in Western Europe, particularly acute with regard to foreign workers (attempts to divide the working class in addition to vestiges of colonialism). To combat racism effectively means to smash the social structures which give rise to it (e.g. In Cuba the fullest cultural and religious liberty exists for the Jewish community in addition to the complete disappearance of the former racial discrimination against the Black people).
in Palestine for the purpose of establishing there a mono-ethnic Jewish State to the detriment of the indigenous Palestinian population. In practice, Zionism meant the expulsion or the putting to flight of the majority of the Palestinian people, reduced to refugee status. This policy still continues today (expulsions and encouragements to leave meted out to the West Bank population in June 1967) as is shown by the following quote from ossible solution consists in creating on alestine, without Arabs. and there is no othe vay except to transfer all the Arabs to the sighbouring countries, to remove them all from here. Not a single village, not a single tribe should be left, and the transfers should be directed towards Syria and Iraq. " The struggle gainst the structures and policies of Israel is therefore an anti-colonialist struggle aiming to restore the national rights of the Palestinians in their homeland 3. Every colonialium is before everything else racism. The struggle against Zionist colonialism is therefore the logical corollary of the struggle against anti-Semitism. That is what the numerous militants of Jewish origin who, inside or outside Israel, and prompted either by revolutionary convictions or quite simply by humanitarian or reliçious sentiments, refuse to be accomplices of the Zionist venture and are solidariting themselves with the oppressed Palestinian people's fight for national emancipation, have come to understand. Militants from Matspen -a leftist, anti-Zionist organisation in Israel have marched through the streets chanting "We are all Palestinian Arabi. About a hundred intellectuals signed a manifesto last year in which one could read: "Any people which oppresses another necessarily loses its own liberty, Jewish citizen! Remember the courageous gentiles who stood at our side at the time of our distress. Will you stand aside, will you keep silent before the misfortune which has struck the fraternal Arab people?! 4. Zionism and the state of Israel have nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Judaism in general. Besides, orthodox Jewry, particularly it Palestinian component, has for a long time been fiercely hostile to Zionism, as is the Jerusalem "Naturil Karta" movement to this very day. It is deeply regrettable that large numbers of Jewish communal leaders, both spiritual and secular, agree to sanction with their moral authority Israel's racist and colonialist policies, thus prostituting the faith of Moses to imperialism. 5. Not only does lirael oppress the Palestinian Arabs but, moreover, it in no way contributes of all, anti-Semitism has rething to do with the existence or non-existence of a Jewish state (just as the existence of a powerful People's China is not enough to protect the Chinese community in Indonesia from persecution by local reaction). But there is more to come: by deceptively posing as the representatives of world Jewry - while six-sevenths of the Jewish people live outside Israel-and by spreading among international public opinion the thesis of the unconditional solidarity of Jews the world over with Israel, the Zionist leaders in fact encourage anti-Semitism. This is especially true of the Arab countries where each Israeli military victory has given the reactionary foroes an opportunity to lay the blame at the feet of the indigenous Jewish communities, which are thus compromised in spite of themselves by the Hebrew state's imperialist policy.
