come up with a 'solution' to the crisis in the H of Ireland.
every single political prisoner in the H Blocks. If Thatcher isn't stopped this will mean that anything up to 400 prisoners will die. Challenge MARGARET Thatcher at last seems to have Blocks of Long Kesh prison camp in the north Her solution is to sanction the death of SYRIA Mediterranean EBANON IRAQ ISRAEL JORDAN SAUDI ARABIA IRAN Baghdad, Israel destroys Iraq atomic reactor nea Baghdad The US State Department said it 'condemns the raid ine EVEN Israel's best friends have been embarrassed by the Zionist state's bombing of Iraq's nuclear power plant, just east of Baghdad.
precedented character of which cannot but seriously add to the already tense situation in the area.
The Foreign Ottice has been similarly critical, and even Israel's best friend in the Middle Hast Egypt's President Sadat, said the raid was "grave. irresponsible and unjustified' None of will HaKe ditference to the Prime Minister Begin knows • that the US will continue to supply Israel with the F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers which were used on the raid, and knows too that the Egyptian president will continue his sell-out of the Palestinian people Begin, should he wish, could also point out that he was only putting into practice the theory of the has been elstorated by been elaborated by Ronald Reagan and his advisors in relation to the Soviet Union and the revolutionary upsurges in Certainly, the US government is upset by the action. unHe the Department and the CIA have been buttering up to the despotic Iraqi hoping it will take over the role of 'policeman' of the Gulf, formally held by the Shah of Iran.
The Israeli bombing will hardly help to push Iraq into such an openly pro-Western position.
But one effect of the raid is to underline the real nature the of Israel. order to 'defend itself' it has, within the last couple of weeks, tinued to supply arms to the neo-fascist Phalange Tary Lebanon, threatened to bomb Syria, muruccu arcoresentalive Lin the Parent bra Organisation Brussels, and now, notched up a new world 'first' by bombing nuclear power plant And they dare to call those who resist such aggression "terrorists'.
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