Israel and Hezbollah

What is glaringly obvious throughout all of this sorry trajectory is the complete impotence of the world’s working class. Never mind all the useless demo’s & marches begging our leaders to change. Much of the youth are immersed in Tiktok, Instagram, Video Games & Porn. Their parents are just trying to survive. I have no faith that any spark of enlightenment anywhere will surface even as climate destruction & a possible World War stare us in the face. The fact is the workers were more savvy a century ago. Even Zeitgeist which gave me hope in 2011 has petered into nothing. All is completely lost as far as I’m concerned. The only thing Lenin said which I agree with is that it would take the workers about 500 years to achieve Class Consciousness. Because they can barely achieve Trade Union consciousness now.

Don’t tell TM but here’s something that will really scare him. The crazies currently in control of the Israeli killing machine also have the bomb.

According to this article, it is US policy to ensure that “Israel has a qualitative military edge over rivals in the region”. Obviously of course since otherwise it wouldn’t be much use as their proxy in the region.

There seems to be some sort of deal between the US and Israel that if Israel doesn’t use the bomb as a deterrent then the US will supply it with the most deadly non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction. This will also be why the US is so opposed to Iran developing nuclear weapons. But, capitalism being capitalism, the only logical response from Iran will be to itself acquire the bomb.

The stake of course is oil and the trade routes to get it out.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/inews-weekend/20240928/281852943980789?srsltid=AfmBOopiRV9Gd2q-hUuz_l4wd14MPC_SnvvlxbhWIOhNgvt2Xpq148RY

As that article from the weekend i paper is behind a paywall, below is the key part. Together with the Carter Doctrine (that the US will go to war if any state in the region threatens its domination of the Middle East oilfields and the trade routes out), it explains US policy in the region –Israel is its guard dog there and they are committed to it being militaruily superior to any other state or combination of states in the area.

Anyway, here’s the key passage:

“Washington did oppose Israel’s nuclear weapons activities in the 1950s and 1960s. After the June 1967 war, however, a quid pro quo with Israel was established. In return for Israel maintaining a policy of nuclear weapons ambiguity, Washington would guarantee what was termed Israel’s “qualitative military edge”, or QME.
That is, Washington will ensure that as long as Israel keeps its “bombs in the basement” -undeclared, unacknowledged,
and unused – Washington will guarantee Israel the conventional weapons arsenal necessary to defeat any combination of regional enemies.
In the decades since, every change in US political or defence policy, eveiy diplomatic or military engagement with Israel, has featured a ritualistic reaffirmation of Washington’s commitment to maintain Israel’s QME.
The State Department recently reaffirmed that “the US is by statute mandated… to guarantee that… Israel has a qualitative military edge over rivals in the region. It’s not a discretionary question. It is a statutory requirement… There is also an important deterrent effect to the US continuing to send a message to Israel’s adversaries that if they attack Israel, we will defend it.”

That’s why the US supports and arms Israel with the most up to date and dealiest “conventional” weapons. Without that support Israel would be nothing or rather just another small and weak state like Lebanon.

The author of that article seems to have been quoting what Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the US Department of State, said at a press conference on 19 September. The official account of the press conference has him saying:

“By the way, we are mandated – we are required by statute to guarantee that Congress has a – I’m sorry – that Israel has a qualitative military edge over rivals in the region. It’s not a discretionary question. It is a statutory requirement, and it is one that we are committed to. So there is also an important deterrent effect to the United States continuing to send a message to Israel’s adversaries that if they attack Israel, we will defend it. And that’s a message that we will continue to send loud and clear.”

See: https://www.state.gov/?post_type=state_briefing&%3Bp=92333

You’re right. It would be interesting to track down what particular law he was referring to.

A comrade in the US has dug out this;

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1992

Here is the Carter Doctrine:

“Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

And here is the Qualitative Military Edge for Israel Doctrine:

“We are required by statute to guarantee that Israel has a qualitative military edge over rivals in the region. It’s not a discretionary question. It is a statutory requirement, and it is one that we are committed to. So there is also an important deterrent effect to the United States continuing to send a message to Israel’s adversaries that if they attack Israel, we will defend it.”

Taken together they explain US policy in the Middle East and Israel’s role in it. As can be seen, the US is just as much a “malign influence” in the area as Iran. But this sort of thing is par for the course under capitalism when a source of a key raw material and the trade routes to get it out are at stake.

Iranian leader has given a speech about the Israelis and the West.

A brief summation it’s a long speech link below:

The West wants Israel to secure the regions oil and gas for the West.

The West offers in return to produce goods to be sold in the region, for a profit. This last bit, is scarcasm.

Khamenei: “Their policy is to turn the [Zionist] regime into a gateway for exporting energy from the region to the Western world while facilitating the import of goods and technology from the West to the region

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1842170092840227316?t=uh3AHz-ak1w2TAaDnj4f7g&s=19

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