The massive terror assault was unleashed with the knowledge of the U.S. government. An Israeli official in Washington told the New York Post that there "was a communication" between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter before the attack began.

The Israeli high command described its attack on Lebanon as "a purifying operation," claiming: "The Israeli Defense Forces do not intend to harm the population, the Lebanese army or the Pan-Arab [Syrian] force, but rather the terrorists and their helpers...."

It insisted that "the goal of the operation is to root out the bases of the terrorists."

But the truth is that what the Zionist command calls "terrorist bases" are villages and refugee camps housing tens of thousands of people.

One Israeli soldier explained how he dealt with Arabs he encountered when Israeli forces invaded Lebanon in January 1975. He told Time magazine reporter Daniel Drooz:

"If they can get their hands up faster than I can pull the trigger, then I’ll take them prisoner."

A U.S. Embassy official in Tel Aviv told reporters, "I won’t say we had advanced knowledge of this, but we have been consulting constantly with the Israelis."  
 
March 23,1953
The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in upholding a union-busting Virginia anti-picketing ordinance underscores the three-pronged assault upon the organized labor movement by the boss-controlled organs of state power: legislative, executive and judicial.

By a 7-2 decision, the highest court in the land deprived the unions in the State of Virginia of their constitutional right to conduct peaceful picketing in a labor dispute. The rabid union-haters are gleefully hailing this decision as a precedent to be used in other states and are calling for a national law based on the Virginia "Right to Work" statute.

There was no question of the use of coercion. There was no mass picket line. No one tried to prevent anyone from working. There was one or at the most two union men, with one picket sign that simply said: "This is not a union job." But even this, according to the learned judges of the highest judicial authority in the country, constituted a violation of the "right to work."

The Supreme Court, like Congress and the Administration, functions as an agency of Big Business. In this game the corporation hold all the trump cards. Their representatives in Congress and the State Legislatures enact the slave-labor laws. Their judicial arm, the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court, give these laws their legal sanction. And their executive arm in Washington and the various States enforce and police these laws. And the workers? They, you see, have the "right to work."  
 
 
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