Democratic Palestine : 31 (ص 21)
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- Democratic Palestine : 31 (ص 21)
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demand that the two leaderships re-establish their bilateral
relationship despite all the present obstacles. But, the real hope
is the Arab masses. The Lebanese arena is open to us through
our alliance with the Lebanese National Movement. Arab
history has recorded the best times of this alliance. Here I see
the necessity of seriously working to re-establish this alliance as
a priority among our tasks and thinking on the Arab level. It is
the PLO’s responsibility to correct and clarify its position and
political line in regards to this alliance, and in regards to the
isolationist-Zionist project in Lebanon. This is the first step
that will pave the way to re-establishing the strong alliance
between the Palestinian and the Lebanese armed struggle. We
will join with our comrades in the Lebanese Communist Party,
the Lebanese National Movement, Amal and Hizballah in
raising the slogan: «All guns against the Zionist enemy.» I say
to my comrades in the Lebanese National Movement that the
re-establishment of the Palestinian-Lebanese alliance, and
directing all nationalist, Islamic, Lebanese and Palestinian
guns against ‘Israel’, would be the most important support we
could give the uprising in its second year.
By the way, you heard today about the Israeli attack against
Naima (Lebanon) and the heroic fighting there, which caused
the death of an Israeli officer and two Israeli soldiers at the
hands of the Progressive Socialist Party and the PFLP-General
Command. In this battle, Abu Jamil, the hero, was martyred.
This heroic resistance is the best present for the uprising on its
first anniversary. I have big hopes and confidence that the
Palestinian-Lebanese alliance, continuing its daily operations,
will have opened new horizons before us by the time we
celebrate the second anniversary of the uprising. Changing the
balance of forces in the Arab world will depend, to a certain
sree, on this arena, Lebanon.
The uprising is a cry to the progressive Arab parties in all the
Arab world, saying: «Why aren’t you moving?» I say this in a
brotherly and loving manner, on the basis of joint thinking and
responsibility, and I hope that the coming year will bring a
scientific answer to this question.
INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
We must emphasize the importance of the international role,
especially in this period. With the help of our true allies, we are
faced with the following tasks: Firstly, continuously proposing
international supervision over the occupied Palestinian ter-
ritories, even if the US administration vetoes this ten times
over. It is impossible for our masses to remain at the mercy of
the occupation authorities, continuing to suffer and be tor-
tured. This is Palestinian land, as the UN Security Council has
recognized, and it is also occupied land, just as the Security
Council recognized. Thus, it is the responsibility of the UN to
protect our masses.
Secondly, in the light of the present Arab reality, we must
use all means, first and foremost, the international conference,
in spite of our conviction that what was taken by force must be
regained by force, and despite all our previous experience.
There are those who agreed to UN Security Council Resolution
242, 21 years ago, and some of them practiced flexibility and
others were more than flexible, but they have not achieved
anything. Yet, we are going to try in order to say to the world,
«Look, this is ‘Israel’ that you created. Look what it did to the
area and the Palestinian people.» Then the international
community should work to solve the Palestinian problem in all
of its aspects at this stage, a comprehensive solution, thougn I
don’t say it will be fair or eternal. The international conference
is a weapon in our hands. We should use it; it is a militant
slogan for our benefit. But do you think that ‘Israel’ will ac-
cept this? We must work to create the balance of forces which
will make ‘Israel’ accept this and accept that the PLO is the
sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
Then comes the struggle to gain recognition of the legitimate
national rights of our people. The question is: Will the inter-
national conference give us all our natural and national rights
in Palestine? No. It will give us the rights that the international
legitimacy agrees to. This is something positive and to our
benefit, because the establishment of a Palestinian state on
part of the Palestinian land means the beginning of the
deterioration of the Zionist project.
Thirdly, we must raise our voice loud, asking our friends to
give continuous support and solidarity to the Palestinian peo-
ple. We also ask of them to take severe measures against the
Zionist entity and to raise the slogan on the international level:
«Our battle against neo-Nazism is the battle of all democratic
and progressive forces, as was the battle against Nazism.»
Comrades, the blood of our people that has flowed
throughout the occupied territories imposes upon us to think in
a serious and responsible manner. It imposes upon us to
prepare all our abilities and potentials; to be truthful and
faithful in every word we say, and to close every gap between
word and deed. Our families and children deserve from us
these deep feelings of responsibility.
We salute the children of the stones, those who throw
molotovs and who stab the occupation soldiers! We salute our
imprisoned comrades who have been on a hunger strike for
days! We salute all the martyrs and their mothers and wives.
At this particular moment, I cannot but remember the souls of
our heroic martyred leaders: Izz Al Din Al Qassam, Abdul
Qader Al Husseini, Guevara Gaza, Ghassan Kanafani and Abu
Jihad. I remember my brother and comrade, Talat Yacoub
(General Secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who
died in November 1988). A special salute to the people of the
Galilee, Triangle and Naqab (Negev) and all the areas that were
occupied in 1948.
We salute the Pal<cs.uinan-Lebanese Resistance which unfor-
tunately has not received the importance that it deserves on the
official or popular levels, and which played an important role
in activating the uprising in the occupied territories! We salute
the Arab liberation movement! We salute the camp of peace,
progress, liberation and socialism, and its vanguard, our
friend, the Soviet Union! We salute heroic Cuba and Comrade
Fidel Castro whom our people hold in deep respect!
Before I end my speech, and in the light of the psychological
warfare of the Zionists, imperialists and Arab reactionaries, I
want to say that we will fight for the sake of victory. We do not
fight only because it is our duty, and not for the sake of saying
we are doing so. Rather we are fighting for a nobel and just
cause, and we want to win. If the enemy wants to scare us with
talk about its long-range missiles, then we will scare them with
rocks. They are afraid of the Palestinian birthrate; during the
uprising, 25,000 babies have been born in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. We will confront the Zionist enemy with the bir-
thrate, not only in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but also in
the Galilee, Bir Sheba, Lydd and all the cities of Palestine, and
in every Palestinian community. We will confront ‘Israel’ with
rocks and grenades and all means, including literature and art,
until they end the occupation. Our slogan, and the focus of our
struggle, alongside all the Arab progressive forces, will be: Al
Intifada, Al Intifada!
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