Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 31)
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- Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 31)
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Palestinian Information
Tasks and Perspectives
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This is a continuation of the essay by Bassam Abu Sharif which we began publishing in «Democratic
Palestine» no. 4. The entire essay has been published as a booklet by the International Organization of
Journalists (lOJ).
3) Information in the Arab World
As regards relations to governments and official institu-
tions, all Palestinan information workers have before them two
basic tasks from which secondary tasks follow:
The first task is to counter official reactionary information
which disorients the Arab masses. Such information media are
either linked with the imperialist information machinery or are
joined to it on the level of political programs. Palestinian infor-
mation employees come up in this instance against certain dif-
ficulties in view of the official attitude of the Palestine Liberation
Organization towards these regimes clearly allied to
Washington. In this instance there is the danger that the Arab
masses will become the victims of disinformation because
some of these regimes set up institutions which speak, issue
newspapers and programs in the name of the Palestinians.
The second task in this field is to strengthen the official
patriotic Arab attitude supporting the rights of the Palestinians
and the Palestinian revolutionary struggle. This is a sensitive
task because it reflects an alliance of the revolution - which is
leading an armed struggle against the enemy - with the patrio-
tic regimes preparing for armed struggle against the enemy.
In relation to the Arab people, Palestinian information
workers have more extensive tasks before them than those.
they came across on the national scale. This is because of the
existence of the Arab liberation movement and the turbulent
mass current which supports the Palestinian revolution. Con-
centrating the masses for support of the Palestinian cause
must be regarded as one of the fundamental tasks.
Besides circulating basic information about the Palesti-
nian cause and spreading Palestinian national culture in all its
forms, Palestinian information workers have the job of fighting
side by side with the Arab liberation movements, in each indi-
vidual country, to counter all attempts at political disorientation
which the imperialist information machinery is trying to spread,
together with local circles that collaborate with it.
At the same time, Palestinian information workers have
the daily job of inculcating a spirit of determination to actively
participate in the fight for the liberation of Palestine on the basis
of an unshakable faith in final victory.
4) Information on a Worldwide Scale
Palestinian information cadres have before them the most
complicated battle when it comes to a worldwide scale. Their
opponent is the imperialist-Zionist machinery whose tentacles
spread into various parts of the world and whose products are
distributed throughout the world, even to the most remote
areas. Our information workers also have the task of informing
the camp of their friends about events. This, too, is a compli-
cated assignment, but it can rely on the help of our allies.
Camp of Friends
On a worldwide scale, standing at the side of the just fight
of the Arab Palestinian people is the socialist community with
all its authority, and also the world liberation movement and the
democratic forces in the capitalist countries.
But this position at the side of the just fight of the Arab
Palestinian people is not to say that the facts concerning the
struggle have been fully absorbed by the broad masses in
these countries. We can-even say that for the most part, in the
capitalist countries, the Zionist forces try to distort the reality in
the minds of the masses while attacking the socialist regimes
and the liberation movement. The socialist states and the liber-
ation movement offer much room for information about the
Palestinian revolution. The task of Palestinian workers of com-
munication media is to use as best as possible the oppor-
tunities which exist so that both official and popular support of
our people’s fight grows stronger. Information workers, in this
regard, have a large number of broad channels available and
it is essential to constantly make use of these possibilities.
Literature and Political Analysis
The first obligation resting on the shoulders of Palestinian
information workers is to translate a great deal of Palestinian
literature and information into the languages spoken by the
nations of the socialist countries and the masses fighting for
freedom and justice.
If Palestinian literary works are translated into these lan-
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