Anti-Begin, anti-Arab
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LAST week the Guardian had a leader headlined "The impact of General Sharon"
while below it James Cameron's column spoke of Begin as "the embittered mini-fuehrer of the 1980s"
Similar articles abound in the British press. The theme FIGHT THE TORIES, NOT THE SOCIALISTS!
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Out soon. 40 pages: single copies 70p plus 20p p&p, 5 copies £3.50 post free. Orders: WSL, PO Box 135, London N1 ODD. is that Begin and Sharon are doing what "Labour" Zionists would never dream of doing. Cameron even talks of how shocked Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, would have been.
SDP (ex-Labour) MP Neville Sandelson put it more crudely. Having resigned from the SDP Friends of Israel, bitterly condemning the blitzkrieg on Beirut he was asked by an interviewer to explain how Israel could do such things. The problem, Sandelson replied, is that Israel's (Jewish) population has changed.
A lot of the recent immigrants - Oriental Jews -"are scarcely different from the Arab peoples around them". • And this is the section of the Jewish population that most strongly supports Begin.
Milton Viorst in the Guardian on August 5 puts a similar line: a protest against Begin's anti-Arab blitzkrieg which itself is coloured by anti-Arab racism.
Yet it was under Gurion that Israel participated in the Suez 'invasion. Another "Labour" Zionist, Golda Meir, denied the very existence of the Palestinians. "Palestinians? What Palestinians?" she asked in reply to a question about the fate of the Palestinian people.
Later, "Labour Zionist" governments occupied the West Bank and began the settlement policy, extending onto that territory the policy of continual robbery of Arab land by the Zionist state.
Of course, there are different trends within Zionism. The Israeli "Labour" Party's policy is far more supinely pro-Us than Begin's.
What is happening in Lebanon now, however, is fundamentaliy the logica outcome of the establishment of the Zionist state. And the Guardian, after all was the chief mouthpiece of Chaim Weizman, Israel's first President, while he worked and lived in Manchester.
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