Isreali army has been shattered by the Arab Forces over the past ten days. Even if Israel should win this war, which is by no means certain, it must know that another war will come again in four or five years. By that time the Arab armies will be even stronger than they are today. In tuture the Israeli military will not be able to act as the arrogant overlord of the whole Middle East, as it has in recent years. For United States imperialism this turn of events is disastrous. It has always relied on Israel to police the crucial oil-producing Middle East on its behalf. But Israel has been dealt a blow which will end that role forever.
The regimes in the arab countries are at present at the height of their glory. But their joy will be shortlived The war has shown that it is possible to successfully challenge the Zionist ZIONISM IN CRISIS state. The Arab masses will now demand that this job is carried to its conclusion.
But the cringing regimes of Egypt's President Sadat and his allies will hold back, afraid of the measures necessary to carry this task out: the full mobilisation of the Arab masses and a sharp break with imperialism.
The Sadat regime in particular will shudder at such prospects, having already been shaken in recent years by strikes of workers in the Helwan Steel complex and the textile mills, and by mass student demonstrations. But the main victim of the present fighting will be Zionism. The Zionist doctrine promised the Jews security on the basis of the colonisation of Palestine in alliance with imperialism and at the expense of the Palestinian people, For decades many Jews have been prepared to accept this reac tionary doctrine. Now Zionism stands as the cruellest of iffusions.
Not only has the axistence of the Zionist state fostered antisemitic ideas among many oppressed people around the world, but it has done so in wein. For it is now clear that the Zionist state of Israel cannot resist How to Fight Phase 3-pp.45 CP in Industryp.6 in France-p.7
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