of an "independent state' on the West Bank of the Jordan river. But although the petit-bourgeois leaderships of the Palestinian movement may be willing to accept such a "Bantustan" arrangement, there is no guarantee that it will be tolerated by the refugee camp populations. Meanwhile, Sadat's position at home is now more secure than ever before; in the eyes of the masses, the credit for the relative success of the Arab armies & due above all to their which Zionism gives to the Jews will prove to be only an illusion. Instead of security, Zionism has prepared for the Jews a trap of continuous war, a war of 1,000 years as Then there is the standard of living: already today we are hearing calls for production and for a special effort to meet the demands of the war. The Histadrut (central trade union) has pompously declared that now is not the time for the workers to struggle in defence of their standard of living It is in this way that the Israeli workers will learn that their real Interests, their class interests, are in contradiction with and opposed to the so-called national interest, which is in fact the interest of the Israeli bourgeoisie and of imperialism. And finally there is the loss of freedoms: in a time of crisis, the people must be united', say all the Zionists, both left-wing and right-wing. Such a unity allows the authorities to strike new blows against the freedoms which still exist for the Jewish population in Israel: new anti-strike laws, new restrictions on the freedom of the press, on organisation, atc. In this way the Jewish working class will learn through its own experience that, a people which oppressus another can never This is what our comrades are explaining and will continue to explain to the israeli workers, even during the war, especially We leave it to our comrades in the Arab countries to settle accounts with their own ruling classes, and expose their inadequacy in the struggle against Zionism before the eyes of the Arab masses. We da not doubt that they will do so. And to our revolutionary comrades throughout the world we say: do not fall victim to the propaganda of the allies of Zionism in your country, do not ellow them to support the Israeli war effort: not a penny, not a man, not a gun for But we pledge ourselves before the working class of the entire world to use this war to expose before the Jewish masses the deadly trap which Zionism represents for them, and the permanent war which it represents, It is in this way that we can break Jewish workers from Zionism and enable them to link up with the revolutionary war of the Arab masses against imperialism, Zionism, and * Down with Zionism, imperialism and Arab reaction! * Long live the socialist revolution in the Arab East! * Long live proletarian internationalism!
Jerusalemn, 7 October 1973 Political Bureau of the srael Socialist Organ sation Matzpan This, in all its cynical reality, is the true face of Zionism, Not the emancipation of the Jewish people, not the achievement of sell-dotermination for the Israeli masses, but the institutionaLisation of Israeli domination over the Arsha with a capiralist process of exploitation which is specitically colonialist in content. Are the Israelis free, in their super ghetto style Fort Chabrol? Are the Oriental Jews free, oppressed by discrimination? Are the Israeli workers free, under the whip of a greedy capitalist class assisted by a "workers" bureaucracy which serves up anti-working class measures? No!