Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 46)
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who are directly engaged in the revolution, and not even
among certain cadres working in the information field.
Faith in the future of Palestine rests, in part, also on a
knowledge of the facts in our Cause.
At the time of the Balfour Declaration, in 1917, there were
only 56,000 Jews living in Palestine and they did not represent
more than ten percent of the population of Palestine.
How many of us know this?
And how many of us know that the Arabs at that time
owned 97.5 percent of the land, while the Jews owned only 2.5
percent and that by 1947 the latter’s ownership of the land had
risen to only 6 percent?
| deliberately mention these figures to help every citizen
and every cadre realize the whole truth, to help them counter
the enemy's lies and arm them with strength and an invincible
conviction.as to the justice of their cause.
The Cultural Legacy as a Weapon
A good knowledge of the cultural legacy, including its var-
ious components, is also an essential step. That is why the
crystallization of these themes in simplified forms, so that citi-
zens and cadres can easily master them, is among the basic
tasks of information on the domestic, national scene. These
include a number of areas :
National Dress :
A knowledge of the basic forms of our national dress
whose development is linked with that of Palestinian society,
its means of production and relations. In this way one can go
back to the roots of Palestinian society.
National Dance :
A knowledge of the rudiments of the national dance
(dabka) and a good mastery of it is also very significant,
because through it one emphasizes the right of Palestinians to
their country.
There are many other outstanding areas, like archaeolog-
ical digs and historical finds, documenting the rights of Palesti-
nians. A good knowledge of all these fields arms the Palesti-
nian with an important weapon in the fight against attempts by
the enemy to deny him his birthright and to alienate us from our
heritage.
The Zionist enemy today uses venal claims and resorts to
obvious robbery of Palestinian history and heritage. Palesti-
nian dress is sold in West European states allegedly as «ls-
raeli» dress, and Palestinian food is sold in Europe as «\ls-
raeli». One of the tasks of information is to fight against these
lies.
What | am saying here is not a manifestation of local
fanaticism or chauvinism; national culture and its development
are an indivisible part of the confrontation with imperialism
which is trying to destroy and wipe out this culture.
Information activities in this regard are an inseparable part
of national and patriotic efforts to revive a national legacy and
to develop it.
2) National Mobilization
The second basic task of Palestinian information is that of
national mobilization. Workers of communication media are
spokesmen of the political leadership, reflect its attitude and
encourage the masses to rally round it. One should understand
the word, attitude, in several ways: as we advance from the
strategic level to the level of stages and then to tactics.
a) Strategic:
On the strategic level the aim of information is to uphold
the preparedness of the Palestinian masses to fight for libera-
tion and to maintain the firm conviction of the masses that their
struggle will lead to final victory. This, naturally, is based on a
just cause on the one hand, and on the other on the logical
inevitability of victory of oppressed nations against imperialism
if they conduct along and tireless struggle. Such an awareness
must be cultivated on the basis of the experience of our own
people using the experience of the liberation movements of
other nations in the past fifty years.
b) Phased:
It is absolutely clear that this process of strategic mobiliza-
tion is based on the political and military strategy of the revolu-
tion and its planned phases.
As arule, insuch an instance the role of information work-
ers becomes more difficult. Strategic mobilization is certainly
easier since, during it, we do not come up against difficulties
hidden in the concrete mechanism which the revolution out-
lined with the aim of liberating the homeland. «Establishment
of an independent state on any part of the territory of the home-
land that will be liberated, without any conditions» - such is the
phased aim of the revolution. Among the tasks placed on the
shoulders of information workers is to move with the national
mobilization in this direction with all means they have at their
disposal.
Cc) Tactical:
Combined with this phased task are the everyday tasks
which information workers have to cope with so that the news
reaches a citizen daily, so that it strengthens his will to struggle
and makes him aware of the dangers threatening the revolu-
tion and of the disinformation put out by the enemy.
Fulfilling this task means providing political bread every-
day for the masses and combining this daily information with
the phased aim of the revolution and its strategic goals. @
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