Two warmongers shook hands recently, Ehud Olmert and Barack Obama. Obama has always voted to give billion a year to Israel, as do all Democrats and Republicans. The founding of the State of Israel was a deliberate effort to divide the Arab and Jewish workingclass with this war machine to maximize the profits of the capitalist class.

The photo of this infamous handshake is at:

http://www.imemc.org/article/58558

The Fourth International denounced the creation of the Zionist State of Israel in 1947 in terms that ring true today. This is described in The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project, Part 1, by Jean Shaoul, January 21, 2009 at:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/isra-j21.shtml

"By partition a wedge is driven between the Arab and Jewish worker. The Zionist state with its provocative lines of demarcation will bring about the blossoming forth of irredentist (revenge) movements on either side. There will be fighting for an ‘Arab Palestine' and for a ‘Jewish state' within the historic frontiers of Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). As a result, the chauvinistic atmosphere thus created will poison the Arab world in the Middle East and throttle the anti-imperialist fight of the masses, while Zionists and Arab feudalists will vie for imperialist favours."

OBAMA SUPPORTS CUTBACKS OF WORKERS’ HOURS

Obama’s message to the American workingclass is equally reactionary. As he stated in his warmongering speech, filled with the glories of “fighting fascism and communism,” he supports cutbacks of American workers’ hours, and therefore less wages, admiring “the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.” A pro-workingclass president would call for increasing wages and redistributing the wealth the workingclass creates by taxing all incomes over 0,000 a year, with the goal of eliminating the private profit system. He views murdering the workers and peasants of Afghanistan and everywhere else in the world as community service, stating of the military, “We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service.” Obama is just another capitalist politician, doing the bidding of the rotten, anti-workingclass capitalist class. It is not an advance to have someone of African heritage sing the company tune; it is the same old capitalism.

We are witnessing the decline of a bankrupt social order, capitalism, proudly promoted by Obama. On the day he gave this insulting speech, the stock market dropped over 300 points with the financial sector showing the worst decline. For a further analysis, see:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/econ-j21.shtml

Only a serious labor movement can put an end to the profit motive that is the cause of all these wars.