6. Israel was not born of the Hitlerite persecutions. The bases of the Zionist colonisation of Palestine were cast during tbe Jast quarter of the 19th century (the first wave in spite of their categorical opposition to the of immigrants landing in 1882). In any case, Palestine would never have been able to welcome the six million Jews exterinated by the Nazi regime. Moreover, the Palestinian thanks to its presence in the Holy Land, bat-fo the same way as Amarican and British Toriorfor the Zionist chiefs, they bave never hesitated to treat with anti-Semitic leaders in order to attain their objectives (Herzi's discussions with Von Plehve, Tsarist Russia's pogeon organier: Jabotinsky's collaboration with Pedioura, the hangman of the Jews; the contacts between "revisionist" Zionists and Mussolini and Pilsudsky, the "Haavara" agreements between. the Zionist organisation and the Third Reich for the evacuation of German-Jewish property). 7. It is equally necessary to refute the grotesque myth of the Jews' alleged historical ghts in Palestine. Already, previous to th toman conquest of Judea (70 AD) thre quarters of the Jewish population were living outside Palestine. As for the indigenous Jewish commututy, it was gradually absorbed by the neighbouring peoples such as the Philistines, the Phoenicians and other small tribes of the Ancient East, in the course of the following centuries, which means that in actual fact the Palestinians of today are, paradoxically, to a certain extent (a great deal of cross breeding with other communities has taken place) the descendants of the the Ancient Hebrews Besides, if the Jaws have rights over Palestine why shouldn't the Arabs have rights over Spain or Sicily, formerly integral parts of the Islamic Empire? 8. The resistance of the Palestinians to colonisation (including that of the Levantine Jews who, moreover, took part in the SyrianPalestinian Congress of 1919) asserted itself right from the beginning of the Zionist projects especially after 1908. It found expression in the harassment of Jewish colonies by the fellahin. who had been driven out of their lands, and the 1920-21 riots which were, besides, part of the general ringer the Arab world (Syria, Iraq, Egypt) against Franco-British domination, revealed itself again In the 1929 disturbances and, above all, throughout the "30s in the form of strikes and street demonstrations against the Zionist policy of Great Britain. It reached its highest point in 1936-39-a six-month general strike followed by a widespread country revolt -crushed in blood by British forces, strongly aided by the Zionist militias (cf. Prof. Y. Bauer in New Outlook: The Arab revolt of the yoars 1956-39 was the last attempt on the part of the Arab people of Palestine to forcibly prevent th Jews from entering the country... The conditions for the 1948 victory were created during the Arab revolt.") Not less than the passing of one generation was necessary for the Palestinian people to recover from this terrible bloodbath (the dead could be counted in thousands). That is why Palestinian opposition on the morrow of the Second World Har romained sporadic and became widespread only in and after 1955. 9. If the Zionist movement succeeded in taking root in Palestine, it was thanks to the support, to begin with, of the Ottoman authorities and then, of the British (Balfour Declaration, 1917) and, finally, of the Americans, since 1947 (with, for some time, the backing of the Soviet Union). The Israeli community therefore took form in the wake of a colonial process which had forcibly displaced the indigenous population: "Without steel helmets and gunfire, we would be unable to plant one tree or build one house"-Moshe Dayan. But one cannot hold the present-day Jewish inhabitants of the state of israel responsible for the crimes of theit Zionist leaders or to seek to penalise them on that account. The destruction of the colonial structures of the Zionist state does not mean either expulsion or oppression for th o the disappearance of anti-Jewish racism First Tracli Jews who, in the Palestine of tomorrow which one must hope to see reborn within the framework of the reunification of the Arab world, hitherto Balkanised by the colonial powers, ought to be able to freely determine their national destiny in fraternal alliance with the Arabs, in general, and particularly with the Palestinian revolutionary forces. 