Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 18)
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- Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 18)
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Our progress in this field, even though it is still less than we had
expected.
Relations with the socialist community
How do you evaluate the Front’s relations, from its
foundation until now, with the socialist community?
What are the factors that brought these relations to
their current level?
First | would like to point out an important matter in this
field. Anyone who reads the Front’s documents, especially the
one from the 2nd congress in February 1969, realizes the leap
that has since occurred in our understanding and view of the
socialist community, regulating our policy for relations based
on ideological understanding. In the 1969 document we find
that a Maoist tinge prevailed in our understanding of the
socialist community, although we did not adopt all Maoism’s
slogans, such as «the two imperialisms» or «the aging
imperialism and the young imperialism.» Still, it is clear that
themes of Maoist rather than Marxist-Leninist origin were
influencing the level and mode of relations with the socialist
community. The Front’s concept of armed struggle seemed to
be derived from the Chinese theses on the revolution and the
masses, considering their recent victory in the late 1940's. In
addition, there was our enthusiasm about any force whose
position on the Palestinian cause was based on non-recogni-
tion of the Zionist entity. All this led us to fall into an indefensible
underestimation of the forces who have truly abided by Mar-
xism-Leninism and exerted most influence on the international
level, i.e., the socialist community, first and foremost the Soviet
Union.
On this basis, we can in retrospect evaluate our relations
with the socialist community until the mid-seventies, when
things were put in their proper perspective and broad solidarity
relations were developed, and enacted through political and
militant support to the Palestinian people's struggle. Of course,
there are issues that cause secondary differences, such as
how to envision the perspective of the confrontation with the
Zionist entity, but these do not affect the relations of solidarity.
These issues are not a matter of a simple yes or no. Rather
they are related to two parallel developments which, with time,
will clarify and settle the differences in opinion:
1. Exposing the true nature of Zionism as a reactionary,
racist movement, as stated in UN resolutions, to our friends
and international opinion in general. This will help to unveil the
truth about the Zionist entity as the embodiment of reactionary,
racist ideology. Such exposure will help create a change in out-
look as to how to solve the conflict with this entity that harms
the interests of the Palestinian and Arab people. Due to the role
it performs for imperialism, the actions of the Zionist entity also
pose a threat to the people of the three continents and threaten
to ignite a larger confrontation that would endanger all human-
ity.
2. Stepping up the Palestinian national struggle, creating
the conditions for its continuity, and creating conditions on the
Arab level that would facilitate supportive bases for the revolu-
tion in the countries surrounding Palestine. After creating
these conditions, we must increase the effectiveness of the
struggle, relying on our own subjective factors and the support
of our allies, in order to produce a new reality. This reality would
surpass the reactionary program that handled the Palestinian
cause by dealing with the colonialists in the forties, a fact which
helped in the creation of the Zionist entity.
The reactionary program, governed by a chauvinist men-
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tality hostile to the socialist countries, played a role in delaying
their understanding of the truth about the Zionist entity and its
creation. Today, in the context of the current revolution, we wit-
ness another position and view of this entity on the part of the
socialist community. This is not fully developed, as we envision
it. However, achieving a more developed position does not
depend on our wishful thinking. Rather it depends on our abil-
ity, as Arabs and Palestinians, to effect a qualitative change in
the balance of forces. Now events are going against us and in
favor of the enemy camp, due to Arab clumsiness and hesita-
tion about forming genuine international alliances, and the fact
that some are only waiting for the chance to enter into
imperialism’s solutions. As long as this situation persists, any
solidarity with our cause given by the socialist community is
actually more than we deserve.
The matter is in our hands; our allies are supporters, hop-
ing for the development of a truly progressive Arab position,
not only a verbal one. Despite all this, our proletarian inter-
nationalist relations are constantly being reinforced; they exist
on a genuine, principled basis. We appreciate the stable, prin-
cipled position of the Soviet Union and the socialist community
towards the Palestinian cause. We see this is as essential pillar
of support to our cause. There is no doubt that the transforma-
tion in the Fronts understanding of the international dimen-
sion, explains the progress made in these relations. As we
develop our struggle. we will find that our allies are our best
supporters and will never be an obstacle to achieving our
goals, tactically or strategically. On the contrary, they will be a.
pillar of support in this advance.
We can take a practical example. Since the 1967 defeat,
the Soviet Union has called for implementation of resolution
242. This resolution does not deal with the issue as the Pales-
tinian people's national cause; it pertains mainly to Arab land.
The Soviet Union, in the light of the defeat and Arab subjective
conditions, had only this resolution to deal with. After the 1973
war, the Rabat Summit decision of 1974 and other factors rein-
forced the Palestinian cause and the PLO’s status in the Arab
and international arenas. Palestinian struggle increased, prov-
ing that this is the cause of a people that requires a just solu-
tion. After all this, how do we find our allies dealing with the
issue? The basis of support to our peoples struggle has
become stronger due to better subjective conditions on our
part. The Soviet Union and other socialist countries call for an
international conference with the participation of the PLO.
They fully support our rights to return, self-determination and
an independent state. This improvement was considered a
defeat of resolution 242.
Yet now the Palestinian right is again lending its ear to
reactionary programs and beginning to abandon the PLO’s
sole representation of the Palestinian people. After the Palesti-
nian right deviated from the national platform, we find the reac-
tionary and imperialist circles again calling for implementing
242. Who do we find alluding to the reactionary program and
returning the matter to where it was on the eve of the creation
of the Zionist entity? It is the Arab reactionary regimes and the
dominant leadership of the PLO. They are doing their best to
spin the wheel backwards.
In contrast, our friends in the socialist community stress
their adherence to their principled position on solving our
cause. We cannot ask.our friends to give more than we our-
selves give. They cannot be a substitute for us in conducting
the conflict with the Zionist enemy. In summary, we stress our
satisfaction with our relations with the socialist community and
the optimal development of these relations. - هو جزء من
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