of aggression in Ariel Sharon (respectively minister and minister of defence) haven't hesitated to use criminal methods.
Palestinians and distinction between civilians and combatants, have been savagely attacked and bombed.
victims and the toll is becoming greater every their homes and their work, and are adding to the already material destruction proportions, as much in the towns as in the countryside ...
The Palestinian targets have been hit an unbelievable brutality by an army which, according the plans BeginSharon, must impose a 'final solution' The Israeli attack has been prepared for a long Lime. they were only waiting a favourable momcil lo allack nylo Israel launched a similar which Lily asiull retrospect looks like general rehearsal of the present operation.
At that time the Palestinian ¡esistalcc managed to maintain their coscullal busilluls hilalt Conscuuclce the Open letter from Lebanese THE ZIONIST STATE has launched a new war Lebanon to smash the Palestinian resistance. Menachem Begin and prime the most powerful and Lebanese, without There are already thousands and thousands of day. Hundreds of thousands of people have left enormous mass of refugees. The has reached terrible nronen Dresertcu ior uic Zionists by the Palestinian resistance, walCH despite the concessions obtained stae Was nol politically resolved by the Camp David agreemenl, continued to exist on the military front as well. That was something which the Zionist establishment could not accept... so doing to strike a blow at Ine resistance the masses in the occupied terniloTies.
At same time Menachem Begin SOIgnI to weaken Syria politically as well as militarilv. and to oblige its forces to withdraw from Lebanon...
However, there is strong risk that the hope of the Zionist leaders, open a new phase in the history of their state and Laclr connauon that part of the world, will not nlaleilalse Heroic The principal objective of the war has not been obtained: the PLO has sustainea nara blows, lost positions, and suffered grievous losses, but it has not been destroyed. Their combatants have fought in an heroic manner and their centres of resistance have eveli in the towns hardest hit by the enemy...
vital that the workers' movement mobiuser forces throughout the to cueve metale eno to the criminal aggression of the Zionist state and to guarantee its full solidarity wild the Palestinian resistance.
It must insist that the army withdraws LTO M une Wno e Lebanon and that all the O ccuano dre withdrawn from the occupied territories, that the Lebanon can recover its sovereignty and that the Palestinians maintain their position, their armed forces and their organisations.
Complicit The workers moveNICUL N HUST denounce the complicity of the United States and the hypocrisy of the Europear states, which adopted economic sanctions against Argentina during the Malvinas war, but make sure that they don't take a single concrete action against the Israeli aggression.
It must insist that the workers states assure economic and military aid the Palestinian resistance and aill the Lebanese forces which fight alongside the Palestinians against the Zionists. Stop the Zionist aggresSTOle troops out of Lebanon now!
Solidarity with the Palestinian resistance!
Bureau of the United Secretariat 13 June 1982
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Excerpts from the declaration of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International
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