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activity in the Middle East over Christmas-and further important meetings are promised over the next few days-still hold great dangers for the Palestinian liberation movement and the struggle against imperialism in the Arab world.

The Ismailia talks on Christmas Day between Sadat and Begin showed that it is the fact that these bilateral talks are taking place rather than the actual issues being discussed which heartens the imperialists and the Zionists, their friends in the Middle East and the capitalist press.

The issues discussed show clearly that the Zionists do not intend to hand over an inch of conquered territory without the most stringent conditions.

Fact obscured

To call the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsula "occupied territories" is to carefully obscure the fact that the whole of Palestine and the surrounding area •IS "occupied" by colonialists who have established with the help of imperialism a state based on racial exclusiveness, the exploitatior of poor Jews and Arabs, and the driving out of the Palestinians.

Because of his own internal problems and the pressure of US imperialism Sadat is prepared to discuss only the fate of the more recentlygrabbed parts of Mid-East territory, and whether or not there should be an independent Palestinian State set up on the West Bank of the Jordan.

Buy off

Some Palestinians support this as a step towards a multiracial state, but as far as those Zionists who support the idea are concerned, it is intended to buy off the Palestinian struggle for good.

One of the purposes of the Carter world tour is to gain support for as much as possible of such a settlement, i.e. a West : Bank State.

However, even Sandhurst trained King Hussein of Jordan knows that he cannot yet be seen to be part of such a sell out.

Multi-racial

The Americans will no doubt continue to place pressure on Hussein and also on the Syrians to support this new Bantustan.

The solution for the Palestinians as well as for the mass of Jewish workers oppressed by the Zionist state rests only with its destruction, and the creation. of a multi-racial within a hid. Tinat On December • 20, the Indonesian go' vernment announced in a blaze of publicity the release of the first 10,000 of 30,000 suspects held without trial since 1965.

The others al e to be released over the next two years.

However, "rele ¡ase" appears to be ither inappropriate term.

40% jobless For instance, they must find jobs, and with the prevailing political regime in Indonesia and 40% unemployment it is difficult to believe employers will offer jobs to communist suspects.

The remainder will be deported to labour camps on the underpopulated and largely infertile islands of Kalimantan, Sulaves and Bara.

The 30,000 have been held since the right wing coup led by General Suharto overthrew the government of President Sukarno which had rested on an alliance of the nationalists (PNI), the army, and the Peking-dominated Communist Party (PCI).

The PCI had pursued the policy of the "block of four classes" , according to which the natinnal hourgeoisie