A 'peace Dove' That Drops Bombs

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Zionist bomb damage on Palestinian refugee camp The award of a 'peace" prize established by a gunpowder manufacturer to ultra-right terrorist leader Menachem Begin last week has all the panache of a macabre episode of Monty Python.

The award of a peace prize to Al Capone by J Edgar Hoover would have been more appropriate.

This same Begin, as a leader of Zionist terror squads, organised the murder of many innocent Palestinians in the past and also incidentally that of British servicemen and civilians.

He is now organising the predatory Zionist regime which daily increases its grip over whatever new territory it thinks worth taking over.

Last week it was two small settlements near East Jerusalem.

Next week it may be a bit of South Lebanon, syria or Egypt.

Meanwhile peace' negotiations will go on, related less to the realities of diplomatic intrigue than to the public relations needs of an American president faced with the need to gain electoral popularity at the same time as attacking the conditions of American workers.

Unwillingness

If Judas iscariot could get a 'peace' prize then clearly Anwar Sadat is perfectly entitled to one also.

However, the utter unwillingness of the Zionists to even pretend to make serious concessions makes Sadat's position more and more untenable.

Electoral gimmick

Sadat's failure to withdraw from the talks may succeed as an electoral gimmick for Carter, but it will simply embolden the Zionists to demand yet more concessions in return for tiny tracts of Arab territory without military significance.

The main success of all the bogus talk of 'peace' from the point of view of the imperialists and Zionists is to have prised the Egyptian regime away from the alliance of forces against This in its turn has produced important changes in the Arab world itselt.

These changes have recently been related to the Syrian Ba'athist government which often acts as a stalking horse in the region for the Soviet Union, and which has already tightened its hold• on the Lebanon as recent fighting has shown.

It is said that Henry Kissinger, who is in a position to know about such things, told the Israelis that in return for secure boundaries, Israel would have to accept Syrian hegemony in Lebanon.

This may well. be a solution for which the imperialists are now prepared to settle.

Real significance

The most astonishing alliance of all has been the agreement between the Syrians and their sworn enemies-the regime in Iraq.

The real significance of these moves among bourgeois governments will be seen in the Bagdad summit talks this week.

The Palestine liberation struggle will not be resolved by these governmental manoeuvres but by the mobilisation of the Arab and Palestinian peoples in the struggle for socialist revolution.

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