Syrian Tanks Defend Israel
Socialist Press1976 1976-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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The true role of the Arab League's token "peace keepers" in the Lebanon is to put the seal on the Syrian invasion. They are there to armoured troops from the Palestinians and the Lebanese leftists.
And this role is one that most elements in the PLO leadership are being driven to accept - all in the name of Arab "unity"
As Lybian Prime Minister Jallac emer at the weekend, chief at une weekend while Syrian armoured units dug themselves in round Beirut and PLO chairman Yassir Arafat negotiated in Cairo for Egyptian "supPort"
CRUSH
The Syrian attempt, by its invasion of the Lebanon, to crush once and for all the freedom of the Palestinian liberation movement to openly organise in the country has received a set-back.
The Syrian invasion preceded by President Assa completely spurious charge ti the Muslim left wing Leban and the PLO were:
"implimenting a plot aiming the partition of Lebanon creating a Palestinian state Lebanese soil instead of in Pal tine"
ESSENTIAL
On the contrary, the freedi to organise of the Palestin liberation movement in Leban is essential to the struggie for l liberation of Palestine.
Assad's motives for stepping intervention in the Lebanese c war were several. Firstly threat of a left-wing Musli Palestinian defeat of the rig wing bourgeois Maronite regi would act as an inspiration for Syrian masses to act against Assad regime in Syria itself.
Numerous arrests among military in Syria followed cri ism of Assad's strategy within the army.
Secondly, if the PLO gait Cont'd on back pa
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act as a political "buffer" protecting the 12,000 Syrian