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weeks before the Israeli invasion we devoted a back page to an article by myself which predicted that the Israelis would invade and that the USA was complicit in this coming lavaso Headline after headline denounced and US keep peraisil sense of proportion, comwhether we should criticise The uestion the PLO leadership at all. Some comrades appear to think that within the framework of sonaarily we nave a rignl and a duty to analyse and Crucise.
It is those comrades who that criticism of those in strug-, gle is permissible who are 'romantics'. At any rate, refusal to criticise petty bourgeois nationalist leaderships has nothing whatever in common with socialism.
Kelly and O'Brien ask: 'Can't Hearse tell the difterence between a set-back and a defeat?' Unforcomplete stalemate, of in TIne a unilateral to the 'problem' militarily •v Israeli press, re-settle Israeli 'Defence' Minister Sharon with the Israelis The 500,000 Palestinians in Lebanon and the Jerusi militias have nowhere to go. They will now nave to stay and lignu It is question Vlavely of life. And the evacuation of the Palestinians from West Beirut makes the next stage of the operation all that much easier for the Israelis.
What has happened to the PLO militias is very on the Arab bourgeoisies rather then mass mobilisations the oppressed Arab masses.
Martin makes good points about the necessity for orderly retreats in some situations. I did not of course mean to imply that retreats are never necessary, that it was always right to stand and fight 1 = 5/ PLO leader Yasser Arafat No Israeli annexation of the Occupied Territories not Israeli withdrawal. Immediate freeze on the building SCL tlements in the West Bank - not the disbanding of already existing ones.
This is neither a just nor a lasting settlement, but a guarantee of further expansionism.
Socialists must oppose it and demand the drawal of all imperialist and Zionist forces from Lebanon and tne cupied Territories The US plan, which has so far the approval of the conservative Arab regimes, shown for example in their willingness to debate it at the Fez Conference this week, in effect demands PLO and Arab acceptance of the State of Israel continued presence in the Occupied Territories.
In other words it would be a malor set-back in the struggle liberate CLU explained quite that light.
Perhaps we were over hasty in suggesting that the Palestinian fighters should not abandon Beirut. But those people who think the OCCSON Wal Conce should make that assess ment in full knowledge o the consequences. The attack the Palestinian population in Lebanon is just beginning, ding Palestine. But the moderate PLO leadership's outlook has left it wide to this manouevre. In return they will get nothing but a diplomatic recognition worth no more than the scrap of paper it is written on.
Meanwhile the in Lebanon.
Zionism is on its biggest expansionist campaign since on the offensive and the US is trying to neutralise the Palestinian revolution in order to secure and surenciner OWIl terests in the area. Both are trying le redraw the political map of the Arat Understanding this will place us in a stronger position for building long term solidarity in labour movement wiel recognise exactly what the Palestinians Lebanese and Arab peoples are up arallis!
Ros Kaplan