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Zionist Massacres

Class Fighter no. 8, October 1982 · scan p. 7 · about 590 words

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ON the Thursday and Friday preceding the Jewish New Year, Israeli troops encircling the Palestinian refugee camps, allowed in the Phalangist and Haddad militias. Every human being they could find was butchered in the most savage and sadistic In 1951, Sharon's Unit 101 killed 66 people in manner. In South Lebanon the Israelis attitude to Quibyeh, Gaza, by dynamiting buildings with the the refugee camps has been much the same. The people still inside them. In 1956 a curfew was women and children have been put to flight, and the imposed on Kfar Quassem in the Negev, and men men placed in concentration camps. The Zionists returning after 4 pm from the fields were shot term the PLO and Lebanese leftists as 'terrorists' and yet encourage the deployment of armed Phalan- Of the latest Zionist massacre, it is clear from gist militias. The Zionists accuse the PLO of opera- Haaretz, Israel's prestigious daily, that Begin's ting amongst the civilian population, yet after the Cabinet was aware of the massacre as early as Nazi like massacres in the refugee camps who can Friday morning but they chose not to interfere. doubt that the PLO was the only defence that the Sharon admits that he actually approved of the civilian population of those camps had. operation beforehand. Not unnaturally Begin has Begin described the massacres as being a case resisted an inquiry, because after all those who of 'goy (gentile) killing goy' (Guardian, September protest about the massacres are only anti-Semites! 23). The reality is that the Zionists were determined Already Zionism's apologists point to other such to smash the Lebanese Left (including the Pales- massacres, preferably in Arab countries, as an Israel's objectives though are not identical to To send the fascist Phalange into the camps those of the US. The US wants to see a strong is like sending a fox into a chicken run and expecting capitalist Lebanon and Israel is quite happy with a weak and religiously divided Lebanon. A satellite which is a market for Israel's goods and a supply of cheap labour. Which is why Israel is the main suspect regarding Gemayel's death - only they had Affiliate to the Labour Committee on Palestine:

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In 1948 Begin's Irgun killed 250 Yassin, with grenades and knives.

down in cold blood, excuse for their own.

it to keep to a vegetarian diet. Dear comrades, We want to say that we didn't like the centre page of Class Fighter last month.

It's good that YCND is getting more coverage these days, but why have a headline which reads like Socialist Youth?

Yes, YCND should 'turn ti the Labour Movement' but do we want to give the impression that it's not 'worth being in until it does? We found the headline particularly odd as at the timé YEND was marching be clear: This not the Tony Greenstein Brighton Labour Briefing to the Labour Party Cor terence.

Class Fighter supporte: should be working in CN and convincing local grour to work for" "the Labor Movement to take up ant war activity. Headlines lik the one last month don help us to build CND. 1 fact they give support t the Militant position -don't bother with CNI it's full of middle clas trendies.

Build YCND, Gaz, Caroline, Dave, Mar York Y

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