I Intercontinental Press I Africa Asia Europe Oceania the Americas Vol. 14, No. 20 > 1976 by Intercontinental Press May 24, 1976 Present Israeli Settlements in Occupied Areas 60 0 ^ Mediterranean \ Sea '■ Kadum • ■ o •••■? Amman o , OJerlcho Jerusai^em.o »^ Rateh yyiT gaza STRIP JORDAN The New York Times/May 11/1976 Since 1967 Mideast war Israel has set up 68 settlements (shown by dots) in occupied territories. Rabin regime has now given go- ahead for "several dozen" more. See page 834. Rosie Douglas Deported From Canada Thousands Turn Out in Madrid to Hear Mandei The Campaign to 'Pacify' Kurdistan Lebanon—Choice of Sarkis Pieases Ford The Poiice Frame-up at Skuil Creek Japan—Behind Defeat of Spring Labor Offensive Torture in Chiie—Firsthand Account Nuciear Con Artists at Work in Brazii Documents Zimbabwe—Growing Pressure for Majority Rule Let the Chinese Peopie Speak Out! Sam Gordon: Which Road for Irish Struggle? Healy's Smear Against Trotsky's Coilaborators Arabs. There is no escaping this fact. In most instances, Jewish settlers replaced Arab settlers. At times we bought lands; we acquired a lot more as a result of the 1948 war." Created at the expense of the Palestinian people, Israel can maintain itself only Israeli 'Settlements'—Rabin's New Land Grab through their continued oppression. This fact is becoming clear to the whole world By David Frankel as a result of the ongoing struggle of the Palestinians for their basic human rights. The Israeli regime has reacted by trying Since the 1967 Middle East war, the "By underscoring a misguided determi to suppress news of the opposition it faces Israeli regime has established sixty-eight nation to move ever more Israeli settlers from the Palestinian population. For settlements in occupied Arab territory. into the occupied Arab territories—a con example, Terence Smith reported in a May Israeli officials have now made clear that cession to the militant hardliners—-the 3 dispatch on the banning of a Palestinian they intend to continue the colonization of Rabin Cabinet is only piling up problems protest march against Israeli settlement in the lands seized in 1967. for future policymakers and for the course the West Bank: The plans for the new settlements were of Israel-United States relations." outlined at a May 9 meeting of the Israeli But the fact is that the occupied territo The authorities set up roadblocks to prevent cabinet. New York Times correspondent ries have already been integrated into the bus and truckloads of would-be demonstrators Terence Smith reported in a May 10 Israeli economy. The 1.1 million Palestini from reaching Ramallab and also blocked foreign and Israeli reporters from entering the dispatch from Jerusalem that the settle ans living in these territories serve as a town. ments would "range from small agricultu pool of cheap, superexploited labor for the The detention [of a television cameraman]and ral villages to industrial towns." Israeli capitalists. Palestinian workers roadblocks around Ramallab were the latest in a play a crucial role in the Israeli construc series of steps taken by the West Bank military Smith said that officials he talked to tion industry, in Israeli factories, and as government to inhibit news coverage of the "declined to disclose exactly how many agricultural laborers. disturbances there. Television crewmen have new settlements are contemplated or their Furthermore, in colonizing the territory been roughed up by soldiers, film has been precise locations. One official said 'more seized during the 1967 war, the Zionist confiscated and exposed and reporters have than a dozen' were involved, while others settlers are only continuing the process repeatedly been refused entry to the Nablus casbab and other volatile areas. suggested that the program would eventu through which Israel was established. ally include several dozen." Moshe Dayan pointed this out when he On May 8 Israeli occupation authorities The decision to step up the colonization answered arguments against such coloni made the fantastic claim that reporters of Arab land was not unexpected. Prime zation in 1973. were paying Arabs to stage demonstra Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Israeli colon Dayan, who was then Israel's minister tions. ists in the West Bank April 21, "I see the of defense, told a class of high-school However, such absurd charges cannot need for special efforts in the coming year seniors in Haifa, according to the May 10, change the simple fact that Israel is a to strengthen and extend settlement of the 1973, issue of Ha'aretz: racist, colonial-settler state. The latest Jordan Valley." "The establishment of the State of Israel decision on settlement of the occupied Rabin's statement followed a demonstra was fundamentally at the expense of the territories is one more proof of