10. Thare is no Israeli miracle! Having profited for many years by the support of British colonialism, the Zionist leaders turned their crushing technical and military superiority to account in order to force a division of Palestine. of which they only constituted a third of the population (partition plan adopted by UN, 29th November 1947). Well before the proclamation of the state of Isral (15th May 1948), the Zionist armed forces already occupied a large part of the territory which th IN had allotted to the Palestinian Arab (occupation of Tiberias, Beisan, Safed, Acro and Jafta on and after April 13th). It should be added in passing that the UN resolution was taken without consulting the Palestinians and partition of the country. And if Iscael bas managed to keep going since then, it is thanks to an influx of foraign capital equivalent in 1968 to 10% of the aggregate foreign aid Jewish community was not saved from genocide granted to all under developed countries, that is to say, in proportion to the number of its inhabitant in 1969. twenty times more than
ny other "thind world" state. One of the bjectives of this permanent reinflation of the West's Middle Eastern shop-window is to try and spooth over the contradictions setting against each other the social classes and the unfavoured Sephardi Jews, on the one hand, and the relatively privileged Ashkenan Jews (of western origin) on the other, within Israel 11. Irael is no "peaceable little state", Starting from 1947 and 1948, the terrorist raids of its armed forces drove the Palestinian population from its to ind villages. it has never ceased to oppose by sce the return of the refugees uprooted from theie bombes, not besitating to tuitiply the number of bloody "punitive Tions against neigh bouring countries in order to compel the Arab regimes, not without success, to themselves assume the tole of "policing" the refugees. Furthermore, in 1956, it participated in the Franco-British colonial expedition against Egypt so as to punish Nas for nationalising the Suez Canal. asserting on sat occasion its expansionist 1967, it succe d in com that it was waging a de know today that oyment of the Earpties is Sina eve of the war was of a (Levt Estkol), that Nasser was "bluffin and had no intention of attacking tarael (General Rabin, Le Monde) and that Generals Dayan and Yaarir deliberately cpanised a campaign of intoxication in orde o force the cabinet to declare war and withou doubt aho to accept a so-called "National Unity" coalition with the extreme right.
12. The opposition of the Arab masses to the Zionist state -a pressure which reverberates on accentuated are tell a teedare of the lea Is itself as the before the birth of the 2lonie up of denominational and ethnic rivalries in the region.
13. Israel is not fighting alone. It is copiously propped up with arms, stocks and money the nerve of war! -by the US, West Germany. Britain and France (the alleged French embargo did not prevent de Gaulle from authoning the firm Turbomeca to build a factory for the construction of pot planes in Israel). Even if at times the Great Powers express their ill humour with regard to certain of Israel's initiatives which threaten to jeopardise the totality of their interests in the region (by undermining "stability") they stand by the Zionist structures of the Jewish state.
14. Israel is not a small, weak and defenceless bouritry. It is on the contrary the foremost military power in the area, capable of lining up in periods of total mobilisation as many soldiers as the three leading adjacent countries. possesing more "tank men" and pilots than all the Arab countries togethor, endowed with a mighty atronnutics industry (Israel Aircraft Industries employ 8,000 wage-eamers) and capable of manufacturing nuclear weapons (the Dimona reactor). Its military superiority over its nelgh bours is as the three Israell-Arab wars have shown, literally crushing.
15. Since 1967, Israel has been a colonial power in the full sense of the tem through its occupation of the West Bank, the Gara Strip. the Golan Heights and the Sinal peninsula. The struggle of the civilian populations in the occupied territories is a struggle, and a normal and rightful one, against foreign invaders who, moreover, are exploiting the manpower and economy and a political administration intonded to favour the Israeli economy and a political administration which brutally assertion (dispersal with tanks of school children's demonstrations in Nablus, firing on crowds of women outside concentration camps for suspects in Gaza, etc...). The following one another reveal that this international big business.
