Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 10)
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leading the Zionist authorities to ban the entire Palestinian
Youth Movement in the territories.
In the face of this popular unity, pro-Jordanian forces have
been effectively silenced. The uprising has shifted the internal
balance of power overwhelmingly in favor of those forces with
interests in ending the occupation. The development and con-
tinuation of the uprising shows that, with neglible exceptions,
virtually the entire population of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip are ready to fight for their rights to self-determination
and statehood.
The Call of Al Qastal
Call no. 12 issued by the PLO/United National Leadership of the Uprising, April 2, 1988. Al Qastal was a
battle where Palestinians resisted the Zionist forces in 1948.
People of heroism and great sacrifices, you who are writing
the history of the Arab nation with your blood: Your blood has
become like candles bringing light to the Arabs and dispersing
the darkness prevailing in the Arab world... Daily your upris-
ing is being stepped up, fed by your precious blood which
waters the soil of the homeland. Your uprising is scoring
significant victories and growing greater and greater. The vic-
tories attained each day are accumulating to pave the way for
fulfilling the greater anticipated victories, first and foremost
the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
In spite of the brutality and repression, you are courageously
defying all the Zionists’ military orders issued to suppress the
uprising of the entire Palestinian people - children, women,
elderly, and youth, who are using only their sacred stones and
their growing anger at the occupation and its hirelings.
To our fighting people, the people of Al Qassam! and Abdul
Qader Al Husseini,* the people of struggle and the offerers of
great sacrifices: Your glorious uprising, your popular revolu-
tion has entered its fifth month. The Palestinian masses are
confronting more than two-thirds of the Israeli occupation
troops, backed by all the Zionist settlers who have been sent
into the streets of our camps, villages and towns, to attack
unarmed people. This powerful revolution cannot be uprooted
or liquidated by the brutal policies of bone-breaking, mass
killing, fascist acts of terror, mass detentions or economic
siege, because hundreds of thousands of Palestinians all over
the occupied homeland today announce that there will be no
step backward; the revolution of the stones will not stop unless
a Palestinian state is established.
Just as happened on Land Day, when two million Palesti-
nians expressed their belonging to one united people, today
they rise up united under the banner of the PLO, the banner of
the United National Leadership, the banner of liberation and
an independent state. In order to raise this banner over the hills
of Jerusalem, the Palestinians of every town, village and camp
rise up together to liberate their homeland.
You great people of Palestine, people of the PLO, people of
the United National Leadership: Failing to extinguish the
uprising by brutal acts of suppression and terror, the occupa-
tion authorities now resort to new methods. They spread false
rumors and misleading statements, allegedly signed by the
United National Leadership, in an attempt to undermine the
uprising. Yet the United National Leadership is fully confident
that our people are able to counter all these fabrications.
Meanwhile, the United National Leadership stresses that it is
an integral part of those who make the uprising, of the rebell-
ing Palestinian people, of the martyrs who have lost their lives
in the uprising, and of those who are ready to give their lives
for the national aspiration of liberation. The United Leader-
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ship stands for the youth and children who throw stones and
molotovs, for the thousands of mothers whose pregnancies
were aborted by the poisonous gas, or whose children and
husbands were sent to the Nazi-like, Israeli jails, and for the
thousands of peasants and workers who stopped working at
Israeli settlements and instead stood firm to defend their
villages, camps and towns against the brutality of the Zionist
settlers and troops.
You masses of our sacrificing people; you mothers of mar-
tyrs, injured and detainees; to all Palestinian mothers: The
rulers of the Zionist entity believe themselves able to abort the
uprising and undermine our faith in victory by mass arrests
and storming our houses by night. They do not know that our
people are an inexhaustible spring of revolutionary struggle
and that they are accustomed to tolerate jails for the sake of
the homeland. No matter how much the oppression and fascist
measures are escalated, no matter how many of the uprising’s
children and men are arrested, the Zionist authorities will not
be able to put an end to this uprising. Today, our people stand
together as a giant overcoming all Zionist brutality and claims,
increasing the occupiers’ dilemma and crises, and driving the
Zionist soldiers to neurosis and shame. So, give as much as you
can to your glorious uprising, for the dawn of liberation is
breaking through the darkness of jails and torture, promising
the achievement of an independent national state.
On the threshold of the fifth month of our glorious uprising,
that coincides with the 40th anniversary of Al Qastal battle, the
battle of heroism and sacrifice, and the anniversary of the
death of Abdul Qader Al Husseini, the United National
Leadership asserts the following:
- The United National Leadership denounces all attempts to
block the holding of the Arab summit in the first half of April
and calls for its convening as soon as possible in order to en-
sure support to the uprising in occupied Palestine. The United
National Leadership affirms to the Arab kings and presidents
that the Palestinian people do not seek money; they are ready
to suffer hunger and poverty, but never to surrender. They are
willing to die as martyrs, but not to give up their rights. They
are determined to march forward to the glorious victory. Yet,
the Palestinians demand the summit to show concrete
adherence to its previous resolutions, namely the emphasis on
the Palestinian people’s right to establish their independent
state, under the leadership of their sole legitimate represen-
tative, the PLO. The summit is also requested to adhere to the
call for an international peace conference with full authority
and the participation of all concerned parties, including the
PLO, on an independent and equal footing. The summit is also
called upon to close all Arab doors against the Schultz con-
spiracy which aims at liquidating the uprising. Such a step can - هو جزء من
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