3. There is not the slightest reason for assuming that an interim agreement will do away with all the other, non-political problems surrounding Sadat's economic opening' to the imperialist West - • Le sole result of which so far has been to throw into sharp relief the fact that the Egyptian economy is going through its worst economic crisis since me s In the second place, Egypt and israel leacer rapin-won secret concessions Israel are not negotiating over either populated areas or econome resources (to say nothing of peace'). They are negotiating over the conditions under which, if necessary, the next war will have to take place. The barren Sinai desert peninsula is a major arena of war, a natural buffer Meanwhile the Zionists' territorial concessions bind the Egyptian regime that much more closely to American imperialism, thereby decreasing its military independence and in the long run making it harder for Egypt to coordinate and jointly plan an attack on Israel with the help of the other Arab regimes (Syria and Jordan) and without the knowledge of imperialism. The long haggling sessions over the two observation posts on the strategic Gidi and Mitla passes, and finally Egypt's concessions to the Israelis on who is to man them and the number of Americans involved is a beginning of such a diminution of Egypt's military independence.
For the time being, 'peace' in the Middle East remains purely an interim attair. It is the distance separating the prospect of another war. The conditions for the conclusion of a final settlement remain as far away as they have ever been, because they necessitate a fundamental transformation in the nature and reason for existence of the Zionist slate Another war might be several years or several months away in the future. All that Sadat, Kissinger
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FOR* Part of the large demonstration in' London last Sunday welcoming the arrival of a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Orga *******************************