Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!kenb From: kenb@teklabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: war in the americas Message-ID: <2238@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 19:58:43 EDT Article-I.D.: teklabs.2238 Posted: Thu Jul 21 19:58:43 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 11:57:08 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 Recent developments in the Israeli role in military innvolvement in Central America include the shipment of captured PLO weapons to the counter-revolutionary CIA army in the southern Honduras. This action has apparently smoothed Begin-Reagan hard-feelings somewhat. The motivations behind these shipments are obscure, especially since the Reagan-Nicaraguan war is now overt. Anyone with an explanation of what U.S. and Israeli military attaches hope to achieve by this, please enlighten the net. Israel has been a major arms supplier of Guatemala and El Salvador, and played a similar role before the Nicaraguan revolution by being one of the last suppliers of armamnets to the Somozas during their last days. It should be pointed out that even the U.S. congress has refused to supply arms to Guatemala. This type of arms trade is highly questionable, and may be antagonizing peasant and church coalitions on the receiving end of the use of such arms. - Ken Brown teklabs!kenb