THE WAR IS NOT OVER | IMGpapers 1980

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OF LEBANON! The war is not over in Lebanon...

Its cities bombed, its children maimea and killea, Is nospitals destroyed, Lebanon is still an oc. cupied country. will remorselessly pursue its aim of destroying the PLO in Lebanon and creating a pliant Phalangist neighbour to its north.

Pushing north to Jebayel, the Israeli army threatens to attack the Palestinian refugee outside Tripoli, a town of half a million people. There are still five thousand PLO fedayeen active in the Bek'aa valley. There are 30,000 Syrian troops Lebanon, the Israeli's show sign of leaving they get out.

Also the new Phalangist President, Beshir Gemayal, commands 30,000 right wing militia, thirsting to avenge their defeat by the left in the civil war in the mid1970s.

The presence troops in Beirut 'overseeing the evacuation' is a sign of the unease which even allies view Sharon's intentions.

...The war is not over for Palestine The setback in West cannot be blamed on a lack heroism on the part of the PLO fighters. zionist military machine has been truly remarkable. It is a result of the treachery bourgeoisies themselves once again to be the mortal enemies of the Palestinian people.

Gemayal's election as Presi The Israeli army camps Two entrenched in still living no borders.

Lebanon before the zionist disbanded their many and daughters. ingly of imperialist eliminate.

best is solidarity people, Beirut of the Arab June who have shown failing racist in its essence. dent is proof of how by their refusal to defend the Palestinians, the Arab ruling classes has paved the way for reaction in Lebanon -the country where the class struggle was the most advanced, and the socialist movement the most developed, in the Middle East.

But make no mistake, despite the dispersal of the PLO militias, the Palestinian revolution is unvanquished. Its centre of gravity will now of course shift to the Occupied Territories and to within the Israeli state itself.

million Palestinians are within Israel's present Two million who will continue to refuse the authority of which has dispossessed them of their land, murdered their and They provide increas. labour for the Israeli economy - this is the contradiction which zionism cannot The task of the hour, however campaign for medical aid to Lebanon, and for the Palestinian defence of the Lebanese left, for Israel out of the Occupied Territories, and for all Israeli and imperialist troops out of Lebanon This will mean continuing to challenge the shameful silence of many on the left of the labour movement in this country. Since 6 when Israel invaded there has no longer been any excuse for to understand the murderous character of the Israeli state which is expansionist and

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