Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 19)
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to develop the military activities against the Zionist enemy on
all fronts and across all the borders adjacent to Palestine.
How do you view the inter-Palestinian fighting
between the forces of Yasir Arafat and Abu Musa,
that erupted in the Beirut camps in May?
Inter-Palestinian fighting is a crime and those who start it
are criminals. The PFLP considers that any use of weapons to
resolve internal contradictions weakens national unity, serves
enemy aims and weakens the trust of the masses in the revolu-
tion and its leadership. In the light of our understanding of this
danger, the PFLP defined a_ scientific revolutionary
understanding of this issue, which can be summarized as
follows:
1. Condemnation of infighting and declaring those who call
for or start such fighting as criminals.
2. Freedom of political affiliation within the national camp
for all Palestinians.
3. Solving all differences, whether within one organization
or between different organizations, through democratic
dialogue.
4. The right of every organization to conduct political and
ideological work among the masses.
The recent inter-Palestinian fighting in the camps of Beirut
was a Stab in the back to the uprising in occupied Palestine.
This infighting became the number one news item, relegating
the news of the uprising to second or third place on the Arab
and international levels. It caused the dispersion of the energies
of the Palestinian contingents, and preoccupied most of the
leadership with resolving this problem at the expense of effcrts
to support and develop the uprising.
The PFLP played a prominent role in stopping this tragedy
and bloodshed by participating in the central follow-up com-
mittee and in the branch committees established by the
Palestinian resistance to enforce the agreement concluded in
the joint Palestinian-Lebanese nationalist meeting of May 9th.
Stopping the inter-Palestinian fighting is not enough; it must
be permanently banned. We will push for having the Palesti-
nian masses play a greater role in forbidding such fighting. We
will submit ideas that aim at educating all the fighters against
such infighting, so that every fighter will know why he carries
arms and against whom he should use them. All should reach
the conclusion that using arms against other nationalists or the
masses is tabu. I cannot say that we have reached a final solu-
tion between the two sides to this fighting, but we were able to
defuse the sitution at least for the time being, as the first step to
enforcing a permanent solution to this problem through the
central bodies of the Palestinian organizations and the PLO.
(Editor’s note: After this interview was made, inter-Palestinian
fighting unfortunately broke out once more in the Beirut
camps on June 9th). =
A Deportee Speaks of the Uprising
In late May, Democratic Palestine had the opportunity to interview Beshir Khairi, one of four Palestinians
deported by the Zionist authorities in January. Most of the interview deals with the uprising, but we asked
Beshir to begin by telling his own story:
1 was born in Ramleh in 1942. My family, together with
many other Palestinian families, was expelled from Ramleh
after the 1948 defeat. First we moved to Ramallah where we
stayed for 5 months. Afterwards, we moved to Gaza city where
we lived until 1957. We lived through the 1956 Israeli occupa-
tion of the Gaza Strip, which lasted 4 months and 3 days. Dur-
ing this period, I finished elementary school and the first year
of high school. In 1957, we moved back to the West Bank and
lived in Ramallah, and I finished high school in Jerusalem. In
1964, I graduated from the law school at Cairo University. We
were in Ramallah during the 1967 catastrophe. We witnessed,
as did all other Palestinians, a war where the balance of power
was in favor of the enemy. We can’t call it a war really as much
as a scenario where one side advances while the other side
escapes as fast as possibie.
Forced migration, living in poverty in the camps, and Zionist
oppression were the first seeds for the growth of my national,
consciousness. I started to feel that we have the right, as do all
other people in the world, to have a country, flag and national
anthem. Why are we deprived of these basic rights that all
other people enjoy? I, being a citizen of a divided country lov-
ed my land. After the West Bank was occupied, I saw that even
this small part, which isn’t more than one-third of Palestine,
was exposed to Zionist terror. At that time I found that: it is>
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