THE TREACHERY
OF CAMP DAVID

Four hundred and fifty delegates from 140 coun-
tries gathered in Damascus, Syria, June 22-25 in an
International Conference for Solidarity with Syria
and Palestine, called by the World Peace Council.
The delegate from the Canadian Peace Congress was
Torontonian Ellen Lipsius who wrote up the results
of the meeting in a comprehensive report.

In light of Egyptian president Sadat’s visits to
London and Washington and the dangerous situa-
tion in the Middle East we are presenting some of the
conference’s findings on the Camp David accords,
their aims and why they have failed.

* * *

The recent missile crisis in Lebanon should be
seen in the context of the (1979) Camp David Ac-
cords. The aim of these accords signed between
Egypt, the USA and Israel, have been bolder than
their results in the sense that their goal was to bring
the whole Middle East area under the umbrella of
U.S. hegemony and, at the same time, to liquidate
the Palestinian people and all liberation move-
ments in the region .

The accords sought to maintain the results of the
1967 Israeli aggression and to curb every future
progressive liberation movement which might
arise. They aimed at overthrowing any anti-
imperialist, anti-zionist regime in existence now or
in the future, in order to consolidate their domina-
tion of the area and their control of oil resources.

The Camp David agreements have failed in their
aim because of the united stand of the Arab people
as was seen at the Arab Summit Conference held in
Tunisia this year. There the pro-Sadat Egyptian
representatives were further isolated by being dep-
rived of their membership in this organization as
well as in the Arab People’s Conference. These
efforts led to Egypt’s suspension from the Islamic
Conference.

The ‘‘Arab Steadfastness and Confrontation
Countries” such as Syria, South Democratic Ye-
men, Libya, and the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation (PLO) played a fundamental role in counter-
acting the accords and isolating their advocates.
They exposed U.S. plans and warned the Arab
people of the dangers resulting from the attempts of
the U.S. and Israel to implement these plans.

The Arab people understand full well that the
provocations and attempts at destabilization which
are continuously being directed’ specifically at the

countries of South Yemen, Libya, and at the PLO
are not coincidental.

‘The Camp David Accords have not succeeded
in removing the Egyptian people from the ‘Arab
trench’; they have only removed the rufer of Egypt
from that trench”’, Syrian president Assad told the
conference.

He said that Sadat had promised his people the
accords would lead to peace, improvements in liv-
ing standards and extensions of democratic rights.

But the opposite happened: military spending
increased, living standards dropped, civil liberties
were destroyed by repressive laws. Egypt’s
economy is becoming subservient to the West.

The army is now used as a regional police force
and its camps turned into receiving centres for the
U.S. Rapid Deployment Force’...

x * x

For the Palestinians the accords took the form of
the ‘‘autonomy plan’’ for the West Bank and Gaza
strip — in fact the legalization of Israel’s occupa-

‘tion. The accords aim at eliminating the Palestinian

people who have been uprooted, forced out of their
homeland and deprived of their democratic and
political rights.

The ‘‘autonomy plan”’ has been rejected by the

Palestinian people who -have stepped up their

struggle under the leadership of the PLO.

In Lebanon the agreements take the form of
almost daily Israeli aggression against Lebanese
cities, villages and Palestinian refugee camps. This

_ is accompanied by a continuing war led by the

Israeli-backed fascist Falangists who want to
achieve the partition of Lebanon and form a new
link in the Camp David chain.

“The core of the problem in this region,”’ Presi-
dent Assad said, ‘*is that the whole Arab nation and
its people are in one trench, while the United

_ States, world zionism and their base, Israel, are in

the opposite trench.”’

' The U.S. during Secretary of State Haig’s recent
visit to the region, is trying to build a strategic
alliance to confront an imaginary danger of 2
‘*Soviet threat’’ and the basis of this alliance is seen
to be Israel and Egypt, the Syrian president said.

‘Zionism wants to establish a Greater Israel
from the Nile to the Euphrates. This is their doc-.
trine and strategic goal...”

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUG. 14, 1981—Page 6

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS

By TOM MORRIS

Killers. But
they’re ‘our’ killers

Can you imagine what hell
would be raised if five armed
men were captured by the FBI,
having arrived from, Cuba,
armed with Soviet Weapons
with the mission of assassinat-
ing Ronald Reagan?

And how the. crescendo
would grow if an exile group,
working in Cuba against the
U.S. government publicly
claimed responsibility for the
commando raid?

Well, five ex-Cubans, mem-
bers of the terrorist Alpha-66,
were caught July 5 after land-
ing in Cuba on a mission to kill
Fidel Castro. They carried
U.S. weapons; they’d been
trained in camps in Florida.

International terrorism?
Pranks? ;

Alpha-66 has been function-
ing under the benign gaze of
U.S. authorities for 20 years. It
contains some of the worst
scum to leave Cuba.

The killer group has claimed
credit for several murders of
Cuban diplomatic personnel in
Canada and the U.S.; it has
rocketted Cuban property in
these countries.

Along with other para-mili-
tary groups, it trains openly in
Florida gathering such types as
former Somoza guardsmen.
Their members-were involved
in the murder of Chilean pat-
riot Orlando Letelier in Wash-
ington in 1976. They were re-
sponsible for the bombing of a
Cubana airliner which killed 73

ple.

Killers and thieves they are.
But obviously they have that
golden quality which endears
them to Washington — they’re
anti-communist.

The fox in
the chicken coop

The mood of orchestrated
optimism coming from the
Mexico meeting of foreign
ministers for the planned

- north-south summit reflects

more hype than substance.
U.S. Secretary of State Haig
called it ‘‘an extremely au-
spicious and promising start’’.
He then went on to link global
economic development with
the Reagan economic program
(less for social needs, more for
weapons). Reporters were left
to speculate if the hunger, pov-
erty and misery in the develop-
ing world will be overcome by
eating 105-millimetre shells.
While Haig (and Canada’s
echo, Mark MacGuigan) were
saying these nice things,
another U.S. spokesman was
talking to Canadians at the an-
nual Couchiching conference.
Kenneth Adelman, the new
U.S. deputy ambassador to the
United Nations had a different
message for Third World na-
tions. He said the U.S. will cut
back its foreign aid. And he
said Washington will begin to

ignore international codes of »

conduct in pursuit of its own
interests.

Adelman warmed up to the
tough guy act. ‘‘The U.S. is
not too worried about standing
alone’’ on Law of the Sea is-
sues, and World Health Or-
ganization codes affecting the
operations of U.S. copora-
tions.

Moreover, Adelman began
waxing philosophical and told
the astounded audience that
societies were’ meant to be dif-
ferent and notions of economic
equality are false. ‘‘People are
born different ...’’ he said.

He argued that Third World
people are accustomed to pov-
erty (he stopped short of say-
ing they enjoy it), and that
Americans are more bothered
by this poverty than Africans
or Asians themselves are.

The fact, of course, is that
U.S. interests in the Third
World lie in control of the vast
human and economic re-
sources they offer. And this
goal is accented by the not-so-
subtle racism of people like
Kenneth Adelman.

area be eit

Therefore, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, ee es ot kako

Beco pee hee