On April 13, 2024, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran launched a punitive attack on the zionist state, bombarding military sites across the entire territory with drones and missiles. U.S. imperialist media immediately declared that no damage had been done and no one had been killed, despite the videos coming out of the zionist zone and the IOFs own reports of the destruction of their military hardware.
The U.S. imperial senate immediately swept into action to protect its client state, even as the embattled Democratic Party leader, the octogenaric ambulatory corpse Joseph Robinette Biden, leaked his displeasure with the zionist attempts to draw their imperial protector into a regional war. But, of course, this is what the zionists have been seeking ever since their resounding defeats of October 7, 2023: to instigate the flames of war across the region and force their doddering big brother, the U.S. empire, to enter the conflict officially and at scale.
The zionists are beyond the control of the U.S. ruling class, which has shown itself unable or unwilling to cut off aid and reliant on the zionists to support U.S. hegemony. Now, the political configuration of the zionist state pushes it to engage in further and more extreme steps of genocide. The Iranian response to the zionist provocations was intentionally limited; Iran released a statement that they now consider the matter resolved. This provides an offramp for the U.S. imperialists to de-escalate and reign in their client. If the zionists provoke further violence, it will demonstrate conclusively that the U.S. has lost control of its vassal.
The rightist unity government now running the show in Tel Aviv is fighting for its survival, both in the military field against the Palestinian resistance, and in the political arena against zionists to their left flank. Genocide hawks, who prefer the immediate and sharp destruction of warfare to the slow ethnic cleansing of the “left” zionists, have gone so far as to begin the sale of real estate in Gaza and parade the vision of a genocidally cleansed shoreline, replete with zionist ocean-side resorts, in conferences and on zionist news media.
On the one hand, the zionist response to the brave attacks of October 7 has put the continued existence of their state at risk. On the other, this same collapse of the occupation military in the face of concerted guerilla action has put the political future of the right-leaning genocidaires on the line. These genocidal elements see total victory, the elimination of Palestine as a nation, as the only path to retain political and economic power within the zionist state. To that end, they have reached out to the reserve of zionists located abroad; ultra-rightists in Europe and the U.S. have raced to their support.
One of these transparent efforts at instigating a regional war, in which U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia and Jordan would be imperiled, forcing the U.S. imperial garrisons to respond, was the April 1 bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus. The zionists were hoping for a response to this war crime. They are desperate for any excuse to call for help and any fig leaf to present the zionist state as under attack in the media. Why?
The zionist military is defeated. It can only hope to achieve something remotely like victory if it receives direct assistance from its imperial master, the U.S. In order to do so, the occupation has been lashing out at neighboring countries and threatening to destabilize the whole region. Their sole hope, as this paper has reported, has been for the zionists to convince the U.S. to lend direct aid.
In fact, prior to this punitive strike, Iran appealed to the U.S. empire and the U.N. for aid. They were rebuffed. Open conflict remains the last available option to them, despite the danger that it might trigger a U.S. backed war, or worse, a retaliatory nuclear strike.
As the IRGC pounds zionist military targets, obliterating U.S.-provided hardware and degrading the zionist occupation force, Tel Aviv is set to receive a new aid package from its U.S. master. It is now imperative that we block this aid. All U.S. organizers of all tendencies should exert pressure on their House representatives, up to and including disrupting their Congresspeople’s personal lives and giving them reason to fear voting for the bill the Senate just passed.
Some may ask what duty we have to the “working class of Israel.” This question is malformed and improper. If there is a working class in the zionist state, it is the duty of that working class to attack and defeat its own government in Tel Aviv. To the extent that there are so-called Communists within the zionist state, they must now call for the complete disarmament of the Tel Aviv regime and an acknowledgement that the zionist entity is doomed. Failure to do this is a betrayal of international solidarity on their part, not on ours. Others may claim that the Clarion thereby takes a “neither Tehran nor Tel Aviv” position. This is incorrect. This author — indeed, the Press Organization as a whole — critically supports the Iranians in their efforts to bloody the nose of the zionists. Palestine has broken out in waves of anti-zionist violence in the wake of the drone and missile attacks, and many Palestinians are celebrating the battering given to the occupation by the IRGC and Ansar Allah.
Further, it is our duty in the West to take any and all measures to prevent the imperialist armed forces of the U.S.-Canadian empire and their junior partners in NATO from entering the arena. As Aaron Bushnell and Senior Airman Herbert have demonstrated, there are ways to attack the morale of the U.S. imperialist armed forces. We must attack not only their morale, but degrade their capacity to function through all means at our disposal. Such is our duty. Even if the moral situation of the genocide did not already demand it, the imperialist chain may very well break in Tel Aviv — weakening the U.S.-Canadian capitalist empire fatally. Our own interests are tied with those of Palestine. Solidarity is not only a moral necessity, it is a strategic requirement.
The ruling class of the U.S. capitalist empire cannot afford to surrender its grip on the strategic necessity of the zionist state; its brutal dominance of the capitalist world-system is dependent on the zionists to a large degree. It is, perhaps, a foregone conclusion that the lackeys of the ruling class will vote for aid to the zionists — unless they are more afraid for their physical wellbeing or economic livelihood than they are for the strategic value of the zionist state.
Although it would be irresponsible to suggest, as Lucy Parsons did, that “every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich,” action must be taken — direct, immediate, and sharp action. That action must inspire terror in the hearts of the ruling class, such that they cannot imagine continuing their support of the genocidal zionist state. Onward, to revolution!
