right to form such a state against Meir and Hussein.
However, we are opposed to the Palestinian State' idea for reasons of our own, even if the inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are themselves drawn towards it as a "lesser evil." Such a state will not solve the Palestinian problem: squeezed between the Zionist State of Israel and the pro-imperialist Hussein regime, it can only be a hostage state, a glorified Bantustan, independent only in name. Such a state will invitably find itself dominated by its powerful Israeli neighbour, which has already integrated the West Bank economy into its own to all intents and purposes. Moreover, it can only provide a left cover for the Arab ruling classes' horse-trading, eibellishing any eventual peace settlement and helping to blind the Palestinian and Arab masses to its reactionary nature.
The fact that the West Bank State plan has been endorsed by the leadership of the Palestinian resistance is a measure of that leadership's incorporation into the official Arab world. To present this ill-conceived historical abortion as a solution to the Palestinian problem is a tragic mockery of those thousands of men and women who have fought in the Palestinian resistance, and who have, however confusedly, opened the road to Seksan Praserkul. After October, he, together with Austrian police were called in on Monday for the second time in a week to eject Russian Jews from the Soviet consulate in Vienna. Neither incident recived more than a few lines in the press. Apparently headline treatment is reserved for Zionists demanding that Jews be allowed to emigrate to Israel, while this group has on the contrary been trying for two years to gain re-admission into the Soviet Union, after becoming aisnlusionec witn lite in srae!
The Soviet bureaucracy is refusing to re-admit them because it wants to use them as an example to all other would-be emigrants, Jewish and non-Jewish, of what can happen if you leave Russia and then decide to come back, It knows that there are thousands who want to leave, and, incapable of creating conditions in which people would not feel the neca to go eisewnere, It seeks to clamp down on emigration by bureaucratic fiat.
Nor are the Vienna refugees (who went on hunger strike earlier this year in support of their demand) of any interest to the Zionist Establishment. They have retused to contribute to the 'national renewal", and renegades and traitors cannot expect gratitude. Evidently everybody is Jewish, but some are more Jewish than others...
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