Democratic Palestine : 30 (ص 34)
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- Democratic Palestine : 30 (ص 34)
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according to a systematic policy which
is no less repugnant than the notorious
Nazi practices.
The crimes of the Israeli authorities
rose to the peak with the assassination
of the prominent Palestinian leader,
Abu Jihad, in Tunisia at the hands of
the Israeli gang - in violation of the
sovereignty of an independent state - on
the direct orders of the Israeli govern-
ment.
Crimes are also being perpetrated
against the Palestinians in Lebanon.
The villages in southern Lebanon and
the Palestinian refugee camps are the
target of repeated Israeli shelling.
Scores of members of the National
Lebanese Movement and Palestinians
in Lebanon are under detention. The
meeting expressed solidarity with the
Lebanese National Resistance Front in
its struggle against Israeli occupation,
and with the Lebanese people in their
struggle for a full and unconditional
withdrawal of the Israeli forces from
the occupied Lebanese territories in
accordance with the U.N. Security
Council Resolutions No. 425, 508 and
509.
The meeting condemns all attemps to
divide the Palestinian people as this
only serves the Zionist enemy. The
meeting calls for working by all means
and ways to safeguard the Palestinian
refugee camps in Beirut and southern
Lebanon.
The participants express their strong
condemnation and most vehement
anger at such brutal practices and ap-
paling crimes. They believe that such
acts are directed against humanity at
large and represent a flagrant violation
of human rights. They demand that the
criminal act must be denounced and the
criminals must be severely punished.
They deplore that the US Govern-
ment condones the persistent occupa-
tion as well as the acts of violence and
tepression perpetrated in the region by
Israel, and provides Israel with all
forms of material, moral, military and
political support. They denounce the
strategic alliance between Israel and the
USA.
The participants affirmed that a just
and lasting peace in the region, would
only be realized if Israel withdraws
completely from all the occupied Arab
territories, and if the legitimate rights
of the Palestinian people-including
their right to self-determination,
repatriation, and the establishment of
an independent Palestinian state on
their soil-were recognized. This would
have to be realized through an interna-
tional peace conference which would be
convened under the auspices of the UN
and in which all concerned parties - in-
cluding the PLO, the sole and
legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people - would participate
on a basis of equality.
The participants affirmed that all
people under custody or arrest as well
as all prisoners - who stood up against
the Occupation and all Israeli Nazi
practices in the Occupied Territories -
must be released. They salute all forces
and individuals who are struggling in-
side Israel against the Occupation.
They call for an end to all arbitrary ac-
tion and brutal practices perpetrated
against the Palestinian people, and ap-
peal to all people in Israel (who love
freedom, democracy and peace) to
vigorously endeavour to end the
massacre of the Palestinian people
(which has reached the level of genocide
and constituted a serious violation of
all international laws and norms) and to
enlighten young people in Israel on the
serious implications of military service
in the Occupied Territories.
They appeal to all peace and justice
loving peoples, governments and forces
to vigorously denounce and condemn
the brutal Israeli practices perpetrated
against the Palestinian people. They
demand that all kinds of material,
moral and political support be offered
to the Palestinian people and their
valiant uprising, and that it should be
channelea through the PLO - thereby
enabling the Palestinian people to
steadfastly resist the Zionist expan-
sionist thrust and realize the goal of
their struggle, namely, freedom and
independent state of Palestine.
The participants express their sincere
thanks and gratitude to the people and
government of Cyprus for their warm
hospitality. They express their full
solidarity with the struggle of the
Cypriot people.
Sanaa, North Yemen
From June 11th to 14th, one hundred Arab intellectuals, writers and
artists gathered in Sanaa, North Yemen, for «The Meeting of
Thought and Art to Support the Popular Revolution in Palestine.»
One participant commented that it
felt like a reunion: «Suddenly we felt
that we were capable of regaining our
language.» He was referring to the fact
that the conference assembled a group
of people who had met and discussed
daily in Beirut prior to 1982, only to be
dispersed into new exiles after the
Israeli invasion, and their cultural ties
disrupted.
This reunion was created by the
uprising which demonstrated the
necessity of starting cultural and in-
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tellectual work of a new kind, because
the Arab culture had suffered a setback
after the experience of Beirut, being
absorbed to a great extent into the
framework of the Arab regimes.
The conference concentrated on four
issues:
1. The necessity of reestablishing the
revolutionary atmosphere which was
generated in the Palestinian arena after
the 1967 defeat, but then besieged after
the catastrophe of Beirut. With the
uprising, this atmosphere has been
renewed.
2. Understanding fully the lessons of
the uprising, especially its dimensions
of democracy and national unity. The
United National Leadership of the
Uprising is a genuine national front
grouping all around a single defined
aim.
3. Giving new meaning to cultural work
as a practical experience in line with the
movement of history.
4. Discovering the full dimensions of
the long Palestinian struggle against the
Israeli occupation. The _ successive
stages of this struggle bear evidence
that it will continue and remain the
main issue in the Arab world. - هو جزء من
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