ISRAEL'S attack on Beirut, the capital of Lebanon on 17 July represents a major escalation in its terror campaign in the Middle East.
400 civilians dead and several hundred injured, follows hard on the heels of the Israeli bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor on 7 June and months of repeated bombing and shelling of towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared: 'We shall continue to attack terrorist bases and headquarters even if they are purposefully located in the vicinity of, Earlier this year on 28 April Syria removed anti-aircraft missiles Lebanon aler Begin had warned that Israel would ICOULL LU "military action' and shot down two Syrian helicopters.
The Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Khaddam pointed out that Israel just 'wants security for its planes to bomb and population centers and Palestinians. So Israel wants the uncontested right to strike at peaceful Lebanese...
19 JULY 1981 THE Yangtse river's has 3,000 people and Chinese officials 3.WVU day. A huge surge of floodwater due Gezhouba this weekend.
In Taipeh, Taiwan, there are plans air-drop reliet stricken mainland Sichuan. Ines balloons reicased from a military base will be in Taiwan. This latest move, which resulted in over Several days Reagan had received a letter from Begin in which the situation in Lebanon was compared the period leading up to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
This war was initiated by the Israeli regime with a series of Israeli air strikes Egyptian air force and followed by the destruction of the Syrian and Jordanian airforce and the capture of large pieces of territory Zionist forces. Altered But 1981 is not 1967 and the balance of forces has altered in favour of the oppressed and the working Although the vacal lay its 'extreme concern' and Reagan described 'vexed and perplexed' the likelihood WOOLCIl. governments limiting stopping the Israeli war drive is remote.
American depends on the existence 19 JULY 1981 ght re lol Daily of the Israeli state as its main ally, in the Middle casI against lne Arab revolution, especially sinc he overthrow of the Shal in Iran.
Without US aid Israel would sink without trace. Each vear Israel receive $2.2 billion in US No 3:95 Price 35D governmental aid and another $1 billion from the US Jewish community.
Condemn Following the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor the United Nations Security Council unanimously to strongly condemn the venture although without calling for any sanctions.
The US delegate Jeane Kirkpatrick stated at that time 'Nothing has happen cu unal ll ally way dilei the strength of our com mitment or the warmth of wants wille aiscussing tactics. our feelings'.
She said 'We in the Reagan administration, are proud to call Israel a friend and ally.' Inflation isolation and the catastrophic Stalle economy - it has a cur rent inflation rate of 133 - has grown out of Israel's permanent war against the Arab peoples.
The military war against the Palestinians, against i the Arab revolution and the measures that nave been taken against the Jewish workers within Israel are necessary maintain Israel as a Zionist Force The recent show that the Jewish working class has not yet broken deep discontent.
The only force that can turn back the Israeli wal drive is the revolutionary mobilisation of the Arab and Jewish masses and the sooner that comes about to our
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