The general crisis of capitalism is expressing itself as a general
instability everywhere. Nowhere has this had more destabilising effects
than the Middle East. This instability is being fuelled and exacerbated
by US imperialism, which has decided that it is free to intervene
anywhere it likes under the pretext of the so-called war against
terrorism. Ariel Sharon is calling his new military campaign a war
against terror. And while it is self-evident that Bush gave him the
green light to launch his attack on the Palestinian Authority,
Washington is now becoming alarmed at the consequences.
We are republishing this article from issue 73 of Challenge
magazine, on the situation facing the Palestinian people. We believe
that the analysis developed in this article by the comrades of the Challenge will be of interest to our readers.
On June 15 Israeli bulldozers began to dig trenches for the building of
a fence that will separate Israel from the West Bank. One of our
Israeli correspondents comments on the plans to build a huge fence
separating Israel from the Palestinian territories.