Democratic Palestine : 20 (ص 15)
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PFLP Central Committee Statement
In Democratic Palestine no. 19, we covered the press conference after the PFLP Central Committee’s ses-
sion. Below we print the text of the statement issued by the Central Committee at the conclusion of the
same session.
SEPTEMBER 1986
To our masses in the occupied territories,
To our masses everywhere,
To all the fighters of the Palestinian revolution,
To all patriots,
The Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Libe-
ration of Palestine held an important session, Sept. 27-9th,
1986, specifically to discuss the important and dangerous poli-
tical developments involving the Arab region in general and the
Palestinian arena in particular. The Central Committee’s dis-
cussions were based on the Politbureau’s report which covered
these developments, their interaction, and the PFLP’s stand on
them, from the time of its last session. The Central Committee
endorsed all the recommendations and stands stated in the
Politbureau’s report.
In its discussions, the Central Committee focused on Palest-
inian national unity as the main and basic subject among all
others. The Central Committee considers that reestablishing
the PLO’s unity is the central task at this stage, to which the
PFLP’s leadership, cadres and rank and file should devote all
possible efforts. The Central Committee believes that achie-
ving reunification is the main task for enabling the Palestinian
revolution and people to effectively confront the US- Zionist-
reactionary schemes which aim at cancelling the PLO and fin-
ding submissive substitutes ready to participate fully in the
process of liquidating the Palestinian national cause on the
Zionist enemy’s conditions.
With a high sense of responsibility, the Central Committee
discussed the basis for reestablishing the PLO’s unity, taking
into consideration the bitter Palestinian experience of the past
four years, i.e., the dismantling, dispersion and division of the
Palestinian ranks. The Central Committee discussed in depth
the causes of this state of division and the roots of the PLO’s
present crisis.
The Central Committee endeavors to reestablish the PLO’s
unity and revitalize its programs and struggle against the
enemy. Based on this, the Central Committee emphasized that
Palestinian national unity should be based on an anti-
imperialist, anti-Zionist program that in no way harmonizes
with the projects advanced by the US administration and its
local allies, first and foremost the Jordanian and Egyptian
regimes.
The Central Committee emphasized that the anti-imperialist,
anti-Zionist program, capable of reunifying the Palestinian
ranks, is the program that draws a clear political line. This
means rejecting and confronting the imperialist and Zionist
projects that aim to resolve the Middle East crisis and its core,
the Palestinian question, via the Palestinian section of the
Camp David accords (‘autonomy’) and the condominium plan
for joint Jordanian-Israeli rule of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Such an anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist program is not an
impossible condition. Rather it provides suitable common
grounds for the Palestinian nationalist forces in their march to
achieve the interim tasks of the PLO, fulfilling the Palestinian
people’s rights to self-determination, return and the esta-
blishment of an independent Palestinian state on their national
soll.
In accordance with its national duty, the Central Committee
reassessed the stage following the departure of the Palestinian
revolutionaries from Beirut in 1982. It drew the lessons of that
stage and determined the correct basis for national unity in the
light of these lessons. It is impossible and illogical to lay the
foundation for reestablishing the PLO’s unity without drawing
the lessons of the previous stage.
The Central Committee found that the dominant PLO
leadership’s departure from the PLO’s program, on which the
Palestinian ranks were united, is the main cause of the division
of the PLO. This departure was manifest in the adoption of a
program contradictory to the PLO’s national program. The
signing of the Amman accord was a concrete step by this lea-
dership towards adopting a program in contradiction with the
anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist program. This accord signified
the readiness of the PLO leadership to participate in the exe-
cution of the US-reactionary version of a regional settlement.
This dealt a blow to the program that had united the Palest-
inian ranks and upheld the legitimate rights of our people.
The real beginning of the process of reestablishing the PLO’s
unity is abandoning this program which is in contradiction to
the national program, by clearly, officially and publicly abro-
gating the Amman accord which is still being used by the Jor-
danian regime for executing the condominium plan in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, along with the Zionist enemy. Such can-
cellation of the Amman accord would certainly be a serious
declaration of the signatories’ readiness to return to the
national program which represents our people’s interests and
legitimate national aspirations. At the same time, the Central
Committee noted that the dangers threatening the Palestinian
national cause emanate not only from the Jordanian regime’s
schemes and cooperation with the Zionist enemy. To a great
extent, these dangers also emanate from the other US-Israeli
gateway - the Egyptian regime, the gate of Camp David.
Mubarak’s regime is reactivating the Camp David accords.
Employing promises and pressure, the Egyptian regime is
relentlessly striving to contain the PLO leadership within the
boundaries of the US solution.
The Central Committee emphasized that the PLO must cease
its relations with the Egyptian regime which has unequivocally
stated its commitment to the Camp David accords. Stopping
these relations is a prerequisite for returning to the national
program. The Egyptian regime’s efforts only serve the policy
of normalizing relations with the Zionist entity - this dange-
rous, colonialist phenomenon in the Middle East region.
Stopping relations with Egypt and adhering to the Baghdad
Summit resolutions would mean insistence, on the PLO’s part,
on continuing the struggle to achieve the national goals of our
people. Any leniency or compromise in this sphere will retard
the PLO’s struggle to achieve its goals. Moreover, it means
opening the door for other Arab regimes to follow in its foot-
steps, further weakening the Arab ranks and subordinating
them to imperialist hegemony. The importance of ending rela-
tions with the Egyptian regime was confirmed in the Aden-
Algiers agreement. The Palestinian organizations that signed
this agreement considered this point as part of the basis for
reestablishing the PLO’s unity.
The Central Committee ascertained that the correct and
necessary step toward achieving the unity of the Palestinian
ranks is slamming these two gateways to the US liquidationist
solution by cancelling the Amman accord and ending relations
with the Egyptian regime. This would pave the way for reestab-
lishing the PLO’s alliances with the states of the Steadfastness
and Confrontation Front and the Arab liberation movement,
confronting the US-Zionist projects.
The Central Committee specified the proper basis for
unifying the Palestinian ranks as follows:
First: clear and public cancellation of the Amman accord,
and ending relations with the Camp David regime - the Egyp-
tian regime.
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