Democratic Palestine : 21 (ص 15)
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Hertzog and near the Knesset building;
there was huge material losses. The
same day, two fire bombs were thrown
at an Israeli bus as it stopped near
Nuseirat camp in the occupied Gaza
Strip. The bus burned totally.
Three operations were carried out on
December 10th. In Jaffa, revolutiona-
ries planted explosives in the engine of a
car belonging to a high-ranking Israeli
who died instantly when he turned on
the ignition. In Jerusalem, an Israeli
was hospitalized in critical condition
after being stabbed with a knife. The
Palestinian militant who had carried
out this attack was able to evade the
police by hiding in the old city. A fire
bomb was thrown at an Israeli military
patrol in Rafah in the occupied Gaza
Strip. There was a news black-out on
the casualty figures.
On December 14th, Zahran Has-
souneh, an official of the education
department in Jenin, in the occupied
West Bank, known for collaborating
with the Zionists, was stabbed all over
his body. He was hospitalized in critical
condition.
An Israeli bus was stoned near
Qalandia camp, north of Jerusalem, on
December 17th. One Israeli was criti-
cally injured. The next day, there were
two operations in the West Bank. In
Ramallah, a Palestinian militant
attacked an Israeli soldier with an axe,
injuring him critically (see box). In
Jenin, a military vehicle of the border
patrol was stoned, breaking the
window.
In Jerusalem on December 19th, a
group of Palestinian revolutionaries
attacked an Israeli police station with
fire bombs, injuring many policemen
and destroying several vehicles. On
December 22nd, molotov cocktails
were thrown against a Zionist military
post in Beit Sahour in the occupied
West Bank. The Israeli soldiers opened
fire on a group of youth, wounding and
then arresting one of them. Residents
of the town were rounded up; 15 of
them were arrested.
An Israeli Egged bus was stoned on
December 23rd, when passing the
Aroub camp, located north of Hebron.
A window of the bus was smashed and
one settler was injured. On December
26th, Palestinian revolutionaries blew
up a gas storage warehouse in occupied
Jerusalem, totally destroying it. The
same day, Yitzhak Shoui, manager of
the post office of Kiryat Biliac settle-
ment was stabbed to death.
THE AXE AS A WEAPON
Continuing their policy of collective
punishment, the occupation forces had
blown up a house in the village of Beit
Rama, near Ramallah. On December
17th, the 17 year old son of the family
whose house had been demolished went
into Ramallah. With the only weapon
he could find, an axe, he waited off the
main city square. Ten Israeli soldiers
were in the square. The boy stayed in
his hiding place until the soldiers
moved. As they passed him, he waited
for the last one and struck him on the
head with the axe, fracturing his skull.
The Israeli army sent in reinforcements
and conducted a broad search in
Ramallah. The boy was captured by the
enemy forces, but his heroism will be
remembered in the struggle against
ocupation.
THE REVOLUTION OF
KNIVES
Zionist ‘genius’ in confronting
Palestinian resistance resulted in a law
prohibiting Palestinians from walking
through Hebron’s market streets with
their hands in their pockets! This was
the initial step, to be imposed all over
the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
occupation authorities’ pretext for the
new decree is that some Palestinians
carry knives in their pockets. Thus,
putting their hands inside their pockets
constitutes a ‘security’ danger, for they
may be hiding knives which could
endanger the lives of Israelis. This
decision was taken after the spread of
what is known as the «Revolution of
Knives» in occupied Palestine, against
the Zionists. °}
1948 Occupied Palestine
Survey of Zionist Policy and
Palestinian Steadfastness
This study deals with the ongoing Zionist policy to transform the Palestinians into strangers in their
homeland, and with the Palestinian response to this. Especially important in the latter are the solid rela-
tions between the Palestinians of the 1948 and 1967 occupied territories, and the development of different
forms of struggle which have aborted the concept of Arab-Zionist coexistence.
«A time bomb» - That’s how the Zionist leaders view the
Palestinians living on their land in the area of Palestine where
the Zionist state was established in 1948. The Zionists spared
nothing in their attempt to transform the Palestinians into a
testing field for their conspiracy to defuse this «time bomb».
This ranged from efforts to divide the Palestinian people into
various sects according to the divide and rule policy, to Judai-
zation aimed at obliterating the Palestinian national identity. It
has encompassed the ugliest forms of discrimination, depriva-
tion of the most basic rights, repressive campaigns of pursuit, -
confiscation, displacement, exiling, arrests and shooting down
demonstrators in the «oasis of democracy» and the country of
«justice and equality».
Despite all that, this part of the Palestinian people have
managed to foil many of these conspiracies through heroic
struggle and sacrifices, proving the impossibility of Arab-
Zionist coexistence. They continue to adhere to their land,
identity, people, cause and revolution. As such they are making
a great contribution to the strategic goal of establishing a
popular democratic republic in Palestine, as part of a unified,
socialist Arab society.
On May 15, 1948, the Zionist movement succeeded in
establishing its colony on more than three-quarters of Palestine,
and in expelling more than three-quarters of the inhabitants of
this area, dispersing them over the world. Still, the Zionists
failed to expell about 160,000 of the Palestinian Arabs. These
people insisted on remaining on their land, despite the destruc-
tion of the economic and political basis of their existence, the
confiscation of vast areas of their land, and the draconian
emergency laws which the Zionists adopted from the British and
Ottoman occupations, and which are still in effect despite
formal cancellation in 1966.
Today, this part of the Palestinian people numbers almost
650,000 persons who continue to suffer from racist discrimina-
tion which is one of the basic characteristics of Zionism.
Perhaps the clearest manifestation of this is the many schemes
concocted by the Zionist «genius» in order to harm the Palesti-
nian Arabs and reduce them to strangers in their own country
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