Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 13)
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- Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 13)
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The PFLP believes that the developments which followed
the October 1973 war were a conspiracy aimed at ending the
Arab-Zionist conflict on the basis of accepting the Zionist pre-
sence as a fait accompli. This entailed containing the Palesti-
nian revolution, tempting it with the offer of a Palestinian state
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in exchange for its foregoing
its demand to liberate all Palestinian land. The deletion of the
slogan «No negotiations with the Zionist enemy» from the polit-
ical program of the PNC's 12th session, was the reason behind
the PFLP’s withdrawal from the PLO’s Executive Committee.
The PFLP, with three other factions, then formed the Palesti-
nian Front to Reject Capitulationist Settlements.
This division in the Palestinian political stand persisted
until Anwar Sadat made his visit to Jerusalem. As a result of
this visit, the first conference of the Steadfastness and Con-
frontation Front was held in Tripoli, Libya, and all factions of the
Palestinian resistance movement agreed on the Tripoli Docu-
ment. This document rejected the Geneva peace conference
for the Middle East and the settlement trend; it emphasized the
principle of no negotiations with the Zionist enemy. It stipulated
that any interim (tactical) goal of the Palestinian revolution be
subject to the conditions and provisions which would make it a
step in line with the overall strategy, not a substitute for this.
3. The civil war in Lebanon
The PFLP does not view the battle between the Palesti-
nian resistance and Lebanese National Movement on the one
hand, and the fascist Lebanese Forces on the other, as limited
or temporary battles caused by emergency conditions or irres-
ponsible practices. In the PFLP’s view, the fighting of May
1973 was a prelude to the extensive battles which have occur-
red in Lebanon since April 1975. The PFLP posits that the
nature of the battle, and the nature of the imperialist-Zionist-
reactionary plans for Lebanon, do not allow for a halfway solu-
tion. The present conflict is an antagonistic one which cannot
be resolved unless one of the opposing sides is defeated.
The PFLP called for the progressive and nationalist forces
involved in the conflict to determine their stands and tactics on
this basis. The PFLP believes that maintaining the open,
armed Palestinian presence in Lebanon means continuation of
the Palestinian revolution. This in turn means sustaining the
greatest moral, material and political support for the Palesti-
nian people in occupied Palestine. The PFLP also considers
that the Palestinian armed presence is a major obstacle to
imposition of the «autonomy» plan, and to any Arab regime
wanting to join Camp David. It also believes that keeping the
Palestinian gun raised means continued generation of a
revolutionary atmosphere whose repercussions would spread
in the Arab region.
In addition to this, the PFLP considers that the imperialist-
Zionist-reactionary plans target the Lebanese National Move-
ment as much as the Palestinian resistance, with the object of
imposing hegemony over the Lebanese masses. The PFLP
therefore advocates the necessity «of considering the
Lebanese National Movement as the main party in the confron-
tation of these attempts in order to defeat them...the role of the
Palestinian resistance is one of support and participation.»
The Military Aspect
The Palestinian branch of the ANM began preparing for
armed struggle before June 5, 1967, and practiced military
activity before that date. The first martyr to fall was Khaled Abu
Aisheh on November 2, 1964. After the June war, the PFLP
practiced armed struggle from within the occupied territories
and outside. Its activities constituted a part of the struggle of
the military factions of the Palestinian revolution.
This military activity dealt Zionism painful blows in the hills
of Al Khalil (Hebron), and in the Gaza Strip. A revolutionary
nucleus was formed which cost Zionism heavy losses. How-
ever, adverse objective conditions, the halt of the war of attri-
tion on the Egyptian front, the 1970 events in Jordan, and the
Zionists’ massive operations against the resistance, led to the
liquidation of the PFLP’s first rank leadership in the Gaza Strip
branch which was led by the martyr Mohammad Mahmoud al
Aswad (Guevara Gaza), member of the PFLP’s politbureau. A
number of the PFLP’s revolutionary groups in other areas of
the occupied territories were also wiped out. These setbacks,
however, did not prevent rearrangements and the continuation
of armed struggle.
The PFLP expended military efforts on border operations
from outside the occupied territories. Its forces ambushed and
attacked Zionist enemy patrols and bases; they planted land
mines and attacked the Zionist border settlements, throwing
the enemy into confusion and wearing down its strength.
The PFLP also leveled military blows against imperialist
interests as in the case of blowing up the pipelines traversing
the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and the operation against
an oil tanker in the Bab Mandab Straits. It also struck Zionist
interests and economic institutions outside the occupied ter-
ritories. The PFLP has played its role in defending the Palesti-
nian resistance and its armed presence, together with other
Palestinian factions, in the face of attacks aiming at its eradica-
tion.
In Lebanon, the military section of the PFLP present in Tel
al Zaatar, headed by Central Committee member and martyr
Abu Amal, played an effective role in the camp's heroic stead-
fastness alongside the Palestinian masses and fighters of the
different factions of the Palestinian resistance. Similarly, the
fighters of the PFLP, along with the other fighters of our revolu-
tion, steadfastly defended the city of Sour during the Zionist
invasion of South Lebanon in March 1978.
The vision of the PFLP, with regard to the process of milit-
ary confrontation of the Zionist enemy, focuses on the neces-
sity of struggle in order to move from the stage of limited guer-
rilla warfare, launched against bases and institutions of the
racist Zionist enemy, to protracted people's war, relying on
secure, supportive operational bases in Arab states bordering
the occupied territories.
* Agroup of pro-Jordanian, Palestinian notables met in Jericho and approved the
idea that the West Bank become part of Jordan. @
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