Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 32)
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guages, the nations of these countries will have a chance to
become acquainted with the literature and culture of our
people.
This can be achieved through the direct activities of Pales-
tinian information workers or by cooperation between writers in
those countries and organizations of our writers.
Moreover, translation of books dealing with economic and
political analyses touching on our cause and questions of the
Middle East give the nations of these countries an opportunity
to understand the material reasons for the struggle in this reg-
ion.
Art
Despite all the strategic importance of translations of
Palestinian literature, Palestinian poetry and Palestinian politi-
cal and economic works into the languages of these nations, it
is still not enough. Palestinian information workers. have the
duty to actively advance this goal in order to show the diversity
of culture of our people, to acquaint the public with their cultural
heritage and their creative contribution to human civilization.
Palestinian folk art is one of the expressions of the Pales-
tinian creative contribution to mankind's culture.
Furthermore, it is the duty of Palestinian information work-
ers to show these nations how this rich cultural-artistic legacy
combines with modern creation in the field of graphics, the
theatre, the art of film, and in other areas.
The Enemy On a Worldwide Scale
If we look at the international field from the other side, we
see that our revolution and our information workers are facing
an enemy that controls the most powerful information machin-
ery the world has ever known. It consists of a long list of
Capitalist information enterprises and institutions - official and
unofficial -and the machinery of the world Zionist movement
which controls comprehensive and vast networks covering the
whole world.
The production of these imperialist and Zionist institu-
tions, which Palestinian information workers must counter,
have their strategic and technical designs. They have a tre-
mendous breadth, ranging from books published in capitalist
countries to radio stations transmitting news and commen-
taries in a way that poisons the minds of citizens of these coun-
tries.
If the information confrontation will continue in the way it
has been going, we will not be successful. At the present time
we are squandering many good efforts in too many directions,
thereby reducing their effectiveness and influence. Besides,
these efforts are based mainly on the industriousness of those
who expend them, and not on a clearly formulated plan of
action with precise goals.
That is why we say that the time has come to work out a
unified plan of confrontation with the enemy's information
activities, a plan from which all our activities would stem and in
the frame of which all our efforts would be united.
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The details of this plan are not a subject for this paper. Let
me only point out its general needs and features.
Strategic aspects
Since 1967 Palestinian information activities have been
based on the idea of enhancing the name of Palestine and hav-
ing the voice of Palestine reach the ears of public opinion so
that world attention is directed to the just cause of our people.
These efforts on the whole have produced results. They were
based on the sacrifices of our people and the heroism of our
fighters. But this type of activity no longer suffices to achieve
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the desired ends. It is essential to work out a strategic, long-
term action plan whose aim will be to intensify knowledge
about our struggle among people living in capitalist countries
and who are under the daily influence of imperialist communi-
cation media.
Another aim will be to unmask the distortions and untruths
about our people and their cause, which have been sown by
the mass media in the minds of the citizens of these countries.
Think how many have read in novels and detective
stories, distributed in millions of copies to the citizens of these - هو جزء من
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