RE: israelian attack

[Julio Fernández Baraibar <julfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right Sevag. In the last months we have not discussed or commented
the situation in the Middle East.
But, as Nestor says, it has been possible only because nobody from the area
has taken the issue. I am member of the argentinian comission against
blockading to Iraq. This comission meets every week in the house of the
Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (Argentinian Society of Writers), an old
and prestigious institution which during decades in the hand of the
representants of the liberal, imperialistic and oligarquic establishment and
now, by this things of the destiny, leaded by a group of leftwinged
peronists with big simpathies toward our point of view. I and Nestor have a
long relationship with Suhair Akel, the representant of the OLP in my
country. He has been our guest in several ocassions talking about Middle
East question.

We wait your opinions about Middle East and the struggle against zionism and
imperialism.

Regards.

Julio Fernández Baraibar

 ----- Original Message -----
From: sevag <sev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: israelian attack


> Dear Comrades:
> Lebanon has been facing this brutal savagery for so many years now. Its
> not simply a sturggle between 2 countries on a piece of land. It is a
> struggle of a third world country against imperialist beliefs and actions.
> The imperialist is not an unkown, the imperialist is the Zionist world
> movement.
> It makes me wonder if this isn't what we leftisits should fight against,
> if this wasn't one of the main struggles of the dependecy school. At least
> we can condemn it, at least we can say or write something about it, but we
> waited Riad to post something on it so that we'll write something in
> return. Lets hope that will be the case. For it seems that nobody is
> interested on what's going on here in the middle east. Latin America, or
> Russia or sometimes the far east are the topics that is dealt with here
all
> the time. I wonder why!!!!
> I hardly see the point Gary made on the Egyptian working class.What if a
> sudden miracle happened and they regianed class consciousness, what would
> that change? Well nothing, the issue does not depend on workers. The issue
> has passed that stage. The party or the group who's destroying and
> targeting civilian areas is no one else but the Labor party of Israel!
>
> ----------
> > From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: israelian attack
> > Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 6:39 AM
> >
> > Thank you for this post Riad.  Good luck with the struggle.  Your enemy
> is
> > a brutal one but it can and will be beaten.  The key I believe is still
> the
> > Egyptian working class.  If they can overthrow their corrupt rulers,
then
>
> > we may have a very different scenario in the 'Middle East'.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Gary
>