Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 25)

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Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 25)

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PFLP’s 18th Anniversary
Celebrations
The celebration of the PFLP’s 18th anniversary was far more than a central rally. For example, in the
camps surrounding Damascus, it meant two weeks of events open to the public: a handicrafts exhibition
organized by the Women’s Bureau; three nights of music and folkdancing; an art exhibition including
graphics, posters and children’s drawings; a march to commemorate the martyrs; receptions and semi-
nars. There was an exhibition of Palestinian art in the Soviet Cultural Center in Damascus, and an evening
to honor the comrades who were liberated from the Zionist jails. In addition, celebrations were held in
other camps in Syria and Lebanon, and among Palestinian communities in other countries.
The central rally was held in Yarmouk camp on December 13th. Speakers included PNC President
Khalid Fahoum; Said Salem of the Central Committee of the Yemeni Socialist Party; Anmad Durgham,
member of the Regional Leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party (Syria); and George Hawi, General
Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party. George Habash, General Secretary of the PFLP, delivered
the main speech which is printed below.
Comrade George Habash opened
his address by greeting every family
that has given a son or daughter for
Palestine. He greeted the steadfast
prisoners in the Zionist jails and all the
Palestinian masses in the occupied
homeland, the masses in the camps of
Beirut and all of Lebanon, and the
Palestinian people everywhere. He also
saluted the Lebanese National Resis-
tance Front and the Lebanese masses,
the masses of Egypt and Suleiman Kha-
ter, hero of the Sinai. He saluted the
Arab nationalist regimes, the national
liberation movements in Asia, Africa
and Latin America, and the Soviet
Union, the faithful friend of the Palesti-
nian people, and ail the forces of peace,
progress and socialism. He then con-
tinued, as follows:
Comrades, 1985 has been the most
difficult year for our contemporary
revolution. | say this after carefully
reviewing the revolution’s experience
from 1965 until 1985. You might ask
why: Is it more difficult than 1970-71, or
more difficult than 1982? Yes, this year
was more difficult than all these years. In
previous years, our revolution consoli-
dated and successfully confronted the
Zionist and imperialist attacks. This
year, though, there was a collapse within
the PLO and the Palestinian revolution.
The deviating, dominating, _ rightist
leadership of the PLO signed the Feb-
ruary 11th accord in Amman. Whatis the
meaning of this accord? Literally, it
means adopting not only the US solution
for the Palestinian cause, but the Zionist
one as well. You may wonder how this
can be...
Before the founding of the current
revolution, Zionism and imperialism
worked on the basis of completely eras-
ing the Palestinian cause. Then, armed
struggle started and our people gave
tens of thousands of martyrs. Our
people struggled steadfastly for almost
Mass Rally
Comrade Habash
Speaks
twenty years. Resolutions were adopted
in the UN by the whole world, except for
‘Israel’ and the US, calling for solving the
Palestinian cause on the basis of estab-
lishing a Palestinian state. Of course,
the US and ‘Israel’ did not recognize
these resolutions, but they could not go
on saying that there was no such thing
as the Palestinian cause. Instead they
began saying that there is a Palestinian
question that needs to be solved via the
‘Jordanian option’. At least, that's how
Reagan and Peres refer to it. They mean
that the Palestinian cause is to be solved
by granting self-rule in the framework of
the Jordanian state. Now looking at the
Amman accord, it means literally to
adopt this Zionist and US version of solv-
ing the Palestinian cause.
If any of you are thinking that this
agreement is like any other agreement,
and that the Palestinian revolution has
passed through several phases and
signed many agreements over the past >
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