Report Number Three from Lebanon: Occupied Palestine 48

Sept. 18, 2006

As we approached the southern border and were only yards away from the many Israeli posts where invisible Zionist soldiers could and did spy us, some members of the delegation and southern Lebanese referred to it as Israel. I immediately reminded them that that was Palestine, occupied and learning the lessons of the Hisbullah’s success. But what I saw was neither Palestine nor southern Lebanon as I looked over the fence from the several points that we visited. What became clear was that Israel was not the enemy of Palestine and now Lebanon, crawling always with its movable borders and its racist destruction. What disappeared was the specificity of nations and what appeared was the digestive system of imperialist greed on the march--the greed of desperation in the background of a disintegrating capitalist economy.

I looked at the Dutchmen in the delegation and told them that if Israel bordered the Netherlands, they would be experiencing this attack and the demonization of the western press. Israel is the face of imperialist attack, and Judaism is a pawn manipulated against Islam. People here talk about the many different sects that will render Lebanon an arena of civil war. Yet they overlook the basic sectarian division that is Zionist Judaism on the one side and Hisbullah Islam on the other. The religious nature of Zionism escapes them, is made invisible by media brainwashing. Yet, the religious aspects of Hisbullah’s Islam blinds them to its heroic accomplishments.

Hizbullah works against sectarian division within Lebanon, a divisionism promoted both on the diplomatic and military fronts. On the political front the U.S. does its utmost to make arrangements with some sects, and leave out others. On the military front, the Israeli selective targeting of U.S.-made weapons is obvious even to a donkey. Hizbullah country was hit while non-Hisbullah areas were left unharmed, even while the infrastructure was attacked in all places.