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BY CHARLES 'ARKINS Israeli military 'advisers' may be going to South Vietnam soon, as part of a US-backed scheme to help the Saigon regime maintain itself in power.

The proposed aid mission fits in with a general build-up of Israeli involvement south-east Asia. In Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines, Israeli aid programmes and investment, and Israel military instructors, are assisting reactionary regimes and acting as a front for US imperialism.

The possibility of military aid going to South Vietnam was disclosed in the Israeli newspaper 'Ma'ariv', in a report headed 'Saigon expects Israeli advisers to come after Americans leave', which it published on December 15.

According to 'Ma'ariv's' Saigon correspondent, South Kesari, sources in the Vietnam government said that the question of Israeli aid was an urgent need.

The Israeli paper reported: 'A government source Saigon stressed that South Vietnam's military situation— now and even more in the future-will require help in the form of military advice, if the communists si withstand the subversion and aggression. Saigon will need advice on non-conventional methods in the defence field, and the creation of self-defence rural areas.' After reporting that US troops would be withdrawn from South Vietnam under cease-fire agreements, the 'Ma'ariv' correspondent went on to quote his Saigon government source saying:

'Yet the United States is not planning to abandon South Vietnam completely. The idea being helped by Israeli knowledge is not only known to Washington, but it was inspired by it' It is quite evident from this that, as in African countries, so in south-east Asia, the role of Israeli military and technical aid projects is not only to serve Israel's own business and diplomatic drives, but, above all, to serve as subcontractors for the main 'firm' at work there-United States imperialism.

This relationship is also demonstrated in the case of Singapore. There, a project has been set up by the Israeli electronics firm 'Tadiran'. which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Defence's industrial consortium. The Singapore government is backing this project, and is responsible for providing 49 per cent of the invest'Tadiran' has investments in the Far East, Latin America, and Persia. But it itself is dominated by a 60 per cent controlling interest held by the American corporation General Telephones. demonstrate their usefulness to their master, uS asheris is concernea, the Israelis are useful to employ as 'sub-contractors' in the aid business, both because of their technical expertise-whether it is in irrigation, counter-guerrilla campaign training, or how to integrate trade unions into the Israeli political leaders Golda Meir and Yigal Allon went on record last year in support of Nixon's resumption of ing of Hanoi, and as elections approached it an open secret that diplomats and Zionist were attempting to ma an American "Jewish rooting for Nixon.

INTEDUCNTInA bombthe US became Israeli leaders lipulate Above: Nixon and Golda Meir. The Israelis are useful to employ as 'sub-contractors'. toning down of a motion condemning the Americans for the breakdown in the talks, as well as the resumption of bombing.' If Israeli advisers are sent to help Saigon's reactionary regime and strengthen its military forces-and remember, the first American 'Green Berets' sent to Vietnam were also styled 'advisers'-then it is fully in line with the policy up to now of the Meir governThe fact must be faced up to by any worker who has been taken in by Israeli Zionist propaganda; and thrown in the face of those self-styled 'lefts" such as are to be found in the Parliamentary Labour Party, who have helped to spread that propaganda: Zionism in an agency of imperialism, with all its bloody aspects.