Cairo agreement strengthens imperialism

Only two days left to raise £389 8s for Sept Appeal Fund THE WEEKEND post brought £81 SEALED WITH a handshake between the butcher of the Palestinians King Hussein and Al Fatah leader Yassir Arafat, the Cairo conference of Arab leaders has - deait a heavy blow to the guerrillas in Jordan and the anti-imperialist movement throughout the Arab world.

Despite its cynical and purely verbal 'full support for the Palestine revolution', the 14-point agreement will be used to re-establish the power and authority of the Monarchy, so badly shaken in the last two weeks of civil war.

Arafat's claim that the guerrillas would turn Palestine into 'another Hanoi' rather than submit to the supporters of the 'peace plan' sounds like a cynical joke.

However, the deal's main architects are not to be found either in Cairo or Amman.

The enormous US military pressure, combined with the Soviet bureaucracy's political and diplomatic manoeuvring drove both the ruling Arab bourgeoisie and the Al Fatah leadership towards a complete betrayal of the Palestinian Same policy The treacherous Cairo formula is, in fact, the same Derek Gladwyn, union-side policy churned out day after day by Moscow over the last two weeks; namely that the y. telephone that ans help Jordan 'crisis' must be settled by the Arabs alone.

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Melted away Earlier attacks on the Husunion leaders' positior sein regime as a 'fascist cabmanifesta- inet' melted away as Arafat made haste to Cairo to comply 'with the "peace' terms, arranged by Nasser and the All out other bourgeois Arab leaderships, in Sudan, Libya and Council workers are detér Tunisia.

Neither was Nasser's role as even if they have to take on the 'fixer' accidental.

It was through him that the Kremlin applied its strongest Konsiwark ast Cardsea and political pressure on the Palestinians. In a Moscow broadcast in Arabic last Thursday, night stoppagexpected an all-out

Nasser was presented as the main hope for a Middle-East settlement:

It is quite natural to recognize the great part played by resident, Nasser the role of President personally. It is not fortuitous that the leaders of the Arab countries have chosen Cairo for their emergency meeting. Thus great appreciation is shown of the efforts of the UAR not only the fratricidal fighting it fordan, but also to remove completely the consequence of Israeli aggression, by political means on the basis of the Security Council resolution of November 1967: (Emphasis added.)

Moscow Radio was overjoyed, therefore, by Saturday's deal, which would 'normalize the relations between the Palestinian patriots and the Jordanian authorities' Crushing When the Kremlin talks of 'normalization', be it in Jordan or Czechoslovakia, it means the crushing of all re volutionary forces.

Nixon's Deputy Defence Secretary David Packard announced as the deal was signed that the US will provide Hussein with all the arms he requires to rebuild his forces to their pre-civil war strength.

Kremlin weighed in with a proposal for a joint US-Soviet force to police the Jordanian frontiers, a move which is clearly intended to isolate the Palestinians in Jordan • from any support they might win in Syria and other neighbouring Arab states.

And if Hussein is unable to contain the guerrillas, then this force can obviously be used against them.

Unlike the guerrilla leaderships, 'left' as well as proNasser, the counter-revolutionary forces went into the fight prepared.

Onslaught

Contrast the fury of Hussein's anti-guerrilla onslaught with the wretched retreat of the Royalist army before the Zionist invaders in June 1967!

Hussein's main enemy is at home-the Palestinian and Jardanian people.

While we salute the heroism