VITAL JOURNALISM: Orinoco Tribune – Laith Marouf on the Zionist Genocide in West Asia

The war has entered a new stage, commented Marouf. “This is definitely a new form of warfare that we haven’t seen before, and even cyber warfare had its red lines, its rules of engagement, and in fact, there are UN resolutions about targeting civilian electronics, which is defined as terrorism—as a war crime—since the ‘70s,” Marouf said, commenting on the planned detonation of electronic devices in Lebanon carried out by the occupation entity during September 17-18 that shook the world. “You cannot even disguise a bomb, let us say as a radio or whatever, even before we talk about cell phones and pagers and walkie-talkies.”

“The Zionists wanted to blow up 3,000 pagers, meaning to kill 3,000 human beings,” he continued. “And they wanted to blow up 2,000 walkie-talkies, meaning they wanted to kill another 2,000 human beings at least, all in a moment or two. As [Hezbollah General Secretary] Hasan Nasrallah asserted in his speech, the entity tried to carry out this mass direct ethnic cleansing, and the West cheered it on. The Western media cheered on this genocidal action. They considered it the highest example of intelligence and electronic and military prowess and brilliance… If the Zionists put the Palestinian people in ovens and broadcast it live, the Western media would cheer it as the most successful action on the battlefield. This is the age we live in.”

Laith Marouf is an award-winning journalist and political commentator based in Beirut, Lebanon, who has been working in media since 1999. He regularly appears on television and radio, including The Critical Hour, Press TV, Al Mayadeen, Garland Nixon, and many other news outlets. He is one of the creators and producers of the new and important volunteer TV station and news outlet Free Palestine TV, which is based in Lebanon. On September 20, Marouf gave an interview to Orinoco Tribune in which he discussed several topics, including the current war situation in Lebanon, the work of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, the role of the Axis of Resistance in confronting the Zionist entity, and the role of Resistance media in the age of information warfare. Lebanese people’s mindset towards the Palestinian Resistance

Marouf explained that the Gaza war has brought about seismic shifts in the opinion of the Lebanese population towards the Palestinian Resistance and the Palestinian cause. “There was decades of Western imperial propaganda pumped into huge sectors of the Lebanese population to blame the Palestinian Resistance for the civil war in the 1970s and the destruction of Lebanon at the hands of the Zionists in the 1980s … So, some sectors of the population didn’t want Lebanon to have anything to do with the liberation of Palestine,” he said. “But right now, we have seen a huge shift … Multiple surveys done on the Lebanese population in the last month or two showed that close to 75% of the population supports the Palestinian people against the genocide, and something like 70% of the population says that Hezbollah is acting in the most rational way, that Hezbollah is trying to protect the Lebanese population from the genocidal actions of the Zionist colony.”

According to Marouf, the inability of the Zionists to mobilize compradors in Lebanon against the Resistance is one of the main reasons behind the recent Zionist military escalation against Lebanon. “What is the main strategic goal of the Zionist colony? It is the permanency of the colony, right?” he commented. “And what is the strategic goal of the United States? It is to remain as the hegemon, the sole empire in this world … So, if the Zionists want to maintain their colony, they have only two options: one, complete ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, and two, to have a one Palestinian State solution and stay if they want to stay there. And what we clearly see is that Zionists do not want option two. They only want option one.” Pro- and anti- Palestine axes.

Marouf criticized the hypocritical role of Qatar in West Asia, as it presents itself as a “mediator” in Gaza and, at the same time, acts as a vassal of the Zionist entity. “Qatar is the propaganda arm that keeps everybody in ...
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