Latest editorial
Israel is dragging us into a major Middle Eastern war
Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Taybeh village
ISRAEL’S intensified bombing raids over Lebanon are pulling the entire region towards a war of unknown proportions.
Tel Aviv’s Western sponsors will try to portray Hezbollah as the aggressor, given its deputy leader Naim Qassem’s announcement of an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel.
But the Lebanese militia’s escalating rocket fire follows Israel’s murderous exploding-pager stunt last week, and its subsequent serious bombing of Beirut.
More from this author
Ben Chacko asks NIZAR TRABULSI of the now banned Syrian Communist Party (Unified) to explain the country's turbulent, and violent, post-Assad scene
From renewable tech to alternatives to the dollar, BEN CHACKO was encouraged by an optimistic meeting held by the China Media Group this week
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN speaks to Ben Chacko about rail renationalisation, the Employment Rights Bill and why we shouldn’t write off this Labour government
Similar stories
Israel’s tactics – with Western connivance – of incursion and expansion in Lebanon are not new, with invasions in 1978, 1982 and 2006 even prior to the current assault, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Israel targets Hamas and Hezbollah leaders beyond Gaza in a campaign of deliberate provocation, CHRIS NINEHAM calls for a global protest movement against Israel's Western sponsors to prevent a wider war