WORLD

Communist deputy tells Knesset:

Peres, Shamir to blame
for Lebanon bloodshed

By HANS LEBRECHT
TEL AVIV —‘‘The whole world is condemning Israel
for the war crimes committed by her army in Lebanon as
we Can now see again at the debate and vote in the (UN)
ecurity Council. The veto used by the partner to the
Crimes, the USA, is not able to hush up the atrocities of
srael’s occupation terror before the eyes of the world.”
Tawfig Toubi, the deputy general-secretary of the
Communist Party of Israel, stated this during the debate
M the Knesset (parliament) March 13 following the
80vernment statement on the Lebanon situation deli-
vered by Labor Party member Yitzhak Rabin, the minis-
ter of defense. Toubi spoke on behalf of the democratic
Coalition, the Hadash Front.
Rabin repeated his threat that ‘‘we shall not let our
Policy be dictated by the Shiite ‘terrorists’ (the Le-

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lran patriot murdered

In another attack
against the progres-
Sive movement of Iran
by the Khomeini gov-
ernment, one of the
country’s leading rev-
Olutionary activists,
Ghorbanali Moazeni
Pour, member of the
political bureau of the
Organization of the Iranian People’s Fedaian
(majority), was murdered at the beginning of the
year,

Pour’s murder highlights the need, say sup-
porters here of the Fedaian, for all Canadians to
protest against the continued killing, oppression
and torture in Iran.

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banese Resistance Fighters — H.L.) ... wherever ter-
rorist attacks on our soldiers are initiated, we shall strike
_.. No lines or borders will offer shelter to anyone who
harms us or plans to harm us.”

Toubi denounced the former Likud government of
Begin and Sharin, saying, “The full guilt for the tragedy
we are witnessing in southern Lebanon, for the spilled
blood of Lebanese, Palestinians and Israelis, falls upon
the shoulders of those who started that senseless aggres-
sion in 1982. They have to answer for the war crimes
committed in Lebanon. However, the present govern-
ment also, headed by Peres and Shamir, the so-called
government of national unity, is to blame for seeking a
way ... to delay and if possible even to prevent full
withdrawal from Lebanese territory.”

The leaders of the Labor Party (right-wing social
democrats) are not attempting to conceal their initial and
continuing support for the Lebanon aggression, said
Toubi. Instead of liberating the Israeli and Lebanese
peoples from the dilemma created by the Likud, the
Labor Party leaders, as part of the government of na-
tional unity, continue to commit war crimes and occupa-
tion terrorism, even escalating this, while attempting to
keep the facts from the public.

Toubi stated that Rabin will not be remembered by
history for bringing the Israeli army home from Le-
banon, but as the one who fanned a new war and terror
campaign againt the Lebanese and the Palestinians.
Especially now, after the ‘‘iron-fist policy,” after the
horrible massacare in Zrariyah, the government tries to
prevent full exposure and press coverage of the horror
committed. These are brutal attacks of collective
punishment on whole sectors of the population, with
hundreds of persons killed arbitrarily or ‘‘shot while at-
tempting to flee.”

Toubi warned that behind the decision to withdraw
from Lebanon, the government is concealing its real aim

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One of the victims of an Israeli raid on Zrariyah lies
sprawled on the road beside destroyed cars.

of continued occupation. He stated that it intends to
maintain rule over some areas in Southern Lebanon that
it designates ‘‘security zones,”’ either with the help of
Lahed mercenaries or directly by the Israeli army. He
stated that the Israeli rulers are outspoken about their
plans, regardless of any real or phony withdrawal, to
continue their terror raids from land, air and sea into
Lebanese territory.

Toubi denounced this as failing to end the mutual
bloodshed. In addition, he revealed, there is evidence
that the slow, phased-out withdrawal may be serving as a
cover for a new aggressive war, this time against Syria,
in connivance with and of service to the U.S. global
strategists.

The Communist speaker stressed that the only way to
stop the blood-shed once and for all is immediate and
unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli army behind the
international border and halting the terror raids against
Lebanese territory. The Hadash Front also demands
that Israel show readiness to reach a just and lasting
peace with the Palestinians and all other Arab neighbors
eNO to the resolutions and recommendations of the

Hans Lebrecht is a leading member of the Communist Party
of Israel.

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International Focus

Tom Morris

“He was doing nothing ex-
cept what we’re entitled to
do,’” said President Reagan,
commenting on the death of
U.S. Major Arthur Nicholson
who was shot March 25 while
Inside restricted GDR terri-
tory.

