“The missile attack from Iran in Israel, as retaliation for the ongoing criminal actions of the Israeli state behind the backs of the US, NATO and the EU, is an expected development”, notes the KKE in a statement issued on the dangerous developments in the Middle East.
“The course of the very dangerous escalation and generalization of the war in the Middle East and throughout the region has been confirmed, which could assume even more terrible proportions in the event of an attack by Israel and its allies against Iran”, says Perissos and adds that “the policy of the State of Israel and the Netanyahu government is directed not only against other peoples, but also against the Israeli people themselves, which makes them targets of retaliation.”
“The KKE warned from the first moment that Israel’s brutality and genocide against the Palestinian people, the assassinations of political leaders, the bombings and the ground intervention plan against Lebanon are intensifying the antagonisms to the maximum and opening the ” gates of hell” for the population of the region”, emphasizes the statement.
“The government defends Israeli crimes”
“In light of these developments, the Greek government, playing the role of defender of Israeli crimes and actively participating in US-NATO support plans from Israelassumes enormous responsibilities and leads the people and the country into a war of unpredictable dimensions”, adds the KKE.
“The ND government does not have authorization from the Greek people to participate in an imperialist war supporting the occupier of the Palestinian territories and now the territories of the independent state of Lebanon with ground operations, drowning the peoples of the Middle East in blood and suffering. , more widely in the entire Eastern Mediterranean and making the Greek people themselves targets of reprisals”.
“Here and now, to return the Greek Red Sea frigate that is literally in the ‘wolf’s mouth’, in the context of the EU’s ‘Aspides’ operation. To withdraw all Greek government support for the murderous state of Israel and shut down our country of imperialist wars, close US-NATO bases and infrastructures. To express solidarity with the people who are bleeding because of imperialist interventions and wars”, the KKE also emphasizes and concludes in its announcement:
“The people have the power to cancel these plans, not to accept becoming “cannon fodder” for the imperialists and to defeat the system that generates poverty, wars and refugees”, he concludes.