The Background to the Middle East Crisis
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AFTER Grenada it was Lebanon's turn. The US military attack on Syrian positions in Lebanon early in December was the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam war. As an American administration official had put it, "After GreOr as Reagan himself had put it before the air strike: "The events in Grenada and Lebanon, though oceans apart, are closely related". Or on another occasion: "Can the United States... stand by and see the Middle East incorporated into the Soviet bloc?"
With the siting of Cruise missiles in Britain, the collapse of arms limitation talks and the escalation of the cold war, it is important for the labour movement and the peace movement to recognise the centrality of the Middle East crisis in a world situation increasingly teetering on the brink. The permanence of simmering war in the region is a It is a major arena in which local and superpower conflicts could grow over into nuclear holocaust.
CLIVE BRADLEY spent the second half of Egypt. Here he analyses the Middle East crisis Arab nationalist regimes which emerged after the foundaHe assess the class struggle in the Middle East and the state of the Arab working class movements now, arguing that the working class of the Middle East is the vital force nada, anything is possible". major threat to world peace.
forces which have generated it.
tion of the state of Israel in 1948.
for progress in the region. 1983 in