Press Release
Not Content with the Destruction of Gaza, the Zionists Now Extend Their Criminality to Lebanon

After one year of an open genocidal campaign waged against the people of Palestine, committed in broad daylight with the complicity of international powers and surrounding Muslim rulers, the Zionists have now extended their criminality to Lebanon with indiscriminate bombing of heavily populated residential compounds, killings thousands already, in the hope it could rehabilitate its defeated image after its disastrous campaign in Gaza.

Encouraged by the political and military cover of Western powers, including Australia, and the treacherous life-saving support it receives by surrounding Muslim rulers, the Zionists are now seeking to turn their disastrous campaign in Gaza into a manufactured victory like the wars of 1967 and 1973, where the strength of the occupier is exaggerated by the deliberate inaction of the Muslim rulers.

The Zionists have only dared to open a new front knowing the Muslim rulers are its first and last protectors, who restrain their armies, shackle its peoples, strengthen its borders, and cower in the face of aggression offering nothing but empty platitudes in return. Muslim rulers are not just complicit in the Zionist crimes against the people, they are its enablers.

The West, including Australia, has provided every political, military and economic cover for the Zionist’s crimes against our people. Just as it enabled the crime of establishing the illegal Jewish entity in the first place, the West is only too happy to facilitate the continuation of its crimes today. There has never been any regard to any moral, legal or humanitarian consideration. This occupation was built upon the skulls of its inhabitants, and its perpetuation is being extended upon the skulls of today’s population. The appeal to international institutions, and the appeal to international law, is not just a joke, but a crime.

The roar of the false lions has been laid bare for all to see. All the grandstanding of Muslim rulers, without exception, has been proven to be nothing but a lie. They have all abandoned the Muslims of Palestine, and now the Muslims of Lebanon, and before that the Muslims of Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, and indeed everywhere Muslims are being oppressed. Even the agents of Muslim regimes, who for decades criminally served their masters, are now being discarded on the altar of political expediency.

If the West hope now is an opportune time to reshape the Middle East, where normalisation with the occupying entity lies at its centre, then let history be a reminder of the unwavering commitment of Muslims to rid themselves of all occupation. Whilst the Muslim rulers have always been firmly in the pocket of their Western masters, the gulf between the Muslims and their rulers has never been wider.

The political landscape has shifted so drastically over the last twelve months that the position of these rulers has never been weaker, the resolve of the Muslims has never been stronger, and the rumblings from the general populace has reached the professional armies ever so loudly. It is only a matter of time before the sincere sons of the Ummah break free from the shackles placed over them, regain their independent political will, and the illegal entity will have to face an army that is actually committed to defending the defenseless.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Australia