New Bids to Contain Palestinian Struggle

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WHEREARE THE NALGO leader Drain at the head of last weekend's protest march demanding information on whereabouts of President Sadat of Egypt spent last weekend strutting round Vienna in discussion with various social democratic messengers for imperialism including Austrian Chancellor Kreitsky and Israeli 'Labour' leader Shimon Peres.

He was hammering out the discussion in preparation for the forthcoming 'peace' talks at foreign minister. level due to take place in London shortly.

These are sponsored by the US imperialists and were carefully prepared in the recent Middle East visit of • US vice-president Mondale.

The proposals on which these talks will be based, published last Friday, have been portrayed in the capitalist press and in Israel as "hard line' from the Palestinian point of view.

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Any reading of them makes it clear that they rely on 'agreement' whereby the Israeli bandits are to be persuaded to 'gradually' hand over some of the 'occupied territories' during a five year 'transition' period.

All that is being promised to the Palestinians is the usual Bantustan state with "agreement" from Israelis, Jordanians and Egyptians.

If the Palestinians can hope for little from these talks, they are also misguided to express joy at the violent attacks now being carried out by the Syrian 'peace-keeping' force in Lebanon against theright wing para-military forces.

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Over the last week hundreds of fascists and other right wing militia men have been killed by the same Syrian forces that saved Sadat them from the Palestinian and leftist fighters during 1975-6.

The increasing inability of the 'native' bourgeoisie in Lebanon to establish any kind of viable state has clearly compelled the Syrians to intervene in an effort to establish their proprietary rights over an area they have always seen as part of 'Greater Syria'.

This in turn has led to Israeli jet fighters appearing over the battle areas in Beirut to show their concern for the fate of their allies in the Lebanese fascist movement.

The Syrian massacres are aimed to establish the kind of political strength which the Zionists fear.

The Syrians have always proved more successful than most other Arab regimes in fighting them.

However strong 'Greater Syria' tied probably to the counter-revolutionary strategy of the Kremlin bureaucracy, will not be concerned to further the Palestinian struggle against Zionism and imperialism.

It will instead use its hold over Syria to impose more effectively a 'compromise' of the sort being planned by Sadat and the Americans.