Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 30)
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commander of the middle area, Gen. Amram Mitzna and the
head of the civil administration, Gen. Shimal Gorin asked the
demonstrators to avoid engagements with the Zionist forces
and said they would ask the army not to fire at Palestinians. By
that time, Palestinian people in «Israel» took part in the upris-
ing. Mass meetings took place in Nazareth and Oum al Fahem
in support of the uprising.
On Dec. 17 th, Zionist forces under the mass resistance of
our people in Gaza, were forced to withdraw their tanks. On
that same day, the occupied Golan Heights had a mass
demonstration in support of the uprising.
On Dec. 18 th, the uprising increased in momentum
specifically after the anouncement by the PLO that the follow-
ing Monday 21 st would be the day of steadfastness for the
Palestinian people. On that day, mayors of Arab cities and
villages in «Israel» called for a general strike on Monday 21 st
in support of the PLO call.
On Saturday Dec. 19 th, occupied Jerusalem saw the biggest
wave of mass unrest since March 30 th 1976 (Land Day). The
Palestinian people in Jerusalem attacked 4 Israeli banks and
different Israeli vehicles and police stations. At the same time,
the mass uprising continued with full force in the rest of the
occupied territories.
On Monday Dec. 21 st, the day of steadfastness for the
Palestinian people, 2 million Palestinians throughout occupied
Palestine went on strike. The strike wasn’t limited to the West
Bank and Gaza but spread to the Galilee, Nazareth and Arab
communities in Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramleh and Acre. Con-
frontations also took place in these areas.
On Dec. 23 rd, the security council of the UN, under
pressure of the mass uprising and broad international support,
was forced to adopt a resolution condemning the Israeli prac-
tice, «which is considered a violation of the human rights of
the Palestinian people in the occupied territories». The resolu-
tion also condemned «opening fire by the Israeli army, which
caused the death and injuries of unarmed Palestinian
civilians».
ZIONIST REACTION TO THE UPRISING
Few weeks before the uprising, the president of the Zionist
entity proudly said in Washington that the Arab-Israeli con-
flict did not represent a danger to peace in the Middle East and
that the Palestinian cause doesn’t have priority in the area. The
validity of what Chaim Herzog said seemed true, specially
after the Arab summit in Amman. But what took place during
the uprising and what was seen on TVs worldwide proved that
our people have the ability to revitalize the cause.
The oppressive Israeli reaction manifested the fear that our
people caused within the Zionist society. A Reuters agency
correspondent in a report about the uprising said, «the uprising
reached an intensity that took the Israeli politicians and jour-
nalists by surprise. Some military leaders were forced to call
through governmental radios their people to calm down
because the army controls the situation».
The uprising caused confusion and disorder within the
Zionist government. Prime minister Yitzak Shamir, one week
after the beginning of the uprising sounded confident in say-
ing, «it is temporary..., there is no need to carry any change in
the current security policy for the areas». And he stressed that
«the security forces have full control of the situation»
(14.12.87). But one day after that, Zionist sources had to ad-
mit, that there is a war situation and Shamir threatened to close
the West Bank and Gaza and to consider it a military zone. On
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An Israeli soldier retreating trom Pafestinians in Gaza
Dec. 16 th Shamir condemned the Israeli public opinion for the
defeatist position that it took. On Dec. 17 th, Shamir called
upon his forces to avoid causing deaths because «every casual-
ty turns into a human bomb against us». But in the same day
he again said, «Israel is not concerned about more losses of
lifes». Chaim Bar-Lev, the minister of police announced, «we
must work for a political solution as if terrorism didn’t exist
and we must strike terrorism as if a political process didn’t ex-
ist».
Other sections within the Zionist society were forced to be
more objective in analysing the situation. Yossi Serid, the
Knesset member, said that what is taking place is civil disobe-
dience and that there is an increasing Palestinian control over
the camps and that the Israeli forces lost control of some of
them. Azar Weizman, the state minister replied to Shamir’s
anouncement and said, «who thinks that this is a temporary
thing is making a big mistake». The Israeli historian Yahosha
Boret was quoted saying in the Jerusalem Post of Dec. 14 th
that «the events this time in the territories appear to be a
beginning for a popular revolution because it seems as a mass
movement that women and children participate in, in addition
for being popular overt actions and not single incidents or
secret operations carried out by terrorist cells». The Ha’aretz
newspaper in an editorial on Dec. 16 th titeled «Big mouth and
slow brain» - refering to Shamir - said «he must decide wether
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