Stalin
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the genocidal regime in the zionist rogue state, is cynically, without a trace of irony, using the possibility of iranian missile
strikes to stifle opposition to the war...
"...Police have cracked down aggressively on Israel’s small anti-Netanyahu government protests against the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the ongoing repression in Gaza and the West Bank and the imposition of the death penalty for Palestinians charged with terrorism.
The police have said the right to protest “is not absolute” and must be balanced with the “right to public order”. The army has limited gatherings in public areas to 150 people and refused protests in Tel Aviv, citing Iranian missile threats.
These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia. What are now often referred to as Israel’s own “forever wars” demand the suspension of the democratic right to oppose and protest.
Nevertheless, protests and rallies have continued around the country. Last weekend saw the sixth consecutive week of protests by groups opposed to the Iran war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption—his long-running trial has been delayed yet again for “security and political” reasons—and his fascist government’s bid to overhaul the judiciary and exempt ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service.
It followed a High Court ruling that ordered the police to find a framework balancing “security needs and freedom of speech.” The court order followed a petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) demanding an end to the de facto ban on political demonstrations during wartime, after police forcefully dispersed several anti-government protests. The court emphasized that even if protests exceeded the permitted number, that did not necessarily give police grounds to disperse the demonstrations.
comrade stalin
moscow
strikes to stifle opposition to the war...
"...Police have cracked down aggressively on Israel’s small anti-Netanyahu government protests against the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the ongoing repression in Gaza and the West Bank and the imposition of the death penalty for Palestinians charged with terrorism.
The police have said the right to protest “is not absolute” and must be balanced with the “right to public order”. The army has limited gatherings in public areas to 150 people and refused protests in Tel Aviv, citing Iranian missile threats.
These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia. What are now often referred to as Israel’s own “forever wars” demand the suspension of the democratic right to oppose and protest.
Nevertheless, protests and rallies have continued around the country. Last weekend saw the sixth consecutive week of protests by groups opposed to the Iran war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption—his long-running trial has been delayed yet again for “security and political” reasons—and his fascist government’s bid to overhaul the judiciary and exempt ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service.
It followed a High Court ruling that ordered the police to find a framework balancing “security needs and freedom of speech.” The court order followed a petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) demanding an end to the de facto ban on political demonstrations during wartime, after police forcefully dispersed several anti-government protests. The court emphasized that even if protests exceeded the permitted number, that did not necessarily give police grounds to disperse the demonstrations.
Netanyahu government brutally represses opposition to wars against Iran and Lebanon
These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia.
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comrade stalin
moscow
