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efforts with Syria to improve relations.
On the popular level, the PLO must strengthen its alliance
with the nationalist and progressive forces in the Arab world,
because it is they who stand in the same trench with the Pales-
tinian people, confronting imperialism and Zionism.
On the international level, it must be clear that the natural
allies of the Palestinian revolution, like for any liberation
movement, are the Soviet Union and other socialist countries,
and the progressive and peace-loving forces all over the world.
The right wing in the PLO has tried to equate the imperialist
countries of Western Europe with the socialist countries. If the
distinction between the two is not made clear in the future
program of national unity, this could ease the way for the
imposition of the US imperialist schemes via its European
allies.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUE
To guarantee honest and sure implementation of the
national unity program, the organizational basis for national
‘unity in the PLO must be clearly defined. The organizational
issue is as vital as the political questions, for experience has
proved that the PLO institutions, if dominated by a bourgeois
and rightist majority, can deviate from the national platform,
when pressured by the enemy. Thus, the coming dialogue must
deal with sensitive, concrete issues such as the composition of
the new executive committee, the PNC and all other PLO ins-
PLO institutions for two reasons: First, this is necessary to
prevent deviation from the national unity program agreed on,
by denying the Palestinian bourgeois the majority it previously
held. Second, this would reflect the size and activity of the
democratic forces in the Palestinian arena, which is greater
than their former representation in the PLO institutions. To
give some examples: The ‘Palestinian Communist Party, the
Popular Struggle Front and the Palestinian Liberation Front
were never represented in the executive committee. The PFLP
had only 13 members among the 400 members of the PNC,
with Saiqa, the DFLP, and PFLP-General Command each
having about the same. The remaining majority of PNC
members were appointed by the chairman. The democratic
forces did not head any one of the 93 PLO offices around the
world.
Thus, an important point of discussion in the national dia-
logue should be the membership of a coming PNC. Will the
members of a new, unifying PNC be those of the illegitimate
session in Amman in 1984, or those of the 16th session in
Algeria, whose term has expired according to the PLO’s
internal constitution. Or will it be new members committed to
the unity and rectification of the PLO’s line, as agreed upon
among the Palestinian patriotic organizations?
These are a few examples of what must be discussed in the
dialogue, when it is opened after cancellation of the Amman
accord. Anything less cannot be in the interest of the Palesti-
nian struggle, or serve the purpose of confronting the enemy
titutions.
plans.
The democratic forces must have at least half the seats in the
Operation Naharia
«The road to liberating all of Palestine is not via relations with the capitals of Camp David, but via the
barrel of a gun. While ‘Israel’ considers its borders to be from the Nile to the Euphrates, we stress that our
war with ‘Israel’ is a struggle of existence, not a border dispute.»
These words were recorded by com-
rade Mohammed Mahmoud Kana’a
before he and three others - Abdullah
Al Shahabi, Abdul Hadi Qathem and
Khalil Khattab carried out a heroic
operation against the Zionist entity. In
the early hours of July 10th, a joint unit
of the PFLP and the Synan Social
Nationalist Party(SSNP) of Lebanon
launched an attack on the Zionist sett-
lement, Naharia, in the north of occu-
pied Palestine. The unit bore the name
of two martyrs: Ghassan Kanafani, a
founder and Politbureau member of
the PFLP, who was martyred when
Zionist agents boobytrapped his car in
Beirut on July 8, 1972; and Mohammed
Salim, cadre of the SSNP and leader of
the Lebanese National Resistance
Front, who was murdered by Zionist
agents last year.
The revolutionary unit went into
action at midnight, departing in a
dinghy with a highpowered motor.
Their weapons were Klashnikov and
BKC machine guns, hand grenades and
an RPG. They reached Naharia at
about 3 a.m. and landed near a Zionist
military camp where they engaged the
border patrol in battle. The freedom
fighters were able to gain control of one
of the buildings. Wireless communica-
tion with the commandos at 9 a.m.
revealed that two of them had been
martyred, and the Zionists had suffered
many losses. The Zionists were
applying full force, using their navy,
ground troops and helicopters. There
was no communication with the unit
after that. Later it was known that all
four of the freedom fighters were
martyred in the battle.
This operation greatly disturbed the
Zionists, and announcements about it
were contradictory. First, ‘Israel’ said
that the commandos were intercepted in
the sea north of the border. Then they
said that a battle took place in the sea
north of Palestine. The Zionist entity
admitted the death of two of their sol-
diers and the injury of nine, two of
them seriously. Their casualties were
certainly much higher, so one can ima-
gine that a certain number of these will
be reported as victims of road acci-
dents! -
The PFLP issued a political state-
ment describing the operation as part of
«escalating armed struggle until libera-
ting South Lebanon and occupied
Palestine. This operation embodied the
militant solidarity between the Leba-
nese and Palestinian masses...The suc-
cess of our revolutionary heros in rea-
ching Palestine is clear evidence of the
position of our Palestinian masses and
their nationalist and dentocratic forces,
who oppose the capitulationist policies
of the dominant rightist leadership of
the PLO. This operation is an answer to
the reactionary Jordanian regime’s
attempts to create alternatives to the
PLO - with the support of imperialism
and Zionism. It shows the inability of
the Zionist enemy to prevent Palesti-
nian militants from reaching Palestine.
It is a new proof of the failure of the
aims of ‘Operation Peace for the
Galilee’ - the 1982 Zionist invasion of
Lebanon.»
DOUBLE AGGRESSION
The extent to which this operation
disturbed the Zionists was shown by the
fact that they felt called upon to launch
a double aggression on Lebanon in the
course of four days. At 7 p.m., the day
of the operation, four US-made Cobra
helicopters bombarded Ain Al Hilweh
refugee camp on the outskirts of Sidon.
The Israeli helicopters unleashed 16
rockets. One person was martyred and
seven wounded, among them two chil-
dren and two women.
On July 14th, the Zionists carried out
a second attack. Fighter jets bombed a >
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