This is Bob Avakian—REVOLUTION—number Ninety-Nine.

Terrorism involves the deliberate killing of innocent people, which is something all decent people should strongly oppose.

Well, by this definition—by any reasonable definition—Israel is a rogue terrorist state, which claims for itself the right to defy international law, even to the point of committing genocide, as it is doing in Palestine.

And the fact is that Israel could not so easily, and repeatedly, carry out massive crimes against humanity and war crimes, if it weren’t fully backed by the U.S. As I put it plainly in message number 7:

Here is the entire ruling class of the U.S., and all its major politicians, both Democrat and Republican, fully supporting an apartheid state, Israel, carrying out the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in front of the whole world.

And, as that message also makes clear, Biden—and basically the entire government and ruling class of the U.S., definitely including Kamala Harris— is supporting Israel in carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people, before the whole world, not because of “the power of the Jewish lobby”—or because of some ignorant, ridiculous and outrageous notion that “Jews are controlling everything.” It is because Israel plays a “special role” as a heavily armed bastion of support for U.S. imperialism in a strategically important part of the world (the “Middle East”). And Israel has been a key force in the commission of atrocities which have helped to maintain the oppressive rule of U.S. imperialism in many other parts of the world.

Now this support for Israel in carrying out wanton slaughter has been extended to involve Lebanon and other countries and people in the Middle East—including Iran. This is heightening the danger of a wider and even more destructive war.

And let there be no doubt or confusion about this: The responsibility for the serious escalation of military conflict in the Middle East, and whatever results from this, lies with Israel—and the U.S government, which continues to fully back Israel.

What more do you need to know, to say this whole damn system’s got to go?!