In just the last week, Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian people in Gaza, despite the ceasefire it had agreed to—on top of two years of genocidal slaughter. Israel has executed Palestinians in the West Bank as they tried to surrender. It assassinated a political opponent and killed civilians in Lebanon, again, despite its ceasefire with the country. And it massacred residents of a town in Syria. 

Israel has long served as U.S. imperialism’s primary military outpost and enforcer in the strategically crucial region in the Middle East. Now this attack dog has become a mad dog, killing at will across the region—overwhelmingly with U.S. support.

Gaza: In mid-October, both Israel and Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that has governed Gaza, agreed to a Trump-sponsored ceasefire ending military attacks (which were being carried out overwhelmingly by Israel). Yet Israel has kept on killing Palestinians anyway. 

On November 22, Israel unleashed a wave of drone and missile strikes across north and central Gaza killing at least 24 people. And on November 28, nine Palestinian fighters were reportedly killed by the Israeli military in Rafah in the south.¹

These aren’t isolated incidents. In the 44 days of the ceasefire, Gaza’s officials report Israel has killed 347 Palestinians, injured 889 more, effectively seized over 53 percent of Gaza’s territory,² and violated the ceasefire some 500 times! Israel’s violations aren’t abstract or harmless: they have led to the killing of 67 precious children. That’s an average of two a day! And this is on top of over 70,100 people murdered by Israel in the last two years, including at least 20,179 children.

Palestinian West Bank: On November 27, two Palestinian men, Al-Muntasir Billah Abdullah and Youssef Asasa, were confronted by Israeli soldiers in the city of Jenin. They raised their arms and lifted their shirts to show they had no weapons. But Israeli soldiers executed them at point-blank range anyway. Such “field executions” are crimes under international law. Yet Israel’s fascist national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who thinks all Palestinian people are terrorists, said the soldiers “acted exactly as is expected from them—terrorists need to die!" 

This year, “The number of attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians—an average of eight incidents a day—is the highest since the United Nations began documenting them in 2006,” the Washington Post reports. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, said settlers were attacking Palestinians “daily,” including “shooting, beating and threatening residents, throwing stones, torching fields, destroying trees and crops, stealing produce, blocking roads, invading homes, and burning cars.”³

Lebanon: Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon a year ago. But Israel is still attacking Lebanon nearly every day. On November 23, Israel launched an air strike targeting an apartment building on the outskirts of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. A top military official in Hezbollah⁴ was assassinated and five civilians were killed. Another 25 were wounded. Five days earlier, Israel bombed the largest of Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps, killing at least 13 people and wounding others.  

Since the ceasefire was signed, Israel has killed some 330 Lebanese, including 127 civilians, and 945 others have been wounded or injured. Its 700 air strikes have destroyed homes, schools, and public infrastructure. A drone strike in September blew the driver’s seat “to oblivion,” the New York Times reported. “Two distraught young men, dressed in black, picked up small pieces of charred flesh, one by one. They dropped them into plastic bags to be buried the next day.”

According to the United Nations, Israel has violated the ceasefire 10,000 times—from the air and on the ground, including seizing, holding and occupying Lebanese territory. All this constitutes a "total disregard for the ceasefire agreement,” according to the UN. Some 64,000 Lebanese remain displaced from their homes, much of south Lebanon is in ruins, and rebuilding remains at a standstill thanks to Israel’s near daily aggression and killings.

Syria: The hated tyranny of Bashar Assad was overthrown in December 2024. Israel immediately launched air and ground attacks across Syria. Since then, the Israeli military has attacked Syria over 220 times and killed an estimated 296 Syrians. It has also seized a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights and territory in southwestern Syria, where it has been building a growing network of outposts and fortifications. 

This past week, on November 28, Israeli forces raided Beit-Jinn, a small Syrian town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Their aim was to seize and imprison several residents, but others in the town justly resisted this illegal incursion. “We went outside to see what was happening and saw the Israeli army in the village, soldiers and tanks,” one resident told Al Jazeera. “Then they withdrew, the air force came—and the shells started falling.” At least 13 people were slaughtered, including two children, and more than 24 others were wounded during this blatant violation of Syria’s national sovereignty. 

America’s Mad Dog Is Killing and Terrorizing Preemptively—Anytime, Anywhere

Over the past year, Israel has also attacked Iran, Yemen, Iraq, and Qatar! (The U.S. joined Israel in attacking Iran and Yemen.) Israel’s murderous offensive across the Middle East, its open and constant violations of agreements and international law, and the Trump regime’s backing for all this points to their shared approach, whatever tactical differences they may have at any given point.

Israel is on a rampage to control the whole region and to take advantage of a weakened Iran (weakened by illegal military attacks by the U.S. and Israel). Roger Cohen of the New York Times quotes an Arab political scientist who describes Israel as "a country that will kill enemies anywhere: from Lebanon to Syria, Gaza to Iran, Yemen to Qatar. Pre-emptive Israeli strikes are the new norm."⁵

The Trump regime and Israel are overwhelmingly in synch on this approach. Israel is now, and has for decades, been the U.S.’s primary military outpost and attack dog in the Middle East—enforcing overall U.S. imperialist domination. Israel would not be able to carry out this role—and attack at will—without the billions of dollars in high-tech weapons, electronics, and intelligence supplied by the U.S., along with political and diplomatic backing. 

Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the U.S. has provided Israel a staggering $174 billion in aid. That flow of weapons, funds and support hasn’t diminished because Israel launched a genocide in Gaza or waged wars of aggression against Iran and Lebanon—it has increased! During its first months in power, the Trump regime has authorized over $12 billion in supplemental military sales to Israel.

In Lebanon, the U.S. is backing Israel’s ceasefire-breaking aggression. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz writes: “Washington, with the help of Israeli attacks, hopes to compel the Lebanese government and Army to disarm Hezbollah. Moreover, the U.S. postulates [eds: assumes] that Israeli aggression can force Lebanon to enter diplomatic negotiations with Israel, possibly even joining the Abraham Accords… the United States seems to adopt Netanyahu's stance: that peace can be imposed on Lebanon by force.” 

Acting the Mafia boss, Tom Barrack, the U. S. special envoy to Lebanon and Syria, says that—ceasefire or not—“When the Israelis find these guys [Hezbollah officials or members], they just take them out, so you have two or three a week that are whacked.” 

Even where the U.S. and Israel have—or appear to have—tactical differences, Israel’s mad-dog posture may serve U.S. interests. For example, Israel has continued to attack Syria, even as the U.S. is working to bring the new Syrian regime into its orbit. Syria’s new leader, former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with Trump at the White House on November 10, and Syria has now agreed to allow the U.S. to establish a military base in its capital, Damascus. The purpose? “[T]o serve as a hub for monitoring and logistics related to a proposed non-aggression pact between Syria and Israel.”

In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!

These U.S.-Israeli rampages and schemes are threatening the lives and futures of tens, even hundreds of millions across the Middle East. They aim to drive the region’s peoples even deeper into the oppressive, suffocating hell of U.S. imperialist and Israeli domination and terror. 

Stop the U.S.-Israeli Genocide of the Palestinian People and Aggression Across the Middle East!

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This whole system is rotten and illegitimate! We need and we demand: a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system!