Democratic Palestine : 15 (ص 3)
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Editorial
Snags in the Enemy Plan
In a circular addressed to members of the US House
Foreign Affairs Committee on October 9, 1985, William L. Ball,
assistant secretary for legislative and intergovernmental
affairs, stated that King Hussein of Jordan plays a key role in
the «peace process» in the Middle East. In an attached state-
ment, Ball added, «Indeed a strong, stable Jordan, able to
defend itself against radical pressures, is in Israel's interests,
as well as our own.»
In aspeech delivered on February 19, 1986, King Hussein
himself made it very clear that he will serve Zionist and
imperialist interests, even if these contradict with the interests
he is supposed to represent. The king’s speech was carefully
planned and timed. It was devoted to attacking the PLO and
the Palestinian revolution, on the assumption that the overall
conditions in the area would serve his ends. (See following
speech by Comrade George Habash for more analysis of Hus-
sein’s speech.)
King Hussein estimated that the nationalist and progres-
sive forces were handicapped by the prevailing balance of
power which is tilting in favor of the reactionary forces — in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, in Egypt, in Iraq and the Gulf gener-
ally, etc. Yet it now seems that the winds did not blow as King
Hussein, Shimon Peres and Ronald Reagan had anticipated.
In the West Bank, Palestinian revolutionaries im-
plemented the people's judgement against Zafer al Masri, the
Israeli-appointed mayor of Nablus and collaborator with the
occupation. This revolutionary judgement forced other col-
laborators to withdraw from participation in the Israeli-Jorda-
nian plan for joint rule of the Palestinian land and people, with
the help of Palestinian collaborators.
In Egypt, the regime, one of US imperialism’s main allies
and a strong supporter of King Hussein's policies, was deeply
shaken by the Egyptian conscripts’ revolt. The regime’s weak-
ness was underscored by the fact that the popular masses
joined in the revolt which was directed against Egypt's rela-
tions with the Israeli enemy and imperialism.
To the east of Jordan, the Iraqi regime, another main ally,
received heavy blows in the latest flare-up of the Iraq-lran war,
on both the northern and southern fronts.
To these events was added the failure of US pressure
against Libya, unsuccessful Israeli tactics in Lebanon and con-
tinued resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank, Gaza
Strip and Golan Heights. All this indicates that the US and
Israeli policies, in collaboration with Arab reactionaries such as
Hussein, are not running smoothly. Rather, they are facing real
difficulties despite the fact that the Palestinian right-wing, rep-
resented by the Arafat leadership of the PLO, has failed to
respond to the dangers facing the Palestinian cause. This
leadership has so far failed to cancel the Amman accord with
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King Hussein, which paved the way for this dictator to try to
implement his conspiracy against the Palestinian people.
The right-wing leadership's failure to respond to the pre-
sent danger was manifest in the PLO Executive Committee’s
statement on Hussein's speech, issued on March 8th. A PFLP
Politbureau spokesman commented on this statement as fol-
lows: «The PLO rightist leadership's statement is disappoint-
ing to the Palestinian people who expected this leadership to
cancel the Amman accord and abandon its betting on US solu-
tions. This should have-been the response to King Hussein’s
speech and his attempts to create an alternative to the
PLO...The PFLP once again calls on all Palestinian organiza-
tions, forces and personalities to close ranks and unite in a
broad nationalist coalition to abrogate the Amman accord and
confront the threats explicit in Hussein’s speech... The PFLP
also calls on all leaders, cadres and members of Fatah (Cent-
ral Committee), who are opposed to the Amman accord, to
exert all possible pressure on the right-wing leadership of the
PLO. This would be an important contribution to abrogating the
accord, and pave the way for reuniting the PLO...» @
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Table of Contents
1 Editorial: Snags in the Enemy Plan
2 Martyrs’ Day — Speech of Comrade Habash
5 Execution of Zafer al Masri
6 «King Hussein Doesn't Speak for Us.» — interviews
8 Peres and Unilateral ‘Autonomy’
9 The lron Fist— Deportations
10 Military Operations
11 Occupied Palestine — February 1986
13 1948 Occupied Palestine
Survey of Zionist Policy
16 Operation Terror
1986 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
18 Lebanon — View from the Mountain
Interviews with Freedom Fighters
21 International Women’s Day
23 Egypt— The Tip of the Iceberg
The Conscripts’ Revolt
25 Political Prisoners in Jordan
Amnesty International Circular
27 CPSU 27th Congress
Cuba— 3rd Party Congress
28 Special Relationship
‘Israel’ and West Germany
31 Nazi-Zionist Collaboration
32 Development ofthe Poster in the PFLP
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