New threat in Lebanon
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Labour Weekly] apply only HOURS after Lebanese Phalas slanders against the angist leader Bashir Gemayel Left. was killed by a bomb, Israeli planes were screaming over West Beirut and gunfire was crackling.
Whoever planted the bomb (as we go to press, no-one has claimed it), the Israelis and the right-wing Lebanese Christian militias will use it as a signal to redouble the onslaught on the Muslim communities and on the Palestinians who remain in Lebanon.
Already thousands face disease and death in the prison camps established by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon (see report from Haifa, page 5).
What both Israel and the right-wing Christians want is a Lebanon 'stabilised' by the expulsion of the Palestinians, the crushing of the Lebanese Left, and sectarian ChristianMaronite rule.
The recent moves by Reagan to push Israel into policies more in line with US