Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 22)
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Council session in Algiers. Given the
angry response of Arab reaction to the
restoration of the PLO’s national pro-
gram, it is natural to assume that the
Lebanese parliament’s cancellation of
the agreement is a complement to Arab
reaction’s policy. The cancellation
comes in the context of accelerated
political moves to strike at Palestinian
presence in Lebanon, and at the
Lebanese nationalist and progressive
forces as well. It occurred on the
backdrop of escalating Israeli aggres-
sion on Lebanon, aided by the Zionists’
proxies in the South Lebanese Army
(SLA).
The scope of the enemy alliance’s
plans and aggression demands a pro-
portionate confrontation on the part of
the nationalist and progressive forces.
Steps should be accelerated to revitalize
the Palestinian-Lebanese-Syrian na-
tionalist alliance on a correct basis in
order to seriously confront the Zionist-
backed sectarian project in Lebanon,
and escalate the struggle against Zionist
occupation. It should be clear to all that
letting time pass by is not to the in-
terests of the Palestinian-Lebanese-
Syrian nationalist alliance. The
cancellation of the Cairo agreement
represents the start of new Zionist-
sectarian aggression. That it was
followed by the assassination of
Lebanon’s prime minister, Rashid
Karami, sends a clear message to all:
No one is exempt from the fascist-
Zionist plan. A misreading of this
message could lead to the total destruc-
tion of the nationalist alliance and the
Lebanese nationalist forces themselves.
In conclusion, the Palestinian people
have a legitimate right to struggle,
whether from Lebanon or from the
other front-line states. This is a right so
fundamental and just that it cannot be
eliminated by this or that resolution in
the Lebanese parliament or any other
forum.
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Resurgence of the
Zionist-Fascist Plan
As June 6th approached, marking
five years since the 1982 invasion of
Lebanon, there was a marked. escala-
tion of Israeli aggression. The Zionist
leaders, still chaffing under their failure
to realize the goals they set for the 1982
war, have refurbished their time-worn
tactics of terror bombings and scorched
earth, hoping to sow fear and despera-
tion among the people and thereby
create a separation between Palesti-
nians and Lebanese, and between the
masses and the freedom fighters. At the
same time, the Zionists are banking on
other developments, chiefly the
cancellation of the Cairo agreement
and the assassination of Prime Minister
Karami, to revive their chances for
keeping Lebanon weak and divided,
thus more easily dominated.
TARGETING PALESTINIAN
CIVILIANS
Typical of the Zionist tactics was the
May 3rd statement of the newly ap-
pointed Israeli army chief of staff, Dan
Shamron (incidently leader of the
Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976, and
thus a veteran of Zionist terror under
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the guise of ‘counterterrorism’).
Speaking in Israeli television, he defin-
ed the Palestinians as the main enemy
in Lebanon, rather than Lebanese
resistance forces. Indeed the most
prominent Zionist aggression was
directed against the Palestinians in the
Sidon area. Of twelve Israeli air raids in
the first four months of this year, nine
have targeted Ain Al Hilweh and Miyeh
Miyeh camps or nearby Palestinian
positions. Three of these bombings oc-
curred in the last week of April as
Palestinian national unity was being
restored at the Algiers session of the
PNC. Renewed Palestinian unity rein-
forced the Zionists’ permanent fear of
the resilience of the Palestinian armed
revolution, and Israeli raids became
more murderous in May.
Ain Al Hilweh is now crowded with
80,000 Palestinians, having been
swelled by the arrival of persons
displaced by Amal’s war on the camps
in Beirut and Tyre. These people and
the residents of Miyeh Miyeh were the
targets of four air raids in May, which
killed about forty people and wounded
over 120. In one of these attacks, on
May 6th, a whole quarter of Ain Al
Hilweh, housing 100 people, was
demolished. In the May 8th attack,
about 40 residences were destroyed or
damaged; one-quarter of those killed
were children, and almost one third of
the injured lost a limb. The Zionists
justified their terror bombing as
retaliation for a cross-border attempt to
attack Naharia in occupied Palestine,
hoping to discourage such attacks in the
future. However, a young Palestinian
whose leg was broken in the attack
drew quite another conclusion, saying:
«If I could walk, I would be the first to
do a suicide operation against Israel.»
TERRORIZING THE SOUTH
Besides portending more aggression
against Palestinians, Shamron’s
statement had a hidden meaning. Ig-
noring the fact that Lebanese patriots
are leading the struggle against Israeli
occupation in South Lebanon,
Shamron singles out the Palestinians to
separate them from the Lebanese, aim-
ing to curb the resistance of both. At-
tacks on the Israelis and SLA in the
South continue to average over two a
day despite reinforcements which
brought the number of Israeli troops in
the ‘security zone’ up to 3,000 earlier in
the year. Zionist failure to eliminate the
Palestinian revolution and _ control
Lebanon, despite the application of
massive force, is now compounded by
the obvious failure of the ‘security
zone’. In late April, Zionist settlers
close to Lebanon’s borders were again
sleeping in shelters due to the frequency
of Katyusha rocket attacks which Begin
vowed to eliminate in 1982.
In their desperate attempt to halt the
joint Lebanese-Palestinian resistance,
the Israelis have continued their hidden
war against the southern Lebanese -
storming and _ shelling villages,
demolishing homes, straffing fields and
peasants, etc. Zionist aggression also
targeted Lebanon as such, with naval
blockades of the southern coast, fre-
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