Democratic Palestine : 40 (ص 29)
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- Democratic Palestine : 40 (ص 29)
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hands of rulers who would comply with
imperialist interests. This is the
background for the ensuing divergence
in oil policy between such regimes and
nationalist governments which sought
economic independence and moderni-
zation (Iraq, Algeria, Libya). Kuwait
has been part of the traditionalist Arab
bloc led by Saudi Arabia, that engages
in overproduction of oil, leading to
glutting the world market and con-
sequently lower prices. The other side
of this policy is the recycling of pet-
rodollars whereby the revenues are
Airborne troops prepare for flight to Saudi Arabia.
Israel, as well as the fact that Iraq is
targeted for the largest direct
imperialist attack ever in the Middle
East.
In this sense, the current crisis
appears as an extension of the struggle
between the Arab people and col-
onialist/imperialist control, which has
characterized the area throughout the
century. In the second half of the
1900s, with the formation of the
Zionist state as imperialism’s forward
base, this contradiction has taken the
form of the Arab-Zionist conflict and
Gulf with the struggle against the occu-
pation of Palestine. Thus, it is totally
correct for the Iraqi regime to demand
Israeli withdrawal from the 1967
occupied territories, along with the
withdrawal of US troops, as conditions
for its own withdrawal from Kuwait.
However, the Iraqi move into Kuwait
was not actually motivated by this
demand. Rather the oil question has
assumed life-or-death proportions for
Saddam Hussein in view of the need to
rebuild Iraq from the ravages of the
war it began with Iran. On the eve of
invested in the capitalist countries or
squandered outright on luxury pro-
jects, robbing the Arab people of
needed resources for development.
In a progressive nationalist perspec-
tive, there has long been a need to
combat this policy. On the mass level,
much of the spontaneous support for
Saddam Hussein stems from the
resentment of the poor(including
Yemenis, Egyptians, Jordanians,
Palestinians, etc.)who do the menial
work in the oil kingdoms. The other
reason for the masses’ sentiments is
Iraq’s declared intention to stand up to
Democratic Palestine, July-August 1990
its core, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Today, the most prominent expression
of the contradiction is the Palestinian
intifada’s struggle against the Israeli
occupation. Any effort to redress the
Arab status quo should therefore be
judged in terms of how it affects the
progress of the intifada and the Pales-
tinian cause generally, since this repre-
sents the vanguard in the Arab masses’
struggle against imperialism, Zionism
and reaction.
The PLO’s line in relation to the
current situation is to combine the
struggle against US intervention in the
Iraq’s move into Kuwait, oil prices had
dropped to their lowest in nine years
as a result of the glut on the world
market caused by overproduction.
Among the negative repercussions
of the crisis is that it has overshadowed
the intifada, as well as the question of
democracy which had become acute in
a number of Arab countries. On the
other hand, mass mobilization for
defeating the US intervention could set
new conditions which would positively
influence these issues in the future.
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