Palestinian Resistance Groups React: New Boss, Same As Old Boss
Hamas, Hezbollah see no prospect for change in U.S.-Israel policies
While U.S. election drama was underway, the Pentagon took steps to hasten WWIII: it moved nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Qatar (with U.S. pilots), and it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile delivery system out of Vandenberg Air Base in California. The Democratic Party is seen as losing the White House and both branches of Congress in part because their wars -- in Ukraine and, with Israel, in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen -- are unpopular with voters, and because the austerity that endless wars require is deeply unpopular.
https://x.com/BigBreakingWire/status/1854166174453375297
Our imperial overlords sneak their warmongering moves into the news cycle when they think it will be least noticed.
I thought it might be of interest to readers to see reactions from people impacted by U.S. foreign policy. This content is available on Telegram, but you will not see it in your corporate news feed.
New Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Na’eem Qasem (in translation, vetted by an Arabic-speaking friend):
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1854493691454345250 & see also https://x.com/V_Palestine20/status/1854505512777228688
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (English translation from same source):
Trump’s victory will reinforce the American anti-Palestinian approach, and the Democratic Party’s loss is a natural result of its direct involvement in the zionist war of genocide.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms that Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s victory in the U.S. elections does not, in any way, signify a real change in the hostile approach that successive American administrations have pursued against our Palestinian people and their just cause. There is no fundamental difference between the Republican and Democratic parties; both have contributed to supporting the zionist entity and participated in the war of genocide against our people, whether through policies or unlimited military and diplomatic support.
Our people have never placed their hopes on any candidate from either the Democratic or Republican parties, as we have never witnessed any positive change in U.S. administration policies, which have consistently aligned fully with the zionist entity, providing it with military funding and all forms of political, legal, and diplomatic protection.
The Democratic Party’s loss is a logical result of its complicity with the zionist entity; it rejected calls from supporters of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian community, and Arab and Muslim communities in the United States to pressure for an end to the war of genocide in Gaza, continuing its support for aggression against our people. Today, the Democrats are paying the price for ignoring these demands at the ballot box.
We in the Popular Front do not expect any positive development from a Donald Trump administration; rather, we anticipate an escalation in hostile policies against our people, fully biased in favor of the zionist entity.
We call on supporters of the Palestinian people, as well as movements, organizations, and groups that stand with our cause in the United States, to intensify pressure on the new U.S. administration to end its support for the zionist entity. [emphasis mine]
We see in the popular and student movements that stand in solidarity with Gaza, along with the emergence of small, free voices and parties, a glimmer of hope that could contribute to even a slight change in the U.S. stance on our cause.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Central Media Dept, Nov 6, 2024
From the Popular Resistance Committees (English translation from same source):
The Republican and Democratic parties are two identical faces in entrenching American tyranny and supporting zionism in the genocidal wars it waged against our Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and our nation.
America is the enemy of peoples; it is a symbol of tyranny and arrogance, ruling the world with iron and fire, igniting wars and the flames of hatred across the entire globe.
America, with all its components, parties, and councils, stands behind the support for the zionist entity with all kinds of shells, rockets, and destructive weapons that wreak havoc on our people in Palestine and Lebanon.
Our people rely solely on their steadfastness, the valor of their resistance, and the support of the Axis of Resistance and the free people of the nation and the world in confronting the genocide and massacres they are subjected to. All successive American administrations are enemies of our people, our nation, and of free peoples.
Media Office of the Resistance Committees in Palestine
Wednesday 06 November 2024
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1854491593207599356
From Hamas (English translation from same source):
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Press Statement on the Results of the U.S. Presidential Election
In light of the results indicating Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, we, in the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas, affirm the following:
1. Our position regarding the new U.S. administration will depend on its stances and practical actions towards our Palestinian people, their legitimate rights, and their just cause.
2. It is unfortunate to note that all successive U.S. administrations, since the occupation of Palestine in 1948, have held negative stances on the Palestinian cause. They have consistently been the primary supporter of the zionist occupation in all fields, and the previous administration followed a path biased towards occupation and aggression, providing political and military cover for zionist war criminals to continue some of the most horrific acts of genocide in modern history, solidifying its role as a full partner in the killing of tens of thousands of our people, including children, women, and the elderly.
3. We call for an end to the blind bias toward the zionist occupation and for serious and genuine efforts to stop the war of extermination and aggression against our Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, to end the aggression against our brotherly Lebanese people, to halt the provision of military support and political cover for the zionist entity, and to recognize our people’s legitimate rights.
4. The elected U.S. President is urged to heed the voices that have risen from within American society itself for more than a year since the zionist aggression on Gaza, rejecting occupation and genocide and objecting to support and bias toward the zionist entity. [emphasis mine]
5. The new U.S. administration must understand that our Palestinian people will continue to confront the abhorrent zionist occupation and will not accept any path that detracts from their legitimate rights to freedom, independence, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas, Wednesday, 04 Jumada al-Awwal 1446 AH, Corresponding to: 06 November 2024
Thank you for this post! This was centering and refreshing for me. So tired of seeing people's sudden feigned grief at the outcome. How short are our memories? Where was their empathy and grief all along over the past year for the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed by US bombs? Some claim it will be worse now, but what does "worse" actually mean to the mother already grieving her children? There are no more weapons that can be given than the billions of dollars of munitions that are already flowing freely to the Zionist entity. The second clause of the Hamas statement is particularly striking -- "...all successive U.S. administrations, since the occupation of Palestine in 1948, have held negative stances on the Palestinian cause. They have consistently been the primary supporter of the zionist occupation in all fields..." The people who have been fighting and struggling against this all along are all too familiar with the feeling of being betrayed by the world, and have come to expect it. A system that commits the crimes the US government has, that shows such flagrant disregard for the value of life, is simply too deeply corrupted to be fixed from the inside - it needs to be uprooted, toppled, overthrown, for all of our sakes. See you on the streets!
Thank you for sharing these powerful statements. Nothing but respect and admiration for these organizations and their uncompromising moral clarity.