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Arab military defeat

People. are asking: What
caused the military defeat of the
Arab states? It is of course too
soon after the events to give an
exhaustive answer. But some ex-
planation can be given. In the
first place, the side which fires
the first shot has great advan-
tages; and there is no doubt that
the Israeli armed forces fired
the first shot. It is obvious also -
that the military intelligence on
the part of the Arab states was
inept, to say the least. -

It has been admitted that Is-
rael surprised the Arab states
both with the unexpected power
of its attack and, more import-
ant, with the unexpected direc-
tion of the attack. The Arab
states anticipated the attack to
come from the east and north
instead of the west. This sur-
prise direction of the attack left
the air forces vulnerable to dis-
truction before they could get
off the ground. The war was
won in the first few hours of the
Israeli attack.

To this should be added two
other factors. First, the sharp
conflicts within the Arab coun-
tries and the disunity among the
Arab states. Second, the far-

Teaching social reforms carried
through by the group of, pro-

demonstrators throwing stones at U.S. cultural centre.

gressive Arab states were in the
main carried through from
above, without the full demo-
cratic participation of the people.

There are those who argue
that it is academic to determine
as to who fired the first shot in
the Middle East. Even though it
has been proven that it was Israel
that fired the first shot some peo-
ple still refuse to accuse Israel
of aggression. The issue of de-
termining as to who is the ag-
gressor in today’s world, living
as we do.in a condition of a
balance of terror, is a matter of
life and death.

For a long time the atom ma-
niacs have been advocating “‘pre-
ventative war’. This theory ad-
vances the idea that to meet a
real or an imaginary threat you
ate justified firing the first shot
and that it is the threat and not
the actual starting of a war that
constitutes aggression. The lo-
gic of this theory is that the
victim of aggression is really
the aggressor. No wonder peo-
ple say that the world has gone
mad and is upside down. This
insane logic is being applied by
some to determine who was the
aggressor in the eix-day Middle
East war.

Who are the enemies
of the Jews?

No one should have any illu-
sions that a solution of the prob-
lems in the Middle East will be
‘easy. The legacy and bitterness

engendered by the events in the
last six days, as well as the

‘history of wars and conflicts in

this area, have if anything made
the settlement of the outstand-
ing questions more difficult. Yet,
only a peaceful political solution
can bring stability and lasting
peace to all the people in that
area. The problem cannot be re-
duced to a conflict between
Arab or Jew, although this is in
the picture. The real conflict is
that between imperialism and
anti-imperialist revolutions.

Those who allow themselves
to be carried away by sentimen-
talism and place reliance for
security in imperialism, British
or U.S., have learned nothing
from the horrors of past and re-
cent history. Who was respon-
sible for the distruction of six
million Jews? Was it the Arab,
the African, Asian or Latin
American people? These people
are paying dearly in life and
wealth ever since imperialism
made its appearance on the
world scene.

It is German imperialism
which bears responsibility for
the almost complete destruction
of the Jewish people and mil-
lions of people of other nations.
It was British, French, Italian,
Japanese and U.S. imperialists
who built up Hitlerism, under
the smoke screen of fighting
communism, and who therefore
share responsibility and guilt

By CHRIS: HARNATTY

OTTAWA

“Drop flowers, not bombs.”
This was the theme of a peace
demonstration held here Sat-
urday, June 10. Two things
were more or less unique to
this demonstration — flowers
and children.

At 10.30 a.m. about 30 chil-
dren, between the ages of 4
and 12, assembled at Le
Monde Coffee House, along
with a few teenagers and
parents.

Armed with armfuls of

Ottawa children:

"Drop flowers, not bombs’

flowers the children walked
slowly to the U.S. embassy
on Wellington Street, where
they assembled into a line.
After about 15 minutes an
embassy official agreed to ac-
cept the flowers from the chil-
dren, who were admitted into
the building three or four at
a time.

The children presented the
flowers, along with a letter
calling on the United’ States
to end its bombing of the De-
mocratic Republic of Vietnam

immediately.

The march was organized
by the Ottawa Committee to
End the War in Vietnam,
which has several other pro-
jects planned for this sum-
mer. Among these will be a
“Week of the Angry Arts,”
beginning on June 13, which
will include folk singing and:
poetry reading, handicraft
displays, a chamber music
concert, and a hootenanny.

Beginning July 1 (Canada
Day) there is to be a daily
peace vigil on Parliament Hitl,
which will continue until
Aug. 6--Hiroshima Day.

iddle East crisis?

for human suffering.

Can any decent person really
believe, on the basis of bitter
experience, that U.S. imperial-
ism has any more regard for the
Jewish people, than for the Arab
people, the Latin American

people or the Vietnamese peo-

ple? :

To imperialism the common
people are objects of exploita-
tion and serve as human manure
to’ fertilizé the soil from which
their greed and lust for profits
is .derived. It is strange in-
deed, that anti-Semites, ultra‘
Rights, who are dreaming of the
day to complete “the German
finat solution of the Jewish
question” are part of the anti-
Arab hysteria and “pro Israel’.
Politics surely make strange bed
fellows.

The fact is that there is no
real conflict of interest between
Arabs and Jews — on the con-
trary, their interests coincide
and their common enemy is im-
perialism. It is those forces in
Israel- which have hitched Is-
rael’s destiny to the imperialist
chariot and the recent army
forces in the Arab world which
endanger both Israel and Arab
security and their future well
being. The day will come when
these forces will be defeated by
the Israeli and Arab people.

Must withdraw ©

In the bargaining that will take’
place now after the guns have
been silenced, Israel must be
ready to withdraw from con-
quered Arab territory. It must
be ready to cooperate to solve
the Arab refugee problem. It
must act in all respects as a
Middle East state and not as a
representative or a tool of im-
perialism. It must show sym-
pathy for the legitimate national
and social aspiration of the
Arab people.

In return the Arab states
must recognize the legitimate
right of the state of Israel to
exist, they must recognize the
state of Israel and its right of
access to the gulf of Aqaba and
the Suez Canal. The state of war
which has been in existence for
19 years must be ended. A peace
treaty guaranteeing the integrity
and independence of all states
in the Middle East must be
signed. Such bargaining will be
beneficial and meaningful for
Israel, for the Arab States and
for the world community. The
United Nations must play its
full role in such negotiations.

Eight Arab states have broken
off diplomatic relations with the
United States. and Britain. The
Arab states are now in the pro-
cess of taking over the oil and
the pipe lines from the imperial-
ist oil trusts and stopping all
shipments of oil to the Western

countries. These legitimate ac-

tions are causing a panic in most
of the capitals of the imperialist
countries. At time of writing
three socialist countries, the
Soviet Union, Bulgaria and
Czechoslovakia, have broken off
diplomatic relations with Israel.
These developments may spell
the end of imperialist domina-
tion in the Middle East and turn
-a military defeat into a political,
economic and- social advance.
Wherever and whenever impe-
rialism, particularly U.S. im-
perialism, is weakened: the peo-
ple are the victors.

June 23, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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