Democratic Palestine : 19 (ص 26)
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thinking, but it is our duty to struggle
hard against those who practice aimless
terrorism. It is also our duty to struggle
against the trend that considers terror-
ism a basic method of struggle.»
One cannot categorize an isolated
strike as a purely terrorist act. If there
is a political motive, justified by the
historical conditions and the interests
of the workers, and especially if the
balance of forces is not in favor of the
revolutionary forces, then the revolu-
tionary act transcends its moral value.
It becomes a means of mass agitation
and mobilization in the revolutionary
process. We shall always remember
when a group of Russian revolutiona-
ries invaded one of the Czar’s prisons in
1905. Lenin then said with enthusiasm:
«This is an honorable victory. This is
the real victory after a bloody battle
with an enemy armed to the teeth. This
is not an attack against any hated
figure. This is not a shameful act, and it
is not an impatient outlet... This is the
beginning that prepares and equips,
taking into consideration the balance of
forces. It is the beginning of the acts of
the vanguard factions of the revolution-
ary army.» (5)
This Leninist analysis applies to the
revolutionary acts of Castro and the
Cuban revolutionaries when they
invaded the Moncada garrison. While
in prison, Castro drew up a correct
revolutionary tactic concerning the
means of struggle against Batista’s
reactionary authority. He explained in
one of his letters, «Now, if there are
men among us who are trigger-happy
and ready to deal with the devil to get a
gun, they should be purged from our
ranks with no second thoughts! Also
those cowards who retreat at the deci-
sive moments of battle should be done
away with immediately. In general,
those people are impatient, but we, the
true revolutionaries, don’t want anar-
chists... within our ranks. We want
men who are aware of their historical
destiny, who know when to be patient
and when not to be, and how to plan
the future of their homeland in a scien-
tific manner.»()
TERRORISM AND ZIONISM
Imperialism and Zionism consider
any armed struggle as terrorism, to be
fought. They consider any national
liberation movement as terrorist, ille-
gitimate and internationally banned.
Under this cover, imperialism and
Zionism attempt to misrepresent the
nature of the aid which the national
liberation movements receive from the
progressive and socialist movements
and peoples of the world. The imperia-
list and Zionists also try to distort the
noble causes and goals of the revolu-
tionary struggle. The PLO, the inter-
nationally recognized, sole, legitimate
representative of the Palestinian revo-
lution, is nothing more than a terrorist
organization from their point of view.
According to imperialism and Zionism,
it should be destroyed since it is illegi-
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timate. For this reason, the Zionist
enemy tries, with propaganda and lies,
to justify its fascist, aggressive policies
and terrorism against the Palestinian
people everywhere. The butcher of
Lebanon, Ariel Sharon, confirmed:
«We have to fight terrorism on the scale
of all continents, 365 days a year, day
and night, within our borders and the
borders of all countries all over the
world. We should wage a firm, well-
planned and endless war against terror-
ists. If we do not prepare ourselves for
this war soon, the phenomenon of ter-
rorism will quickly spread inside and
outside our borders.» 7)
At the same time, we find that impe-
rialism and its allies, especially Zio-
nism, are searching for combat
methods of added force, and employing
terrorist methods of violence.
THE DEFINITION OF
TERRORISM
In an attempt to define international
terrorism, the special committee affi-
liated with the UN had to deal with two
main interpretations. One was very
limited; the other was broader. Impe-
rialism and Zionism describe any act
against imperialism, Zionism or reac-
tion as a terrorist act. This contradicts
the real definition of terrorism and
international public opinion. Until
now, there is not one formula for defi-
ning terrorism that is agreed upon by
all. What is confirmed, as principled
and just, is that the UN recognized the
PLO as the sole, legitimate representa-
tive of the Palestinian people wherever
they may be, branding ‘Israel’ and
Zionism as racist and expansionist.
Imperialism and Zionism worked hard
to prevent the approval of any legal or
international formula for defining ter-
rorism; they vetoed all suggestions by
the socialist and non-aligned countries.
The UN General Assembly also
adopted a resolution in 1974, concer-
ning the definition of aggression. The
resolution recognized the right of all
peoples to employ all forms of struggle,
including armed struggle, in order to
gain freedom, independence and self-
determination. Thus, the UN differen-
tiated between terrorism and armed
struggle based on such goals.
Terrorism is any criminal act that is
practiced without any right. This
applies to Zionism, that employs
international terrorism to achieve its
goals and foreign policy, by illegal
means. The Zionists make this clear, as
when Peres said: «Israel has to hit any
place where terrorists exist. Israel has
the right to destroy their plans and
methods and to completely destroy
their morale, and to hunt them as fish
in the sea.»(8)
Imperialists, Zionists and other ter-
rorists try by all means to hide the
connection between their states’
aggressive policies and international
terrorism as a tool for these policies.
There are many examples. Israeli ter-
rorist policies are the official means to
annex occupied Arab land, by waging
constant wars against the Arabs and the
PLO. Begin said, «I call upon you to
wage an attack against terrorists any-
time and anywhere. We have the
authority to wage this attack, we also
have the necessary potential and we
have to use it. We also have to establish
special official organizations to fight
the invading Arabs»)
Before the establishment of ‘Israel’,
the Zionist organizations used terror-
ism during the British mandate in
Palestine, aiming at evicting the Pales-
tinians from their homeland. Between
1937 and 1948, the Haganah, Irgun and
Stern Zionist groups performed cri-
minal, terrorist acts and massacres
against the Palestinian people in order
to annihilate them. After the esta-
blishment of the Zionist entity, terror-
ism Officially became accepted practice
by the state, as a ‘creative’ application
of its racist ideology. Terrorism,
annexing Palestinian land, and exploi-
ting this land by force became the sole
means of Zionist settler-colonial
expansion. The Zionists’ internal and
external policies reveal the terrorist
practices against the Palestinians.
CONCLUSION
1. Terrorism reached its climax with
the birth of capitalism. In fact, terro-
rism is one of the main byproducts of
the capitalist system; it was one of its
main components for destroying the
outmoded feudal system.
2. The economic and social contra-
dictions of the capitalist system, with its
class structure, create the basis for this
inhuman phenomenon, especially as a
result of the general crisis of capitalism.
3. Revolutionary violence is a natural
and legitimate right, when practiced by
exploited peoples against imperialism.
Thus revolutionary violence and impe-
rialist terrorism can never be equated.
4. Marxism-Leninism rejects terror-
ism practiced as an aim in itself,
without connection to other revolution-
ary acts and forms of struggle,
mainly, the political class struggle and
mass struggle.
5. Zionist terrorism is one of the
most reactionary expressions of the
imperialist policies. Also, the Zionist
state’s terrorism against the Palestinian
people is one of the most bloody and
criminal forms of terrorism in the his-
tory of humanity.
(1) Lenin, The Complete Works, Spanish edition,
Havana, Vol. 28, p. 64.
(2) Ibid, vol. 23, p. 21.
(3) Lenin, Party Organizer and Party Literature,
Spanish edition, Moscow, p. 18.
(4) Lenin, The Complete Works, Spanish edition,
Havana, Vol. 5, p. 15-16.
(5) Ibid, Vol. 9, p. 270.
(6) Castro, Fidel, The Fertile Prison, Spanish edi-
tion, Havana: International Publishing House,
1980, p. 165.
(7) Hatena newspaper, Spanish edition, May 24,
1974.
(8) Mario Latin newspaper, Spanish edition, July,
1974.
(9) Haaretz, Spanish edition, May 21, 1974. - هو جزء من
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