Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 19)
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- Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 19)
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level, including the 1974 Rabat resolutions and the UN Gen-
eral Assembly resolutions of 1975-76, the Day of the Land
uprising and the ensuing broad, popular uprisings would not
have been possible. By the same token, the Palestinian revolu-
tion could not have been so steadfast against the liquidationist
projects, especially Camp David and ‘autonomy’, without the
heroic steadfastness of our masses in occupied Palestine.
Because of struggle, they were able to bury these projects and
isolate those who collaborated with the Jordanian, Egyptian
and Zionist regimes in campaigning for these projects.
When Sadat signed the Camp David accords, the Egyp-
tian regime made intense attempts to use some collaborators
in the Gaza Strip and West Bank to say yes to these pro-
jects...A delegation of collaborators went to Cairo to support
Sadat, but the Palestinian, whose knife pierced the traitor
Khazandar, put an end to these attempts. The unity of the
Palestinian people is reinforced by the unity of the two bases of
our people’s contemporary struggle, inside and outside
occupied Palestine.
Fourth lesson: Land as the central issue
Even before establishing its state in Palestine, the Zionist
enemy constantly emphasized the land. This is the central
issue in executing the Zionist project for expelling the Palesti-
nian people and burying their national identity, in order to build
the Zionist entity on our ruins. This was adopted as the official
policy of the Israeli state, whereby successive governments
have worked to seize the land and expel our people, using the
most horrible methods. The Day of the Land was to confront
the enemy plan to seize 21,000 dunums of land in the Galilee
and Triangle...Zionism’s viciousness in seizing the land is
apparent to all. How is it then possible for any sane person to
imagine that the Zionist enemy might leave the Palestinian
land other than by force. Today, there are those who bemoan
the loss of the land. Instead, they should tell us how they can
regain the land. They are the ones who tied their fate to the
enemy and put all their cards on the table of US solutions.
Fifth lesson: Struggle
In order to preserve their land and retrieve it from the occu-
pation, the Palestinian people have no choice but stubborn,
protracted struggle by all means, especially armed struggle.
This is the way forward - not running after the mirage of settle-
ments that will only result in damaging the revolution, the PLO,
the people and the cause. To those pessimists who are whis-
pering about defeat and surrender, we say: Learn from the
experience of the Day of the Land. Our unarmed masses rose
up to resist the seizure of the land. They demonstrated, held
sit-ins and formed committees to defend the land. Not one
method was left untried and thus they set a precedent...
The current conspiracy
This, the 10th anniversary of the Day of the Land, occurs
as the Palestinian cause is facing a new chapter in the
imperialist-Zionist-reactionary conspiracy which targets the
land, the people, the cause, the revolution and the PLO. This
chapter is a question of life or death. The future of our struggle
depends on how we confront this conspiracy - whether we will
be able to harvest the fruits of more than twenty years of strug-
gle in the contemporary Palestinian revolution.
This chapter of the conspiracy has a new political title:
Cancelling the PLO to ease the way for a US-Zionist-reac-
tionary settlement of the Palestinian cause, avoiding anything
called the PLO. The criminally mistaken, deviating policy fol-
lowed by the PLO leadership after departing from Beirut, espe-
cially the divisive Amman PNC and the February 11th accord
with King Hussein, led to the PLO’s current state of division and
weakness. This allowed the enemy camp to hope for complete
cancellation of the PLO. This explains King Hussein’s Feb-
ruary 19th speech and the Israeli authorities’ steps to enforce
‘autonomy’ in one way or another...(Comrade Habash went on
to analyze King Hussein's speech and intentions as in his
speech on Martyrs’ Day, printed in the last issue of Democratic
Palestine. )
The lessons of the Day of the Land are a practical retort to
the Jordanian regime's policies. This experience proved that
the land is an essential part of the Palestinian cause, which our
people of all national classes and groups, inside and outside
Palestine, will rise up to protect. The land, in this context, is not
a geographical dimension. This is only for those who want to
reduce the Arab-Zionist conflict to a border dispute. The land is
the pillar of the Palestinian national identity...It is the founda-
tion for building our independent Palestinian state...
The response to the current situation (after Hussein froze
cooperation with the PLO) is reunifying the PLO and restoring
it to the national line. The masses can judge every leader and
organization by the position they take at this moment of
destiny. We cannot possibly restore the PLO to the national
line, or reunify it, without cancelling the Amman accord. Yet
what was the response of the dominating rightist leadership
after King Hussein’s speech?...1 am sorry to say that their
response served to stress their continuation in the same
deviating path. Much later, the statement from Tunis came,
stressing once again the /a’am policy of yes and no - the same
ambiguity which harmed the Palestinian arena and led it to the
traps of deviation and division...Instead of responding to Hus-
sein’s all-out war on the Palestinian people and the PLO...the
rightist leadership announced adherence to the Amman
accord which is the basis for dealing with the US solution. This
encouraged the king to take more actions against our people
and revolution. Instead of focusing on national unity and the
natural alliances of the Palestinian revolution, the rightist
leadership resorted to the mediation of the Camp David regime
in Egypt, and worked to reestablish links to the Jordanian
regime...
Palestinian national unity, which was dealt a severe blow
by the deviating right wing when it signed the Amman accord,
can only be restored by cancelling this accord, and critically
and responsibly reviewing the previous stage and the danger-
ous, deviating policy. This aims at punishing those responsible
and establishing a national program corresponding to the
tasks which currently face our people and revolution. This
program must be executed by a trustworthy collective leader-
ship...
The struggle for restoring the PLO to the national line
remains the concern of the Palestinian national and democra-
tic forces... Today, on the tenth anniversary of the Day of the
Land and the first anniversary of the establishment of the
Palestine National Salvation Front, we renew the call for a
broad national coalition encompassing all Palestinian national
forces, organizations and personalities. Such a front should be
formed on the basis of cancelling the Amman accord...and
restoring the PLO to the national line, hostile to imperialism
and Zionism, based on the national consensus platform and
the resolutions of the PNC in its legitimate sessions. There
must be decisive confrontation to foil the proposed US solu-
tions, and to halt the agents of this plan, inside and outside
occupied Palestine. This is the immediate task...
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