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Socialist Newspaper from Oct 2, 1970. We're still dealing with same scenario 55 years later.
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The following letter of protest was sent to President Nixon on behalf of the 75 Socialist Workers Party candidates for public office in 15 states. It was written by Paul Boutelle, SWP vice-presidential candidate in 1968 and currently the SWP candidate for Congress from Harlem. Paul Boutelle has just returned from a fact-finding trip to the Middle East.
President Nixon:
The Socialist Workers Party demands the immediate halt to all steps toward U.S. military intervention in the Jordanian civil war. The U.S. has no right whatsoever in Jordan.
People throughout the world are just beginning to learn the scope of the wholesale slaughter that is occurring in Jordan right now. We hold your administration and its imperialist policies responsible for the bloodbath being perpetrated upon tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children. It is American arms and financial aid that have enabled the reactionary Hussein regime to inflict this carnage on the Palestinian refugees.
Your threatened intervention in Jordan has also encouraged Israel to consider whether it too should invade Jordan — as it did in June 1967. Such a conflict could easily bring the world to the brink of a nuclear war.
Your administration has announced that three aircraft carriers from the 6th Fleet, each carrying 80 combat planes, have been ordered to the coast of Lebanon, and that you have placed on alert troops from the Eighth Infantry Division in West Germany and the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. I remember the 82nd Airborne as the same division that President Johnson sent to Santo Domingo to crush the uprising there in 1965, and into Detroit in 1967 to crush the revolt of the Black community.
This is not a coincidence. The struggles of the Dominicans and Afro-Americans, like those of the Palestinians, are struggles of oppressed peoples to control their own affairs.
The United States government's support for the reactionary, Zionist regime in Israel and its support for King Hussein's slaughter of the Palestinian refugees is consistent with its support to reactionary dictatorships throughout the world — from Cambodia and Vietnam to South Africa, Greece and Iran.
Millions of Americans, especially Black Americans, Chicanos, students, women and GIs, now see through your war in Vietnam as an arrogant and bloody interference in the affairs of another country. Millions of Americans will also refuse to go along with another war in the Middle East, a war in support of a corrupt monarchy and a war to crush the Palestinians' elementary fight to regain the land they were driven from.