Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 5)

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Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 5)

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Two Military Operations
inthe Heart of the Beast
In the space of ten days, two major operations, requiring
complicated logistics, were carried out deep in occupied
Palestine by militants of the DFLP and PFLP, respectively.
This escalation signifies the determination of the revolutionary
Palestinian organizations to support and escalate the daily
struggle waged by our masses under occupation, with
molotovs and stones. It indicates strategic resolve to continue
and advance the armed struggle to the stage of all-out people’s
war, as the main means for liberating Palestine and establish-
ing a democratic society.
At the same time, such operations are a defiant answer to
right-wing Palestinian and Arab circles who try to justify their
own surrender by claimimg it impossible to confront the Zionist
enemy's military prowess. This right-wing trend gained
momentum after the PLO’s withdrawal from Beirut, but the
revolutionary Palestinian forces drew a far different conclusion
from the results of the 1982 Zionist invasion of Lebanon: Far
from wiping out the Palestinian revolution’s military option, a
new set of political and material conditions have been estab-
lished, whereby the military struggle can be escalated in new
forms. Thus, revolutionary Palestinian forces have cooperated
closely with the Lebanese National Resistance Front, whose
attacks have placed the Israeli occupiers in a state of daily
insecurity in South Lebanon. Now, the Palestinian revolution
has shown that such insecurity can be spread among the
occupiers in Palestine itself.
Escalated anti-occupation resistance serves to bring
home the real lessons of the 1982 war and its aftermath: First,
prolonged steadfastness and confrontation, as evidenced in
the battle of Beirut, the current battle in South Lebanon, and
the daily resistance of our masses under occupation, com-
pounds the enemy’s crisis, paving the way for the people’s
eventual victory. Second, the Palestinian revolution and the
masses’ will to struggle for their rights cannot be eliminated
through high-technology, destruction and massacres.
On April 2nd, three commandos of the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine, who belong to the Sabra and
Shatila commando group, launched an armed military opera-
tion in the heart of the occupied city of Jerusalem. These three
heroic commandos attacked the building of the Ministry of
Industry, Trade and Tourism, located at the intersection of St.
George Street and Ben Yahoutha Street, and held a number of
hostages.
The head of the commando group directed a message to
the Zionist leaders demanding the release of a number of
Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli jails. The message
also warned the Zionists that they are responsible for any
action that may endanger the lives of the hostages. However,
as usual, the enemy neglected the warning and stormed the
building as ordered by the Prime Minister.
As a result of this attack,a battle occurred between the
commandos and the Zionist repressive forces and the settlers
causing the death of forty eight people, the leader of the oper-
ation, Comrade Abu Rabi’ and wounding the other two com-
mandos.
This operation was launched on the Day of the Land to
symbolize our people’s determination to continue the struggle
against the Zionist settler state which aims at transforming the
entire Palestinian land, including Jerusalem, into Zionist settle-
ments.
This Day of the Land operation was the first direct confron-
tation between an armed Palestinian commando group and
the Zionist repressive forces in the occupied city of Jerusalem p
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