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what's going on in the
MID-EAST?
What do the Arabs want?
Basically, all the Arabs want is
to live peacefully in their homeland.
Egypt and Syria want to regain their
territory lost in 1967. The Palestinians want to return from the desert to
the homes they were forced out of 25
years ago.
Fateh, the major Palestinian commando group, says that its goal is "to
establish a just and democratic society
in which Jew, Moslem, and Christian can
work and live peacefully together." A
simple goal, but it runs into the opposition of Western financiers and oilmen
who seek to protect their mortgage on
Israel, the only country in East Asia
which gives them a free hand for profit-
making.
What is Israel?
The state of Israel was created 25
years ago against the wishes of the United nations and the majority of the people living in the Mid-East.  World War
II caused thousands of Jewish refugees
to become homeless.  The rulers of the
victorious Allied countries had no wish
to see thousands of immigrants sitting
on their own doorsteps. They decided
to ship the refugees off to Palestine,
an Arab country which became a British
war prize in 1918.
Luckily for the West, this plan
coincided perfectly with the interests
of two other groups:  Western bankers
and oilmen, and the Zionists. Bankers
and oilmen wanted to expand or create
spheres of profit-making.  Zionists
saw the chance to make a 50-year old
dream come true.
What is Zionism? It is an ideology first developed in the 1890's by
Jewish businessmen. They were seeking
an answer to European racism which was
brutally oppressing the Jewish people.
The idea was that all persons of Jewish religion had a God-given right to
establish and live in a new country,
unfortunately, the land they chose to
settle, Palestine, was occupied by two
million Arabs, who had farmed there for
2,000 years.
Beginning in 1900, Europeans began
emigrating to Palestine, buying land
and property when possible, or swindling peasants when necessary.  By the
1940's, underground gangster groups,
such as the Stern Gang and the Haganah,
began a campaign of terrorist bombings
and murders to force the Arab inhabitants to flee for their lives.
In 1948, the United Nations proposed to establish two nations in the
area, one Arab, the other immigrant.
The Zionists refused, demanding the
whole pie, or else.  Immediately, the
U.S. capitalist community bent over