Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 11)
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Palestinian fighters in Lebanon
Armed and Mass Struggle
Interview with Comrade Abu Ahmed Fuad, member of the PFLP Politbureau, responsible for the military
department.
What were the aims of the recent military operations in
occupied Palestine? How do they correspond to the level
of mass resistance?
We in PFLP have a political, organizational and military
strategy. Our military operations aim to implement our political
and organizational strategy, in short, the liberation of Pales-
tine. Since the 1967 war, we have been practicing political and
military activities to achieve our political goals. Indeed, military
operations are inseparable from the political and mass work.
This is why we mobilize our masses to join the ranks of the
military forces.
We are convinced that liberation will be achieved through
protracted armed struggle, but we also assign high priority to
other aspects of the struggle, as they complement each other.
Our masses in occupied Palestine fight occupation by throwing
stones and by all the humble means in their possession. This
is obviously an expression of their resistance. For us and for all
peoples who struggle for national liberation, armed struggle is
the main method. Without it, we cannot liberate our occupied
homeland from Zionism.
We put our main efforts into escalating the military and
mass work inside occupied Palestine. Efforts from outside are
helpful, but not the essential factor. The recent operations are
simply implementations of this line. The April 2nd operation in
Jerusalem, carried out by comrades of the DFLP, led to posi-
tive results on the mass level: It raised our people’s morale.
Also the PFLP’s April 12th bus operation from Askelon to
Rafah in the Gaza Strip was the implementation of our military
line which is based on continuously striking the enemy forces.
The accumulation of small strikes enables us from time to time
to deal qualitative blows to the enemy.
This escalation of military operations emphasizes the
positive, concrete alternative to the deviating line now being
followed by Arafat. It serves to dispelt the air of defeatism being
used by vacillating elements to justify their acceptance of the
US imperialist solutions to the conflict. It serves warning to
traitors who aspire to illusory gains through collaboration with
the enemy forces. The escalation of our armed struggle will
complicate the efforts to impose any settlement at the expense
of the Palestinian people’s rights. King Hussein of Jordan, for
example, cannot speak on our behalf as long as there is a
strong Palestinian voice making itself heard on the ground.
The aim of the recent operations was not to kill civilians,
but to free our comrades in Zionist jails, some of whom have
been imprisoned for over 15 years and exposed to all sorts of
torture. Nobody is released from these jails without permanent
disabilities. Some were martyred in the prisons due to torture
or deliberate negligence.
When we tried to liberate our prisoners, the Zionist leaders
ignored every consideration for human life. They forced their
way into the bus, thereby killing or injuring a number of the pas-
sengers, and killing two of our comrades. Our other two com-
rades, who were captured, were killed a few hours later. This
proves that our enemy uses Nazi methods. There are many
other recent proofs of the enemy's crimes from Sabra-Shatila
to the South of Lebanon, such as the recent murders in Ain al
Hilweh.
The bourgeois media often presents military operations
as the reason for Zionist repression against the Palesti-
nian people. What is your comment to this?
The Zionists have continuously oppressed our people and
committed all sorts of crimes against them. This is their
strategy for crushing our revolution and people, as has been
practiced since the creation of the Zionist entity through mas-
sacres and terrorism. Thus, the military operations are not the
reason for the Zionists’ repression, as this is their strategy.
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