, the truth about Israel.

_ While attending the Fifth
G Assembly of the World Feder-
_ ation of Democratic Youth in
Prague, I obtained an inter-
3 _ view with the two delegates,
; Uzi Burstin and Ghassan
+ Habib, who tfepresented the
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" Israeli Communist Youth or-
_ ganization.

_ In their opinion, before a
‘genuine and lasting peace can
be established in the Middle
East, it is necessary that Is-
Yael recognize the right of self-
‘determination of the Arab
__ peoples. And this means sev-
_ €raj, things,

_ It means, first of all, that
Asrael must recognize the right
c of the Palestinian Arabs to re-
turn to their homeland. For
11 years, 1,200,000 Palestinian
a Arabs have been living in the
_ most inhuman conditions in
camps the other side of the
dsraeli border. They were’ ex-
pelled from Israel and their
land taken away from them.

Land, Burstin said, which to-
day, 11 years later, is still un-

inhabited and lying fallow.

As long as Ben Gurion sticks
to his “Israel will not accept
any refugee or any centimetre
_ change in boundary,” there
_ €an be no peace in the Middle
East.
_ The Israeli communists
_ pointed out, incidentally, that
this border Ben Gurion speaks
of is not the border set by the
United Nations, nor have the

_ two states, Arab and Jewish in
j Palestine been set up as re-
_ commended by the 1947 Res-
_ olution of the U.N. According
to the plans of Anglo-Ameri-
can imperialism, only one
) state, Israel, supported and
) subservient to U.S. capital,

was established. The two stat-
es, Jewish and Arab were to

4 be fully independent, but to
: co-operate on such questions
_ as electric power, dams, air-
ports, etc.

Secondly, there is the quest-
ion of the 200,000 Arabs who
_ live in Israel today. They live
under martial law. They are
systematically § discriminated
against in the matter of work,
Of education, of housing.

How, Burstin asked, could
the Arab nations look upon Is-
Yael as a good neighbour when
-| it followed these provocative
|| policies?
ite was very passionate

Israel policies must he changed
to assure peace in the middle east

By MONICA SAMUELSON ;

i The friction between Israel and the Arab states is given a lot of play in the
_ Canadian press. When I returned to Canada and looked o
World Youth Festival in our newspapers, I noticed one 1
tween Arabs and Israelis had broken out in Vienna and that knives and broken bottles
_ Were used, but that no one got hurt. To my knowledge no
- knives and broken bottles had ever been used, surely someone would have been hurt.

This seems to be a perfect example of the way Canadian newspapers seek to distort

ver the press coverage of the
tem stating that a fight be-

such fight ever occurred; if

when he spoke about the sur-
vival of Israel. Ben Gurion ac-
cuses the Israeli Communists
of not being patriotic because
they concern themselves with
the fate of the Arabs. But a
genuine Israeli patriot, Bur-
stin said, realizes that unless
Israel discontinues ifs provoc-
ative policies towards the Ar-
ab states and stops being a
willing tool of Anglo-French-
U.S. imperialism, Israel will
not survive. ;

Today, 70 percent of Israel’s
national budget goes for war
spending. Ben Gurion’s stand
is consistently linked with im-
perialism’s desire to keep the
Middle East in a state of ten-
sion.

To secure peace in the Mid-
dle East and to ensure Israel’s
survival. both the foreign and

Bent White @

SPOR

NCIENT Archie Moore

who can bon the mots
with the best of them, told an
inquisitive reporter asking
about his age: ‘I’m as old as
my tongue and a little older
than my teeth.”

Archie (44-46-48?) is a ring
veteran, all right, but a glance
at the record books shows that
Jem Mace, the great English
bare-knuckle champion (and
the first ‘‘world’ champion)
fought. his last fight at the
venerable age of 64.

Mace was. the Englishman
who really introduced boxing
to Australia and America, and
made it an international sport.

Like Tom Sayers before him
and Bob Fitzsimmons after
him. Mace was really more of
a middleweight than a heavy-
weight; nevertheless he man-
aged to lick all. the heavy-
weights of his day.

He fought some great bat-
tles, and also a few stinkers.
One of the latter took place
in Canada, at Dover in 1871,
when he and a fellow named
Joe Coburn faced each other
for 76 minutes, during which
time neither landed a_ solid

blow.

domestic policy of Israel must
be allowed to return to their
homeland, and secondly, the
vicious discrimination against
Israeli Arabs must be ended.

Today, the only party in Is-
yael which recognizes the right
of self-determination of the
Arab people is the Communist
Party. It is the only party
which embraces both Jews and
Arabs and is the only party
to offer a genuine solution fo
Israeli problems.

If this great weapon of im-
perialism in the middle east,
the weapon of dissension be-
tween Jew and Arab, in
which Ben Gurion shows him-

self a conscious and willing |

tool, was taken away, then the
middle east would be free to
fight Imperialism singlemind-
edly.

Curiously enough, the year
before, at the age of 40, Mace

had won his greatest fight,
against the American Tom
Allen (born in England). After
44 minutes of savage battling,
Allen bit the dust and was
carried off by his seconds in
a horse-blanket.
eet

Watehing the Montreal Can-
adians whip the All-Stars on
Tv last week, I was forced to
the conclusion that the NHL
race this year will be to see
which team will finish in

second place. The Habitants, |

as powerful as ever, just can’t
miss ending on top again.

Of course, one shouldn't for-
get what happened to the “in-
vincible’ Yankees in baseball.

But it seems likely that the
young Maple Leafs, the Black
Hawks and the Bruins will be
in a ‘scramble, with Gordie
Howe (oops. I mean the Red
Wings) trying to get out of the
cellar.

Bek oe

Dissension in the Lions. den
pids fair to ruin what might
have been a glorious season, in
which the longshot underdogs
could conceivably have gone

all the way.

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