Democratic Palestine : 14 (ص 5)
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Unfortunately, Arafat fell into this
trap. In his efforts to prove the PLO’'s
innocence, he blamed Libya and Syria
for being behind the attacks, falling in
line with Reagan's campaign. His state-
ment was particularly glaring when con-
trasted with the fact that both the Arab
League and the Islamic Conference
Organization have expressed full sup-
port to Libya in the face of imperialist-
Zionist threats. The Soviet Union and
other socialist countries have pledged
Support to Libya. Even western Europe
has refused to implement most of the
measures proposed by Reagan, due to
their more sophisticated policies and
greater economic interests in trade with
Libya.
The campaign against Qaddafi is
actually an attack on all nationalist and
anti-imperialist forces in the area. It
paralleled the US-Israeli effort to thwart
the Syrian-sponsored peace plan in
Lebanon.
In mid-December, the Israeli milit-
ary command started complaining to the
US that the presence of Syrian missile
batteries near the Lebanese border seri-
ously impaired the ability of Israeli jets to
make reconnaissance flights over Leba-
non. The arrogance of this is even more
obvious when one knows that: (1) The
missile batteries in question were
Stationed in Syrian territory (2) Amonth
earlier, Israeli jets had shot down two
Syrian planes over Syrian airspace near
the Lebanese border. ‘Israel has
repeated its complaint several times,
and on January 7th, Peres threatened.
«There is a real danger of war between
Israel and Syria unless both countries
behave properly.» ‘Israel’ and the US
are looking for every excuse to pressure
Syria. in order to isolate it and remove an _
obstacle to separate Israeli-Jordanian
negotiations. Two days after Peres’
statement, the Reagan Administration
threatened to extend the economic
embargo to Syria.
Expanding the US terrorist
network
In the last analysis, Reagan's ‘anti-
terrorist’ campaign is the other side of
his efforts to militarize the world and
outer space, American-style. By point-
ing an accusing finger at Libya, Syria,
Palestinian ‘extremists’, etc., and pro-
ducing trumped-up' evidence, the
Reagan Administration seeks to (1) con-
vince the American taxpayer of the
necessity of financing a gigantic military
build-up; (2) convince NATO allies of the
necessity of increased military spending
and backing up US military initiatives;
and (3) convince US allies around the
world of the advantages of permitting US
military facilities on their territory.
At the height of the anti-Qaddafi
campaign, the Pentagon released state-
ments that US special command units
(like the Delta ‘anti-terrorist’ squad) are
unfit for action due to lack of equipment
(a plea for more funding) and not enough
of them being stationed close to ‘trouble
spots’ (a plea for more military facilities).
Well before the Rome and Vienna
attacks, the US had been planning to
base a unit of the Delta forces in Europe
to be close to the Mediterranean. On the
pretext of being prepared for ‘terrorism’,
hijackings and the like, the US is striving
to extend and reinforce its international
military network. This is the real terror
network, state terrorism at its ultimate,
used to threaten and blackmail, or actu-
ally attack, any force or country pursuing
a truly independent policy which is
deemed as a threat to US imperialist
interests.
The immediate results of deploying
US special units may resemble the joint
US-Egyptian ‘rescue operation at Val-
letta airport in Malta on November 24th.
There Egyptian commandos, ‘advised’
by three US officers, stormed a hijacked
plane, firing in all directions. Fifty people
were killed, including the vast majority of
the passengers to be rescued. Most died
from the indiscriminate shooting of their
would-be rescuers, rather than from the
hijackers’ grenades. Schultz tried to jus-
tify the catastrophe by referring to the
hijackers as follows: «These people are
not people.» This was reminiscent ot
Begin'’s statements during the 1982
invasion of Lebanon, claiming that ‘ls-
rael’ was fighting «terrorists and two-leg-
ged beasts» in order to cover up the
genocide pursued by the Israeli army.
Star Wars -
joint terrorist venture
The principal source of terrorism in
the world today is none other than US
imperialism itself. The US has furnished
the massive political, military and finan-
cial support needed for ‘Israel’ to kill and
maim thousands upon thousands of
Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab
citizens over the years. It is the Reagan
Administration that deliberately sabot-
aged the Contadora peace plan for
Central America, and increased funding
for the contras’ war against the Nicara-
guan people. It is the Reagan Administ-
ration that renewed support for the
UNITA mercenaries’ war of attrition on
Angola, while failing to take any mea-
sures against the racist regime in South
Africa which has been terrorizing the
Black masses for the better part of a cen-
tury. It is US imperialism and its CIA that
installed dictatorships in a row of Latin
American countries, in the Philippines,
Indonesia, etc. The list of US terrorist
campaigns is endless, from Vietnam to
Grenada...
The most massive element of US
imperialism's terrorism is its escalation
of the nuclear arms race which threatens
all mankind with destruction. ‘Israel’ is
also a nuclear power and has recently
Officially decided to join in the US's Star
Wars project for weapons in space. In
late December, the Soviet news agency
Novosti published information on recent
Israeli underground nuclear tests in the
Negev, the site of its largest nuclear
reactor, Dimona. Novosti added that ‘Is-
rael’ now possesses forty nuclear
warheads.
Also in late December, just as
Reagan was pointing the accusing
finger at Qaddafi, the US conducted
underground nuclear tests in Nevada, to
perfect nuclear pumped X-ray lasers,
needed for Star Wars, in an obvious
attempt to sabotage the unilateral
moratorium on nuclear tests earlier
declared by the Soviet Union.
The Israeli nuclear arsenal provides
the US with added leverage in its
attempt to blackmail the people of the
Strategic Middle East area into submit-
ting to its hegemony. The joint participa-
tion of the US and ‘Israel’ in the Star
Wars program adds a dangerous new
element to the Middle East crisis,
increasing its potential to erupt into a
nuclear confrontation that would extend
to other areas as well. - هو جزء من
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