Summit Offers Nothing Offers
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The end of the Arab summit meeting in Cairo on 26th October has provided no solution to the problems facing the Arab masses, especially the embattled Palestinians in the ruins of their refugee camps in Beirut.
Although the latest ceasefire seems to be holding in Lebanon, the Arab heads of state refused to commit themselves on the Palestinian demands that no one country should provide all the members for the Arab "peace-keeping' force which is supposed to police this and any further agreement.
NO SOLUTION The heads of state, from the reactionary monarchs of Saudi Arabia and Jordan to the so-called progressives of Iraq, can in no way provide a lasting solution for the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggles of the Palestinians and their allies.
The occasion seems be have been used more for the patching up of old disputes like those between Dr. Kissinger's friend, President Sadat of Egypt and the extreme right wing ruler of Lybia, Colonel Gadafi.
In case anybody persisted in the mistaken notion that the bloody conflicts in Lebanon have been "religious' in character, the intervention of the Israelis on the side of the right wing forces has been confirmed in numerous press reports over the past week.
No reporter has managed to see Israel's soldiers in action, though one saw "Phalangist troops wearing Israel's uniforms" , and the Israeli government has not sought to deny that they have been giving supplies to the Lebanese fascists.
The fact that the Zionists have found it necessary to do this shows the strength of the resistence of Palestinian and leftist forces Lebanon.
No invading force yet thrown at them - Syrian, 'peace-keeping' or otherwise - has defeated their fight for the right to organise themselves to struggle on for their national rights.
It is not the government leaders in Cairo who will guarantee these rights, but the Arab workers and peasants, mobilised on a revolutionary programme.
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