Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines
January 31, 2024
The attack last Sunday against a US military facility in the northern
part of Syria known as Tower 22 marks the further expansion and rising
possibility of an escalation of the war in the Middle East. The attack
was carried out a few weeks since the US and United Kingdom started to
carry out almost daily missile attacks against various sites in Yemen
since January 12.
The US and UK attacks against Yemen constitute part of its support to
the Zionist Israeli genocidal bombing of the Gaza Strip which has
killed close to 27,000 and wounded more than 65,600 Palestinians since
October 7 last year. The US and the UK have provided extensive military,
financial and diplomatic support to Israel and have refused to support
global calls for ceasefire in Gaza.
The US and UK attacks since January 12 have been directed against the
northern part of Yemen where the Houthi movement is strong. The
Houthis, an armed resistance movement representing marginalized ethnic
groups fighting the US and Saudi-supported Yemen government, have
carried out military actions in support of the Palestinian people,
specifically targeting Israeli-affiliated ships traversing the Red Sea
at the western coast of Yemen.
The January 28 drone attack against US forces in Syria, which killed
at least three soldiers and wounded many others, was carried out by
unidentified resistance groups. The target US military base, Tower 22,
is only one of a network of clandestine military bases and facilities in
Syria maintained by the US to carry out military intervention in that
country.
Officials of the Biden government quickly accused the Iranian
government of being behind the attacks, threatening armed reprisals
against the country, which will certainly further expand the war in the
Middle East in the US drive to secure its economic and political
hegemony in the region. The Biden government is proving itself to be a
war addict after having fomented and supported the now 2-year war in
Ukraine and the 3-month genocide in Palestine, both of which have
allowed the US military industrial complex (Boeing, Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon, Northrop Grunman, General Dynamic and other companies) to make
billions upon billions of dollars in war profits.
Rising military conflicts in the Middle East and threats of expanded
US military intervention comprise contradictions between imperialism and
countries and movements assertive of national sovereignty. To control
the vast resources of the Middle East, the US has carried out
interventionism and wars of aggression over the past several decades in
behalf of US oil companies. It has long supported Israel (which is the
biggest recipient of US military aid) to make it serve as base for US
military power in the region, in order to counter the alliance of Arab
countries.
The CPP calls on all democratic and anti-imperialist forces across
the world to unite and denounce US military intervention in the Middle
East (Western Asia), especially its military support to Israel’s
genocide against the Palestinian people.
The Party calls on the Filipino people to intensify their support for
the Palestinian people’s cause for national liberation, their demand to
end to Israeli occupation and oppression, and and to US support for the
Zionist regime.
The rising threats of expanded wars in the Middle East must also
prompt the Filipino people to heighten their resistance to US military
intervention and expanded presence in the Philippines—permitted by the
puppet Marcos regime at the behest of his US masters—which is
increasingly putting the country right smack in the middle of
inter-imperialist conflicts.
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