Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 13)
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Sabra - Shatila Military Operation
On the 18th of September the PFLP
announced its responsibility for the milit-
ary operation carried out on the highway
leading to Keriat Arba near Hebron.
A military spokesman for the PFLP
issued the following statement in
Damascus: «The commando group,
named ‘Abu Mansour’, ambushed a bus
carrying !sraeli soldiers at 19.00 o clock
on September 17th near Al Khader
which is close to the Duhaysha camp.
The group opened machine gun fire,
when the bus reached Al Khader. The
group also used handgrenades. The
clash with the Israeli soldiers lasted for
half an hour. The Abu Mansour group
safely withdrew to their bases. The esti-
mated casualties of the enemy are fif-
teen soldiers killed and injured.»
Col Abu Ahmed Fouad, the military
leader of the PFLP forces said on the
18th of September that the PFLP will
escalate its operations in occupied.
Palestine, and will confront fascist and
racist Israeli measures by revolutionary
violence. He added that the operations
will concentrate on the Israeli settle-
ments in occupied Palestine. Also he
stressed the importance of the coopera-
tion between the PFLP forces and the
Lebanese nationalist forces, and the |
importance of the Lebanese nationalist |
forces escalating the military resistance
to the Israeli occupation forces in South
Lebanon.
Abu Ahmed Fouad, who is also a.
member of the PFLP Polit Bureau ended
by saying: «Coordination and coopera-
tion between the Palestinian, Syrian and
Lebanese forces should increase in
order to confront the possibile Israeli
military adventure in the region.»
oe |
A Portrait of
a Zionist Fascist
Normally we would not devote much space to the details of one
person's life, for in the last analysis this is not what determines the
course of events. Yet in this case we make an exception to present
a portrait of Meir Kahane, for his career points to some important
facts about the nature of the Zionist ultraright. Kahane’s life shows
that, contrary to his claims, his main commitment is not to the Jewish
religion or cultural values. Rather he is first and foremost a racist an
fascist, committed to serving a variety of ultraright causes.
When we deal with the fascist terror
groups that have become so prevalent in
the Zionist state. we immediately flash
back to the long history of Zionist terror.
In fact, the Zionist state was founded on
fascist practices: collective expulsion
and punishment, massacres. destruc-
tion and torture. The Israeli fascists of
today are only a _ continuation of
Ziontsm’'s history in Palestine. The elec-
tion of Meir Kahane, founder of the
rabidly racist KACH movement, to the
Knesset shows that fascist tendencies
are on the rise in ‘Israel’.
Kahane has become a focus of the
Israeli and international media.
He is most often portrayed as a madman
or an enigma, while in fact he is a fascist
and former CIA agent who marketed
himself through US power centers to
appeal to followers as a leader of Zionist
politics. Meir Kahane advocates and
tries to enforce an ideology and policies
similar to Nazism. We dare to call him
Hitler with an American-lsraeli passport.
Zionist upbringing
Kahane’s family was originally from
Safad in Palestine, but they emigrated at
the beginning of the century and crossed
to the US. Meir Martin Kahane was born
on August 1, 1932, in Brooklyn, New
York. His father, Charles Kahane, was a
rabbi who taught his son militant
Zionism. Meir became a member of
Betar, the Zionist youth movement
associated with Jabotinsky’s revisionist
trend. Here he was trained in militant
Zionism by the present Israeli Minister of
War, Moshe Arens. He first put his train-
ing into practice in 1947, when he threw
rotten tomatoes at the British Prime
Minister during the UN session on the
future of Palestine.
Kahane soon left the Betar move-
ment as a result of disagreements with
its leaders. He joined another Zionist
group, the Sons of Akefa. In the late fif-
ties he went to ‘Israel’ and remained for
a year after failing his bar (law) examina-
tion in the US. Kahane failed to adjust to
life in ‘Israel’ and returned to the US.
Kahane and the CIA
In the early sixties Kahane met with
one of his childhood friends, Joseph
Shorbah (Horbah) who was also a
member of Betar and a lecturer at the US
Air Force Academy in Alabama. Shor-
bah was known for his contacts to the
intelligence circles and had close rela-
tions with CIA figures. At the time of
growing protest against the Vietnam
war, the FBI and the CIA were quite wor-
ried about student unrest. In fact, the
CIA set up a series of cover groups to
counteract the anti-war movement. One
of these organizations was a special
consultant institute established by
Joseph Shorbah and his partner Michael
King. But who is Michael King? It was
Rabbi Meir Kahane. While working in
this «institute», Kahane not only
adopted another name but claimed
membership in a Christian church.
In this period, Shorbah and Kahane
organized the Fourth of July Movement,
named after the American indepen-
dence day, to rally students supporting
the US aggression in Vietnam. Kahane’s
main task was to penetrate Jewish stu-
dent organizations opposing the war. In
an interview with the US magazine
Playboy, Kahane spoke of his experi-
ence with the CIA: «In the early sixties
my friend Shorbah and | established a
research institute and worked a great
deal for the US administration, both the
State and Defense Departments. In
1963, a US government agency asked
us to conduct research on some
extremist organizations, especially
among right wing ones. | was asked to
check on the John Birch Society.» Dur-
ing the short time Kahane worked in the
ultraright John Birch Society, he further
developed his knowledge of fascist
ideology.
Kahane ended his relations with the
CIA at the time when US President
Richard Nixon decided to break the
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