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program even failed to specify that the
Palestinian section of the Camp David
accords has totally failed.
These points make us think that
aithough there may have been extensive
debate at Fatah’s conference, the end
result was a set of compromises that
will basically allow the previous policy
to continue, perhaps with considerable
modifications.
Although we have criticism of the
program, chiefly concerning the lack of
linkage between strategic and interim
tasks, it is positive that Fatah main-
tained its nationalist principles concer-
ning many issues which have impor-
tance for the Palestinian struggle. The
spirit of the intifada was strongly felt at
the conference, and it is to the intifada
that the main credit goes for the
positive aspects of the program.
Democratic Palestine, October 1989
NO RETREAT FROM THE
INTERIM PROGRAM
The conference confirmed the
Palestinian people’s historical rights in
their homeland, Palestine’s belonging
to the Arab nation, and the unity of the
Palestinian people everywhere. It
stressed that the Zionist invasion of
Palestine aimed to eliminate the
Palestinian people and their civiliza-
tion, and that the founding of the
settler-colonial Zionist entity was part
of imperialism’s plan to control the
resources of the Arab nation and keep
it within its sphere of influence.
The conference confirmed that:
«There will be no peace, no settlement
and no security in the Middle East
without the recognition of the Palesti-
nians’ right to self-determination and
national independence.» The _ con-
ference mandated Fatah’s Revolu-
tionary Council to form a special
committee for confronting Zionist
immigration to our homeland. This
decision is very important. However,
the initiative to form such a committee
should come from the PLO, whereby
all Palestinian organizations wou!d
take part, as this would serve the pur-
pose of unifying Palestinian efforts.
The conference was very clear con-
cerning the national principles for the
current stage. It stressed Palestinian
national unity and the independence of
Palestinian decision-making as basic
preconditions for the intifada and for
achieving the Palestinian goals of
repatriation, self-determination and the

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