Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 36)
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- Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 36)
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Twenty-seven nationalist leaders and
associations in occupied Palestine
signed the following memorandum and
sent copies to the UN, the Arab League
and the PNC’s legitimate president
Khaled Fahoum.
The signing of the Amman agree-
ment between the Jordanian regime and
the PLO leadership on February 11th,
was an advanced step on the part of the
PLO leadership towards being fully
involved in the US-Zionist-reactionary
solution. In this agreement, the PLO
leadership relinquished the PLO’s sole
representation of the Palestinian
people, and their basic national rights
which have been recognized by the
world community and the UN.
After this agreement was signed,
the so-called iron fist policy was tight-
ened against our people in the occupied
homeland. Under the so-called law of
administrative detention, the military
authorities have arrested scores of our
people. Some of them have been
deported. The authorities have stepped
up their repressive measures by putting
several cities and towns under curfew,
and demolishing scores of homes. The
Zionist authorities have practiced the
most degrading and horrible humiliation
against civilians in the streets. This is an
attempt to break the will of the people
and force them, through a combination
of terror, oppression and psychological
warfare, to submit to what is being plan-
ned for them in the conspiratory Arab
Capitals, and to accept the deviating
PLO leadership which has not stopped
Offering concessions at the expense of
our national rights.
The Israeli air raid against the PLO
leadership’s headquarters in Tunis, the
highjacking of the Italian ship and the US
Piracy against the Egyptian plane, were
used as pretexts for cancelling the prop-
osed meeting between the British
foreign minister and the Palestinian rep-
resentatives in the joint delegation. All
this was used to pressure the deviating
leadership of the PLO to make more
concessions, recognizing resolutions
242 and 338, and renouncing armed
struggle. This pressure took the form of
blackmail, that if the PLO leadership
does not give in to these demands, it will
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be excluded completely from the settle-
ment negotiations. These negotiations
intend to liquidate the Palestinian cause
through some deviators and con-
spirators who are not representative of
our people, and who will give in to all the
demands of the enemy camp.
Hussein’s speech at the UN, and
his interviews and press releases, blend
with the US settlement plan and the
Peres initiative at the UN. Hussein's
speech is not far removed from the US-
Israeli view of the Arab-Iisraeli conflict
and the means for dealing with it. The
plans of Hussein and Peres are but a
new link towards achieving the US-Zion-
ist project that aims at tightening the grip
of US imperialism in the region, ignoring
all principles of peace and justice. US
imperialism ignores world opinion and
tries to exclude the Soviet Union, the
friend and ally of the Palestinian people
and the Arab nation.
In the light of the above, we would
like to stress the following:
First: We refuse the Amman agree-
ment and all its deviating consequ-
ences, trends and means. This agree-
ment ignores the Palestinian people's
right to self-determination and an inde-
pendent state; it ignores the PLO’s right
to represent the Palestinian people, and
the 16th PNC’s resolutions.
Second: We emphasize Palesti-
nian national unity on the basis of con-
fronting all liquidationist plans, and that
the PLO is the sole, legitimate represen-
tative of the Palestinian people.
Third: We refuse all attempts at
pressure and political blackmail prac-
ticed against our people by the parties to
the US-lsraeli-reactionary conspiracy.
We refuse the pressure represented in
the Peres initiative that ignores all Pales-
tinian national rights which have been
stressed in UN resolutions, first and
foremost our right to self-determination
and an independent state.
Fourth: We stress the necessity of
a Syrian-Palestinian-Lebanese nation-
alist alliance. We consider this alliance
one of the main nationalist tasks to be
achieved at this stage. This is especially
true considering the exposure of
attempts to ignite the Lebanese arena,
to be used as a pressure against the
Arab confrontation camp. These
attempts aim to foil the struggle of the
triangle of steadfastness against the
imperialist plan, especially after the can-
cellation of the May 17th accord, and
after assurances have been given con-
cerning the Palestinian people's right to
existence, security and struggle in Leba-
non, through their revolutionary nation-
alist vanguard which represents the van-
guard of the Arab national liberation
movement in its central cause.
Fifth: We condemn and refuse all
the suspicious moves in the occupied
land, including the moves that aim at
imposing non-nationalist solutions to the
question of municipalities, reducing this
patriotic issue to a question of providing
daily services. These moves deliber-
ately ignore the necessity of adhering to
the national position of the municipalities
that have refused all the liquidationist
projects of the occupation: ‘autonomy’,
‘civil’ administration and the latest suspi-
cious moves of the lobby of 28. The
lobby of 28 is a Palestinian-Jordanian
lobby established to support the
liquidationist Amman agreement. It calls
for the arrangement of internal matters,
i.e., universities, institutions, schools
and trade unions, in a way that would
complement the anticipated results of
the capitulationist program.
Sixth: We refuse and condemn the
iron fist policy practiced against our
people and citizens everywhere, espe-
Cially in the Israeli prisons. We call on the
Arab and international public to expose
these oppressive,. racist actions and
stop them immediately. We call on our
people, all Arab states and national and
progressive forces, and all our interna-
tional friends and _ allies, first and
foremost the Soviet Union and the
socialist community, to join us in con-
fronting this US-Zionist-reactionary
attack that aims at keeping the Arab reg-
ion under US influence. We must con-
front this in order to foil the criminal pro-
ject for liquidating the Palestinian cause
and attacking the nationalist and prog-
ressive forces in the Lebanese arena.
We are confident that our heroic
Palestinian people, together with the
nationalist and progressive forces, and
all the forces of progress and goodness
in the world, are capable of defeating
this hegemonic invasion. Our people, - هو جزء من
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