The killing of Yahya Sinwar & Hassan Nasrallah will, like that of Bobby Sands, avail Zionism and its imperialist backers nothing

 Israel’s assassinations are based on the idea that Palestinians would happily accept their dispossession but for a few evil men

 

PÁDRAIG PEARSE’s Famous Funeral Oration for O’Donovan Rossa in August 1915)

“A minute of living with dignity and pride is better than a thousand years of a miserable life under the boots of the occupation.” - Yahya Sinwar from his novel, The Thorn and the Carnation

— Nerdeen Kiswani (@NerdeenKiswani) October 17, 2024

The Zionists and their imperialist backers are celebrating the murder of Yahya Sinwar just as they celebrated the murder of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh. However the death of Nasrallah hasn’t stopped the Lebanese Resistance inflicting heavy casualties on Israel’s ground invasion and the same will be true in Gaza.

It will not take long before more Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders emerge that Israel will seek to assassinate. What cannot be assassinated is the will of the Palestinians and Lebanese to resist Zionism, Israel’s war machine, ethnic cleansing and dispossession.

It was the same with the British occupation of Ireland. The blood of its martyrs simply fertilised the soil of resistance. When the British defeated the Easter Rising they took a bloody revenge executing 15 of their leaders.

More than 3,000 people suspected of supporting the uprising, directly or indirectly, were arrested, and some 1,800 were sent to England and imprisoned there without trial. The rushed executions, mass arrests and martial law (which remained in effect through the autumn of 1916), fuelled public resentment toward the British and were among the factors that helped build support for Irish independence.

The media doesn’t want you to see this Yahya Sinwar interview.

It explains a lot.

pic.twitter.com/ks31lPLLxU

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 17, 2024

In the 1918 general election to Britain’s parliament, Sinn Fein won a majority of the Irish seats.

Zionism and Unionism were bedfellows. Ireland was partitioned in 1921 and the Palestine Mandate began in 1920 although legally the League of Nations only granted it in 1922. As Ronald Storrs, the first Military Governor of Jerusalem said: ‘A Jewish State will be for England a little, loyal Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.’

James Connolly, the Irish socialist and trade unionist whom the British murdered

Zionism has proved somewhat more sturdy than its Unionist sister owing to Israel’s political and strategic importance but just as Ulster was established as a ‘Protestant State for a Protestant People’ so Israel was created as a Jewish Supremacist State, something embodied in the Jewish Nation State Law.

Patrick Pearse - executed

From a Vice interview with Sinwar 3 years ago pic.twitter.com/tzidGppfd4

— 𓂆 Woland (@labsurde__) October 17, 2024

The Zionists like all imperialist monsters will celebrate the death of Yahya Sinwar who died a hero’s death. In his last action, though his arm had been severed, he tossed a stick in defiance at the drone which had entered the window of the building he was in.

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The Zionists, like all stupid imperialists, believe that executions and assassinations will destroy the will of the peoples that they have occupied and oppressed for so long.

Both Biden and Starmer welcomed the death of Sinwar as they had Nasrallah’s murder. Starmer, in a particularly disgusting passage, even for this slavish poodle of US imperialism, told the assembled journalists that no-one should mourn the death of Sinwar.

Yahya Sinwar is PRESENT at today's million-man march in Yemen pic.twitter.com/GpomiG2CSi

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) October 18, 2024

Of one thing we can be sure - no one bar his cat will be mourning Starmer's passing

I suspect that Palestinians will treat Starmer’s remarks with the same contempt that most British people hold him in. One thing is for sure and that is that Starmer’s passing will not produce any grief comparable to that of Sinwar and Nasrallah.

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It is noticeable that neither Starmer nor Biden could bring themselves to condemn Israel’s bombing of the tent encampments surrounding Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza and the burning alive of men, women and children. That is real terrorism. State terrorism but no words of condemnation emerged from either Genocide Joe or ‘Starver’ Starmer’s lips.

The reality is that all the condemnations of Sinwar and Nasrallah as ‘terrorists’ are the dishonest verbiage of corrupt and dishonest imperialist politicians who wouldn’t know what a principle was if it bit them on the backside.

Israel has made clear its intentions to establish settlements in Gaza, in total defiance of international law. The International Court of Justice has recently declared Israel’s occupation of both the West Bank and Gaza illegal.

Roger Casement - executed at Pentonville for High Treason even though, as an Irish patriot he owed the British Crown no loyalty

The welcome of the corrupt neo-liberal leaders of Britain, the United States and Germany for Israel’s murder campaign against the Palestinians and their leaders is a demonstration that when it comes to it, might is all that is important. The right of any occupied nation to resist their oppressors is disregarded.

The Zionist reaction to Sinwar's death demonstrates both their physical and political blindness - Sinwar was sitting on the chair not hiding behind it

Those who regard Nasrallah and Sinwar as ‘terrorists’ are following in the footsteps of the Nazis who likewise regarded the leaders of the Polish, French and Yugoslav Resistance. It is always the same. Those who conquer other peoples’ countries brand any opposition as ‘terrorism’.

Tony Greenstein