Israel. A fullerreport will appear in a future issue.
DRIVING past Tiberias on the vest coast of the Sca of Galilee i the early evening is a spectacular sight. Above the darkness of the ke rise the darker hills of th olan Heights, topped by th arena DIbaRy- ODE SEGEU f the Heights are numberou -lastersof twink.ling lights. It isa beautiful view and it is vety easy to forget what those lights represent, For they are the illaMENSHL LEC ESTSCES EECMICEL which have been establisbed on Golan on the land captured from Seria.
Throughout the West Bank and Golan we saw Israeli settlements. Most are surrounded by high wire fences and all have their own arsenals. These are the settlements wich causco socn a sur wico soc Israci .government Menachem Begin legalised three ofthemos the West Hank:
PROUD Phat upset the establishment od press in the West was Begin' TorthTIuE S0m35Km Caarcs settlements had official backing - the previous Labour Alignment administration had merciy done the same thing withour admittin S0 DUCE. Begin nas come ou opcoly and claimed the oscupied territoties as "liberated' zones Israelis are proud of their oocupation. They claim that it is the most liberal ocupation carried out and cannot be compared lo colonialism. TR SEBT he Palestinians of the West Hank Mayor •KAMISEHE. K haTaiT Khalif, cold us of deportations in TIC IMBLIC SIE BIL bealinga of young student dernonserators, of torture in the military Palestinians are beld withouttrinl him tha the Bitih Holte or British House Commons by twa Labour MPs. Wben we Nover mor, Saket Katz, loc at first to the Military derded that there were restrictions on anyane's noveneats. WO menD NIs Ce UIAE in August a fact-finding delegation from the National ariom. Frot the "Good Fesce Union of Students Executive visited Lebanon and Israel to. gather information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. COLIN TALBOT reports on some of the things he saw in and he explsined that we had io understand that the Mayor was a big security risk The Israclis point to the lack e hunger and poverty and claim this as a postive necupatini A Palerinias satr holder in East Jerusalemn said it was true that no-one starved, but o-onc get nen cinc tarar ald, even the does dar N WHIC MAICE OE BEILI alestinians because they didn in brael the delegation me leading memhers ruling Likad coalition and Lhe impression that I gained trom these meetings and theein wat ordinary mrany of Jews was that there is what the call a "Zionist consensus" consensus is the agreement which all, cr at least the vast majority, o Israeli Zionists have on the basic qUesbDIsOTacGa] They all support the refusal to COLTUCII Palestinian stateon Lie West Han and Gaza. They all support Israci MOTOUIC righitist militias soulliers Israeli invasion of the south if necessary. In their attitude to the Palestinians, there is very attie difference hetween the ditferent ELOBUSL DEELS ever called in the north of Israci, at the so- 'Good Fenice', When destrayed israeli taok in Lebanon.
The Israclis claimed that these Tour days earlier we had seen these hases from Palestinian hases near and ahhing, Tasbeinside Lebanon.
tions quipment of their side Taibe that bad been knockod out in April. The Israelis say they have not boen into Lehanon since 1973.
In Jerusalem we met leaders af the anti-Zionist movement Israel Shahak of the League fo Human and Civil Rights, an and Tsemel predicted renewo Isracil aggression and the possibi ity of an invasion of soutbern Lebanon.
Shahak, a survivor of BergeoBelsen CUUOCEEER0 bebeves that the cakud goyeroculties escalare -inflation, for ian leaders also predicted the 1s independen raeli-rightist push in Lebanon 1o Palestinian-leftist forces from the in border region As Zionists claim the area of TECHO T Lebanon to the south of the river Qasmiye, between Metulla and Ut you- such ani brohabls includepernanenl ocoupation. All the sipns in the past week would indicale that such a we saw JUUSCHIC DVOSIOnGNAKEarOI Colln Te/bat Inghr| and Deve Agranowich af the NUS Executive examine s
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Leah Tsemel of the Trotskyis "Matzpen Marxist'. Both Shahak
ment will soon need a war a Israel's internal economic diffi.