Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 15)
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- Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 15)
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Burning tasks
First: Escalation of the armed struggle in Palestine, as well
as our duty of participating with the Lebanese National Resis-
tance Front... Arafat wants to tell the US and the Israeli Labor
Party, if it succeeds in the elections: Let’s work out a solution.
Thus, he did not dare to display clear support to the recent
operations in Jerusalem and Askelon.Let’s face this deviating
trend with all our powers. The effect of such operations in
Palestine is now known. Let all the Palestinian organizations
impose their existence on this level, for this is the way to con-
front the path Arafat is trying to impose.
Second: Formation of a broad national front to defeat
deviation. The armed struggle must be backed by the proper
political structures. As an immediate treatment for the prevail-
ing crisis in the PLO, all Palestinian national efforts should be
gathered in a wide national front which will confront and pre-
vent the deviation, and fill the gap resulting from this deviation.
| call upon all Palestinian organizations to take responsible
steps to gather all efforts in such a front, to safeguard the
PLO’s unity on anational basis, to escalate the armed struggle,
and fill the vacancy in the national Lebanese-Palestinian-
Syrian alliance. There is no room for sectarian attitudes that
paralyze this process. No one should expect self-gain at this
stage; most important is the battle against the path of surren-
der.
Third: Waging a patient struggle to restore the unity of the
PLO... Some may want to finalize matters quickly, yet it is not
possible to take hasty steps and still safeguard the PLO’s unity.
The PLO represents a great gain to our people through which
national efforts have been directed for 20 years. This resulted
in international recognition of our cause. The PLO now repre-
sents the Palestinian national identity and the unity of the
Palestinian people’s struggle. Though headed by the
bourgeoisie, it is the poor and working masses who have given
the PLO its great value through their sacrifices. It would be a
great mistake if we allowed the surrendering sectors of the
Palestinian bourgeoisie to claim representation of the PLO and
succeed in securing recognition on the international level. We
should prevent this through two stages: first by preventing
Arafat from speaking in the name of Palestinian legitimacy, or
in the name of all PLO Executive Committee members, PNC
members, or Central Committee members; second by
assembling the institutions of the PLO after doing away with
deviating practices.
Comrades, through the armed struggle and its escalation,
through the national front to face the deviating method, we
hope that the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people, will regain its position as an active force
responsible for the achievement of our people's national aims.
When the PLO regains its unity, power and anti-imperiaiist line,
our comrades in the Lebanese national movement and in Syria
will agree on the PLO’s outstanding role which helped to blaze
the trail of struggle against imperialism, Zionism and reaction.
The Palestinian cause is a just cause of a people dismis-
sed from their homeland. Yet the US grants all support to ‘Is-
rael’ to the extent that it does not condemn, even formally, the
settlement-building in the occupied territories. Despite all this,
the Arab reactionaries continue their alliance and subordina-
tion to the US. This affirms that the Palestinian cause is the real
exposure of Arab reaction’s treacherous nature.
Comrade Hawi
Today's celebration is to praise the heroic action of the
PFLP fighters on the road between Tel Aviv and Gaza, which
followed the DFLP’s Jerusalem operation. These represent
the continuity of a political line and revolutionary logic which
the Palestinian left has made a material fact through the Joint
Leadership of the PFLP and DFLP. How magnificient this
action of expropriating a bus from the Zionist usurper and driv-
ing it on the road of struggle. This is the road of armed struggle
leading to the national rights of the Palestinian people. This is
not the road travelled in surrendering ships via the Egyptian
regime to hand over the Palestinian right of independent rep-
resentation to the King of Jordan and others, in hopes of secur-
ing fictive rights which the Palestinian people will never gain
through such roads. Two different approaches to the struggle
for national rights of the Palestinian people are now confront-
ing each other on the Palestinian and Arab level.
The Palestinian left has proved itself as being more con-
cerned about the Palestinian people’s national interests and
about the political, moral and military achievements of the
Palestinian revolution. It is the more capable of leading the
struggle for securing these rights. The left has also proved
itself as being the more concerned about unity and the princi-
ples adopted by the PNC. It has also proved its vigilance
through its political stands and all the initiatives to end the
acute crisis which was caused by the policy of the Palestinian
right.
The Lebanese-Palestinian alliance
There is a unity of blood and destiny between the
Lebanese and the Palestinian people. This was embodied in
the Lebanese National Resistance Front where the determina-
tion of the Lebanese and the heroes of Ain al Hilweh met and
worked against the Israeli occupation.
After the US-supported Israeli aggression on Lebanon in
1982, some thought that Lebanese-Palestinian unity would
only be maintained through political maneuvers, exaggerating
the unfavorable balance of forces to justify dealing with the
results of the invasion. There were many attempts in the name
of realism and flexibility to have this unity function according to
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