Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 13)
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part of the army; he was not dismissed, nor were any measures
taken against him.
The practice of Lahad’s army in the South does not differ
from that of the Israeli forces. The Israelis have turned some of
their positions and checkpoints over to his forces. The Israelis
have repeatedly declared their readiness to withdraw on the
condition that ‘security’ duties can be taken over by Lahad’s
forces and various other local militias under Israeli command.
Zionist and imperialist media are painting the picture that
the Palestinian revolution is defeated, and that the Palesti-
nians of the West Bank and Gaza would do better to accept
what they can get by cooperating with ‘Israel’. What is
your comment to this?
This is the aim of the Zionist and imperialist media, but the
reality is exactly the opposite. True, the Palestinian revolution
lost one of its positions, but it was able to rebuild its structures
and force; it established strong alliances with the Lebanese
nationalist forces and Syria; it has partially rid itself of the
wrong political trend which Arafat has followed for years. Itis a
fact that a wrong political line can lead the revolution to defeat
if the revolutionary forces do not rise up to correct the situation
and chart the correct political line based on the political lessons
of Beirut, the correct strategy and tactics which lead the revolu-
tion to victory. This is what is taking place now in the Palesti-
nian revolution, for all organizations have adopted the line of
continuing the struggle against the enemy. There is only Arafat
and a small part of Fatah adopting the capitulationist line. This
line is rejected by the Palestinian fighters and masses. There-
fore, it will be defeated.
In 1984, the Palestinian revolution, the Lebanese
nationalist forces and Syria defeated the NATO fleets in Leba-
non. Does this mean we got weaker? The Lebanese-Palesti-
nian resistance in the South of Lebanon inflicts daily losses on
the enemy; there is an ongoing reaction inside the Zionist entity
due to the losses inflicted by the heroic resistance; there are
contradictions between the Zionist leaders and parties ignited
and fueled by the continuation of our struggle. Does this mean
that the Palestinian revolution was defeated?
Developments after 1982 have proven that the Palesti-
nian revolution has learned from its previous mistakes and got-
ten rid of many of them. This has a positive impact on the strug-
gle of our masses in occupied Palestine. The strengthening of
the struggle in occupied Palestine is an indication of this. This
will lead to increased mass, political and military work in
occupied Palestine and in the Arab world generally. e@
Mass Rally
In late May, a mass rally was held in Yarmouk Camp near Damascus to commemorate the four com-
rades who were martyred in the operation carried out by the PFLP in occupied Palestine on April 12th. The
main speakers were Comrade George Habash, General Secretary of the PFLP, and Comrade George
Hawi, General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party. Both speeches are printed in summary.
Comrade Habash
We meet today to honor the martyrs of the Askelon-Rafah
operation: Comrades Jamal Qiblan, Subhi Abu Juma, Moham-
mad Barakha and Majdi Abu Juma, martyrs of Palestine, the
Arab nation, and the movement for progress and peace in the
world. We also honor martyr Abu Rabi’, hero of the operation
carried out by the DFLP in Jerusalem, and salute comrades
Carlos and Fuad who participated in this operation.
The importance of such operations at this stage lies in the
fact that they affirm the continuity of the armed struggle until
the achievement of all the aims for which thousands of our
people have been martyred. Such operations tell Arafat,
Mubarak, Hussein, Hassan II and all other surrendering rulers
that the only solution to the Arab-Zionist struggle is to uproot
Zionism from our land. Such operations say that our masses
have the power to achieve their aims...
Speaking thus is based on scientific analysis that a just
peace in the area can only be achieved by securing the legiti-
mate national rights of the Palestinian people, which can never
take place with the existence of the Zionist entity.
Everybody speaks of a just, lasting peace in the Middle
East. It is natural that our aim is a just, lasting peace in Pales-
tine and all the Arab area. It would be criminal to want to pro-
long the displacement and instability of the Palestinian and
Arab people, to want to prolong instability for the Jews living in
Palestine. Yet, what is the way to a just, lasting peace in Pales-
tine?
The Zionist movement succeeded in misleading world
opinion in 1948, when ‘Israel’ was created. It presented itself
as a ‘national liberation movement’ for Jews, with the sole aim
of establishing a state in Palestine where Jews would feel they
had a homeland and live in peace with their Arab neighbors.
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