"Avante!" Article by Luis Carapinha, member of the International Department
The news came early, on Monday morning. Israel had military attacked the multinational humanitarian mission, which sailed en route to the Gaza Strip, causing tens of killings and wounded.
This is one more Tel Aviv’s Zionist regime ignominious crime to be joined to a long list of routine atrocities and the most brutal and systematically human rights’ violation undertaken, during decades, within the occupied Arab territories and their boarders.
On launching their assassin commandos against defenceless activists and crew members of the “Freedom Flotilla”, Israel fell into one more unprecedented act of State terrorism and piracy, committed amidst international waters ---- which would amaze the most intrepid of the pirate media groups, acting throughout and along the Somali and the Horn of Africa coasts.
Beyond the canine persistent endeavour in holding out the inflexible and cruel blockade to Gaza and the Palestine occupation, shutting the slightest negotiable gap that might glimmer, the Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman & Cia “black-grey coalition” Israeli government assumes, with this treacherous action, the premeditated responsibility of a jump into the escalade and destabilization of the whole situation within the Middle East.
Nor even the fact the Israeli assault having been perpetuated in the silence of the night, nor the tight communication siege, imposed by Israeli troops up to the moment these lines are written, might conceal the particular rage in “punishing” Turkey, which is also revealed by the armed assault on Monday’s dawn.
Exactly fifteen days before the Mediterranean waters’ massacre, the USA, EU and the Zionist acolyte had lost their composure regarding the tripartite agreement signed among Iran, Brazil and Turkey, which objectively “dismantled” the solutions logic of the force in itself advocated against Iran’s sovereign rights, round the so-called “nuclear issue”.
The imperialist reaction to what was considered as an intolerable intromission of countries representing the so-called emergent powers, was hardly fulminating. In less than 48 hours, the USA pressured the announcement, acting as “spokesman” of the United Nations permanent Security Counsel countries together with Germany, of a new sanction package against Iran, which, among other measures , foresees the taking place of extraterritorial inspections of “under suspicion” cargo to and from Iran. Obama called his NATO Turkish ally, in order to account to the prime-minister Erdogan for his strong discontentment relating to Ankara’s caprice. And Washington jumped off the diplomatic trapeze on his relationship with Brasilia. Hillary Clinton on stating the Brazil and Iran’s relationship “as making the world more dangerous”, “called her to its owner”, a few days ago.
And yet, one can register, that hours before the brutal aggression against the solidarity convoy, en route to Gaza, Netanyahu rejected his country’s participation in the agreement, issued from the closing up, of the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Revision Conference, on the 28th.
Approved by 189 countries, the statement outlines, for the first time, the objective of creating in the Middle East, a zone free from nuclear weapons and makes a shy reference to incorporate Israel in the NPT --- the only country in the region which detains the nuclear weapon.
The Zionist government action is but an act of weakness. The irrationalism temptation and the forging ahead outcome are alleged to be dangerous in the current complex and volatile international situation. Israel cannot afford to carry on contending obstinately amid its iniquities’ pattern, without the great imperialist powers’ support and before all, its” American friend”. Vigilance ought to be reinforced before the war party, in our times, when stagnation and the capitalist crisis threaten to sink the world in ruin Therefore the importance of not being absent in the protest demonstration at the Israeli Embassy, in Lisbon, on the 2nd .
