Democratic Palestine : 32 (ص 16)
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The Call of Confrontation
Text of Call no. 33 issued by the PLO/United National Leadership of the Intifada, January 24, 1989.
The Zionist enemy imagines that its new policy, which per-
mits killing and using different kinds of lethal bullets, can
succeed in facing up to the intifada, abating its flames and then
stopping the great change which is occurring in the interna-
tional position in favor of the Palestinian people and their
leader, the PLO. The criminal occupation authorities think
that escalating these measures will create the proper at-
mosphere in the State of Palestine, for reviving the so-called
autonomy plan. We realize that the escalation of the repressive
policy is an attempt by the Zionists to break out of their inter-
national isolation and the political dilemma caused by the in-
tifada.
To the heroes of the war for national independence:
Long live your struggle which the Zionist military
establishment remains incapable of suppressing. We salute the
stones which have defeated the so-called invincible army. You,
the masses of the intifada, are daily creating heroic images of
struggle, demonstrating your high spirits and boundless ability
to continue the struggle. However brutal the violence,
repressive measures will not prevent you from continuing the
intifada until the achievement of the national goals. However
much the pressure increases, you will inevitably foil all new
conspiracies, first and foremost, imposed political elections
(the new Israeli proposal); just as you foiled the preceding
conspiracies of civil administration, autonomy, improved
autonomy, the Camp David accords, the Reagan plan, the
Shultz initiative, the Jordanian option, the condominium plan
(joint Israeli-Jordanian administration), «saving what can be
saved» (King Hussein’s motto) and «improving the quality of
life.» You will send all these to the rubbish pile of history.
To the masses of the heroic intifada:
Escalate your struggle and determination in order to achieve
our goals. Let us declare loudly to the world: We will not give
up the struggle to gather our people, from all places of exile, in
the homeland; we will not surrender our right of self-
determination or any of our just national rights; we will not
retreat from efforts to attain a just and lasting peace in the
area, via a fully empowered international conference where the
PLO participates in an independent delegation on an equal
footing with other parties. We will not neglect the martyrs’
blood, the groans of the wounded or the tears of the mothers
who have been bereaved of their children. Our people’s
sacrifices have only one aim which is the attainment of
freedom, independence and national sovereignty over the soil
of our sacred homeland. As we renew the pledge to continue
the struggle - whatever the sacrifices - and declare that the
repressive measures will not terrify us, we call on the interna-
tional community to shoulder its responsibility for providing
international protection for our people, from the crimes of the
occupation army. We call on the UN Security Council and
other international bodies to insure protection for our heroic
people who are steadfast on their national soil.
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To the masses of our heroic people:
The PLO’s militant arm in the State of Palestine, the United
National Leadership, calls on you to carry out the following:
- Merchants should act in a spirit of cooperation with our
people and their suffering, and refrain from exploitation and
raising prices. We confirm that the people and popular com-
mittees, as well as the strike forces, will not hesitate to hold
accountable anyone who toys with the people’s food or betrays
them. We call on money changers not to toy with the prices of
currency, as this would harm our people.
- We confirm the war on Zionist products and call on dealers
to stop distributing them especially those which are
superfluous or for which there is a local substitute.
- We confirm the continuation of the tax boycott... We call on
the strike forces to increase their activity in the cities, villages
and camps, effectively confronting the Zionist tax collectors
who suck our people’s blood.
- The owners of national factories, workshops and institutions
should raise the wages of workers and employees in line with
the devaluation of the (Jordanian) dinar and the new wave of
price rises; the increase should not be less than 40%. We call on
the committees and trade and professional unions to act
earnestly to implement this.
- We call on academics and teachers... to devote their time to
studies that will contribute to developing educational curricula
with a Palestinian national character,... to encourage and par-
ticipate in popular education and to form national educational
‘bodies in every city, village and camp for this purpose. This
will thwart the occupation authorities’ policy for making our
students ignorant by ordering the coilective closure of schools,
universities and institutions.
Be alert to the attempts by agents to plant confusion and:
division in our people’s ranks by threatening honest citizens’
lives and property at night. We call on the masses to activate
the guarding committees in order to thwart the acts of the
enemies of the people. The strike forces should teach them a
lesson. The masses should be alert to suspicious calls and lies,
and adhere to the calls of the United National Leadership, the
sole leading body of the intifada in the State of Palestine.
- Stay away from the suspicious meetings and parties called by
the civil administration and the instruments of the occupation.
Attending such gatherings is considered a violation against the
masses of the intifada and the national consensus.
- Continue to establish the institutions of the Palestinian state
by completing the unification of all professional and mass sec-
tors. In this respect, we greatly appreciate the unity of the
writers’ union, since such unity is one of the goals of our peo-
ple’s intifada.
- We call on world public opinion, and on Israeli democrats
and progressives, to do their civilized, human duty towards the
Palestinian Arab people, to prevent barbaric practices against
the detained Palestinian freedom fighters and to keep the
detention centers from becoming death camps like those of the
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