Amnesty International has called for a "Lebanon/Israel Ceasefire Vigil" in San Francisco (see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/03/18294477.php) and Santa Cruz (see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/06/18295214.php) this evening (Monday), and for similar vigils in other places. But there is nothing in their call about the necessity of an Israeli withdrawl from Lebanese territory. Without such a withdrawl, a cease fire would reward the Zionists for their criminal attack on Lebanon and leave them in a stronger position than they were before -- which is why the U.S. and French imperialists have joined to push for such a cease fire and why virtually all Lebanese are rejecting it.

Anti-imperialists must reject calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah and/or their removal from Southern Lebanon. Hezbollah is the only force in the Arab world that has inflicted defeats on Israel, as well as on the U.S. and France. (It drove the latter two out of Lebanon in 1983.) Whatever one thinks of their politics in other respects, their armed resistance to Israel and the other imperialists must be supported!

Anti-imperialists should attend the vigils called by Amnesty International, but carrying signs calling for ceasefire AND immediate Israeli withdrawl -- from Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.