the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
April 20, 2026
On Thursday, April 16, Donald Trump announced on social media that a ten-day cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon was to go into effect at midnight. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was accepting the cease-fire “at the request of my friend, President Trump.”
This was a 180-degree turn for Netanyahu, who has repeatedly declared that he would not stop attacking Lebanon until the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia was destroyed—which is not the case.
Much has been said in the media about Israel “forcing the hand of the U.S.” to go to war against Iran. No, this cease-fire in Lebanon, whether it lasts or not, shows who ultimately is in charge in the partnership between the U.S. and Israel. It’s the U.S. superpower, of course, which supplies all the advanced, deadly weaponry that its far smaller junior partner, Israel, uses in the wars it has been fighting—against the Palestinian populations of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, against Iran, against Lebanon.…
This also shows who is behind the Israeli military’s mass murder of more than 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza, more than half of them women and girls, since October 2023. The U.S. could have stopped this unspeakable horror if it had insisted Israel to do so—and stopped supplying weapons.
But Trump never insisted that Israel stop its attack on Gaza, nor did Biden before him. U.S. imperialism, loyally served by both Republicans and Democrats, has shown again and again that it will turn a blind eye to the mass murder of civilians in its quest to control the resources of the world.