Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 4)
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Editorial
Summing Up the Year 1985
By the time this issue of Democratic Palestine reaches
you, the year 1985 will be over. What has happened to the
Palestinian revolution and the PLO during this year can only be
described as serious, if not tragic. The year 1985 witnessed the
Signing of the Amman accord between King Hussein of Jordan
and Yasir Arafat, which marked a turning point in the history of
the PLO and the Palestinian revolution, for the following
reasons:
One: Arafat's leadership thereby unilaterally took a
unique, illegitimate step allowing the Jordanian regime to
share in the representation of the Palestinian people. The PLO
earned the right of sole, legitimate representation through our
people’s sacrifices. The deviating leadership has no right to
compromise this.
Two: Due to the above, the PLO and the Palestinian
revolution, the vanguard of the Arab forces fighting imperialism
and Zionism, has concretely split into two trends. The trend of
Arafat and his followers is groveling for any kind of solution to
the Palestinian cause, even an imperialist solution, and ready
to pay any price.
The other trend consists of the eight Palestinian organiza-
tions that reject Arafat's line and the Amman accord, and
believe that armed struggle against the enemy is the most
effective means for the Palestinian masses to achieve their
aims.
Three: Arafat's leadership, by signing the Amman accord,
has linked itself to the unholy alliance of Arab reaction. This
alliance is exerting all efforts to harmonize with imperialism’s
interests. In order to be accepted by imperialism, this reactio-
nary Arab alliance is trying its best to meet the US conditions.
Four: By entering the Arab reactionary alliance (Egypt,
Jordan, Iraq, Morocco and Saudi Arabia), Arafat's trend has
positioned itself in antagonism to the interests of the Arab mas-
ses, and to progressive forces on the regional and international
levels, including the socialist countries.
The Amman accord, which split the PLO, has only served
the foes of our people, who are trying to capitalize on the dif-
ficulties of the Palestinian situation. The Zionist enemy, by
Graphic by Imad Abdel Wahab, exhibited at Soviet Cultural Center. |
implementing the iron fist policy, is trying to crush the resis-
tance of the Palestinian masses against the occupation. The
Zionist enemy has made a secret agreement with Hussein for
joint Israeli-Jordanian administration of the West Bank.
Appointing Thafer al Masri as mayor of Nablus was a step in
that direction.
The Jordanian and Egyptian regimes are pressuring
Arafat to accept UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338,
and to recognize ‘Israel’, in order to legitimize their own recog-
nition and concessions to the Zionist enemy.
Despite Arafat's capitulationist steps, he was treated in
the most humiliating manner: The Israelis launched an air
strike on the PLO’s headquarters in Tunis. British imperialism
cancelled the scheduled meeting with the joint Palestinian-Jor-
danian delegation. The Jordanian regime blamed the Palesti-
nian delegates for the cancellation.
In Lebanon, sectarian forces tried to benefit from the split
in the PLO, launching a fierce attack against the Palestinian
camps in an effort to disarm the Palestinians.
Revolutionary accomplishments
On the other hand, the year 1985 has witnessed positive
developments in the Palestinian struggle:
1. There was a massive escalation of armed struggle
against the Zionist occupation. This shows that our people will
not give up armed resistance until their rights are fulfilled. It
also means that Arafat’s policies do not represent the aspira-
tions of the masses. The escalation of military struggle was so
effective that the Israeli Defense Minister and other officials
declared that the situation has become dangerous, because
the Palestinians under occupation have taken the initiative in
launching military operations.
King Hussein also sensed what this escalation meant for
his schemes against the Palestinian cause. He used this as a
card in urging the Israelis to reach an agreement with him, in
order to abort this resistance before it expanded to an uncon-
trollable level.
2. The formation of the Palestine National Salvation Front
(PNSF) in March was a political response to the right-wing’s
deviation. The PNSF is intended to achieve the following ends:
(a) restoring the PLO to the national line; (b) preserving the
PLO’s position in the anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist trench; (c)
forming a unified national front to represent the Palestinian
people until the PLO is restored to the national line.
3. The PNSF recently called on the DFLP and the Palesti-
nian Communist Party to join in a united front to face the right’s
moves and prevent it from representing the Palestinian people
in any conference that discusses the Palestinian question.
This call was positively received.
All Palestinian nationalist forces must work to achieve the
following tasks on the Palestinian level: (1) blocking US
imperialist plans to abort the Palestinian cause; (2) escalating
armed struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and
other Arab land; (3) mobilizing all Palestinian nationalist
organizations, trade unions, associations and personalities for
the purpose of abrogating the Amman accord; (4) defeating
the Israeli and Jordanian plans in the occupied territories;
(5) preserving Palestinian armed struggle in Lebanon. @ - هو جزء من
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