Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 24)
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Democratic Yemen
Celebrates
October 14th of this year marked
the 21st anniversary of the Yemeni
revolution. On this occasion President
Ali Nasser Mohammad, the Secretary
General of the Yemeni Socialist Party
together with Comrade George Habash,
the Secretary General of the PFLP,
inaugurated a hospital and a new popu-
lar residential quarters in Aden. Both
projects carry the name of the late mar-
tyr Wadi Haddad.
responsible for planting the explosives.
Soon, the NATO forces that were
expelled from Lebanon were present in
the Red Sea (US, Britain, France, Italy). It
is no pure coincidence that these four
countries that deployed their forces in
the Red Sea are the same ones that
were in Lebanon as the «international
peace keeping force». It is rather a plan-
ned cover for US military presence in the
area, especially in such times. Normally
the US does not need any excuses or
permission to increase its military pre-
sence in Egypt. But this time it needed to
cover up its recent moves in the Red Sea
since it aimed at shifting Egypt's role
from one of «protecting» the Suez Canal
and «securing» free international navi-
gation to one of an open US military
base. Hence atlowing US imperialism to
reach any Arab country in a short time.
The Red Sea incident is a serious
event since US imperialist interests in
the area are growing and military inter-
vention is their means to achieve them.
Here we must recall the 1956 Zionist-
French-British joint attack on the Egyp-
tian Suez Canal which aimed at increas-
ing imperialist domination in the area at
‘that time. The 1956 attack took place
after President Naser nationalized the
Canal. The aggression was under the
pretext of «protecting» the Canal and
«securing» it as free international wat-
ers. However, a major difference bet-
ween the two incidents is that Egypt
then, had a nationalist, anti-imperialist
government that courageously con-
fronted the fierce attack. This is contrary
to Mubarak’s present regime that advo-
cates the open door policy by collaborat-
ing with US imperialism in invading
Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries.
An Egyptian engineer who is the
head of the opposition Egyptian
Socialist Party, Mr. Ibrahhim Shukri,
stated in the Middle East Newspaper,
24
August 15, 1984, that «‘Israel’ and the
US are indeed part of the Red Sea inci-
dent. He mentioned that ‘Israel’ is plan-
ning to dig an alternative canal to Suez
(between Elat in the Gulf of Aqaba in the
Red Sea and Ashkelon at the Mediterra-
nean Sea).
In the same time the US is planning
a project of installing an oil pipe line
through Africa. Mr. Shukri warned that,
«the entire region is witnessing danger-
ous events and organized terrorist
activities that will decrease the income
of the Suez Canal».
The above statement affirms that
the US-Israeli explosive steps in the Red
Sea are in harmony with the US strategic
goals of full domination of the region.
On the level of the Arab reactionary
regimes, this incident was to allow them
to escalate their attacks on the progres-
sive regimes, mainly Democratic Yemen
and Ethiopia. The US also tried to
strengthen the «strategic consensus»
plans in the area. This was clear in
Sudan's call for a security conference
which was mainly to centralize the reac-
tionary regimes’ activities against these
two countries. This conference would
have also been the right opportunity to
install the President of the Camp David
regime as the head of the Arab states.
Mubarak enthusiastically prepared the
opening statement for the conference
and was quite ready to assume the role .
of leadership. Of course this would have
been an important step in paving the
way for the return of the Camp David
regime to the upcoming Arab summit.
Hence extending the Camp David
capitulationist agreement to include
other Arab countries. 7
The NATO presence was a way of
exhibiting the US military power in
restoring «order» and «security» in the
region. This is significant since Saudi
Arabia failed to convince other Gulf
states in the Murphy plans of deploying
US forces in the Gulf and the Arab
Peninsula. The US administration
needed to reinstill confidence in the
hearts of the Arab reaction as its local
agents.
Furthermore, this scenario was to
show the ability of the US in forcing its
conditions on the reactionary Arab
regimes. It aimed at convincing the oil
producing countries to reroute their oil
tankers from the Red Sea to the Mediter-
ranean and to accept the Israeli prop-
osal of using its ports on the Mediterra-
nean. Hence allowing «Israel» to over-
come its internal economic and political
crisis and to draw the Arab reaction
closer to recognizing the Zionist settler
State.
The Red Sea hysteria was also to
pose a threat to free navigation of the oil
tankers in order to alarm the oil exporting
countries. This would then allow the US
to increase its monopoly of the oil indus-
try.
Finally, it is clear that the US
imperialists and Zionist expansionists
have created the Red Sea scenario in
preparation for a new aggression
against the Arab progressive forces and
nationalist regimes. In addition to their
mutual interests, they both need to
regain some of their losses and recover
their defeats. The heroic comeback of
the Lebanese nationalists liberating
West Beirut, the abrogation of the May
17th agreement and the continuing
national resistance in South Lebanon,
all are victories that our enemies try to
topple. Their efforts to further increase
their political and economic domination
of the region will continue to escalate.
This falls within the US cold war policy
and the escalation of the arms race
which can only increase world tension
and threatens world peace and prog-
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