16. Israel in not a "socialist country: on the sapport in the Middle Eat (et. Rabins contrary, it is ca talism's most steadfast Cuban Day of Solids statement on the Synan regime being the epemy 6-13 Sept. 1967) Its economy is dominated by the big capitalist groups and 10% of Traelis arrogate to themselves a portion of the national revenat equal to that of the 50% who form the base of the social pyramid The kibbutzim collectivist colonies which account for only 3% of the population ane not the communist oases depicted by a simplistic the banking sector (for credit), their economy rests on the exploitation of paid labcar and often on Arab manpower, a tendency whith has become more marked since 1967. These cultivating collectives play a key cole in the defence and occupation of the conquered territories, which is illustrated by the dozens of kibbutzim planted in the occupled tereitories strugcle for a common futare in a reunified (under military supervision)
Neither is the "Histadrut trade unia the working ciass success that it is usually described at Organised in the "20s to fight against the employment of Arab labour, it is a rationalist of the workers into the cop talist systam. Furthermore, it is the biggest employer in the country. The "Histadrut" struggles relentlesaly against all forms of autonomous organisation on the part of the working class and all the important strikes have been organised against it and have soan themselves sabotaged, it supports the planned anti-strike legislation and regularly concludes agreements for keeping down the wages with the bosies 17. Israel is not a democratic state: it is a racist (and clerical) state hased on the expulsion of the native population, the institutiona sation of the right to "return" of every Jew (while this is refused to the Palestinian refugees) and the oppression of the Arab minority which remained in the country. The Arabs are subjected to an exceptional colonial law (the Defence Emergency Regulations of 1945, inherited from the Britih colonial power and reinforced since, which permits the maltary authorities to expel or confine any citizen, and to resort to administrative imprisonment and confiscation of property: and the proconscs of the israeli army do not deny themselves these (without counting the illegal dynamitings of "suspects' houses'", the torturos, otc...). When these colonial rulings were applied to the Palestinian Jews, on the morrow of the Second World War, Shapira, Israel's present-day Minister of Justice, observed that "even in Nazi Germany there were no laws of thiskind?
EDITORIAL BOARD: Tarig Ali. Rabin Bibekbum, Chenhame Chimatengwende, Perer Cowant. Teresi Hayler, Dive Koodad, Mark-Theiese Ligougne, Brinze Magan, Noil Middleten, Flucky Traul, Joha Weal DESIGN Divid Will Published by Relocress i, al for The Rad Male. 182 Pendunnile Roos. London NS. 01-837 6954. 01-278 2616.
Printed by The Printpo Press Let. 182 Personile Road, London N3. 07-337 9957 18. Israel does not want "peace? except If ot means by that the recognition of its co of the expultion of the Palestinians and of its redist and colonialist system, In other words this "peace" is identical with the "pacification which all oppressors snek after It has been nothing to do with pacifism and springs from a fait acoompli" policy.
type of propaganda. Natrowly dependeat on the 19. Zionism and the structures of the state of Isras offer no fiture to the Jewish population of lirael expept art of war. Finding a solution for the Hebrew speaking inhabitants of Palestine, who have the richt to national selfdetermication, means securing their integrati into ar Tirat world rid of the exploitation of man by man. It is ocly by blending with thi sociallet Middle East. freed froms the effects of imperialist domination, that tao lunati comnunity, lice all the Middle Fast's non-Ara minorities (Kurds, South Sudanese, eto...) will be abie to establish a fraternal alliance with the organisation, aiming at the complate integration Arab peoples, stacting with the Palestinians wh are hencefarth offering it co-existence it a ti-national secular and democratic state.
20. The Palestinian ouse is thus that of a just anti colonialist struggle, a part and parcel of th great struggle of tho Arab world against Imperialism and of the world-wide struggle mainst imperialism, headed by the United States. The Palestinian awakening means that one more battallon of the down-trodden of th earth is on its fact, arms in hand, and roady to forge for itself the goal of "Free Man". We are in fuil solidarity with this straggle for it herald a new dawn for the Arab world of which it is at presons, the variard, and thus, all things considered, part of the grest cause for the emancipatin of all mankind.
21. The dynamic of the Palestinian revolution is calling into question all reactionary. bourgeois and pseudo progretsive structures in be Widdie East. It throotans all the anti po ecimes fhence the moltiple atrempts to lim and even to suppress it). By its very logic, it relentlassiy unmascs the collusion of the foro in power with Imperialism, thus calling into question not only the colonialist structures of Israel but also those of the Arab world. Moreover, oven now a Marxis: wing of the Palestinian moverent is openly declaring its desire so carry this struggle through to the en that is to say, to Socialist Revolution. Nathan Weinstock "WE RECOGNISE OUR ULD FRIEND OUR OLD MOLE, WHO KNOWS SO WELL HOW TO WORK UNDERGROU SUDDENLY TO APPEAR:
THE REVOLUTION."-MARX