Democratic Palestine : 17 (ص 17)
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- Democratic Palestine : 17 (ص 17)
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foundation that guarantees against any deviation in the future,
that guarantees that there would be responsible, serious exami-
nation of anyone who has departed from legitimate decisions or
provided a cover for this departure.
In his speech of February 19, 1986, King Hussein announced
the suspension of coordination with Arafat and Fatah’s Central
Committee. We thought that this would have created an oppor-
tunity for this leadership to review its calculations and retreat
from its position, thus announcing the cancellation of the
February 11th agreement. However, they did not do so, thus
wasting an opportunity for the Palestinian people and the PLO,
to pave the way for dialogue about the means for reestablishing
national unity.
Our Palestinian people have a long experience in struggle.
They know how to get rid of the occupation. They are deter-
mined to defeat the occupation and build an independent Pales-
tinian state and return to their cities and villages. Our people
will not be deterred from achieving this goal, regardless of the
size of the obstacles. The uprising now going on against the
occupation is one of the signs of this.
How much contact, Dr. Habash, is it possible for
you to have with the people of the occupied territo-
ries? How much of an organization does the PFLP
have there? Has the way the PFLP has developed
under occupation surprised you?
We consider communication with our people in the occupied
territories as one of our most important duties. In this way we
learn what they are thinking, what they are suffering and what
struggle methods they are able to use-for this changes in accor-
dance with the prevailing situation. We have therefore esta-
blfshed our own methods for constant communication with our
people in the different areas under occupation. I think you will
understand if I don’t talk about these methods due to the secu-
rity considerations involved, but I assure you that there is daily
contact.
One of the factors that enables us to make daily contact is the
broad range of the Popular Front’s organization which is dis-
tributed in all parts of the occupied land. It is present in most if
not all of the fields of our people’s life under occupation. The
Popular Front’s organization in the occupied land is one of the
most important in the battle against the occupation on the poli-
tical, mass and military levels. We depend on our masses who
are fighting against the occupation from within their trade
unions, on the land, in cooperatives, factories, schools, univer-
sities and via other forms of daily struggle, including the
ongoing struggle inside the Zionist prisons.
Due to security conditions for the Popular Front’s organiza-
tion in the occupied land, I cannot reveal its strength in num-
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bers, but I assure you that it is a main, leading force - as the
enemy knows and has admitted. We were able to overcome all
the enemy’s attempts to deal a final blow to our organization,
and it has remained strong and active. Of course, the develop-
ment of our organization did not surprise me, because I watched
this growth daily. This raises my admiration and pride and
makes me more confident of victory.
Do you ever see a Solution, in your own lifetime, for
example? Knowing them as you do, how do you
expect the people of the West Bank, Gaza etc. to
react to the prospect of an indefinite stalemate?
Will they be able to preserve that identity?
The nature of the enemy that occupies our land and uproots
our people makes me say that our battle is not an easy, short one
as has been proven by the events. This is especially true since we
face an enemy which receives massive aid from the strongest
imperialist force in the world, US imperialism and from other
imperialist countries. This support is subject to no conditions,
no matter how inhuman and immoral the practices of this state
of ‘Israel’ are, no matter how much it violates the basic laws of
reason and justice in its aggression against our people and revo-
lution.
Our people know that our battle is not an easy one or short,
and they are determined to continue the struggle. The com-
plexity of the battle we are fighting to win our independence and
build our national state, will not make us lose hope in the possi-
bility of victory. The people of Algeria sacrificed a million
martyrs to win their independence, and they succeeded. The
people of Vietnam resisted the French, the US and their allies -
and won. So did other peoples of the world, despite the length of
their period of suffering under occupation and oppression.
Our people fought against the Ottomans who stayed in our
countries for over 400 years. Our people fought the British
Mandate for over 30 years. Our people have resisted the Zionist
invasion of Palestine since the end of the last century. They are
continuing the struggle without despair. They have no doubt that
victory is coming. This is the meaning of the fact that we find
our children, no more than seven years old, confronting the
occupation troops with stones and sticks in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. This is the meaning of the fact that the children of
Rashidiyeh camp confronted the Israeli invaders with simple
weapons and bravery, although the latter were armed with the
newest tools of destruction - tanks, planes, cluster, splinter and
vacuum bombs. The world named the children of the camps in
South Lebanon «the RPG children.»
Our people adhere to their struggle and national identity more
than ever. Every day, they invent a new method for asserting
their national identity. Those who wager on the despair of our
people should look at the celebration of the March 30th Day of
the Land every year. Those who think that our people will be
struck by despair should look at how our people in the occupied
land have begun celebrating weddings. These have become
national occasions with national songs and the chanting of slo-
gans that challenge the occupation. Those who think our people
will become frustrated must look at the fruit harvests which
have been turned into occasions where our people demonstrate
their mutual solidarity in facing the occupation. The volunteer
work committees of young men and women offer their services
to help the peasants pick their fruit, thus taking advantage of the
opportunity to educate one another about the occupation plans.
They raise their children on the necessity of confronting the
occupation to the end.
Is it necessary to name all the forms which prove that our
seople are determined to continue the struggle until victory over
‘he occupation? Let us look, for example, at school students
who volunteer to help carry out the projects of their national
nunicipalities in the 1967 and 1948 occupied territories. Such
2fforts have even increased after the Israeli government
mpeded payment of the deficit to these municipalities. How are
a people of this caliber going to be frustrated? How can their
ational identity vanish?
In closing, I can confirm that victory is coming, but J cannot
sive a time for this. I can anticipate things, but I cannot predict
the future. @
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