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From: kenb@teklabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: war in the americas
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Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 19:58:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 21 19:58:43 1983
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	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