SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Israel: the monolith cracks

Socialist Action No. 178, March 1988 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 402 words

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within the centrifugal forces opportunities for antiunder increasing strain as the uprising continues and петА101! condemnation rises.

For the Likud the uprising presents an opportunity further to the right. They defence of, 1 CE Zionist expropriation the occupied territories propriated nearly 40 per cent of the * land in the territories occupied 1967. Continued support for apartheid policies, and castine about for methods of 'encouraging' a transfer of more Palestinians into neighbouring the cornerstones of the response to le uprising For the Labour Party the uprisings incentive to pursue more vigorously reaching an understanding with aims contain the Palestinians by turning the West Bank and Gaza into bantustans policed either by Jordan with the Israeli state. This Phe obiectives set by objectives for the PLO except that he sees himself, rather than tbe Zionists, administering the liberated' territories with Jordan.

The Communist Party, • and the Democratic Front peace The uprisings took it by initially the calling the state in with the CORINNY truggle through local although nationally the which left with various •Palestinian currents, Palestinians withdrawing the lack o overof Israelis These divergences generally. Peace Now, a Jewish-only group allied to the Labour Party, sprang up in opposition to the war in Lebanon. At that time it was able • MODISI 400,000 people the streets to demandi return of the Zionist troops.

However because could not break out of the Zionist straitjacket, it has been almost paralysed by the present uprising na failed call withdrawal of troops from the occupied territories -a demand which has far more serious implications for the Israeli state than withdrawal from Lebanon.

Several weeks into the Hunde demonstrations. But the slogans raised were for a soluțion' long the lines of a joint dan over the occupied territories, proposed by the Labour Party.

Another organisation sprang response to the Lebanes Yesh Gvul (Enough' or "There is a Frontier is a movemen of reserve soliders which moved further than Peace Now. Even before the uprising there was developing Yesh Gul about refusin tle territories.

The uprising gave a strong impetus to those opposed to serving in the occupied helped to regenerate the appeal. organised of several hundred people at roadblock on the border of the Israeli state and the Gaza Strip. The demonstration was in opposition to the • being committed in the occupiec territories called

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and the West Bank Socialist Action March 1988

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