Nicholson had entered the
Testricted zone some 50 kilo-
Metres inside the GDR wearing
4 Camouflage suit and carrying
Photographic equipment.
Challenged by a Soviet guard,

€ was shot trying to escape.
“There can be no excuse,”
Said a U.S. State Department
Official.
The “‘nothing’’ that Nichol-
Son and his special military
team was engaged in is re-
Vealed in a story accompany-
ing the news of his death.
. Formed in 1947, the unit’s
Job is to “gather intelligence on
the Red Army”’. ‘We'd go in
at 90 miles an hour between 11
= night and one in the morning

© try to keep the Russians
aes Seeing where we were g0-

Ng,” said a former member of
7 U.S. Military Mission in

Otsdam, GDR.
is former team member told
. Porters: ‘‘We would get
eae orders to find out

Ut equipment or troop dis-

ieee
‘Getti positions. Then we’d go out
the ue rmation’ and try to get the information.”

He said a typical mission in-
cluded photographing Soviet
aircraft and installations.

‘*Everybody knows that the
men in Potsdam are there to
gather information on Soviet
forces and send it back to the
U.S.,”’ another commented.

It’s not often that military
spies get that: chatty. Nichol-
son, described as having ‘‘a
special interest in East Euro-
pean affairs,’ was caught
red-handed. As the U.S. Mili-
tary Mission member said,
“There aren’t any rules. It’s a
very dangerous job. It doesn’t
surprise me that someone was
killed. I’m surprised it hasn't
happened before.”

The Wonder
ofitall...

Making socially-relevant
statements at the annual Oscar
Awards seems to upset some
people’s applecart. Marlon
Brando did it years ago, speak-
ing of the U.S. oppression of
Native people. So did Vanessa
Redgrave who told millions of
viewers on Oscar night about
the plight of the Palestinians.

Bad form, grumbled some
movie industry purists who
seem more content with mind-
less banalities that charac-

terize the show.

This year Hollywood’s
applecart was given another
kick, and the reverberations
went much further.

Stevie Wonder, when
awarded his Oscar for best
movie song, “‘I just called to
say I love you,”’ accepted it ‘‘in
the name of Nelson Mandela.”

The South African Broad-
casting Corporation found this
just too much. It announced it
will no longer play Wonder’s
music.

Which raises a question: did
the SABC ever play Wonder’s
recent hit song “‘Ebony and
Ivory’, a duet with Paul
McCartney, which described
the beauty of racial harmony
and equality?

_ It’s certainly

revealing

She’s ‘‘chic and slender’.
She has ‘‘changed the image of
dour (Soviet) first ladies.”

Raisa Gorbachev ‘‘showed
up”’ at a reception in London
recently ‘“‘wearing a white satin
evening dress and a pair of gold
lamé sandals.”

Aside from being the 52
year-old wife of newly-elected
Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
bachev, these descriptions of
Raisa Gorbachev are all the

Western public gets to know
about her.

A decoration, according to
the media . .. an appendage in
the mold of Nancy Reagan who
also has her image crafted. by
what she wears. One would
have thought in this day and
age such one-sided, insulting
reporting would be long gone.

That ‘‘the stylish’? Raisa
Gorbachev is a serious intellec-
tual, with a PhD in philosophy,
a teacher at Moscow State
University, is evidently not
newsworthy in the West. Both
subject and reader are thereby
ill-served, as are women in

Raisa Gorbachev:
a “chic” PhD.

general who have more to offer
than visual titillation for shal-
low reporters.

We've learned more about
the Western media than about
Raisa Gorbachev.

Arms control
Reagan-style

Last week we reported here
that as the Geneva talks con-
tinue, the U.S. is step-by-step
building its nuclear arsenal to.
record levels. And they’re
doing it in the most provoca-
tive way.

Needing muscle to put
through his MX missile pro-
gram last week, Reagan called
the chief U.S. negotiator at
Geneva home to lobby Sena-
tors and Congressmen for the
$1.5-billion program. Max
Kampelman did just that.

The ‘‘Peacemaker’’, as
Reagan fondly calls the MX, is
a 71-foot giant which delivers
10 warheads 8,000 miles with
“‘address”’ accuracy. The plan
is to eventually base 100 MXs
— 1,000 warheads — poised at
Soviet targets.

East of the Atlantic, Kam-
pelman talks arms reduction;
‘west of the ocean he works for
arms production. None of this,
of course, is lost on the Soviet
side.

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