Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 27)
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- Democratic Palestine : 29 (ص 27)
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sion. Accordingly, brother Arafat
broke into the session, demanding
whether they really intended to discuss
support to the Palestinian uprising in
the absence of the Palestinian people’s
sole legitimate representative. Arafat
threatened to withdraw from_ the
summit if they continued in this way.
The atmosphere became tense again,
and the final meeting was postponec
for long hours until a series of bilateral
discussions resulted in a decision to
support the uprising in defined forms
and amounts.
Concerning how the support should
be channeled, the conflict was between
the PLO and Jordan. The Jordanian
monarchy tried to have a say in this
matter, but ultimately a decision was
reached to channel the support through
the PLO and concerned international
institutions. This round of the summit
was settled in favor of.the Palestinian
delegation.
Throughout the entire summit, the
Algerian leadership worked hard to see
that no questions unrelated to the
uprising could be interjected to the
detriment of support to the Palestinian
people. The Algerians prevented the
summit from drowning in side issues by
discussing other matters with each Arab
delegation alone. Thus, the final
statement concentrated on issues that
were crucial to supporting the uprising
and alluded only briefly to other mat-
ters. However, it is noteworthy that for
the first time the Arab leaders arrived at
a united support to Libya against the
US imperialist attacks it has faced.
TAKING STOCK
The extraordinary Arab summit in
Algiers culminated in a number of
positive resolutions that can truly be
considered a victory for the Palestinian
people and their just cause and strug-
gle. These results could only have oc-
curred under the impact of the uprising,
and in the main the summit was a new
victory for the masses struggling
against occupation. However, the fact
that Schultz’s plan was not explicitly
rejected means that conflict will con-
tinue, despite the successes of this
round,
The Palestinian victory in Algiers is
most obvious when compared to the
preceding summit in Amman, when
King Hussein succeeded in marginaliz-
ing the Palestinian cause. In contrast,
the PLO plaved a major role in Algiers
in the adoption of the _ ftollowing
positive resolutions:
1. Reasserting the Rabat Summit
resolution that recognized the PLO as
the sole legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people.
2. Helping the Palestinian peopl to
realize their legitimate national rights,
first and foremost their rights to
repatriation, self-determination and the
establishment of an independent state
on their national soil, with Jerusalem as
its capital and under the PLO’s leader-
ship.
3. The necessity of convening an inter-
national conference attended by the
five permanent members of the UN
Security Council, and with the PLO
participating on an equal footing with
the other parties.
4. Supporting the uprising in the oc-
cupied territories by all means.
In Algiers, the PLO scored an un-
divided success in the conflict between
the just Palestinian cause and the so-
called Jordanian option However, one
cannot overlook the fact that the pro-
US Arab regimes left some marks on
the work of the summit, chiefly by
blocking explicit rejection of the
Schultz plan, despite Palestinian efforts
to obtain such a clear rejection. The
summit also did not adopt any effective
measures to counter US policy. It
would have been fitting tor the Arab
regimes to close US
bureaus in their countries, in response
to the closure of the PLO offices in the
US.
Moreover, although
agreement on the necessity of conven-
ing an international conference with
full authority, the clause «full
authority» was not included in the final
Statement. This can only be understood
as leaving the door open to other sug-
gestions concerning the peace process in
the Middle East.
These points will remain the subjects
of conflict between the Palestinians and
progressive Arabs on the one hand, and
the reactionaries on the other. In spite
of these shortcomings, however, the
summit was predominantly positive,
especially when compared to previors
summits. It was to the favor of the
uprising’s demands. The main thing
now is to see that these positive resolu-
tions are implemented and don't ‘wn
the ranks of neglected papers in ‘'-
Arab League’s headquarters.
As the uprising was the essenttal
cause of the positive outcome of !!tis
summit, implementing its resolutions
and confronting the reactionaries’
countermoves require consolidation of
the alliance between the PLO and the
Arab nationalist and _ progressive
regimes, to create a supportive en-
vironment for the uprising’s continua-
tion.
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Why the Regime Fears the Masses
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The Jordanian and Palestinian masses in Jordan have repeatedly
expressed support to the uprising in the occupied territories, and
protested Israeli repression and the US and Arab moves to abort the
Palestinian popular revolt. The Jordanian regime, for its part, has
done all in its power to stifle the voice of the masses.
The Jordanian regime has mobilized
its security forces, police, army and in-
telligence service to suppress any mass
activities that would expose the falsity
of its own professed sympathy for the
uprising, which the official media at-
tempts to portray. At the end of
December, there was a massive arrest
campaign; approximately thirty
patriots were detained, including PNC
and PFLP Politbureau members, Azmi
Al Khawaja and Hamdi Matar. Since
then, the Committee for the Defense of
Democratic Freedoms in Jordan has
renorted that, as of mid-April, eleven
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