Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 8)
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- Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 8)
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Memorandum for Resolving
the PLO’s Crisis
The following is the first collective statement by a large group of significant national leaders and
associations in the West Bank on the current crisis in the PLO:
The criminal aggression against Lebanon has failed to
achieve its declared and hidden aims. It failed to annihilate the
PLO, to impose the May 17th agreement or to strike the Syrian
regime. This failure resulted in a serious economic, political
and military crisis in ‘Israel’. It had negative repercussions on
the USA, internally and internationally, causing a failure for its
traditional policies that aim to dominate the area and stabilize
its advanced base, ‘Israel’. This should have meant the deci-
sive failure of the Camp David policy and the Reagan plan, and
a positive impetus for the Palestinian, Arab and international
struggle, had it not been for the divisions in the Palestinian
arena. If these divisions continue, they threaten the very exis-
tence of the PLO and the achievements of our people under its
leadership on the Palestinian, Arab and international level, in
defense of their rights... Concurrent with this were the regretful
conflicts and developments vis-a-vis the Syrian regime.
Despite its negative repercussions, the departure of the
Palestinian resistance forces from Beirut contained evidence
of the failure of the Zionist-imperialist plan and evidence of the
continuity of the national struggle and its gains. It was an
interim in which to reconstitute the struggle against the enemy
plans, and to deal with the negative aspects engendered by the
complex conditions of the struggle prior to the war. These
negative aspects concerned internal organizational matters
and relations within the Palestinian national arena, relations
with the Lebanese nationalist forces and Syria, allies which
were also targeted by the invasion, and relations with the prog-
ressive forces internationally, which were also targeted indi-
rectly, first and foremost the Soviet Union. The aggression on
Lebanon coincided with the US invasion of Grenada and the
installation of new nuclear missiles in Europe and similar
actions which increased tension in the world.
The extensiveness of the negative aspects resulted in the
departure of Palestinian legitimacy from Lebanon and Syria,
which was a great loss for the PLO and the Palestinian national
struggle. This occurred at a time when great victories were
achieved in the battlefield. There was a change in the balance
of forces in favor of the Palestinian and Arab struggle. This
effected a deep change on the struggle in the whole area and
internationally; imperialist dominance was no longer total; the
targeted forces were able to confront the aggression and surge
towards liberation on a solid basis which strongly challenges
the imperialist-Zionist aims and their strategic allies.
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This was achieved during difficult and complicated cir-
cumstances where the Palestinian division and the exit of
Palestinian legitimacy from the battlefield had the following
dangerous consequences:
1. The Palestinian factions were preoccupied with (inter-
nal) contradictions, resulting in the paralysis of their effectivity
on the overall national level.
2. The enemy forces were able to manipulate the Palesti-
nian cause...
3. Lebanon and Syria, the main confrontation arenas, lost
the national and human contents and dimensions of the Pales-
tinian struggle. This contributed to weakening these arenas
and depriving the Palestinian struggle of its relations on the
Arab and international levels. It helped the imperialists to iso-
late the nationalist and progressive forces, headed by
nationalist Lebanon and Syria, in an attempt to revive the US-
Zionist strategy and their agents in the area, and to isolate the
Palestinian people and cause in order to liquidate them.
The PLO has always succeeded in overcoming difficul-
ties, foiling conspiracies, advancing the Palestinian cause
towards its aims and gaining international respect whereby our
cause became a focus of international concern. At this time,
the PLO, its bodies, forces and masses, bear a historical
responsibility to remedy the situation and confront aggression,
plots and deviation.
The 16th session of the Palestinian National Council, held
in Algiers, adopted historical decisions that constitute the
strategic basis for the Palestinian revolution. This disappointed
those forces who were betting on the internal contradictions to
lead to the liquidation of the PLO and the Palestinian cause.
There were many reactions expressing the disappointment of
these forces who drew hope from the divisions and began to
auction off the PLO’s independence without recognizing the
PLO or allowing it to be present and work in their territories. To
varying degrees, this is the case with the US and most Euro-
pean and Arab countries.
Thus we are faced with the following priorities for our work:
1. The urgent necessity of dealing with the divisions and
restoring the PLO’s unity, starting with reuniting Fatah, if it is
not possible to start within Fatah, we deeply regret the negative
repercussions this would incur.
2. Dealing with the negative aspects which affected the
strategic relations between the PLO, Syria and the Lebanese - هو جزء من
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