Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 12)
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- Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 12)
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contain it. However, the slogan loses validity if taken to mean
limiting the battle of liberation to the Palestinian people,
because this would mean depriving the Palestinian national
struggle of the objective Arab conditions required for the battle
to liberate Palestine. The Palestinian revolution needs suppor-
tive operational bases bordering Palestine, to provide the
geographic and demographic depth for a protracted people’s
war. There is an organic relationship between the Palestinian
national struggle and the Arab national liberation movement.
The Palestinian revolution and cause plays a vanguard role in
the realization of the national goals of the Arab nation.
7. Jordan is the main and special arena and
Supportive operational base for the Palestinian
revolution
Because of the nature and size of the Palestinian popula-
tion there, Jordan has distinguishing features. Sixty-five per-
cent of the population is Palestinians who have become Jorda-
nian citizens, not merely refugees as is the case in the other
Arab countries. This is a result of the merger and annexation
process achieved in the Jericho conference of 1948.* The
Palestinian revolution is responsible for mobilizing and recruit-
ing the Palestinian masses in the different areas, including Jor-
dan. While the role of the Palestinian revolution in the process
of revolutionary change in the other Arab countries is a suppor-
tive one, in Jordan it is a major partner. The Jordanian arena is
considered a supportive operational base for a number of
reasons: It has the longest border with Palestine; it offers the
Palestinian revolution the opportunity of extensive contact with
the Palestinian masses in the occupied territories; it plays a
special vanguard role in the liberation of Palestinian land.
8. The Palestinian revolution is part of the
international revolution against imperialism,
Zionism and reaction
The PFLP considers that the suffering of the Palestinian
people from oppression, injustice, slavery and banishment, is
nothing other than the direct results of the practices of interna-
tional capitalism and its development into the stage of
imperialism. The Zionist entity is a colonial state established by
imperialism and provided with the support needed to remain
strong and to thrive, so that imperialism can rely on this entity
to insure continued domination of the region, the plunder and
exploitation of its resources, as well as the benefits of its
strategic location. As a result the Palestinian people stand in
the same trench as all other oppressed peoples and classes
which are harmed by colonialist and capitalist regimes. Thus
the struggle of the Palestinian people is part of the world-wide
battle against imperialism and the reactionary forces con-
nected with it.
9. Protracted people's war is the only way to
liberation
The liberation of Palestine can only be achieved by the
use of force. All other forms of struggle must complement
armed struggle. However, the technological-military superior-
ity of the imperialist-Zionist enemy means that quick, classical
warfare is to its advantage. Therefore, the successful method
for confronting the superior enemy, as concluded from the
experience of the peoples, is guerrilla warfare. In the first
stages of struggle, this begins by wearing down the enemy
gradually, thereafter continuously mobilizing the masses of the
Palestinian and Arab people in a protracted war which will ulti-
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mately be able to achieve victory.
10. The importance of the organizational issue
The political organization is vastly important. Without it,
political aims, despite being correct and just, will remain
dreams and hopes. The third national congress of the PFLP
(1972) gave priority to the task of building the revolutionary
party. The second priority was the united national front. The
revolutionary party is one which adopts the ideology of the
working class as its theoretical guideline. In class terms, such
a party is composed of the vanguards of the working class. It
adopts the principle of democratic centralism in its internal
relations.
The united national front, on the other hand, is the organi-
Zational framework which includes the various classes of the
revolution and their parties and organizations. The PLO is the
broad national front through which the PFLP struggles on the
basis of the following principles: (1) collective leadership;
(2) democratic relations between the factions of the revolution:
(3) the right of each faction to ideological, political and organi-
zational independence; and (4) representation of all factions in
the PLO’s institutions, proportional to the growth of their role in
the revolutionary process.
11. The aim of the Palestinian revolution is to
liberate Palestine and found a popular
democratic state on all of the Palestinian land
The aim of the Palestinian struggle is the liberation of
Palestine from the expansionist, colonial, imperialist, Zionist
presence. The conflict with the Zionist enemy is not based on
national or religious chauvinism. Thus, the revolution aims at
establishing a popular democratic state wherein both Arabs
and Jews enjoy equal rights and duties. The process of liberat-
ing Palestine also entails liberating the Jewish masses who
were recruited by Zionism and imperialism, as cannon fodder
in the war against the people of the region. Thus it is natural
that the Palestinian revolution should find an ally in Jewish
opposition to Zionism and imperialism. The democratic Pales-
tinian state will unite with the other Arab countries in a progres-
sive Arab society. After liberation, the Jews will be citizens of a
democratic socialist society.
Major Political Stands
1.On the Jordanian regime
The PFLP considers that Jordan, by virtue of its geog-
raphical location, exercises great political and military influ-
ence on the Arab-Zionist conflict. From the very start, the PFLP
regarded coexistence between the Palestinian resistance and
the Jordan regime as impossible. This explains the many
clashes between the two. The PFLP also considers that the
resistance’s hesitation to confront the regime meant the loss of
an invaluable opportunity, and enabled the regime to strike the
resistance in September 1970 and drive it out of Jordan in July
1971. With this, the Palestinian resistance lost its most impor-
tant base - most important because of Jordan's special fea-
tures and because it is the primary and most natural base for
the revolution.
2.Confrontation of the settlement trend after the
1973 war and the foundation of the Palestinian
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