Camp David plot
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attend the signing of an Israel-Egypt peace agreement reveals clearly the imperialist strategy behind . the Camp David summit.
Looking above all to safeguard the Zionist settler state, but also to establish base of US influence within the Arab world, Carter had set out from the beginning to obtain a bilateral deal between Israel and Egypt, at the expense of the oppressed Palestinian people.
Such a deal, it is hoped, will effectively neutralise Egypt as the major Arab military power, and secure one of the borders of the Zionist state.
There was never any real prospect that any deal acceptable to Begin would also be endorsed by the other Arab states-even those most hostile to the struggles of the Palestinians.
Only the puppet Sultan Qabus of Oman-installed by British government forces in 1967-has come forward out of the entire Arab world to support the And even King Hussein of Jordan, whose army first attempted to liquidate the Palestinian forces fighting Zionism from within Jordanian borders, has been forced to stand apart from Sadat's treacherous dealrecognising that it is completely unacceptable to the Arab and Palestinian masses.
This last point has been underlined by the latest PLO attacks on the Zionists, foiled only at the last moment by Zionist forces.
And a meeting of West Bank mayors has also unanimously declared the Camp David settlement unacceptable.
The Palestinians must continue the war against the Zionists if they are to regain their stolen homeland and destroy the racist state of But in doing so they will find themselves in conflict with many of their supposed "friends" in the various Arab nationalist camps.
not The most recent conference of rejectionist statesincluding Libya and Algeria -saw PLO léader Arafat complaining that financial aid promised at an earlier meeting has not yet been received.
Libyan leader Gaddafi replied that he was not a banker, and offered instead a demagogic speech of solidarity.
The struggle now urgently requires the construction of a Trotskyist party to assert the political independence of the Palestinian masses.