work feverishly to stop the Israel-Hezbollah confrontation from spiraling into a regional war.” The war criminal in chief himself, Joe Biden, repeated his tepid call for a “ceasefire” between “Israel” and Lebanon. 

On Sept. 30, in light of announced IDF incursions into Lebanon, Business Insider asserted that the raids were the “latest sign Netanyahu is ignoring Biden’s warnings.” Just a day later, SkyNews asked, “Biden was clear – so why is Israel defying its closest ally?” The article went on to chide Netanyahu for refusing to follow the U.S.’ lead in seeking a “ceasefire.” 

The assertion of this narrative is clear: The U.S. is, as always, the good guy, and Netanyahu is simply out of control. Simply, this narrative is a lie. 

You may not have seen that U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the head of the Pentagon, a retired four-star general who was also a board member at military contractor giant Raytheon Technologies, publicly corrected Biden and said that the U.S. is not for a ceasefire. Austin said he had spoken to his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, and that Gallant had agreed to launch what Austin called the “necessary” operation in Lebanon, including the ground invasion. The Pentagon sets the policy.

As the entirety of Lebanon took cover from U.S.-funded Zionist strikes, “Israel” secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the U.S.. The U.S. government does not want legitimate deescalation in this conflict because the defense industrial complex that the U.S. politicians and bureaucrats represent want the opposite of de-escalation in the Middle East. An expanded Zionist war against Lebanon means expanded profits for Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Boeing. 

If the U.S. government really wanted peace, they would not provide “Israel” the means to so provocatively strike at the empire’s enemies in the region. It is ridiculous for the U.S. government to provide the Zionist regime with all the weapons of terror it could hope for. That’s not what anyone seeking a diplomatic solution would do. 

The Zionist project is only able to strike at the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, and Syria because the U.S. equips and empowers them to do so. No U.S. imperialist outpost – no war. It really is that simple. 

As this war escalates, the U.S. cannot be allowed to escape pressure and retribution for unleashing this genocidal onslaught against the entirety of the Middle East. 

Long live the resistance! 

Lev Koufax is an anti-Zionist Jewish activist.

The U.S. was behind the Sept. 27 assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an apocalyptic bombing attack using 85 U.S.-built and supplied BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs in a residential area of Beirut. 

Nasrallah had led the Lebanon-based liberation organization for 32 years. His assassination was part of a broader massacre, as the same Israeli airstrikes resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of Lebanese civilians.

The same attack that resulted in Nasrallah’s death also took the life of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforooshan, the deputy chief of operations for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council. 

Nasrallah’s daughter, Zainab Nasrallah, was also killed.

Israeli airstrikes in the following days killed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, along with his family. Another Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) military security chief, Mohammad Abd al-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh, and  Abdelrahman Abd al-Aal.

On Oct. 1, the Associated Press reported that the Israeli Occupation Force “has moved into southern Lebanon … opening a new front” in its war on the people of Palestine and of Lebanon. 

Nasrallah’s assassination was ordered from New York City by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he appeared before a nearly empty U.N. General Assembly meeting. Netanyahu’s office released a photo of him inside an office at the U.N. headquarters in New York while using a landline telephone to approve the strike on Beirut. 

Responsibility lies ultimately with the U.S., which finances and arms the Zionist regime. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris – both Democrats – and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have expressed support for the bombing, praising the assassination. The U.S. recently authorized an additional $8.7 billion in arms to Israel, facilitating its ongoing actions in Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and now Lebanon.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke twice with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the hours before the bombing attack, presumably giving the order to proceed (the tail does not wag the dog; Austin is the commanding officer, the head of the Pentagon, and he gives the orders, not the other way around as the official news reports claim). The news report added that General Austin “expressed full support for Israel’s” operation in Lebanon and “made it clear that the United States remains committed to the defense of Israel.”

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was a brilliant leader who twice defeated Israel. Nasrallah was killed due to his unwavering support for Palestine. 

The great Palestinian scholar Edward Said recalled meeting the “remarkably impressive” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and noted he “adopted a strategy toward Israel quite similar to that of the Vietnamese against the Americans: We cannot fight them because they have an army, a navy, and a nuclear option, so the only way we can do it is to make them feel it in body bags.”

Hezbollah is a political party in Lebanon born out of the resistance against Israel’s illegal invasion and military occupation of southern Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Nasrallah and Hezbollah spearheaded the resistance against Israel on two occasions, resulting in significant victories: first, when Israel was compelled to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000, and second, when Israel failed to overcome Hezbollah in 2006.

Nasrallah knew precisely who the oppressor was in the region. “It is America that controls Israel,” he declared:

“There is a misconception prevalent in the Arab world regarding ‘Israel’-U.S. relations. We keep repeating this lie about the Zionist lobby — that the Jews rule America and are the real decision-makers, and so on. No. America itself is the decision maker. In America, you have the major corporations; you have a trinity of the oil companies, the weapons industry, and the so-called ‘Christian Zionism.’ The decision-making is in the hands of this alliance. ‘Israel’ used to be a tool at the hands of the British, and now it is a tool in the hands of America.

“The recent call from Biden (to Netanyahu) proves everything I said before. If the Americans want to stop something, they can make it stop. The claim that the Americans cannot force Israel to do something is nonsense. According to some theories, Israel controls America. No sir, it is America that controls Israel.”

Long live the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Iran! 

Defeat U.S. imperialism!

Rain didn’t stop nearly a thousand people from coming to New York City’s Times Square on Sept. 29 to protest the assassinations and mass murder of Lebanese people by the Zionist apartheid regime. The emergency action was called by the Shut It Down Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Speakers pointed out that it was the U.S. supplied and paid for 2,000-pound bombs that murdered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and their fellow freedom fighters. Over a thousand Lebanese have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes by the attacks.

The U.S. first invaded Lebanon 66 years ago in response to the Iraqi Revolution that overthrew Big Oil’s puppet monarchy on July 14, 1958 — Bastille Day. The Pentagon invaded again in the early 1980s before they were thrown out by the Lebanese people.

Protesters were somber, defiant, and angry as they marched through Manhattan streets to the skyscraper headquarters of the New York Times. The newspaper has been lying about Palestine for over 76 years, before the Zionist settler state was established. 

Typical of the lying capitalist media was the New York Times’ Sept. 29 opinion piece, “Why the World’s Biggest Powers Can’t Stop a Middle East War.” The truth is that U.S. capitalism and its Biden-Harris administration just signed off on another $8.7 billion in weapons to Netanyahu’s killing machine.

Behind all the Zionist atrocities is U.S. and European imperialism. 

The French colonialists thought they had won the Battle of Algiers, but five years later, they were kicked out of Algeria. Lebanon and Palestine will win.