The Information Blockade Against Nicaragua
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The U.S. government's main weapon against Nicaragua here in this its control over news and information - its campaign of lies and disinformation. What better way is there to challenge the information blockade than with the voice of the people themselves who are under That's why solidarity movement activists should read and help distribute Barricada Internacional, the bi-weekly newspaper of the Sandinistas. One important way we can carry out this work is by building the upcon U.S. tour of Arturo Zamora, director of international relations for the daily Barricada, and Ruth Warner, English language co-editor of BI. The tour w from September 13th through early October, passing through the San Francisco Bay area Sept. 20th to Sept. 27th, and planning for a number Your particlpation in bullding and sponsoring the tour is what can make tour a success and break through the wall of lies about Nicaragua!
SUBSCRIBE TO BARRICADA INTERNACIONAL The Barricada Internacional Support Committee of Northern California SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 1988 9 by the P.L.O. on his border. Far from it.
Professor Nadav Safran, a Jordanian government spokesperson now at Harvard University, told The New York Times (Aug. 1, 1988):
"The King [is] still firmly opposed to the creation in the West Bank of an independent state under P.L.O. control. King Hussein is playing his cards very smart. He is the elder statesman of the Middle East, and he has learned a lot during his 35-year reign.
"He knows that the United States and Israel will oppose a P.L.O. state, and they may have to come to Jordan for some concoction-for example, a Palestinian state associated with Jordan, in which Jordan has control over security and foreign policy.
"The American peace plan for the Middle East envisions a similar arrangement. When President Reagan first described the plan in September 1982, he said, 'Selfgovernment by the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan offers the best chance for durable, just, and lasting peace.""
It is the maintenance of this posture in the face of the uprising that is the basis for the desperate move by King Hussein.
Economic pressure on P.L.O.
A further indication that Hussein was in no way coming to the aid of the Palestinian people when he surrendered claims to the West Bank came soon after. The San Francisco Examiner (Aug. 7, 1988) examines the economics of the King's divestwing of U.S. policy makers that the P.L.O. is a reliable partner, capable of stabilizing the region and of removing the cause of Palestinian challenge to the Middle Eastern status quo. What the P.L.O. leadership has sought is the same role assigned other bourgeois states of the region.
Israel, however, as a colonial-settler state is predicated upon the denial of an organized existence for the victim population. The Zionist movement can never accept any state role for a Palestinian movement. To do so is to pose the question of the legitimacy of a settler state on the territory of another people. This underlines the emphasis by the United States that the P.L.O. recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli state.
The population of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip represent less than half the Palestinian people. Close to 1 million people live inside the "Green Line" and nearly 3 million Palestinians live in forced exile and refugee status in neighboring or far-flung territory to which they have been driven by massacre and the destruction of their towns and villages.
No small statelet, comparable to the Bantustans of South Africa, can fulfill the aspiration of the Palestinian people for the recovery of their usurped homeland. No little entity of nominal sovereignty, dependent upon Israel and the Jordanian kingdom, could answer the need of the Palestinian poor in the refugee camps for a decent life. attack. events is underway.
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