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articles on the Lebanon are wrong.

that the staying in Beirut to the bitter end. This, would be their 'real victory and imperialism' in agreeing to withdraw.

First, does Socialist Challenge really believe that military victory of the Palestinians was possible? We are told that the guerTillas will give a good account of themselves in hand-to-hand lighting but they have given a good account of themseives tor weeks and this was not sufficient possible. For the past 1 weeks the PLO followed Ros Kaplan's belated ad vice and tried to bog the Israeli's down in 'endless indiscriminate and brutal attacks to expose it before the world, but despite this and the growing anti-wa! sentiment in Israel, the imperialist alliances backing silence Arab regimes) have not cracked to the point of making a better deal possible. Do we really think that Israel would have baulked at furBeirut, or that the USA Beirut, or that the would have withdrawn support because of it? The Palestinians, the people of the Middle East and of Africa know better, hav. ing seen the Israelis activemost reactionary regimes.

Did Socialist Challenge

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