Democratic Palestine : 32 (ص 11)
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- Democratic Palestine : 32 (ص 11)
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nationalist forces, waged the longest war in the history of the
Arab-Zionist conflict. This change began to impose itself on
the nature of the conflict. We can now say, without hesitation,
that the uprising has for the first time given the struggle against
the Zionist enemy the nature of a Palestinian-Israeli conflict in
the framework of the Arab-Zionist conflict. There is no doubt
that the 1982 war signalled the beginning of this transforma-
tion of the nature of the conflict, but this was not consolidated
until the uprising. In other words, the uprising has restored the
conflict to its primary nature and put the regional crisis in the
correct perspective. Thus, the most important task is the
struggle to resolve the Palestinian problem in all its aspects,
not being satisfied with border arrangements between the
Arab regimes and the Zionist enemy.
Since it is now clear that it is a Palestinian-Zionist conflict,
the enemy will have to face up to its ultimate opponent. This
means the collapse of the false Israeli claims, such as «a land
without a people for a people without a land,» «Greater Israel»
and so on, upon which the Zionist ideology is based.
Unfortunately, this new nature of the conflict did not come
about as a result of scientific discussion about the dialectics
between the Arab and Palestinian national dimensions. Under
no circumstances should we belittle the importance of the
Palestinian national dimension in favor of the Arab national
dimension. Nor should we concentrate only on the Palestinian
dimension, discarding the Arab one. What has happened is the
increase of the Palestinian role and the retreat of the Arab role
due to the decline and weakness of Arab officialdom.
In fact, a period of two decades has culminated in the heroic
Palestinian uprising. These two decades were characterized by
vacillation between the Palestinian and Arab national dimen-
sions. Although the uprising has given the Arab-Zionist con-
flict new features, it is important to remember that the Arab
national dimension is necessary as well. The Zionist enemy
threatens not only the Palestinian people. Consequently, foil-
ing the Zionist plan is not the responsibility of the Palestinian
people alone. The future of this struggle for liberation, social
progress and unity will join the Palestinian people together
with the other Arab peoples.
The falsity of the nationalist slogans which had prevailed,
coupled with the decline of the Arab regimes, made it im-
perative for the Palestinian people to take the initiative. This
situation also requires that the Arab national liberation
movement give top priority to overcoming its crisis.
The new features of the conflict brought about by the upris-
ing, in conjunction with the official Arab decline, has led to the
following new realities:
a. The Palestinian people are striving to crystallize the
features of their national identity, and to create the basis for
their independent national existence. Together with the Jorda-
nian regime’s relinguishing its ties with the West Bank, the
uprising has provided the objective basis for this process which
culminated in the declaration of the independent state on
Palestinian land. At the proper time, this process will continue.
with the declaration of an independent Palestinian provisional
government.
b. The Palestinian factor has become very strong. Whether
on the battlefield in Palestine or in the diplomatic arena,
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Palestinian presence has grown to where it cannot be contained
by any other party or regime. The independence of Palestinian
decision-making cannot be overlooked.
c. The Palestinian cause has imposed itself in the interna-
tiona! arena, as a cause of self-determination for a people who
have been deprived of their rights for more than 40 years. The
traditional friends of Israel have been obliged to deal with the
new realities. This is precisely the essence of the change that
has occurred and the essence of the strategic threat posed to the
Zionist entity and plan in the area.
d. These new realities have given our people, especially those’
under occupation, a glimpse of hope which further motivates
their struggle. It is clearer than ever before that this struggle
will not stop until the achievement of freedom and in-
dependence.
These significant new realities would not have crystallized as
such if the decision-making power had remained in the Arab
capitals. With the accentuation of the Palestinian role in con-
fronting the Zionist enemy, the struggle in the area has entered
a qualitatively new stage. There is no doubt that the outbreak
of the uprising, and its escalation, played the major role in this
transformation.
3. THE POPULAR NATURE OF THE
UPRISING
The third significant feature of the uprising is that our
masses in occupied Palestine, the creators of the uprising, gave
this turning point a distinguished popular nature. This feature
alone would make the uprising go down in world history, and
for this reason, the uprising is a model to be emulated.
Before 1948, the Palestinian struggle against the Zionist in-
vasion had a broad popular nature. The urban and rural
population participated in a series of revolts against Zionist
immigration and colonization. In most cases, these struggles
had a broad popular nature, without minimizing the role of the
political and militant vanguard forces who shouldered the
main responsibility for mobilizing the masses, and were always
in the forefront.
From 1948 until the uprising, the struggle against the Zionist
enemy took the form of classical warfare waged by the Arab
regimes against Israel, or self-defense. On the other hand,
there was the guerrilla warfare waged for more than a quarter
of a century by the Palestinian resistance organizations in oc-
cupied Palestine or from across the borders. During that
period, there were moments of mass explosion, especially in
Nasser’s Egypt, in Jordan during the Palestinian resistance’s
presence there,and in Lebanon prior to the outbreak of the civil
war. Throughout this period, there was increased mass par-
ticipation in the struggle against the enemy. The Arab and
Palestinian masses were always ready to struggle against the
enemy. In most cases, they paid the price for this, at the hands
of the Arab regimes. In the occupied territories, our masses
have repeatedly confronted the Zionist enemy, proving their
unlimited militant potentials and readiness. However, these
positive manifestations in the state of the mass movement had
not yet become concrete action. There had not been a direct
continuous and comprehensive confrontation of the Zionist >
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