Bombs fall on Mid-Eas 'peace'

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It was in front of a crucifix that the new Socialist Party Mayor of Madrid, Enrique Tierno Galvan, flanked by his deputy, Communist workers' parties, which has seen that unity of the workers' parties can put workers' representatives in After 16 months of haggling, the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty was finally ratified last Wednesday -at the US early-warning station of Um Hashiba.

At the same time, Israeli jets and gunboats blitzed and bombarded the southern area of Lebanon around Tyre.

It was the fourth day of Zionist reprisal raids after four Palestinians had been. involved in fighting in the town of Nahariva:

For all the murdering and wounding, these Zionist attacks were mostly a show of strength, intended to impress the Lebanese government, and more particularly its Syrian overlords.

Only a week before, the Zionist-backed fascist militias, which also operate in the south of the country had seceded and declared an independent 'Free Lebanon' At the time, these 'Christian' forces controlled only a small area along the Israeli bordersome 700 square kilometres, with 100,000 inhabitants.

The immediate cause of this action was an attempt by the Beirut government of President Sakis to send in troops of its regular army to control the area.

Major Haddad, the fascist commander, announced that they would recognise the authority of the central government only when the Palestinian forces and the Syrian army had been expelled from Lebanon.

In reality, Sarkis is kept in power only by the 'peacekeeping force' of the Arab League-which means, basically 25,000 Syrian troops.

While Sarkis scampered off to the UN to protest against this latest Zionist aggression, the Damascus government played for time.

It was only when the major raids had finished, that the Syrian army wheeled out its