Democratic Palestine : 34 (ص 3)
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legitimate, national rights of the
Palestinian people. The US ad-
ministration will be forced to do this
due to the escalation and continuation
of the intifada and the base of this
dialogue will be the international peace
conference.
PFLP Press Conference
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On June 8th PFLP General Secretary Comrade George Habash
held a press conference in Damascus on the occassion of the intifada
entering its 19th month. The following are some of the main issues he
addressed.
Comrade Habash emphasized in his -
opening remarks the current Israeli
schemes for aborting the uprising. The
first scheme being the Shamir plan and
the second, the repression and con-
tinuous attempts to stop the intifada by
all means possible. Comrade Habash
reviewed the changes that the intifada
has forced upon the Zionist enemy
which led to the presentation of the
Shamir plan as a political initiative.
Nonetheless, Comrade Habash noted
that this plan does not mean recogni-
tion of the PLO, nor does it mean
withdrawal from as much as one inch
of the 1967 occupied territories. Clearly
the plan has only one goal which is the
abortion of the intifada. This plan
coincides with the simultaneous escala-
tion of repression on the part of the
Israeli army as well as settlers. Com-
rade Habash said it was unfortunate
that the US administration has adopted
this same plan in order to achieve the
same goal. This was further clarified by
the memorandum President Bush sent
to King Hassan of Morocco on the oc-
casion of the Arab Summit held in
Casablanca wherein he requested from
the king to accept the Shamir plan or at
least not object to it. .
On the other hand, Comrade Habash
‘stressed the necessity of the crystalliza-
tion of a plan to confront these
schemes. In light of this, he noted three
tasks which must be done. Firstly, the
PLO’s total rejection of this plan.
Secondly, to call on the Palestinian
masses in the 1967 occupied territories
to persevere regardless of the escalation
of repression and thirdly, the con-
tinuation in our plan by organizing all
the masses in order to continue and
escalate the intifada and galvanize the
Palestinian and Arab masses in rallying
around the goals of the uprising which
are freedom and independence. Com-
rade Habash quoted a statement made
’ Democratic Palestine, August 1989
by Yitzhak Rabin that the struggle is
one of wills. He accepted that challenge
agreeing that at this point in time the
struggle is one of will and that the
Palestinians will succeed for a very
simple reason which is that they have
nothing to loose.
PLO-US DIALOGUE
In regards to the beginning of the
third round of talks between the PLO
and the US, Comrade Habash discuss-
ed his view of the expected results
stating that the main agenda item will
be the acceptance of the Shamir plan.
He also stated that threats will be
presented to the effect that if the PLO
cannot deal with the Shamir plan then
the US will be unable to do anything
except severe the dialogue between
them. Comrade Habash added that the
-PLO should totally reject this plan
since it does not even present the bare
minimum of the demands of the
Palestinian people. Comrade Habash
said that he was confident that just as
the US administration was forced to
begin these dialogues with the PLO and
forced to begin these negotiations with
the PLO, they will be forced to con-
tinue these negotiations but on a new
basis, based on the recognition of the
Although the PFLP welcomed the
beginning of dialogue between the two,
it knew from the beginning however,
that the US administration would
utilize these dialogues to detour the
PLO leadership from its course.
PLO-SYRIAN RELATIONS
During the press conference more
than one question pertained to the
Palestinian-Syrian relationship. Com-
rade Habash expresséd hope that
discussions would begin as soon as
possible. He did note however that
hope is one thing and reality is another
and added that there are some within
‘the PLO and perhaps within Syria who
are not very enthhusiastic about the
convening of these dialogues.
Nonetheless, the PFLP sees very clearly
that it is in the natural interest of the
Palestinians and in the interest of the
continuation of the intifada that the
-PLO and Syria convene talks soon.
ARMED PRESENCE IN
LEBANON
Another important question ad-
dressed was that it had been said that
President Arafat has called for the
formation of a Palestinian army and
the disbanding of the military forces of
the other Palestinian organizations in
Lebanon. Comrade Habash stated that
this concept has not been presented to
the PFLP but in the case that they are
faced with it, the decision would be
made in light of the Front’s
understanding of the aim of the
Palestinian armed presence in Lebanon
which is two-fold. Firstly, the con-
tinuation of the armed struggle against
the Zionist entity who are presently oc-
cupying Southern Lebanon, therefore
incurring losses in the ranks of the
enemy and uplifting the morale of our
people in the 1967 occupied territories.
The second aim is the protection of the
Palestinian masses in the camps in
Lebanon, in addition to the historical >
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