Actor. TARIQ ALI reports.
It was Jerusalem all over since 1948. again. The dramatic entry, the handstakes, the warai enn races. the cuphoric jokes, the warld press, the servile and sycophantic response of Callaghan. Owen, et al.
Carter was beaming as he thought of the likelibood that his popularity (at an all time low) might increase somewhat. summie Sadat lesi Just after Jerusalem lost his then Foreign Minister. After Camp David the present Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Kamal, resigned in protest against the agreements.
The sertlements amount to a clear victory for Begin and the Zionist state.
SETTLERS The Western press is naturally presenting it as a dillicult decision for Isracl. They will have to forcibly remove the nitra-Zionist settlers from parts of the West Hank, cle In reality the israelis have got what they were demanding the Jerusalem summit. Sadat has accepted the idea or a separate peace with Isract In so doing he has put the intereste of the Egyptian ruling class and state before those of tae nrap wond as a wacke, nol to mention tose who are still sutiering the consequences of the victories of Zionism ever | THE AMERICAN extravaganza •Meeting at Camp David' has swept a number of Oscar awards, the highest honours awarded by the entertainment industry, Carter was nominated as Best Director, Begin as Best Actor, and Sadat as Best Supporting For the settlements amouet patrica mixturs or col at Ism and paternalism as far a LL aa arc concre! "Scif-government" for bears under Isracli supervision is a classic ploy culled from the textbooks of British imperialLEn.
PALESTINIANS The very fact that the Palestinians were not even consulted by hose who claim o speak 10 their behalf tells us a lot more tao tuc vo bree bacasocu u the propaganda apparatus of Washington, Tel Aviv, and Sadat's main aim was secure hisposition at borne. His prestige was at a low ebb and lc had been considerably wakeled by the debacle of the JerusaNow he has accepted what he TULLINEL MAOICMERH Then he said that his purpose WAS HOE OLCHE UIE SCOd u agreemenr between Eppr and Israe!'.
MASSES He would therefore be foolish to imagine that the Egsptian masses will receive the settle BIcE warn joy, Tegaraiess Dl mH the Accrican aid which he has no doube been promised.
Begin will present the settle ments as a victory for Zionist diplomacy: a separate agresment, a pupper administration on the Welt Rank and Earnlian recognition of the Zionist stare and its frontiers as permancht Of course the extreme right will 1977.
pledged not to occupy expansionism for country WEH and not-so-past complain that he has petaci.
NO SOLUTION the Arab states Khalid TEnei nwa Momcia L.eamingthe efforts SUPPORTSE increased their conrades tertiory and to control Zionist the time being. but the bulk of the support him positions. might be hoisted on lis out For the Palestinian Arab masses the situgele will go on. Speakers: But the Camp David settlement will compel them, gainst their will, to intervene policcally in LD LEVENHE organisatiols which are not "neatral" on the domestic or the international policy of Sadat or Hussein or Assad.
Gadali or Boumedienne.
The Camp David settlement: wil, ut our opition, not solve the central issue posed after the thc demand of the Palestinians for (CARI] With these kind of sceps the sale of books, badges, and being taken, it is not surprising thal two contributions to the lund drive this week come from paper's Cardiff sent in 13.50 and from Bath came 142.58 from £1734.65 -EO ZO September.
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