THE LATEST Israeli incursion into Leba. non, attacking the villages of Kafra and Yater, was patently aimed at damaging the peace process opened up at the insistence of the United States.
Israef's actions over the past two weeks have utised all the casual ruthlessness and brutalty with which the Zionist state typically operates against Arabs -the bombing of refugee camps. he assassination of Hezbolah leader Abbas Masawi and his family, the destruction of hundreds of Arab homes, the wrecking of villages.
But beyond the headlines Israel kaders are infuriated by the peace negotiations and want them to fail. The reasons for this are primarily connected with internal israeli politics.
In the aftermath of the Gulf war, the US seized the initiative to force the hands of both israel and es Guil coalition Arab allies to conduct the peace taks. The US aims had nothing to do with giving impose Pax Americana' on the region, tying the Syrians especially to US policy aims The US expects the peace negotations to be long and drawn-out. For the US that is necessariy a disadvantage, so long as the US dominates the political agenda in the region. But for that to happen the taiks have to at least appear to have the possiblity of a realistic outcome What does that mean in practice? It can only mean demobilsing the PLO and Arab resistance to Israel in return for some kind of political auton. omy (not necessary independence) for the West Bank and Gaza strip. It is here that US poitical obiectives clash with domestic israeli politics.
Far from preparing to code any kind of autonomy, Israel is settling tens of thousands of new immigrants, mainly from the Soviet Union, in new soloments on the West Bank. Arab homes are being bulkdozed to make way for new Israel villages. The aim is to permanently change the population structure of the area.
Housing construction is in the hands of extreme right-winger Ariel Sharon. who as defence minister personally organised the massacres in the Lebanese Palestinian retu. gee camps in 1982.
Israeli poitics has been nexorably shiting to the sign of this shit.
Shimon Peres: lost the Labour election right for more than a decade. The election of Yizak Rabin as Labour Party leader is one more cupied territories.
The lessons are clear. Peace talks are going nowhere. because the US lacks the clout to impose on Israel even limited autonomy for the Palestinians. Neither side wil want to be seen to pull out of the taiks. But on the ground nothing will change. The broad consensus in official Israni poltics is for maintaining the iron hand against the Arabs. And that means more air raids, the continuing detention of hundreds of Arab prisoners, and brutal repression in the ocThere is no road to freedom for the Palestinians in the current taks. Neither is there any road forward in isolated miltary attacks. Only by king сло вака struggle to a regional strategy to defeat both reactionary Arab regimes and Israel's Zionist leaders can a new phase of the Palestinian liberation struggle be begun.
No. 17 Feb. 29, 1992
almost certainly ruled out. The chances or a tory-bibert codaton seem sate Much more likely is a Lib-Lab coalition. How far Kinnock would go to agreeing proportional representation is side the Labour Party must demand that Labour forms a minority goverment if it is the largest party.
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