THE FIRE SPREADS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

NOVANEWS

As I wrote 2

weeks the revolutions in the Middle East are half-finished. The dictators Ben Ali and Mubarak of Tunisia and Egypt have departed but their regimes remain intact. Instead of Mubarak’s ‘civilian’ facade we have the naked reality of army rule.
But in any revolution there is no standing still. Either the warfor democracy and social revolution goes forward in the Middle East or it goes backwards.
The separation of the oil in from the people is an essential feature of the Middle East. That is why the US and West sent an army thousands of miles to regain Kuwait from Saddam Hussein in 1991.
The fire has spread to Libya, Yemen, Bahrain threatening even the fabulously wealthy Gulf regimes which import foreign labour for the work that needs to be done. Our task is to offer solidarity and support wherever possible and to urge that the regimes in the Middle East be torn out, roots and all.
Without the defeat of the Arab regimes, the partners of US imperialism (& indirectly Israel) there is no hope of defeating Zionism.
Although it is welcome that Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain finally came off the fence and supported the demonstrations against Mubarak (whilst not mobilising anyone), despite having nothing to say for over a week on its web site, that is not enough. PSC should have no truck with the PA representative in Britain Manuel Hassasian, whose ’embassy’ was quite rightly occupied by Palestinian students.
If anyone has difficulty understanding what is happening in the Middle East, the headline in the Jewish Chronicle, paper of the Jewish and Zionist establishmentsays it all ‘Israel Trembles as Egypt Quakes.’
Col. Ghadaffi in Libya has shown his true colours with the massacre of demonstrators in Benghazi. So much for the ‘green revolution’.
The article below, slightly abridged, was printed in Weekly Worker, for which I contribute the occasional article last week but is still relevant.
Tony Greenstein