of p. dtcan ft tk i ft ) ; 4 i hk yi latest act of aggression, an gression long prepared, was Only made possible because of ac- live U.S. support and U.S. com- Plicity. Its aims are the wiping out of estinian Arab people and annexation of Lebanese terri- tory. The Israeli Government is Out to resolve the Palestinian question by holocaust and * genocide. This is the answer of the Israeli vernment and the U.S. admin- ‘stration to the legitimate national Arab people to a state of their own. U.S. imperialism which armed and financed Israeli aggression expects now to realize its aims — control of the natural resources of the Middle East. Instead of condemning this flagrant act of aggression the U.S. administration condones it. Out of the ‘‘kindness of its heart’’ the Reagan administration states it will throw some crumbs to the refugees it and the Israeli Government have created. remain silent while a people is wiped out and their rights to a homeland of their own is des- troyed. They must demand that the UN - | take all the necessary measures to see that its resolution calling for the total withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon is imple- mented. If necessary worldwide sanctions must be imposed on Israel. : The continuing crisis in the Middle East with its dangers of escalation into a much wider war emphasizes again the utter ban- kruptcy of the “Camp David spirit’’. Camp David led to further Israeli aggression. It could lead to other more dangerous develop- ments, not only for the peoples of the Middle East but for peace in g the world. A different road must 3 be taken. This road must include the withdrawal of Israel from all oc- ¢ cupied land it seized in the 1967 9 war, recognition of the right of the ¢ Palestinian Arab people to. an independent state of their own. As long as this is denied there will be no peace in the Middle ' FORCE ISRAEL | | va A | Py ae a ; Fae 2 : m BEGlV, 1 & Ie It is good that Canada’s Parlia- ‘ 4) Statement of the Central Executive Committee, ment called for a ceasefire and the | H Communist Party of Canada. withdrawal of Israeli troops from ; ——. Lebanon. _ The Israeli Government’s aspirations of the Palestinian The Canadian people must not East. This is the road that must be taken now to create conditions for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. TORONTO — In the teeth of Israel’s terrible attack against Lebanon, angry protesters gathered at the Israeli consulate here to demand an immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops. The protest, organized by the Committee in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon and Canadian Jews Supporting Palestinians, was the second at the consulate in two days. Tom Morris Who does, and who doesn’t As the peace movement &rows and the issues clarify, the question of where the danger of war stems fromlooms important. Put another way: which Orces stand for world peace; Which for wars and aggres- Sion? One guideline is to examine record, to dig back through the years and discover exactly Who has been saying what, Who has been putting forward Proposals for arms control, Imitation and abolition — and Who has been opposing them. _ A new booklet by the Na- tional Council of Soviet- American Friendship, edited y Daniel Rosenberg, €xamines the Soviet Union’s ~ Técord on this score. The au- thor starts with the USSR’s first decree in 1917, the Decree On Peace, and pursues the Study until 1982. viding exact dates and Proposals as. well as actual texts in some instances, Osenberg follows the course Of Soviet foreign policy on disarmament from 1917, through the 1922 Genoa Peace the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s. The bulk of the study is post World War Two, the nuclear nference; its proposals at — era, the formation of the United. Nations and begins with the USSR’s first proposal in 1946 for the banning of the use and manufacture of nu- clear weapons. Year by year, conference after conference, speech after speech this study of 65 years of the USSR’s persistent pursuit of world peace is examined. It gives the facts and figures without comment or editorial- izing. The facts speak volumes. What’s important about Rosenberg’s research is that it lays out for any honest-minded person the tools to answer the first question — and prove it: who, in fact, does stand for world peace? ea Swords into Ploughshares. It’s must reading. Answering that, of course, suggests an answer to another, equally important question: Who opposes peace? ‘‘Swords into Plough- shares’’, by Daniel Rosenberg is a 36-page pamphlet devoted solely to a study of the record. It’s a super piece of work and can be ordered from: National Council of Soviet-American Friendship, 162 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016 at $1.50 a copy. Who’s minding the store? In a series of diplomatic moves designed to make even the most hardened diplomat gag, the United States last week got itself into hot water with just about everyone. When Spain and Panama in- troduced a motion at the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire, Argentine withdrawal and a form of UN supervision of the Falkland/Malvinasislands. The British promptly vetoed it. To almost no one’s surprise + Thatcher is bent on pursuing the war to the bitter end at all costs. One veto not being deemed enough (which it was), U.S. ambassador Jean. Kirkpatrick added her country’s... for good measure, it would seem. Then the hawkish ambas- sador, after lecturing Argen- tina about ‘‘cooperation and friendship,’ announced she had been instructed to change her vote to an abstention. This not being possible under UN rules (a fact she acknowledged) isn’t the main point. What emerges is that somewhere in the maze of the U.S. State Department some- one is concerned about future U.S.-Latin American rela- tions. What in fact did result was a further exposure of real U.S. intensions toward that conti- nent and the Caribbean, one ree in a long series of betray- S. As for the British, its ambas- sador listened to Kirkpatrick’s speech and simply said, ‘‘breathtaking’’. Brutal path of israel’s panzers Israel’s invasion of Lebanon is not only illegal and criminal, it’s brutal. And, contrary to Is- raeli public statements, the thrust by columns of. armor, more than 20,000 troops backed by aircraft and gun- boats, was notin retaliation for the shooting of Israel’s ambas- sador to London. This invasion was a long time in the planning. Warnings by PLO and other spokes- persons have been coming for Israeli troops roll north. weeks that such a move is im- minent. Israel is not ‘‘protecting its northern settlements’’, either. A cease-fire has been in opera- tion for a year. What Begin is doing is attempting to partition Leba- non and place the entire south- - ern sector under control of the puppet Falangist troops which are nothing but the Israeli army in Lebanese uniform. He also wants to isolate and destroy the Palestinian movement in- side Israel as part of his plan to annex the West Bank and Gaza. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 18, .1982—Page 9