Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 35)
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- Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 35)
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Palestinian information workers were able to intensify this
awareness on a worldwide scale - despite falsification of reality
about the Palestinian struggle and the irrefutable historical
facts relating to Palestine by the imperialist and Zionist com-
munication media.
The special operations undertaken by the Palestinian
revolution abroad had the greatest influence on the fact that
the name Palestine reached almost every home in the world,
inspite of its being accompanied by propagandist falsification.
lt was a necessary and inevitable step which facilitated our
next moves.
The revolutionary forces in this stage relied on weak, scat-
tered information institutions which did not have either the
necessary knowledge or experience. But thanks to the efforts
expended in this field by enthusiastic pioneers, basing them-
selves on the heroic struggle of our people, great successes
were achieved in this work.
It should be said in connection that committees of friends
in capitalist countries also played their role.
On the national and Arab scale, the Palestinian revolution
attained even more marked successes. During a mere few
months it was able to lift a whole homeland from the darkness
of defeat into the light of hope in victory. With every shot fired
at the enemy, tens and hundreds of sons of our Arab people left
for the front, shaking off them the powder of defeat. Thanks to
heroic struggle, the revolution was able to achieve much that
earlier had been banned in a number of Arab countries.
The revolutionary forces in the Arab countries made use
of many information enterprises and institutions in which they
had great influence, although they themselves did not own
these institutions. At this time the revolution had the chance to
broadcast its own programs from Arab radio stations (Cairo,
Damascus, Baghdad, Algiers). It also had its own press organs
(Fatah, al-Hadaf, al-Hurriya) and other instruments such as
communiques and posters.
1970 - 1980
After the foundations were built for our information system
on anational and international scale, the Palestinian revolution
found itself engaged in an endless war launched against it by
imperialism, Zionism and Reaction for the purpose of liquidat-
ing it - in Jordan in 1970, in Lebanon starting in 1973 and in
1975 until the present.day.
Imperialism, Zionism and Reaction concentrated their
forces to liquidate the Palestinian revolution, which in a rela-
tively short time had proven able to win a firm position interna-
tionally, in the Arab world and on a national scale, and in the
Arab Homeland it raised high the banner of struggle against
imperialism and Zionism.
We can say that all the battles against the Palestinian
revolution launched by the various components of the enemy
camp failed and that the enemy was unable to carry out his
intentions. We can say that despite some blows that hit the
revolution and inspite of the cruelty of some battles, the overall
results were a strengthening of the position of the Palestine
Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the
Palestinian people, and reinforced the rights of the Arab Pales-
tinian people to self-determination on the soil of their own
homeland.
There is no doubt that the most recent war waged by Israel
against the Palestinian revolution had the greatest influence in
this field, because the revolution was able to reply to the force
of Zionist attacks. Despite all the losses which the Lebanese
and Palestinian civilian population suffered, the final result was
a big political victory for the PLO. This is sure to be followed by
new Zionist-imperialist attacks in order to exhaust and weaken
the revolution. The growth of the political and military strength
of the PLO represents a threat to the interests of imperialism
and the Zionists, as well as Arab reactionaries, who are trying
to remove all obstacles standing in the way of concluding a
broad pact covering the Zionist enemy and led by the USA.
On aworldwide scale the Palestinian cause has exceeded
the limits and aims of the first stage. In the first stage, Palesti-
nian information activities succeeded in enscribing in different
world media the name of Palestine as the cause of a people.
Then they began to have an impact so that an awareness of the
justice of the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinian
people to self-determination attained a level from which there
is no going back.
Today, not even in the enemy camp can there be any
doubt or argument as to whether the Arab Palestinian people
exist or do not exist. In 1968, 1969 and 1970 a number of
Zionists were still claiming that there was no such thing as a
Palestinian people. But after years of struggle the question of
the existence of a Palestinian people and their rights are no
longer the subject of discussion.
Palestinian information in this stage used more advanced
means than the communication media it had in the earlier
stage. Through educated and experienced cadres it was able
to break through the barriers that imperialism and Zionism had
erected in world information.
Besides using the media that the revolution itself had
(posters, publications, magazines in various languages),
these cadres and institutions also utilized bourgeois communi-
cation media, especially their liberal-peripherial components,
in order to bring to public opinion information about the posi-
tions of the revolution.
In this stage the Palestinian revolution developed com-
munication media which it owns. This process proceeded
together with the development of the revolution and the inten-
sification of its ideological and cultural content.
In this period, too, for instance, interest began to be shown
in cinematography as one of the means of information and cul-
ture. A kind of competition even developed among the indi-
vidual components of the revolution in promoting this art. Car-
dinal attention was focused on the documentary film, Palesti-
nian information workers in this field attained many successes
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