Democratic Palestine : 19 (ص 7)
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- Democratic Palestine : 19 (ص 7)
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THE ENEMY PLAN AND JORDAN’S ROLE
At this time, while more of our people are being martyred,
more conspiracies are being planned against us. When the
conspiracies are intensified, we know that we are on the right
path -the path of protecting the PLO as the sole, legitimate
representative of our people, of protecting our cause and ban-
ning the policies of subordination. Every day we confirm that
the armed struggle, the national program and unity are what
will protect the cause, the people and the PLO.
Our enemies are facing a crisis. The US-Zionist plans are
suffocating due to the escalation of the role of the Lebanese-
Palestinian resistance. Previously, this led to foiling Camp
David II (the May 17th agreement), through united Lebanese-
Palestinian-Syrian struggle. The US-Zionist-reactionary crisis
is also caused by the faltering of the Jordanian-Palestinian
conspiracy, represented in the Amman accord and the political
maneuvers that followed. The enemy plan is also faced with the
Syrian obstacle, confronting Camp David and its extensions in
the Arab area. However, the most important factor in the
enemy alliance’s crisis is our masses in occupied Palestine, and
their strong confrontation of all capitulationist plans, from
‘coexistence’, ‘autonomy’, the village leagues and the United
Kingdom plan, to the recent plan for Israeli-Jordanian joint
rule.
Because of the solid position of our people, the Palestinian
and Lebanese militants, and Syria - supported by all the Arab
and international forces of liberation and progress, the socia-
list community and the Soviet Union -imperialism found it
necessary to intensify its plan in the area. This also explains the
political invasion of the Arab area in order to revive the
US-Israeli plan. We could clearly see the attack thrqugh the
Ifran meeting (between Peres and Hassan II), George Bush’s
visits, the Taba negotiations and the Jordanian regime’s eco-
nomic and political plans. They all aim at one point: reactiva-
ting Camp David which still faces a crisis on the Egyptian
front. Reactivating Camp David requires many forces in the
area. Thus we find many actors on the stage, working to the
same end, i.e., spreading Camp David - the imperialist-Zionist
plan for the whole area, liquidating the national cause, the
PLO and the armed struggle. This is their aim, though they try
to achieve it by different ways and means.
A while ago, we heard Israeli Defense Minister Rabin
announcing to the Zionist society that the Jordanian regime’s
economic aid plan (for the West Bank) will decrease ‘terrorist’
acts - as they like to call guerrilla warfare. He said-that the plan
will lead to encirclement of these ‘terrorist’ acts until they are
finished. In fact, what Rabin says exposes the very nature of
the plan that King Hussein is taking responsibility to imple-
ment, in cooperation with ‘Israel’ and supported by the US.
All the political maneuvers, in Ifran, Cairo, Tel Aviv, etc.,
aim at employing the Jordanian regime for the task it has
failed to achieve for more than twenty years, i.e., reviving King
Hussein’s annexation plan and subordinating the Palestinian
national cause. The Jordanian regime is the main beneficiary
of the maneuver; it is positioned to materialize them. We warn
that the regime is taking this dirty job to strike a deal at the
expense of the cause of the Palestinian people, the cause of the
Arab nation that seeks liberation, independence and social
progress. The regime is using the Palestinian cause, according
to the US-Israeli view, to gain sovereignty over the area (the
West Bank). No one should be deceived by the King’s talk
about an international conference and the PLO’s representa-
tion there, for he is slowly but surely working to prepare for
taking his big step on the road of Sadat and King Hassan II.
If the Palestinian and Arab leaders are not fully aware of the
dangers of this role, we will find ourselves faced by another
Camp David with an Arab cover. The King’s claims about an
international conference and the PLO’s representation will be
exposed to all. Despite the attempt at deception, our people
know the truth...
The real danger is opening the doors of Camp David via
Jordan. Our masses are fiercely confronting this as they con-
fronted all previous capitulationist plans. They are exposing
suspicious elements like Freij, Shawwa and others who dare
not announce their identity when they meet with Zionist lea-
ders. We challenge the Israeli leaders to reveal the names of
those they meet with, claiming them as the true representatives
of the Palestinian people. Peres meets with these suspicious
elements, and then the military administration bans publica-
tion of their names. What is the reason for this other than pro-
tecting them? Doesn’t this mean the Israelis know that whoever
dares to deal with them becomes an outcast among our
people?
Our people know that at this difficult stage, it is not easy to
achieve the national program that we all aspire to, but they
know that they are responsible for foiling the enemy plans, in
order to achieve the national program in the future. Our people
also realize that thousands have to sacrifice in order to achieve
victory. They know their battle will take many generations.
_ It is enough to say that there is a conspiracy, an
imperialist-Zionist-reactionary attack. We all know that there
is an enemy, and we have to carry the gun. We all know it is
important to specify the nature of the attack and the forces
involved at each stage. More important is specifying the means
of confrontation... We, in the PFLP, are fully convinced that
our people are capable of foiling the present enemy plans, as
they foiled all previous ones through long struggle.
THE PLO’S UNITY
The situation demands that we become better fortified to
carry out our national tasks. Our most important task is resto-
ring the unity of the PLO. We are concerned with national
unity as much as we are with liberating Palestine. In order to
achieve liberation, we should prepare the instrument (the PLO)
and mobilize all our masses and their political and social
representatives under the banner of a united PLO. This may
seem difficult, and sometimes impossible, but it is an urgent
task, necessary for restoring the leading national and progres-
sive role of the revolution and the PLO, and their international
Tole.
When we designate urgent tasks, we don’t do so in an idea-
listic or superficial way. We must know precisely the reasons
for the crisis, in order to provide the means for facing it.
Mainly, there is the issue of the internal Palestinian problems.
Our knowledge of these will enable us to move to the correct
solution. We do not want a PLO disturbed by deviationist,
rightist or capitulationist positions. Of course, we want a
united PLO, but we want it solid, escalating the spirit of armed
struggle, and able to be a vanguard leadership in the Arab
arena - to the left of the regimes, not to the right... Leniency,
idealistic slogans and spontaneity will only mean continuation
of the problem, and further deterioration of the PLO’s internal
situation.
We do not want to deceive our people by having unity today,
and then dividing again three months later because of political
differences, for this will disperse the Palestinian national pro-
gram. We prefer longer discussions in order to have real unity
that is solid and can be maintained. Despite the dangers we are
facing, solid unity, based on thorough discussion, is better
than creating fragile unity today, and splits tomorrow, for then
there will be no unity at all.
We do not present our point of view just to outbid others - as
some like to think - or because we like to set impossible condi-
tions. Leniency in defining the political and organizational
basis of unity will not lead to a radical solution, or restore the »
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