Democratic Palestine : 21 (ص 21)
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- Democratic Palestine : 21 (ص 21)
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Historical terrorist Shamir - still targeting the Palestinians
dership. Sometimes the Zionists claim that the reason for the
discrimination is because a particular person heads the council.
This aims to push the masses to dismiss that person and accept
candidates more conciliatory to the Zionist authorities.
The Zionist authorities also seek to incite the Palestinian
Arabs of the 1948 occupied area against their brothers in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. There is also the policy of inten-
sifying the iron fist against members of the Palestinian revolu-
tionary organizations, or others who engage in military
struggle, imposing long, tough jail sentences, to make an
Annual Day of the Land celebration in the Galilee
example of them and frighten off others from joining the mili-
tant struggle. The authorities also commit acts of terrorism
against some Palestinian forces and then claim that these acts
occurred as a result of internal Palestinian conflict. Such an
incident occurred at the 11th annual festival for volunteer work
in Nazareth, when a molotov cocktail was thrown into the
crowd. The Zionists claimed that this happened due to internal
differences among Palestinian Arab forces.
There are scores of other plots to disrupt the people’s unity,
which the Palestinians have succeeded in aborting. The growing
alignment among the various nationalist forces in the 1948
occupied area provides a good example of the failure of the
Zionist policies. There is good coordination, especially in the
fields of social struggle, joint candidates for student council
elections at universities, and coordination among local councils.
FAILURE OF ZIONIST—ARAB COEXISTENCE
The long years of occupation and the great struggles fought
by our people have heightened their sense of Palestinian and
Arab nationalism. Armed struggle has also increased in the 1948
occupied areas. At the same time, the role of traditional forces
attached to the Zionists by reason of their personal and class
interests, has been diminished. Attempts at Arab-Zionist dia-
logue conducted by the Zionist government in the schools have
failed, as have attempts to form an Arab lobby loyal to the
Zionist government. Another consequence of our people’s
experience is the transformation of their struggle for demands
concerning daily life, into struggle for political demands and
national rights. All these developments provide evidence of the
failure of the Zionist policy for assimilating the Arabs in the
Zionist entity.
Conversely, they prove the Palestinian Arabs’ insistence on
adhering to their own identity, traditions and culture, as is seen
every year on the Day of the Land and in folklore committees
and festivals. This determination was also exhibited in this
year’s (1986) commemoration of the Kafr Kasem massacre of
1956, and the establishment of a memorial for the victims.
There was also the 100th anniversary celebration for the Pales-
tinian writer, May Zaida, the commemorations of Ghassan
Kanafani’s martyrdom and the call to establish a memorial for
him in his hometown, Acca. There was the establishment of the
Al Hadaf institute in Um Al Fahm, which has published the
works of Kanafani. There was the production of the movie
entitled Roots, showing the Palestinian Arab folklore and tra-
ditions, the attacks on holy sites and land confiscation. There
have been poetry festivals, cultural evenings, theater, demons-
trations, declarations of support for the national struggle, and
the formation of committees against Zionism, racism and the
iron fist. All these events prove the impossibility of Arab-
Zionist coexistence, the purpose of which Ariel Sharon revealed
at a conference for Palestinian Arab businessmen at the Hilton
Hotel on January 15, 1986, when he said: «I see in you a direct
bridge with Egypt and an indirect one with Jordan and the rest
of the Arab countries... Peace with Egypt has opened new
gateways for Israeli products, especially the ones from the Arab
sector, for you speak their language. My office will spare no
efforts in supporting you, and you can sell your products in
Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.»
This is how the Zionist leaders understand the concept about
Arab-Zionist coexistence. To them, it means their invasion of
the Arab markets and the exploitation of cheap Arab labor. The
Egyptian people have proved the failure of this policy, as have
the Lebanese nationalists, and even earlier the Palestinians in
the 1948 occupied homeland. Despite 39 years of Zionist terror,
they refuse to serve as a bridge for Zionist-Arab coexistence.
This precious section of our Palestinian people have through
daily steadfastness made a great contribution to the overall
struggle resisting Zionism and its artificial state. The Palesti-
nian revolution has a great duty towards these people to hasten
the time when they will be free from Zionist occupation. Fulfil-
ling this duty means escalating the struggle against Zionism,
imperialism and Arab reaction, intensifying armed struggle in
particular, and most importantly restoring Palestinian national
unity opposed to imperialist settlements, allying with the Arab
national liberation movement and with the socialist countries.
This will push the struggle forward and hasten the day of our
people’s liberation.
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