Israel bombed some military objectives in Syria. According to various sources, the targets were a military convoy carrying missiles to Lebanese Hezbollah militia or military facilities and weapons warehouses. Israel has not officially acknowledged its authorship. In 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon, deploying ground troops on that country. After a month of fighting, Israel was forced to retreat, suffering a major defeat that joined other setbacks for imperialism in Iraq, Afghanistan or Gaza. Since then the situation is a tense calm.
After the outbreak and development of the Syrian revolution, Hezbollah has taken party to the Government of Al Assad, its traditional ally. Their militias are fighting directly on Syrian soil and have stepped up their military cooperation with the Syrian government. In this context, Israel attacked Syria, alarmed at the possibility of Hezbollah’s military buildup.
Weapons of Al Assad and Hezbollah are massacring the Syrian people, who stood up against the regime over two years ago. On these days a terrible slaughter is being done in Banias, whose death toll has already reached two hundred of all ages, bombed, shot or beheaded. So, Israel’s bombing can be seen as a circumstantial “help”.
We do not think that Israel is helping the revolution to succeed. Israel, eternal ally of the U.S., for many years has pursued a policy of extermination of the Palestinian people. He has also attacked Syria, and still maintains under its colonial control part of the country (the Golan Heights). If it’s attacking Syria in this given time, is only to maintain their control over the area, to maintain its dominance of terror in the region. Israel and the U.S. are not interested at all in the victory of the revolution. They are observing Syrian blood spilling for two years and ultimately making a fool of them by establishing supposed red lines that Assad should not cross… although he does it all the time.
Al Assad and especially those who support him on assumptions of “anti-imperialist” postulates will use Israel’s attack as a supposed proof of the link between the revolution and imperialism. Indeed, Assad has been the best guardian of Zionist borders for decades. Since Israel bombed Syria, Assad has directed his missiles to Homs, Latakia, Hama, Raqqa … but none against Israeli targets. It was only after the revolution has started that Israel’s border has been threatened, and even strongly reinforced. They know that the Syrian people, who rebels against the oppression of Al Assad, will not accept the occupation of that part of the country by Israel. There is another element to consider. Syria has a large Palestinian community, which takes part in the revolution. In fact, Al Assad is continuously bombing Palestinian refugee camps, such as the Yarmuk. One of the main demands of the Palestinians is the right to return to their homeland, i.e. the confrontation with Israel. U.S. and Israel cannot allow workers and the Syrian and Palestinian people defeat Assad’s regime by arms, as for this regime is responsible for the stability in the area. If that happened, imperialism is aware that he would face a powerful enemy. Not just for the Syrian and Palestinian armed and mobilized people themselves, but because any attack on them would undoubtedly ignite a spark of solidarity of millions in North Africa and the Middle East and around the world. Rebel brigades are now calling regime troops to defect and join the revolution and thus face the Zionists who have bombed them.
In this sense those who support al Assad from alleged leftist and anti-imperialist positions disservice the Palestinian and anti-imperialism cause. First, they allow complacently the slaughter of Syrian revolution that faces Assad (guarantor of Israel’s security) and indirectly Israel itself. And second, because they allow millions of Syrians considering Israel a circumstantial ally, as for it bombs those who kill them, although in fact that bombing has no intention of releasing the assadist yoke.
We reject any Zionist or imperialist intervention in Syria. They are not for, but against the revolution. The rebel militias should be supported in their struggle against the tyrant Assad. That’s the only help Syrian revolution and the Palestinian struggle can receive and that is the great task before us who support it. No to Zionist and imperialist intervention in Syria! All support to the revolution!
