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reject offer NEW IN prime-hour Israeli TV news last Friday a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in Lebanon were singing 'Come down to us, aeroplane/Take us to Lebanon/ We will fight for Sharon/ PoWs - especially those which are not recognised by the army to have that status - and said ''There is no peace without the Palestinian péople"

Lebanon's civil war was to the home of a family of 19. A court order to stop demolishing the house was given that morning and was on its way, but the police refused to wait.

One son of the family No.:06:0 Gleeful at Israel's first invasion burial.

In north Tel Aviv, car tyres were punctured at night. The Nazi swastika was painted on cars and walls with slogans like 'Askenazim (the slang for European-origin Jews) -Back to Auschwitz". It was a sharp rebuff to the Zionist claim to have reunited the Jewish people and provided an answer to anti-semitism, and a testimony to the Oriental Jews' hatred of the dominant Askenazim.

The rulers also have other reasons to worry. The current tension comes at the end of two of Lebanon, Israeli soldiers are years of election boom and then war boom, and proves that while buying time, the boom has gained no stable 'support for the government that relied on a populist appeal to the oriental Jews against the 'European Labour establishment"

Now with no economic growth, 140% inflation and a five billion dollar yearly deficit, they are starting to think what the reaction might be i a major attempt to lower living standards.

A layer of "neighbourhood activists" has begun to show itself, and though very unorganised, it could form a pole of organisation low cynical and disillusioned when the people begin looking for it:

And lastly, all ask what would be the effect of any intensification of tension inside this society, armed to the teeth, always de facto at war, and under a stateof-siege law for the last 38 years.

Some demonstrators at the Committee Against the War rally in Tel Aviv last Saturday were chanting: 'In Hebron (West Bank) and Kfar-Shalem - Together we shall revolt!' -getting more public support fromt he street bystanders than for the simpler call for withdrawal and peace.

The Bluancourt strike -also in the paintshop - is concerned only with the 'dirty job' bonus, but is reportedly likely to continue now that Flins has decided to stay out.

The unions still seem to be slow-pedalling the dispute. The Communist Party led CGT made no recommendation for the Flins ballot. The position of the Socialist-leaning CFDT -the biggest union in Flins -is not clear from press reports.

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