Democratic Palestine : 15 (ص 35)
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- Democratic Palestine : 15 (ص 35)
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shape of Palestine, cradling a rifle in her
arm.
There is no record of the number of
artists who participated in the production
of the PFLP’s posters in that period
except those who worked regularly for a
period of time. Ghassan Kanafani did
several of the Front’s early posters, but
there were other Palestinian and Arab
artists who contributed, such as Shafiq
Radwan, Rafiq Sharaf and others.
The seventies: Accumulating
events and experience
This period of the revolution witnes-
sed many dramatic events that came
faster than they could be absorbed.
There was the resistance’s departure
from Jordan to Lebanon. Then there was
the October War, followed by disen-°
gagement agreements on the Arab
fronts. Then came the Geneva confer-
ence, the PLO's interim program and the
strengthening of the PLO’s institutions.
The PLO took its first solid steps towards
asserting its representation of the Pales-
tinian people, as was confirmed at the
Rabat summit in 1974. In the mid-seven-
ties, we witnessed the civil war in Leba-
non and the massacre at Tel al Zaatar
refugee camp. Then there was the Day
of the Land uprising in the Galilee in
1976, then Sadat’s 1977 visit to
Jerusalem, Camp David and the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon in 1978...
In the midst of these events, the
Palestinian resistance was sometimes
in the position of reacting to events, at
other times making events. It is beyond
our purpose here to go into all the politi-
cal headlines of this period. Rather we
will examine how the Front presented
political posters in this period, and what
were the main characteristics of these
posters.
First: It became a tradition to com-
memorate the anniversaries of special
occasions for the PFLP, such as the
anniversary of its foundation, the Day of
the Martyr and Ghassan Kanafani’s
martyrdom, as well as general Palesti-
nian national occasions. These occa-
sions multiplied with the addition of new
ones such as Women’s Day, the Day of
the Land, the Day of the Prisoner, May
1st, May 15th - the occupation of Pales-
tine, Tel Al Zaatar, etc. Many posters
were made as part of these commem-
orations.
Second: Posters appeared reflect-
ing the relations of solidarity between
the Front and the Arab and other
national liberation movements. One
example was the poster issued by the
PFLP on the occasion of July 19th - The
Day, of Solidarity with the Sudanese
People. It showed the repression suf-
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fered by the Sudanese masses and
revolutionary vanguards at that time.
One year, on the occasion of Interna-
tional Women’s Day, the PFLP’s
Women’s Bureau published a poster in
solidarity with the struggle of women in
the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic. It
showed two women, one Palestinian
and the other from the Sahara, facing
one another, both holding weapons. A
poster made in solidarity with Vietnam
had the slogan: «This is the peace
wanted by the US and Zionism in Viet-
nam and Palestine.» It showed one of
the horrible US massacres in Vietnam.
Representing international solidar-
" ity between different peoples, the PFLP
issued a poster with a picture of the milit-
ant Patrick Arguella. In the background
was a map of Palestine and the slogan:
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