Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 10)

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Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 10)

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throughout the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, and between the two. At a certain
time, the people in the Strip confront
the enemy with full force while those in
other areas may take a breather. At
other times, Nablus and the surroun-
ding villages carry the burden of all-out
confrontation, while others rest, and so
on. However, on Fridays, Sundays and
‘specially designated occasions like the
Day of Rage held on February 16th, all
of Palestine explodes to shake the
Zionist state.
Perhaps most threatening to the
Zionists in the long term is that the
Palestinian masses in the 1948 occupied
territories involved themselves in the
uprising. The general strike of
December 21st, when West Bank and
Gaza workers stayed away from jobs in
‘Israel’, was also observed by Palesti-
nians in ‘Israel’ itself. Their participa-
tion caused Israeli Prime Minister
Shamir to say that the strikes were «in
conformity with the PLO... Israeli
Arabs have to decide whether to follow
the PLO or remain faithful to Israeli
laws.»
The mayor of the heroic Galilee
village, Um Al Fahem, gave a clear
answer to Shamir. In a telephone in-
terview with Al Hadaf magazine, he
said, «We in Um Al Fahem expressed
our feelings with our people in the oc-
cupied territories by our unanimous
participation in the general strike... and
by our participation in the Popular
Rescue Committee (formed to aid the
uprising)... We are part of the Palesti-
nian Arab people... Israel must
recognize the Palestinian people’s na-
tional rights, withdraw from the land
and enter into negotiations with the
sole, legitimate representative, the
PLO, via an active international con-
ference.»
On December 23rd, two weeks after
the uprising began, 30,000 Palestinians
demonstrated in Nazareth in response
to the call of the Committee of Local
Arab Councils, and Rakah (the Israeli
Communist Party). Ibrahim Nimer
Hussein, mayor of Shafa Amr and head
of the committee, told Al Hadaf in a
telephone interview: «I say to our
Palestinian brothers wherever they are,
that we are one people with one destiny.
United, we must confront our enemy.
Here (in Palestine), we are united.»
Villagers in the Galilee and Triangle
areas collected food and smuggled it to
Palestinians suffering under curfew in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
Progressive National Movement, the
Sons of the Village and Al Nahdha
(Renaissance) movement called for
mass support to the uprising. On
January 25th, 25 Palestinian students
were arrested in Haifa after clashes
with right-wing Israelis, which began
because the students had painted
Palestinian flags in schools. Three days
later, in the Wadi Al Nisnas quarter of
Haifa, leaflets supporting the PLO
were distributed and there was a con-
frontation with the Israeli police, with
one policeman being
following day,
injured. The
Palestinians threw
Palestinian strike force in Nablus

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