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Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 12)

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Zionist soldiers guard Palestinian priso
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ners in Jerusalem, June 1967.
nian people’s cause and rights which
are neglected in this resolution. The
Egyptian leadership said at the time
that its acceptance was only a tactical
step, aimed at gaining time to rebuild
Palestinian woman in Baqa camp, Jordan, after
being evicted from her home in Jericho, 1967.
its armed forces. However, the danger
of that acceptance was later unveiled
with Sadat’s capitulationist policies
which he justified by referring to
Nasser’s acceptance of 242 and subse-
quently the Rogers plan.
The decline of the official Arab
policies continued with the 1970
Rogers plan, named after the US
secretary of state, to settle the Middle
East conflict. This plan was initially
welcomed by Egypt. In September
1970, King Hussein of Jordan and his
army waged a vicious war against the
Palestinian revolution in Jordan,
resulting in the expulsion of Palestinian
forces from Jordan and the start of a
wave of attempts to curtail Palestinian
activities in other countries.
In an interview with Newsweek
magazine of February 15, 1971, Sadat
declared his willingness to enter into a
partial Egyptian-Israeli settlement as an
«initial step towards Arab-Israeli
peace.» He thereby actually outlined
the results he desired from the October
1973 war. The US-sponsored
disengagement agreements between
Egypt and ‘Israel’ after the 1973 war
paved the way for Sadat’s journey to
occupied Jerusalem in 1977, the 1978
Camp David accords and the 1979
Egyptian-Israeli ‘peace’ treaty.
In 1978, in response to the Camp
David accords, the Baghdad Summit
was convened; resolutions for boycot-
ting the Sadat regime were formally
adopted. A few years later, these
resolutions were only ink on paper as
far as the majority of Arab states were
concerned. Then came 1982, when the
Arab states watched the Israeli invasion
of Lebanon and the besieging of an
Arab captial with less interest than they
watched the 1982 World Soccer Cup on
television.
On May 17, 1983, the Lebanese
regime headed by Amin Gemayel sign-
ed the infamous May 17th accord with
the Israeli invaders, under US auspices.
Not one Arab government broke
diplomatic relations with the Lebanese
government. (This excludes Syria which
had nodiplomatic relations with
Lebanon since French colonialism
divided the two countries.) The accord
-was later abrogated due to the heroic
resistance of the Lebanese people and
patriotic and progressive forces, sup-
ported by Palestinian revolutionaries
and Syria. That resistance forced
‘Israel’ to withdraw from most of
Lebanon, the first time since its crea-
tion the Zionist state has uncondi-
tionally withdrawn from occupied ter-
ritory.
Concerning
the other front-line
states, Jordan for its part realized the
danger of entering into a Sadat-type
settlement with ‘Israel’, or a May 17th-

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