Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 27)
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Initiative to End the Camp Wars
On the 9th anniversary of Immam
Musa Sader’s disappearance, the Amal
movement held a rally in Baalbak,
eastern Lebanon, on August 30th. In
his speech, Amal’s president Nabih
Berri introduced a six-point initiative
regarding the camp wars. The points of
the initiative were:
1. Total withdrawal of all Palestinian
forces from East Sidon (3 villages) to
their original positions (before the
camp war was ignited).
2. The Amal leadership and_ the
Palestinian leadership will make joint
visits to all the camps, starting with the
Tyre area camps, to listen to complaints
and meet demands immediately.
3. Establishing joint, unarmed liaison
police units. In the Tyre area camps,
these units will be composed of two
members of Amal, two from _ the
popular committees and two members
of the Lebanese Internal Security
Forces. In the Beirut camps, the two
members of the Internal Security
Forces will be replaced by two Syrian
officers. The responsibilities of these
units will be implementing the
Damascus agreement (signed by the
Salvation Front and Amal after the first
camp war in 1985) and resolving any
problems that may come up.
4. October Ist was set as the date that
Palestinian students could go back to
school.
5. November Ist was set as the date
to begin rebuilding the camps.
6. Forming a higher leadership coor-
dination committee centered in Beirut
and composed of two members of
Amal and the Front for Unification and
Liberation, two members of the
Palestinian popular committees and
two Syrian officers. This committee
will deal with all other issues related to
the Palestinian resistance.
PLO RESPONSE
On September Ist, two days after
Berri’s declaration, the PLO welcomed
this initiative as a positive step that
would contribute to resolving the tragic
conditions prevailing in the Palestinian
camps for the past two years. The
Palestinian leadership confirmed its
readiness to begin a dialogue im-
mediately in order to maintain
Palestinian-Lebanese relations. The
PLO spokesman stated that the
Palestinian National Work Leadership
would take the necessary steps and
contact the concerned parties, to reach
practical results as soon as possible.
(The Palestinian National Work
Leadership was recently formed by the
PLO to follow up on Palestinian affairs
in Lebanon. It is headed by Salah
Salah, politbureau member of the
PFLP.)
AGREEMENT SIGNED
On September 11th, Musatafa Saad,
head of the Popular Nasserite
Organization in Sidon, chaired the se-
cond meeting between the delegation of
the Front for Unification and Libera-
tion and a unified Palestinian delega-
tion. The causes of the destructive
camp wars were discussed, as were the
steps to be taken to end them, based on
Berri’s initiative.
The Palestinian delegation included:
Isam Salem, the PLO chairman’s per-
sonal representative in Lebanon; Salah
Salah, PFLP politbureau member;
Mamdouh Nofal, DFLP politbureau
member; Abu Khaled, the Popular
Struggle Front’s responsible in
Lebanon; Abu Imad AI Hassan, Al
Saiqa; and Walid, Fatah-Revolutionary
Council (Abu Nidal).
The delegation from the Front for
Unification and Liberation included
representatives from the Progressive
Socialist Party, the Lebanese Com-
munist Party, the Arab Democratic
Party, the Arab Socialist Baath Party
and the Amal movement.
After about four hours of discussion,
the two delegations signed the follow-
ing nine-point agreement:
1. condemning the resort to arms to
resolve contradictions; democratic,
brotherly dialogue as the only method
for resolving differences within the na-
tionalist ranks.
2. The Palestinians are committed to
withdraw from all military positions in
Ain Al Dulub, Qrayeh and Janasnayeh
(East Sidon); they will withdraw to
positions assigned by the Front for
Unification and Liberation, from
which they will confront the Zionist
enemy and its agents.
3. ending all measures on both sides in
order to enable the residents of the
camps and the surrounding areas to
move freely and safely; starting the
rebuilding of the camps and the
Lebanese areas that were destroyed
during the camp war; allowing all ex-
pelled Palestinians to return to their
homes; and freeing all prisoners held by
both sides.
4. Both sides will be committed to
Mustafa Saad’s statement concerning
halting all military actions and pro-
paganda campaigns against each other.
5. The two sides will form a central
construction committee with subcom-
mittees in different areas. Both sides
appeal to the Arab League and all local,
Arab and international humanitarian
and social institutions to provide the
needed material support for rebuilding
the camps, and to establish a fund for
this purpose.
6. The two sides will form joint com-
mittees in the Beirut and Sidon areas.
In the Tyre area, the committee in-
cludes Amal and the Palestinian
popular committees, with the par-
ticipation of the Syrians. These com-
mittees will supervise ending the present
military conditions, insuring freedom
of movement for the camp residents,the
return of the expelled to their homes
and the entry of building materials.
These committees will be convened as
soon as possible to begin practical im-
plementation of their duties.
7. The third meeting for the two sides
will be held on September 18th in
Mustafa Saad’s home in Sidon.
8. Both sides confirm their intent to put
forth the political and organizational
basis needed to organize future militant
relations between the two peoples, to
enable them, along with the Syrians, to
achieve their joint national goals in
confronting the enemies of the Arab
nation.
9.The Front for Unification and
Liberation and the organizations of the
Palestinian revolution express their
appreciation of Syria’s great efforts
that contributed to reaching the
agreement.
This agreement is positive in that it
includes the major Palestinian
organizations. The Palestinian side is
deeply committed to this agreement as a
means of ending the vicious cycle of
camp wars. However, there have been
many agreements before, and practice
is the real test. One remains skeptical
until all the terms of this agreement are
implemented.
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