Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 37)
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with struggle and sacrifices, are able to
confront the conditions imposed. Then,
our people will be able to impose the
implementation of the resolutions about
their legitimate national rights to self-
determination and an_ independent
state, as stated in the UN resolutions
and the resolutions of the 16th PNC. We
have unlimited faith that history is watch-
ing our people’s striving for liberation,
independence and peace. We are confi-
dent of the struggling people’s ability
and will to achieve their legitimate
national rights, because victory is their
destiny.
Signatories
1. Bassam Shakaa, elected mayor of
Nablus
2. Adel Ghanem, Secretary General of
the General Federation of Trade Unions
3. Fared Abu Warda
4. Abdulla Abul ‘Ata
5. Yousef Farhat, elected member of
Ramallah municipal council
6. Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi, head of the
PRCS in the Gaza Strip
7. Higher Committee for Volunteer Work
8. Union of Palestinian Working
Women's Committees
10.Progressive Front for Trade Union
Action
11.Waheed Hamdallah, elected mayor
of Anabta
12.Mamoun Al Sayed, former editor-in-
chief of A/ Fajr
13.Khaldoun Abdel Haq, elected
member of Nablus municipal council
14.Khaled Nasser Dein, lawyer
15.Issam Rabia, elected member of Bir
Zeit municipal council
16.Mustafa al Hamad, elected member
of Bir Zeit municipal council
17.Nafeth Midhat Wahedi, president of
the Mount of Olives Institution
18.Abdel Hadi Abu Khosa, president of
the Central Blood Bank Society
19.Khalil Kheir, deputy mayor of Beit'
Sahour
20.Ahmed Musa, elected member of El
Bira municipal council
21.Dr. Anmed Hamza al Natshe
22.Dr. Nichola Awad, elected member of
Ramallah municipal council
23.Abdelrahman Natshe
24.Abdel Fattah Jabaren, lawyer
25.Abdel Qader Abu Samra, school
principle
26.Younis al Jarew, lawyer
27.Khalid Aweda od
Yellow Journalism
To Silence the Palestinian Press
Palestinian journalism in_ the
occupied homeland is currently being
subjected to rapid attempts by the Jor-
danian regime and _ the Zionist
authorities, to control it and silence its
nationalist voices. Sources in the
occupied territories point out that the
Jordanian regime’s puppets have pre-
sented a request to the Zionist
authorities to establish a daily news-
paper that would express their opinion.
Othman Hallaq, one of the pro-Jor-
danians, said: «We have received
encouraging signs from the Israelis and
they promised us a permit...Not a single
newspaper in the West Bank supports
the moderate line or Jordan...We wanta
newspaper that would defend the princi-
ple of land for peace.» Hallaq mentioned
that the newspaper would be estab-
lished as a corporation, and that he had
requested investment from Jordan.
Rafael Levi, Israeli Interior Ministry
Official, in charge of issuing newspaper
permits, said that he is considering the
request positively and a final decision is
expected in two weeks.
In the meantime, the occupation
authorities confiscated the November
29th (Palestine Day) issues of four
Jerusalem newspapers: A/ Quds, Al
Fajr, Al Shaab, Al Mithaq. The
authorities claimed this move was to
make sure that the editors would abide
by censorship regulations. It is known
that the occupation authorities impose
strict censorship on Palestinian news-
papers. They have previously closed a
number of newspapers and magazines,
and arrested and deported a number of
journalists.
The request for opening this news-
paper coincides with the Jordanian
regime's attempts to bolster its position
in the West Bank, in order to create a
situation enabling unilateral negotia-
tions with the Zionist enemy. It corres-
ponds to the Zionists’ arrest and depor-
tation campaign and the widespread
arrests carried out by the regime in Jor-
dan. It comes right after the appointment
of Thafer al Masri as mayor of Nablus.
This Jordanian move to create an
organ of yellow journalism is actually an
attempt to silence the Palestinian
nationalist press in the occupied land. In
the last decades, this press has played
an important role in mobilizing the Pales-
tinian masses against the enemy's pro-
jects of Judaization, Camp David and
‘autonomy’. The undeclared Jordanian-
Israeli coordination in attacking the
Palestinian press is an attempt to pre-
vent the nationalist newspapers from
exposing the conspiracy being
engineered in Amman and Tel Aviv. In
Mastheads of censored Palestinian dailies «Al Mithaq»
and «Al Talia»
addition, it aims to provide a forum for
confusing public opinion. The attempt to
‘replace Palestinian nationalist jour-
nalism with yellow journalism is part of
the Jordanian regime's efforts to fully
control the position of the PLO and the
Palestinians under occupation, in order
to push forward the liquidationist solu-
tion,
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