this. □ tion of 20,000 Zionists demanding that restrictions on Jewish settlement in the West Bank be lifted and that it be annexed to Israel. Although this position is support ed by a section of Rabin's cabinet, the Portugal—Scares Backs Continued Military Rule majority is opposed to formal anr^exation at this time, and insists that the establish By Gerry Foley ment of settlements must be under the direction of the government. In an April 9 editorial, the Jerusalem On May 12, Mario Soares officially as of those who supported democratic Post argued that the establishment of announced the Portuguese SP's support for rights for soldiers. settlements outside the framework of a Army Chief of Staff Gen. Antonio Ramal- In return for SP support, Eanes is government plan would result in "dissi ho Eanes in the June 27 presidential reported to have agreed to back a minority pating our limited human and material elections. Soares said, according to a government by Soares's party. resources on empty show . while failing dispatch from Paul Ellman in the Wash Although up to now the CP has been the to buttress the real foundations of our ington Post, that the SP had never strongest booster of rule by the Movimento presence in the territories." considered supporting a civilian candidate. das Forcas Armadas (MFA—Armed For As the Jerusalem Post editorial indicat ces Movement), it has expressed unhappi- ed, the differences between the Rabin "Portugal needed a candidate who could ness in a number of ways about the government and its critics on the right are insure the 'cohesion and unity' of the prospect of having General Eanes as purely tactical. Both sides are determined armed forces, Soares said." The SP head president. to hold the land stolen in the 1967 war. said that soundings among the military On French television May 11, according That was the meaning of the May 9 showed a consensus supporting the army to the Lisbon daily Jornal Novo, CP decision. chief of staff for president. General Secretary Alvara Cunhal said: The determination of the Zionist regime General Eanes won prominence by "Although the CP thinks that it is desir to keep the occupied territories has been an masterminding the military operations able to have a military candidate for embarrassment for the American imperial that crushed the November 25 coup at president, it has not excluded the possibili ists, who have been attempting to improve tempt. He is also noted for purging the ty of a civilian one." their diplomatic standing in the Arab armed forces of elements favoring a Cunhal even said that the CP "would world. The New York Times complained in popular-front government in which the CP look favorably" on a candidacy by Mario a May 11 editorial; would play the predominant role, as well Soares. This is a 180-degree shift from Intercontinental Press the attitude of the Communist party last The fact is that the CP fears, and rightly so, that a honapartist military regime will now turn against it. It is worried in particular hy General Eanes's anti- Communist statements. Having a top military officer in the In This Issue Closing News Date: May 17, 1976 presidency does present grave dangers for the Communist party, and not for it alone FEATURES 85- Healy's Smear Against Trotsky's Last but for the entire left. Since the bourgeois Collaborators—by Sam Gordon parties did not achieve the mandate for a SPAIN 831 Thousands Turn Out in Madrid to Hear "return to order" that they expected in the Ernest Mandel—by Harry Farrar April 25 legislative elections, it was certain that the military would begin to move back LEBANON 83' Choice of Sarkis as President Pleases to the front of the political stage. Ford—by David Frankel In fact, the MFA never relinquished its VIETNAM 83! Hanoi Official Gives Account of Victory power. It made certain formal concessions Over Thieu to the principle of popular sovereignty, IRAQ 841 The Campaign to "Pacify" Kurdistan which did represent a retreat hut were not ZIMBABWE 84: Growing Pressure on Smith Regime to decisive. During the electoral period, the Accept Majority Rule—by Ernest Harsch Council of the Revolution, the leadership CANADA 84: Rosie Douglas Deported of the MFA, showed that it still ruled the JAPAN 84. The Crisis of the Trade-Union Movement country. Now the Council of the Revolu —by Hideo Yamamoto tion remains the only government until the PORTUGAL 84 LCI and PRT Announce Candidate for presidential elections. Presidency After the June 27 vote, the president will wield the decisive political power, accord CHILE 84 Firsthand Account of Torture and ing to the constitution written under severe Imprisonment restrictions imposed by the MFA. AUSTRALIA 85 The Police Frame-up at Skull Creek The CP and SP leaderships have now BANGLADESH 85 Peter Custers Imprisoned in Dacca reversed positions.