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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 23. September 20, 1976

[Introduction]

(WNS/Asian Student News)—Palestine lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by Syria and Lebanon to the North, by Jordan to the East, and the Egyptian Siani Peninsular at the South. It is the junction of the Asian, African and European continents. Most of the Palestinian Arabs do not live in Palestine as their homeland is occupied and declared as the Zionist state - Israel. This occurred in May, 1948

1,665,000 Palestinians are forced by the Zionist occupation to live as exiled refugees in surrounding Arab countries, or in some Western countries. Approximately this many again live under Israeli occupation and are "privileged" enough to work as third class citizens with few legal or human rights. The Israeli occupation is guaranteed by US imperialism's gigantic gifts of money and arms, while the Soviet Union has underwritten the occupation by recognising Israel's "existence".