WfJRIlERS ,,1N'U,1R' 25¢ No. 228 .:~) X-523 30 March 1979 Palestinians Shafted Again arter's eace •• I MARCH 26-Today marked the sign­ ly seeking to put together a new anti­ ing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty Soviet alliance. However, the fallout in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the from Iran's Islamic revolution has been White House. President Carter called contradictory from the standpoint of this the major achievement of his ad­ LJ. S. imperialism's strategic options. ministration and said solemnly, "Peace On the one hand, the spectre of has come." We say, "Baloney." Khomeini has hardened the Israeli This treaty is a license for continued ruling class against making any signifi­ Israeli aggression against the surround­ cant concessions on the grounds that ing Arab states. It "legalizes" the Zionist "moderates" like Sadat to whom the state's denial ofthe national rights ofthe concessions are made may not be Palestinians. And it calls for a major around long. As Moshe Dayan put it, jump in the direct military involvement Iran shows that in his part of the world, of U.S. imperialism in the Near East. a country that has been a "friend of It does not mean peace for the Israel" can become a friend of Arafat Palestinians. It does mean a greater very snddenly. Logically the uncou­ threat to the Soviet Union and its allies rling. even if temporary, of its imror­ in the region. It is not a pact for peace tant Iranian connection ~hould make but ~ spur to wider war. Washington even more committed to The treaty is the culmination of the line up Egyrt and Saudi Arabia on its theatrical pilgnmage of Egyptian presi­ side. Ergo more U.S. rressure on Israel dent Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem in for concessions. But the foreign policy :'\1m ember 1977: of the marathon 12-day of an imperialist ruling class never Camp David summit between Israeli simr1y corresponds to its long-term prime minister :YIenachem Begin, Sadat strategic Interests. And the right-wing and L .S. preSident Carter: and of "who lost Iran'!" backlash domestically Jimmy Carter's own desperate mid­ strengthens. at least for a while, the rro­ March "shuttle diplomacy" between Zionist lobby in the U.S. Cairo and Jcrusalem. This was the "separate peace" which Sadat had U.S. Imperialist Jingoism vowed he would never sign, and it Revives spelled nothing but more war and national oppression for both the Arab Jimmy Carter desperately needed this and Hebrew working masses. Streeky/Camera 5 treaty. His inability, after all the fanfare For Egypt the accords provide com­ of Camp David. to wring some kind of plete return of the Israeli-occupied Sinai agreement from Sadat and Begin had peninsula in two stages over three years. contri buted to escalating criticism of his For Israel there is an end to the state of loreign policy from all shades of war. full diplomatic relations with Cairo bourgeois rolitical opinion as indeci­ and the right to purchase Sinai oil. sive. im'qmpetent and impotent. His Carter got a publicity coup and the basis ratings In public opinion polls plummet­ for an anti-Soviet \'"ear East alliance. ed as he managed to antagonize both the But lor the long-suffering Palestinians, right wing and liberals within his own despite all the talk of a "linkage" rarty. as well as conservative Rerubli­ between the treaty and West Bank can neanderthals. This criticism turned "autonomy." there \\as only the bitter Into a barrage as the Carter administra­ prospect 01 continued subjugation tion stood helplessly on the sidelines under the Zionist boot. \\ hile Washington's \'"0. I gendarme SeekIng to soften Arab hostliity to the guarding the strategically vital rIO\\ 01 pact. Igv ptlan rrime minister Khalli oil lrom the Persian GulL the Iranian v\as reported as claiming that under its monarchy. was toprled. rrovlslons Israel \\ould \\ithdraw to its Carter was \Uprosed to be the small­ rre-llJf,7 borders and East Jerusalem town businessman and born-again would again corne under Arab control. Haptist Sunday school teacher who But the very next ua\ Begin e'rosed this v\ould remorali/e America after Viet­ hoa.'