Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 14)
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- Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 14)
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But what happened? The area given to ‘Israel’ by the par-
tition plan, the international legal base for creating the state,
was approximately 50% of Palestine. Prior to the 1967 war, ‘Is-
rael’ had illegally appropriated 80% of Palestine through
aggression. In the 1967 war, ‘Israel’ completed possession of
Palestine and occupied other Arab territory.
Now 17 years have elapsed without Israeli withdrawal
from the territories occupied in 1967, despite the fact that many
Arab leaders have accepted the formula of return of the land in
exchange for recognition and peace with ‘Israel’. Daily King
Hussein expresses his acceptance of this formula, which was
affirmed by UN resolution 242.
This imposes responsible thinking about the true nature of
the Zionist entity in order to determine the basis for a just, last-
ing peace in the area. We are confident that in the end the
nature and aims of this entity will be exposed; it will be clear
that a just, lasting peace in the area can only be achieved by
uprooting Zionism from the Arab land. This was partially con-
cluded by the UN General Assembly when it condemned
Zionism as a reactionary racist movement. Is it possible that
Zionism be defeated and at the same time ‘Israel’ remains? Is
it possible for ‘Israel’ to exist without Zionism?
The time will come when we are able to tell the wurld that
whoever wants a just, lasting peace should support us in
uprooting this entity from the Arab area. We recall Brezhnev’s
declaration during the 1982 war in Lebanon, that should ‘Israel’
continue to be aggressive and to ignore the Palestinian
people’s rights, it will lose the legal basis of its existence, which
was the partition plan which also grants the Palestinian
people's right to an independent state.
Let’s fight Arab reaction’s attempts at coexis-
tence with the Zionist entity
With the blessings of King Hassan Il’s regime, a Jewish
conference was held in Morocco, attended by an official Zionist
delegation from ‘Israel’. The Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes said
that they were not aware of such matter. Now that they know,
we await their response, but our waiting will remain fruitless. In
Egypt, the official declarations are all supportive, calling for the
recognition of ‘Israel’. Accordingly we must concentrate more
on fighting such attempts.
| say this in light of Arafat's recent course; he is running
after.a share in the settlement when it is clear that any settle-
ment under the current balance of forces imposes recognition
of the Zionist entity. He is not ashamed of this even though it
threatens the very existence and national identity of the Pales-
tinian people and the aims of the Arab nation...Certain sectors
of the Palestinian and Arab bourgeoisie are prepared to deal
with the imperialist-Zionist formula for ‘peace’.
What are the nature and conditions of the imperialist-
Zionist ‘peace’?
First: Rejection of the Palestinian national existence
(identity) and state. This is the Zionist formula with the excep-
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tion of small groups in ‘Israel’ who speak of the possibility of
recognizing the Palestinian people’s rights. The major parties,
who will remain in power for along time, completely refuse this.
There are no differences between the two major parties, Likud
and Labor, and the results of the coming elections will not vary
whether Shamir or Peres wins. Together these parties will
have 90 votes out of 120 (in the Knesset) which shows that
they will continue in power for a long time. We should not
expect anything from either: The Likud wants to annex all the
occupied Arab territories, while Labor is ready to give a small
part of the West Bank to Jordan, due to fear of the demographic
factor whereby with time the Palestinians would become the
majority if all the territories are annexed.
Second: Normalization of relations which is greatly
needed for marketing purposes...to open the Arab market for
Israeli products.
Third: The imperialists and Zionists will not accept any
peace unless the whole area falls under imperialist domi-
nance. This was the reason for the 1967 war and the 1982 war
in Lebanon. The Zionists gave the excuse of «Peace for
Galilee», but the real objectives were much greater than pro-
tecting the settlements or expelling the Palestinian resis-
tance... | won’t mention all these objectives but among them
was the Israeli desire to control the Litani River, for the water
crisis in ‘Israel’ is very real.
Such ‘peace’ and normalization are accepted by sectors
of the Palestinian and Arab bourgeoisie, who see their
interests in such a solution, but all the Arab masses reject this.
We all know how the Egyptian masses refused to deal with the
Zionist entity despite the steps of Sadat and then Mubarak.
One day these masses will impose their will.
The Lebanese nationalists’ victories are a great
historical lesson
After the departure of the Palestinian resistance from
Beirut, ‘Israel’ wanted to achieve the aims of its invasion. Yet,
the Lebanese nationalist forces continued the struggle. ‘Israel’
and the fascists of Lebanon, both supported by imperialism,
were confronted by the Lebanese nationalists, the progressive
forces in the Palestinian revolution, Syria and the Soviet Union.
This struggle resulted in a historical victory for the national
alliance and the cancellation of the May 17th agreement.
Where was the official Palestinian role in this period?
Where was Arafat? We all felt bitter that the role of the PLO as
a vanguard force was not up to our people’s expectations. It is
a major problem for us that Arafat did not gather all the Palesti-
nian forces to maintain their natural role in the Palestinian-
nationalist Lebanese-Syrian alliance. Thus, it is a great prob-
lem for us that Arafat still heads the PLO. It is a problem for
every nationalist Palestinian, Lebanese, Syria and the Arab lib-
eration movement that the PLO’s role is weakened at this criti-
cal stage of our struggle. How to remedy the situation? This will
not be an easy matter, yet how? - هو جزء من
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