Palestinian masses căn do that.
zone never seen before in this country.
The prodictable result is the almost COER ISCH8T3OO OI TDC FLO TrOa al sectors of the Arab 1 евилол, Joouan, ао Lay uTOKEN Even among the Palestinian refugees the active support enjoyed NUPSELIUIRUI organisations 1967 and 1970 has become much more passive. Ias striking, Tor example, that in 1972 and 1573 the PLO could call upon handreds of thousands to demonstrate in the wreets of Reirul, the best it could mester in the wake of Sadat's vinit to Jerusalem was a pititul 4-6,000.
Tho prospocts for guerritla warfare in such circumstances cannot be much of Syrin and the other memhers of th: a wory Isracii ETOn DE SicoTas ness and Keconen will give token support to the PI.O.
WONE gu any:
Its reaction lo the invasion and even Iesir senes soun o deirut tas beeo Boticcably mild.
SCIEE DURS building up its military arsenal from International labour movement and the resistance of the Arab and On these pages M. JAFAR, NIGEL WARD and MICHEL WARSCHAWSKY assess the importance of this latest episode in Israeli expansionism, accompanied by pictures from the battle atrerapring massesin the question all the Probably this will follow DELWEEU "diplomaric Israeli territorial expansion.
ZEALOTS pointed oUt ancient Israelites Penrua ever Wiss PUCLACT.
their ariDy wil concentrate 0b the Sovier Union and simultaneausly reap benefirs of Sadat's failure to make any ncaawas wan tac soonis enactsap ou of settlemsent.
so faur the Zionist estan isluoenl ha. sparod us referencos to the pro-Biblical land of the ancient Isractites exrending ly his wil toled aben tee when arcangement' falls through, just as it has in every other Southeri Lebanou. i should be Jor those whose knowledge of the old testament is not what ic used to be, was much more integral a component of the land of the the Sinai 30.M) years aga!
The archacclogists, Biblica] scholars end salets of the Gush Emunim will no doubt be following in the wake of much invaluable documentation on this subject as new Tactf grow old in Southern Lebanon.
"THEY take our land. Why? For security reasons!
*They take out jobs. Why? For security reasons!
Why not? For security reasons!"
Walter Schwarz, The Arabs in Israel, 1959 A glimpse of the map of the Middle Fast over the lust thiriy years shows une thing very clearly - the emergence and continuing expansion of Israel, writes NIGEL WARD.
ln its carly sears, this expansionism had two motives. For the Zionists, the aim was colonisation. Swollen by the horrors of fascism in. Europe, mosement had ils chance to bepin to realise its goa the creation of an exclasively Jewish state.
The Jewith population grew from under 100,000 in the 1920's to 700,000 by 1948 and then doubled in three years in the arca of the state of Israel at that time.
EXPULSION As Joseph Weitz, head of the Colonization Department of Jewish Agency, said. *It should be ceapies to tive in thi gountror boh popes o ame ms couy une (Arab) village. not one tribe must remain. They must he moved to Irag. Star ee Tandrin.
Arab inhabitants
Palestine thas incant carante ni repression and the disappearance nearly hall their settlements within the boundaries of Israel.
At the some time, US imperialisen took the opportunity to and a state which was prepared to act, out of it Dwn interests as g block on the rise a the Arab national movement.
RAIDS this After the carly colonisation, the expansion of the Isracli scate continued under a further pressuTe.
inevitable that it would confront the IREUBH!
Since the 1950s, the Israeli state has conducted regular villages. With the backing of Moshe Dayan, special units were created for this purpose, operations being the dynamiting of the dozens of Arab houses in the village of Kibye in 1953.
AGGRESSION Such operations continued for vears of and provided the backdrop to the Suez war and the war od 1967 The invasion of southern Lebanon today is also defended from the point of view of 'security". It'is just the larest ageression Claics.
COlOnialE neriod of For, given the conditions Arab masses.
T'ITSLIliberation struggle of great value.
raids Arah OEUISCIE first River, example of the Bracli Zionist cat chasing its own tail in a never ending spiral of expansionismn and military A Zionist state in permanent and ocroie conic aien. Ene surroua ding Arab population is incapable eyen Ouly wbee the Zionist V0ot 0 the cortici defeated will there be a future for the Hebrew speaking population There are also very specific reasons why the Israelis. interested in dominating the south of Lebanon up to the Litani River, beyond their desire to me a msay deicar oa te Palestinian liberation foroes and hand Oul aDore om00y Tecson the Israelis bave always Taced a shortape of fresh water, s0 a major river such as the Litani would be EXPANSION Secondly, religions Zionists claim a biblical iustitication for their occuIn 1956 David Ben Gurion had a plan for re drawing the map of the envisaged the expansion of lirael to include the West bans ame Lcoaton souto or toc Lhan along with the creation of u SIRE MIRTORHC EI CHNCSCLIITISILI With the changing situation in the region today, this scheme no longer H3S0 CLICURPS
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 23 March, 1978 page 10
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*And when we ask them how it happens that we, our lands and our jobs threaten the security of the state — they do not tell us.