. categollcally stating in hiS open­ ndm and Watergate. allowing the l.S. ing speech to the Knesset (rarliament) Carter says "Peace has come." Not for the Palestinians. tl) resume an interventionist role as the debate on the treaty: leading, though no longer hegemonic. "Dr. Khalil. br<lel \\ill never return to Imperialist rower. Instead he has been the pre-I'i67Iines. Secondly. Dr. Khalil, dubbed by ;\rab states of the "relection rermanent U.S. presence (bases and immersed In his own "peanutgate" mark mv \\ords. united Jerusalem is the front." and in this they \\ere certainly naval tleets) to protect the "oil lanes" is Ii na ncial scanda Is \\ hile cov eri ng lor the eternal capital of Israel. It \\ill never he correct. As the obsequious Sadat rut it div ided again. Thirdly, Dr. Khalil. in being rropo\ed. antics of his higoted alcoholic brother. Judea, Sumaria [Zionist designations of in trying to Il1gratiate hlmsell with his Ihe apretite for a direct U.S. military Carter's attacks on social services, his the area comprising the West Bank] and new ratron, "Jimmy Carter has done it. presence in the region has been a lat raises tor the Pentagon budget and Cia/a there will never be a Palestinian Ihis shO\\ is his show." \,"ot onlv \\as the constant under the \'"ixon, Ford and his anti-Soviet "human rights" crusade state." Egyptian-Israeli "reace" treaty nego­ Carter administrations. :'\low, with the only whetted the arretites of Republi­ -.vel" Yurk limes, 21 March tiateu unuer U.S. ausrlces. but it fall of the shah ollran, one of the pillars can Party reactionaries like Ronald "Autonomy." said the Israeli prime rresages a massiVt: escalation of Ameri­ of Washington's Near Eas't policies. and Reagan, who compares Carter to minister. arrlied not to "territories" but can military Involvement in the \'"ear his rerlacement by a fanatically Islamic 'eville Chamberlain at Munich, and only to "the persons." East. Billions of dollars of military aid anu pro-Palestinian regime, the State Tennessee senator Baker who claims A "Pax Americana" the treaty was will rIow to Egyrt and Israel. and a Department and Pentagon are frantical- continued on naf!e 10 Labor Must Break All Ties to AIFLD! Stalinists Defend CIA Front at Bay Area Chile Meet SAN FRANCISCO-The Ships Clerks nervously tried to squelch the motion as in hehind Weintrauh and was later in the AII-I.D dispute on the conference Hall of International Longshoremen's heing "out of order." as Feinstein was rewarded hy heing named secretary of a floor. It was apparent that the Stalinists and Warehousemen's Union (lLWU) already entering the hall. The chairman continuations committee. Weintrauh & do not want to openly condemn the Local 34 was the setting March 24 for a managed to wriggle out of this tight spot Co. then rammed through a vote to AII-I.D hecause it could upset George "Trade Union Conference on Chile," only hy heavy-handedly ordering the defeat the proposed workshop on the Meany and his "popular front" with one of those periodic get-togethers so agenda accepted without a vote, ignor­ AII-I.D, an action which further alien­ Jimmy Carter. Peter Grace and heloved hy the Communist Party (CP) ing the protests of several longshore ated a numher of independent trade­ Pinochet! as a sounding hoard for its c1ass­ delegates. union delegates who were already At the conference Stan Gow and collahorationist politics. At these "pro­ But the conference's big fight hegan enraged hy the presence of Mayor Howard KeyloL members of the ILWU gressive" confabs the main enemy is when delegate Jane Margolis, a militant I-einstein. Local 10 executive hoard and publishers always those who stand for uncompro­ recently elected to the executive board However hard it tried, the CP wasn't of the LOI1/{s!Jore Mililam, put forward mising class struggle, as at the 1975 Bay of the Communications Workers of able to suppress the issue so easily. In a motion calling for a "permanent Area Chile conference where the Stalin­ America (CWA) Local 9410, rose to a workshop on legislative action embargo on the transportation of ist organizers launched an unsuccessful propose a workshop on the need for Jane Margolis put forward a motion military goods to Chile" and for a two­ thug attack on a militant warehouseman labor to break all ties with AIFLD, the calling for abolishing AIFLD. This week boycott of all trade to Chile, to protesting the presence of a capitalist State Department's Latin American drove Archie Brown. into a frenzy, press demands for the releas'e from politician, Democratic Congressman "labor front" and brainchild of CWA screaming "Table it. table it!" at the top prison of Chilean trade unionists and Leo Ryan, at a labor meeting. founder Joe Beirne. Margolis, a mem­ of his voice. The CP looked so pathetic other victims of the Pinochet junta. While it did not come to blows at this ber ofthe Militant Action Caucus which that Fred Hirsh, a Stalinist fellow Predictably, their motion was sup­ year's gathering, the CP and its sundry has fought for years to break the CWA's traveler whose 1974 pamphlet exposed pressed by the Stalinists in favor of yet supporters were caught in an excruciat­ connection to the agency, distributed the AIFLD role in the Chilean coup, another paper resolution for the open­ ing contradiction over whether to tail copies of a caucus resolution denounc­ was sheepishly explaining that the ended "boycott on all goods to and from the "human rights" campaign of U.S.