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sae legnced candidacy for the leader-
ality € Conservative Party a new dyna-
as entered the picture. That may

ae is the scion of the famous fa-
Making Twear manufacturers. They have
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a ae and have been termed by the
nto dai ribbed conservatives” or, as one
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tories.”

The “dynamic” quality of Stanfield’s leadership
campaign is not yet apparent unless we are apt
to see pictures of Stanfield and Diefenbaker stand-
ing in their underwaer with a hand lock on each
other like the old catalogue pictures.

While the other candidates for the leadership
of the tories are rambling about the country
making as sharp an impact on Canadians as a
rolling ball of porridge, Diefenbaker awaits in
the wings to hurl his lightning bolt at his way-
ward colleagues. Somewhere in it all there must
be some politicg unless the boys in the back-room
have given up cigars to smoke bananas.

Perhaps it is in this context that we should
watch the impact of E. C. Manning’s new book
which is supposed to call for a realignment of the
political Right in Canada. Manning is supposed

man government.

“The principal aim of the war
was to bring down the anti-
imperialist regimes in Egypt
and Syria, to sever the connec-
tions of the Arab countries with
the Soviet Union and other so-
cialist countries, and to protect
the concessions of the foreign
oil monopolies and the strategic
bases ‘of: the western colonial
powers in our region.” |

If this view is accepted, it be-
comes immediately apparent
that the common enemy of the
people of both the Middle East
and South East Asia is United
States imperialism. The strug-

‘gle for peace in both areas and

indeed throughout the world is
the struggle to curb imperialist
aggression and prevent it from
erupting into world nuclear war.

But not a few supporters of
the cause of peace will imme-
diately argue that the essential
issue in the Middle East is not
that of the role of U.S. imperial-
ism, but the preservation of
Israel threatened with destruc-
tion by the Arabs.

It is unfortunately true that
certain Arab leaders have called
for the destruction of Israel and
thus given rise to justifiable
fears on the part of the. Israeli
people.

The right of Israel to continue
to exist must be strongly affirm-
ed by all who stand for peace.
Among those who have made
this point very clear are the so-
cialist countries. All experience
from the time of the foundation
of the state of Israel onward
has gone to prove that these
countries are a far more reliable
guarantor of the right of Israel’s
existence than will ever be the
imperialist powers who have
proven themselves interested in
Israel only insofar as its rulers
are prepared to act as a counter
to Arab anti-imperialism, and as
protectors of the interests of the

Partymiller in the Gazette, York,
What do words means?

underwear manufacturer, “dyed in the wool

Western oil monopolists. The
position of the Soviet Union, and
other socialist countries based
as it is on the principle of pro-
letarian internationalism is a
powerful force in helping to
overcome harmful nationalist
views in the Arab countries.

But the whole problem of the
Middle East cannot be summed
up only in the just insistence
for the preservation of Israel.
Anyone with any sense of the
class forces at work in the world
today, must be able to see who
has in this period of hostilities
against the Arab countries been
the loudest supporters of the Is-
raeli government’s action.

It has been the United States,
which has been in the forefront
of the international campaign to
prevent effective action by the
United Nations. It is the United
States. which even refused to
join with 99 other nations in
condemnation by the UN Gene-
ral Assembly of the flagrant an-
nexation of Old Jerusalem. The
other most outspoken supporter
of Israel has been West Ger-
many. People (and nations) are
still known by the company they
keep in this world.

“But” argue some misguided
apologists for the Israeli leaders,
“when all that is said and done,
after all the Arabs were getting
ready to attack Israel, Nasser
cleared the way for this by ask-
ing for the withdrawal of UN
Emergency Force on May 17.”
Those who argue this way are
ignoring the whole body of evi-
dence which points to an im-
pending Israeli attack on Syria,
including the reports in the Lon-
don Sunday Times of May 21,
1967. “Ten days ago (that is on
May 11) the Israeli Chief of Staff
remarked that he might attack
Damascus and topple the Syrian
government.”

Such statements and accom-
panying actions cannot be ignor-
ed in assessing the immediate
background of the Middle East
war. It may be some years be-
fore an Israeli Anthony Nutting
will tell the full story of what
went on behind the scenes last
May.

But even more pressing, is the
question of what is to happen
now in the Middle East.

