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By Iqbal Jassat,
Unless Israel faces sanctions and isolation leading to its complete dismantlement, it will continue to terrorize the world.
While the Netanyahu regime has been fixated on disarming Lebanon’s Hezbollah, surely the time is overdue to defang him, his genocidal thugs, and his terrorist regime.
The narrative that the so-called “international community” has endorsed Netanyahu’s goals against Hezbollah is misleading.
Indeed, it is extremely disappointing that by classifying the US and a handful of countries in Western Europe as representative of the entire global community, the rest of the majority of the world is marginalized.
It is thus unfair and incorrect to parade Netanyahu’s false version as representative of worldwide opinion.
Hezbollah was never and is not a terrorist organization. It is being slandered and deliberately profiled as such by the settler colonial regime, in much the same way the apartheid regime of South Africa criminalized the ANC as a terrorist organisation.
A cursory glance at the history of Israel’s destructively violent military entanglements in Lebanon, in particular its illegal 1982 military invasion of it, will shed light on the background of Hezbollah’s emergence.
During the early 1980s, when the PLO under the leadership of Yasser Arafat faced relentless pressure to evacuate from Lebanon, Palestinians in refugee camps from Beirut to the Southern border were left vulnerable to Israeli exploits.
It was in this vacuum that Hezbollah emerged as a political, military, and social organization, positioning itself as a primary resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
While its ideological roots stem from the Islamic Movement inspired by the Islamic Revolution of Iran, its formal establishment was a direct response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
The resistance by Hezbollah against Israel’s two-decade-long occupation of Southern Lebanon saw it adopt guerrilla-style warfare up until 2000, when it succeeded in forcing Israel to withdraw from the country.
This milestone in Hezbollah’s military conquest of a predatory colonial regime is celebrated in Lebanon as Resistance and Liberation Day.
The narrative thus has to be changed from Zionist-led allegations of Hezbollah being cast as a terrorist organisation, to Israel as a terrorist regime.
Demands have to be made to not only disarm the regime but also its Jewish militias.
To deal with Jewish-state terrorism, as is evident in the genocide it perpetrated in Gaza, the violent military occupation of the West Bank, the devastation caused by relentless bombings in Lebanon and the unprovoked war in Iran, it is necessary to completely dismantle it, collect all its arms and put its leaders on trial.
A close scrutiny of Zionism will undoubtedly reveal that it is inherently violent. The violence associated with the creation of Israel relied on terror and ethnic cleansing.
Far from the myth of Zionism being a “national liberation movement”, it is in fact indistinguishable from terrorism.
Ilan Pappe, a prominent Israeli historian and academic, has correctly characterized Zionism as a settler-colonial project that has employed systematic violence—or state terrorism—against the Palestinian population from before the establishment of the state in 1948 to the present day.
Pappe argues that this violence is not accidental but integral to a project aimed at maximizing Palestinian land while minimizing the number of Palestinians living on it.
Also in State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel (2016), the author Thomas Suarez argues that Zionist organizations systematically used terrorism against Palestinians,
He does this largely by mining previously neglected declassified documents from the British National Archives, covering the period of the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948).
Suárez’s principal thesis is that Zionist terrorism “ultimately dictated the course of events during the Mandate, and it is Israeli state terrorism that continues to dictate events today.”
The evidence is abundant and overwhelming: Zionist Israel is a terrorist outfit. Unless it faces sanctions and isolation leading to its complete dismantlement, it will continue to terrorize the world.
– Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the South Africa-based Media Review Network. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle. Visit: www.mediareviewnet.com
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