Begin bitter at EEC bid for Arab
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week The timid opportunist moves last week by European heads of state towards a limited recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation haver •led quickly to an attack from all sides.
From the increasingly beleagured Zionist regime itself -internally riven by political splits and facing mounting resistance from the dispossessed Palestinians on the West Bank -came an angry rebuke.
The Venice summit proposals were "a second Munich" claimed Prime Minister Begin, branding the PLO as an Arab SS", supposedly dedicated to destruction of the Jewish nation.
Notorious
Of course the forces actually in league with fascism are the Zionists themselves, whose links with the fascist Lebanese militia The size of the Caribbean Major Haddad are notorious.
The fact that Begin went on to give a vigorous defence of the supposed divine right of Zionist oppressors to settle anywhere in the Biblical land of Israel' however spells out once again the almost insurmountable problems faced by Us imperialIsm in securing a compromise settlement based on the Camp David agreement.
Overture
The European initiative was designed both as an alternative route towards such a compromise and its courtsey towards the PLO was intended as a diplomatic overture to the bourgeois leaders • of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states for whom the Palestinian issue is a major embarrassment.
But it has been quickly rejected by the PLO, which has pointed to its failure to accord any actual recognition to the Palestinian leadership or their right to self determination:' IMPRSONED BY PRARTEJO 16 YEAR 8s..
London picket The brutal murder of Walter Rodney of the Guyanese Working Peoples Alliance in the early hours of Saturday 14 June is just another indication of the thuggery which characterises the regime of Forbes Burnham's PNC.
The population of Guyana consists of peoples of both African and Asian origins and its politics have been bedevilled by ethnic rivalry.
The two main parties are Cheddi Jagan's PPP which represents the Asians and the PNC representing the Africans.
The bauxite, clerical and
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