Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 20)
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- Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 20)
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Comrades Abu Maher and George Habash with
PLO Executive Committee member Abu Maizer.
The US attack on Libya
This year’s Day of the Land comes as the imperidilist-
Zionist attack on the Arab region is escalating, taking the form
of direct military aggression and blatant interference by US
imperialism. This attack targets not only the Palestinian revolu-
tion, but also Libya, Syria and the Lebanese nationalist forces.
Nor does it exclude Algeria and Democratic Yemen. Over the
last months, US imperialism has assembled its fleet off Libya’s
shores. It launched a massive international campaign against
Libya’s revolution. Then, a few days ago, it deliberately and
directly attacked...aiming to bring Libya to its knees and pre-
vent it from continuing its supportive role in the ranks of the
Arab liberation movement, especially its support to the Syrian-
Lebanese-Palestinian triangle of steadfastness. This attack
aims at preventing Libya from practicing a policy hostile to
imperialism, Zionism and reaction.
Reagan claims that his campaign aims at preventing
Libya from fueling what he calls «terrorism». This is a big lie. A
year ago, | read a cover article in Newsweek magazine...This
was before the Rome and Vienna attacks, when the campaign
against Libya escalated. The article was about the US
administration’s approach to getting rid of President Qaddafi.
Is this because the US, as it claims, wants to put an end to ter-
rorism? If so, the US would have stopped Israeli terrorism in
South Lebanon, and the iron fist policy in occupied Palestine.
What the US actually wants is to threaten Libya in order to
divert it from supporting the Palestinian revolution, and the
Arab and other liberation movements. | therefore declare our
absolute solidarity with the steadfastness of the Libyan
Jamahiria in facing US arrogance. We salute our brother, Col-
onel Moamer Qaddafi, for his heroic stand facing
Washington's threats. We salute the people, leadership and
revolution of Libya.
In the light of our political reading of the current imperialist
attack and its aims, we also salute Syria's steadfastness under
the leadership of President Hafez al Assad. There are con-
secutive Zionist threats aimed at escalating tension and the
threat of war, in order to make Syria kneel and divert it from its
primary role in confronting US policy in the region. Right now,
1,800 Israeli tanks are amassed in the Golan Heights. Why?
‘Israel’ follows a policy of preemptive war. ff ‘Israel’ fears that
an Arab state is rallying its forces for confronting Israeli aggres-
sion and restoring Arab rights, then ‘Israel’ deems it best to
initiate the aggression in order to weaken the Arab force in
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question. Based on our understanding of the dialectical link
between the Palestinian revolution and the Arab national liber-
ation movement, we in the Palestine National Salvation Front
declare that Libya's battle is our battle. Syria’s battle is our bat-
tle. We will join in this battle with all our capacity. These threats
and attacks indicate a new phase in the enemy alliance’s
aggression on the region. After the dead end reached by the
enemy efforts, especially on the Lebanese front with the can-
Cellation of the May 17th accord, and on the Palestinian-Jorda-
nian front, the imperialist-Zionist alliance is escalating its
aggression and resorting to acts of piracy.
Lebanon
In Lebanon, there are serious attempts to destroy the
nationalist project which made great accomplishments in 1984
and early 1985. The enemy forces are using Lebanon as a
gateway for conspiring against Syria in order to drown it in the
Lebanese quicksand, as the western media puts it. Lebanon is
being used as a gateway for attacking the steadfast Palesti-
nian, Lebanese and Syrian nationalist forces. After attacking
the tripartite agreement (for political reform), ‘Israel’ and its
agents escalated their military actions and presence in South
Lebanon. On this occasion, we renew our absolute support to
the struggle of the Lebanese national and democratic forces
for a national democratic solution to the Lebanese crisis...
In view of the nature of the conflict in Lebanon, which
targets Syria and the Lebanese nationalists, | was as sorry as
you to hear about the fighting which erupted around Sabra and
Shatila camps in the last two days... The only available solution
for these contradictions is abiding by the June 1985 agreement
which ended the tragic camp war. We demand precise
implementation of this agreement. | call on all our brothers and
comrades, the fighters in Sabra and Shatila and all the camps
in Lebanon, to fully sense the great responsibility of protecting
the Palestinian armed struggle which must remain in Lebanon
in alliance with Syria and the Lebanese national movement to
assume their responsibility towards this distressing situation.
The battle
The battle waged by imperialism, Zionism and reaction
against the people and national forces in the Arab region is
becoming more comprehensive and assuming the form of
direct military intervention. This serious threat aims to break
the nationalist forces and spread the US option, Camp David,
throughout the region. Yet despite the dangers of this battle,
despite Palestinian division and the crisis of the Arab national
liberation movement and despite the conspiring of the Arab
regimes, the Palestinian and Arab masses’ potentials will be
strong enough to change this gloomy picture. There is evi-
dence of this possibility in the escalation of political, mass and
military resistance in occupied Palestine. The Lebanese
National Resistance’s success in confronting the Zionist-fas-
cist project is also evidence of this possibility. We find evidence
in the continuing resistance of the people of Golan, confronting
the Zionist enemy and rejecting the plans of Zionization. The
heroic February uprising in Egypt, challenging Camp David
and its social, political and economic consequences, may be
the best evidence of the potentials of the Arab nation. Our
Palestinian people, relying on the forces of liberation, peace,
progress and socialism, especially our great friend, the Soviet
Union, and in joint struggle with the Arab masses, will be able
to foil the imperialist-Zionist plan and win their right to libera-
tion, independence, progress, socialism and unity. e@ - هو جزء من
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