Democratic Palestine : 21 (ص 4)
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By the time this issue of Democratic Palestine reaches you,
another year will have passed and a new year begun. The year
that has just passed was full of dramatic, tragic and heroic
incidents on the Palestinian level.
In occupied Palestine, the Zionist occupation authorities and
the reactionary Jordanian regime have tried their best to
benefit from the difficulties experienced by the PLO in con-
nection with the split caused by the right wing’s policy. Follo-
wing the fascist iron fist policy, the Zionists have continued to
confiscate Palestinian land, destroy homes, detain young
people, close universities, expel patriots from their homeland,
shut down newspapers, etc. Thus, the Zionists aim to passify
our people and make them accept the occupation.
This year in particular, the Zionists’ efforts have been clo-
sely coordinated with the Jordanian regime’s moves. While
carrying out the counterpart of the Zionists’ iron fist against
patriots in Jordan, King Hussein has been working fervently to
bolster his stooges in the occupied territories via a so-called
development plan. In this, the regime has complemented the
Israeli policy of eliminating the PLO and concurrently the
Palestinian cause, in order to impose joint Israeli-Jordanian
rule on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
However, contrary to the schemes and wishes of the Zionists
and reactionaries, the Palestinian people under occupation
have continued their heroic struggle to achieve their national
rights, liberation and self-determination in an independent
Palestinian state. Our people under occupation have carried on
their armed struggle, targeting the Zionist occupation army
and its positions. Palestinians have stabbed Zionist soldiers
with daggers, thrown stones at their military vehicles, and
engaged in public protests, sit-ins and strikes. Moreover,
young people of no more than 16 years have started chopping
down those who occupy their land, wielding the axes they
usually use for chopping diseased branches or parasitic plants
off trees. That is our people’s way of expressing their determi-
nation to survive in spite of all those who try to exterminate
them.
In Lebanon, the Palestinian masses and fighters are facing
one of the severest battles they have ever faced there. The
reactionary, sectarian Amal militiamen have continued their:
unholy war against our people in the camps. To date, Amal has
besieged Rashidiya camp for more than three months. In addi-
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tion to shelling the camp daily, the Amal fanatics have pre-
vented food and medical supplies from entering the camp in an
effort to starve the people or let them bleed to death.
In an effort to destroy the morale of our people, Amal and
their external backers have continued to bombard Shatila and
Burj Al Barajneh to the point of demolishing 85% and 50% of
these camps, respectively. Still, neither our people nor fighters
are surrendering. On the contrary, the Palestinian fighters
carried out a brave operation in Maghdousheh, to defend the
Palestinian camps and armed presence. This should have
proved to Amal and its external allies the extent of the Palesti-
nians’ determination to defend their armed struggle into order
to liberate their homeland. This determination has proved to
be stronger than the efforts of Amal or any other reactionary
force to disarm the Palestinian revolution for the sake of
making ‘security’ arrangements with the Zionist enemy.
In another field, efforts have continued to repair the damage
caused to the PLO and Palestinian liberation struggle by the
Palestinian right wing, especially with the signing of the
Amman accord with the Jordanian monarch. The latest of
such efforts was the meeting in Prague between the PFLP
Secretary General, Doctor George Habash, and Arafat’s
deputy, Khalil Al Wazir (Abu Jihad). In this meeting, comrade
Habash advised Abu Jihad to have Fatah’s Central Committee
cancel the Amman accord. Dr. Habash also tried to convince
Abu Jihad of the dangers that face the Palestinian revolution
and cause due to this accord. Abu Jihad promised the PFLP
that good news would come at the January Ist anniversary of
the Palestinian revolution, but the day passed, and there was
no such good news. Until clearly and publicly cancelling the
Amman accord, signed by Yasir Arafat and King Hussein,
Fatah’s Central Committee will bear part of the responsibility
for the attacks on our people and revolution. The Fatah Cen-
tral Committee’s continued refusal to cancel the Amman ac-
cord leaves the PLO divided, which encourages antagonistic
forces to try to implement their schemes against our people.
In spite of the tragedies experienced by our people this past
year, they insist on maintaining their heroic steadfastness.
Whenever hostile forces try to deprive the Palestinian people of
an honorable life, our people renew their struggle like the
phoenix which comes back to life everytime it is burned. This
continual reassertation of the vitality and justice of the Pales-
tinian cause is today being seen in occupied Palestine, espe-
cially with our people’s militant uprising in December. It is
being seen in the heroic defense of the Palestinian camps in
Lebanon, and in the constant struggle to reunite the PLO, so
that it can lead the people’s struggle on a clear anti-imperialist
line.
The past year’s experience has clarified and reinforced a
number of facts, among them:
— Our people’s insistence on fighting the Zionist occupation
of Palestine will continue until achieving the aims of liberation
and an independent Palestinian state.
— All imperialist, Zionist and reactionary efforts to create
proxies and alternatives to the PLO have come to naught.
— The Palestinians’ right to struggle from all Arab coun-
tries surrounding occupied Palestine can only be guaranteed by
a stable alliance with the Arab masses and progressive forces.
— Palestinian armed presence in Lebanon cannot be ignored
or cancelled, despite the wishes of multiple enemies, or the
stupid miscalculations of antagonistic trends.
— The unity of the Palestinian fighters and patriots in the
field is stronger than any divisive or deviationist trends in the
PLO leadership.
As the Palestinian people continue their revolution in the
new year, we extend our best wishes for success in the struggle
to all peoples of the world who are striving for liberation, ,
social justice, peace, progress and socialism. We urge the
strengthening of international solidarity in the common
struggle against imperialism, Zionism and reactionary forces,
to advance the cause of the national liberation movements, the
socialist countries and progressive forces everywhere. e@ - هو جزء من
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