It is here that it is most ur-
gent that all supporters of peace
should seek a basis of unity,
That basis must rest in the over-
riding need for a long term
settlement of the Middle East
which will do justice to the as-
pirations of both the Arab and
Israeli peoples, and will create
the possibilities of them co-exist-
ing in friendship.

To bring this about all those
striving for peace, including sin-
cere friends of the Israeli people,

oth j vx

to indicate a merger between Social Credit and

the Conservatives which would polarize the right-

are unsavory.

wing in Canada around one political party. Man-
ning’s base is in the oil rich west and his ties
with American oil pirates are as close as they

_ Thus it may well be that while attention is be-
ing drawn to the battle of Tory princelings for
the Chief’s job, powerful interests are making
plans of their own. Stanfield would be as good a
front as any for this movement.

Tht real danger of a coalesced Right is in-
creasingly present in the developing political

situation in Canada. The main problem which pre-

need to understand that a heavy
responsibility rests upon Israel
to withdraw from the territories
seized in the recent conflict.
How else can anyone possibly
expect that even the minimal
conditions for Arab - Israeli
friendship can be created? In
fact, if there is no withdrawal,
the Israeli “hawks” will be pre-
paring the way for the total des-
truction of Israel, which cannot
long exist among tens of mil-
lions of Arab neighbors except
on the basis of peace and friend-
ship.

More than that all those who
have come to respect the Israeli
people for their achievements in
industrious labor, and in their
struggle for the formation of a
democratic society, need to
grasp the fact that to try to hold
on to conquered: territories, to
establish domination over con-
quered peoples is and will in-
evitably continue to lead to a

sents itself to Canadian workers and democrats
is to build an alternative which will draw together
all potentially progressive forces to set a new
path for the future.

SSential link between Vietnam, Middle-East

terrible degeneration of the
whole national life of Israel, to
the brutalization of those who
stand guard over the’ Arabs, to
the reinforcement of every reac-
tionary tendency in the country
as personified by that ex-trainer
of the Green Berets in Vietnam
— General Dayan. Those who
oppress others cannot themsel-
ves be free.

Thus, on the immediate issues
urgently confronting the world
today, there is an essential link
between Vietnam and the Mid-
dle East. It is expressed in the
demand for an end to military
aggression and for withdrawal
— withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Vietnam, withdrawal of Is-
raeli forces from the conquered
Arab territories. This is the road
to the defeat of imperialism, and
to the winning of lasting peace
for a world, in which the self
determination of all nations will
be made secure.

Worth Quoting ——

“The first. Israel-Arab war
ended with the signing of an
armistice agreement between
Egypt and Israel on Feb. 24,
1949. This agreement, arrived at
in line with the decisions of the
United Nations Security Council,
defined the armistice lines be-
tween states and established an
Egyptian - Israeli Commission
under the leadership of the
United Nations to supervise the
implementation of the articles of
the agreement. The agreement
stated that ‘not a single article
of this agreement deprives either
of the parties to it of any rights,
asperations or positions in reg-
ard to final peaceful solution of
the Palestine problem’, and also
that ‘this agreement shall be
valid until both parties reach
agreement on peace’.

“The Egyptian-Israeli Agree-
ments of 1949 is a document of
tremendous significance. This is
a document in which the Arab
side, by signing it, recognized
the fact of the existence of the
state of Israel. The United Arab
Republic stands on the platform
of this agreement today, which
was reiterated by President Nas-
ser before the June aggression
by Israel.”

£It is not true that the Arab
states placed the liquidation of
Israel as the aim of their policy.
This is contradicted by the
Egypt-Israel agreement of 1949.
This is a contradiction by the
statement of the League of Arab
States of June 21, 1950, which
said: “The Arab States declare
that the best and truest way of
maintaining peace and stabiliz-

* “August 4, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE —Page 3

ing the situation in the Middle.
East is the solution of problems.
in line with right and justice,
the reestablishment of friendship
and harmony which existed in
the past, and the beginning of
implementation of the resolution
of the United Nations in regard
to the repatriation of Palestine
refugees and compensation for
the loss of their belongings and
property.’

“This was an open proposal
by the Arab countries addressed
to Israel. But this state, all
through its existence, did not
take a single step to indicate its
goodwill, to come to an agree-
ment with its neighbors, the
main conditions of which were

the recognition of the just rights

and aspirations of the Palesti-
nian Arabs expelled from the
territory of Israel.”
Vladislav Gomulka,
first secretary, Polish
Workers’ Party in a speech
to a trade union conference
in Warsaw.

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