rulers. Sadat, in particular, now enjoys a prestige greater even than that of Nasser at the height of his glory. The task of the revolutionary forces in the Arab world must therefore be to combat relentlessly the illusions generated by the Arab offensive, pointing out the real objectives of the Arab ruling class-to come to terms with Zionisen and imperialism-and the necessity for the arming of the masses and the overthrow of the military-bureaucratic Arab regimes in preparation for a long drawn-out revolutionary war.
NO TO THE CEASEFIRE!
AGAINST SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242! FOR A REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE AGAINST ZIONISM AND IMPERIALISM!
ALAN ADLER ibs were no push-over this time solidation anti-Zionist Israeli revolutionary group. By their verdict, the judges asserted that to take part in this struggle an israci 1s a crime, in the same way as is possession of any text put out by the Palestinians or published in any hostile Arab country (ten years in prison under the law!)
Moreover, the court stated quite clearly at the Bre of the trial that any struggle for a democratic Jewish-Arab State and against national lenges the sovcreignty of the State. The racist judges in the Southern States in the 19th Century, the courts in South Africa would have been proud of such a statement! For only a tacist court, for whom discrimination is enshrined in the law; could declare: In overthrowing the regime, and in setting up a Jewish-Arab regime, in the very words of the accused, this Jewish State in Palestine, Israe], would cease to exist. That is why we reject the arguments of the defence solicitor. The defendant in question, Hassan Abjarrich, condemned for his opinions without any concrete evidence, lies rotting in prison today. RACIST STATE The Arab minority has no rights in Israel. Yet it. makes up one third of the population of the territories under Israeli control, The expansionist tendencios of Zionism, highlighted by the present war which poses the question of the occupied territories, can only reinforce this facel of Iszael capitalism. In Israel the displace. ment of Arabs continues, The growth of the Palestinian population (400,000 within the 1948 borders, including Arab Jerusalem; 1.4 million with the annexation of Jordan's West Bank) is a problem for the Zionist leaders. Esther they can annex the maxunun, amount of land with the minimum number of inhabiand foremost with Israel:
tion of returning them;
Palestinians;
succeeded in provoking the Arab ruling classes. making. tants; or they can take the lot, which politically would mean a kind of apartheid.
This is the position defended by Dayan. This is what seemed to be developing before the outbreak of hostilities, since this summer the different currents in the Labour Party (which is in power, the sister organisation of our own Labour Party!) adopted a platform tending in this direction. It would mean ratifying the occupation or the occupied territories, of promoting investment in them, and of intensifying the exploitation of the Palestinian workor while not alowing them even a serblance of political rights. Such a plan can only be described as apartheid.
In Le Monde Diplomatique, V. Cygielman writes: The process of Arabisation of all heavy and unskilled labour proceeded apace between 1968 and 1973, with nearly 70,000 Palestinian workers from the occupied territories coming gradually on to the labour market. Arab labour, more obedient, more disciplined, above ail because it does not have the same facilities to fight for its rights, is little by little ousting the mass of unskilled Jewish workers in the factorEes, in the restaurants, and even in the fields. A small number of the supplanted Jewish workers have succeeded in becoming supervisors, fornien, and sometimes even contractors of Arab Jabour. The majority have become a lumpen proletariat, potential or real loafers, most of whom do not eyen want to get hack their old Jobs, which they now consider "degrading' because they are done by Arabs."
VICTIMS OF ZIONISM The development lies at the heart of the Zionist project. The Jewish population of Israel is the victim of the Zionist undertaking. the instrument of imperialism. No Isracli military victory can provide a way out of this dead end situation. Thie racist and expansionist character of the Israeli State is the product of Is very creabon. Once more a war has broken cut between Israel and the Arab countries, It matters little who fired the first shot, which army was the first to cross the ceasefire lines, For us the responsibility for this war, as for the others which preceded it, rests first - it is israel which has conquered territories and has no inten- it is Israel which has plundered, evicted and oppressed the Palestinian Arab people, and which must expect the Arab masses to do everything possible to restore the rights of the itself be free'. — it is Israel which has undertaken the role of imperialist policeman in the area, and whose swashbuckling policies have during the war.
Those who have plundered the Palestinians and thrown them off their lands, those who have used napalm bombs on Abou Zabel, Hatsabie and dozens of other areas, those who have carried out massacres at Dir-Yasain and Kfar-Kassem, those who every day have launched incursions into Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, those whose criminal provocations even stretch everseas, those who have killed in cold blood Gassan Kanefani, Abou Youssef, Hamchari and dozens of other Palestinian leaders, those who recently killed more than 100 Israelf people in the shot-down Libyan airliner-they have no right to talk about aggrossion, for they themselves are the aggressors. This war is not ours... For as long as the rights of the Palestinians are not restored, for as long as the Zionist State exists, Israel must know that the Arab masses will not give up but will go on fighting; for as Jong as Israel serves the interests of imperialism in the area and does everything to block the revolutionary Arab movement, she must know thet war is inevitable and that it is of her own Arab reaction.
Our forces are very limited, and we cannot influence the course of the war, But it is at least within our means to say clearly to the working class in Israel and in the Arab East that this war is not ours, that we hold Zionism responsible for every drop of blood, Jewish or Arab, shed in this area, and that our enemies are not the Arab masses who wish to recover the lands conquered by Israel and restore the rights of the Marxisti The crisis exists in the very midst of the Jewish population of Israel. The divisions are opening up: 15% of Israclis soe their taxes endlessly rising and emigrate every year, 20% struggie in vain agrinst rising prices; between 1970 and 1972 the share of labour in the national income fell from 80.5% to 74%, while that of capital grew from 19,5% lo 261; some are becoming richer and richer while others are growing poorer and poorer, The renewed strikes by workers, as well us the birth of the "Black Panther" movement among the least privileged community of Oriental Jews, are a further illustration of this internal crisis in Isracli society. Palestiniens, but they are our own ruling classes and the We know already what this war witl cost the workers of Israel Above all in human lives: there is no doubt that in this war hundreds have fallen and will yet fall. Once again the security