Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 36)
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- Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 36)
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at world festivals and were able to spread the truth through this
medium, which until then had not been utilized.
The Palestinian revolution began to be interested also in
other cultural fields. Political and folk songs developed on a
high level and far more attention was paid to the cultural
legacy. We have only to mention the folk dance which the
revolution used as a Cultural information medium on an Arab
and world scale.
This development came about thanks to the attention paid
by the revolutionary forces to communication media. The
development of various sectors of information and the opening
of new ones contributed substantially to a fairly crystallized pic-
ture of the Palestinian revolution among world public opinion
and to strengthening awareness regarding the legality of
Palestinian rights to self-determination.
As for the national scene, Palestinian information helped
to crystallize two basic problems. These were, in particular,
strengthening the democratic character of the Palestinian
revolution. The period we are speaking about saw the highest
level of political competition among the individual elements of
the revolution. Had not «established norms» been set up, there
would have been the threat of a split in the Palestinian ranks.
After the October war (1973), projects were submitted for a set-
tlement to which two approaches developed on the Palestinian
scene: One said that a settlement is necessary, while the sec-
ond assessed the balance of forces differently and felt that any
settlement under the existing conditions would inevitably serve
the interests of the enemy.
The various Palestinian information media had the task of
standing up against the intrigues and plans of the enemy to
foment quarrels and a struggle in this regard. These media
demonstrated that they were able to uphold the required
degree of responsibility in expressing themselves.
The political information battle of that time reinforced the
democratic content and democratic awareness in the ranks of
the Palestinian revolution.
In second place was the question of the ability to develop
the means for a national mobilization in an atmosphere of reac-
tionary pressure from within and imperialist-Zionist pressure
from without, of improving the quality of mass activities and the
revolutionary forces and information for these masses. These,
in most cases, were joint Lebanese-Palestinian activities.
In this period the revolution proved able to build new infor-
mation institutions such as a news agency and an independent
radio, which thus increased and expanded its opportunities of
reaching the masses.
What to say about the future?
The first stage of development reinforced the name of
Palestine on a world scale and raised the spirit of patriotism to
a national level. The second stage definitively raised to an
irreversible level on a worldwide scale the question of Pales-
tine as the cause of a people and their just rights. It proved on
the national and Arab scale that the PLO is the only legal rep-
resentative of the Arab people of Palestine. In the future the
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obligations placed on Palestinian information workers will be
even more demanding. The tasks can be summarized as fol-
lows:
1) A clear crystallization of the aims of the Palestinian revolu-
tion to a phased level means the crystallization of the phased
aim of the FLO which is the establishment of an independent
state on the soil of Palestine without any conditions.
2) To counter information intrigues and liquidationist plans,
plans to disorient Arab and Palestinian public opinion, to
spread a spirit of despair and hopelessness among the ranks
of the people and to stir up irresponsible groups against the
revolution.
After the Camp David agreement made full use of the pos-
sibilities given by the Egyptian front, the endeavours of the
liquidators inevitably came up against the core of the Middle
East problem, namely, the Palestinian cause. It is necessary to
work out plans able to thwart these intrigues.
The efforts of the enemy camp are concentrated on
imposing a project for autonomy according to the stipulations
of the Camp David accords, which Begin and Sadat each inter-
preted differently. One wanted autonomy only for residents but
not the territory; the other wanted autonomy for the residents
and the territory.
These are, simultaneously, a demonstration by the USA
and Israel to prevent the PLO from continuing the struggle for
the right of the Arab Palestinian people to self-determination,
and to besiege the PLO by a worldwide blockade.
Contradictions on a worldwide scale, the growth of the
Camp supporting the revolution, and the increased strength of
the democratic forces offer a chance to define more clearly the
phased aims of our revolution, and also enable us to concen-
trate support on the most important.
The task, in brief, is to formulate the ideas of the revolu-
tion, on the right to self-determination and on establishing a
state, into a clear political project which will be circulated
through information media on all levels.
Our task in the forthcoming period will be to explain to all
how we understand the right to self-determination and what
are the goals at this stage.
This new, third stage of our struggle means improving the
management and direction of information activities. We are
also very careful to see to it that the support of the world demo-
cratic forces is concentrated on the main idea, which is the
establishment of an independent Palestinian state. From infor-
mation workers we demand that they orient Palestinian efforts
in this direction, so as to unite the Palestinian forces to achieve
this clearly stated goal.
Various Palestinian information institutions must realize
more urgently their responsibility towards this task and go
further in mutual coordination.
On the national scale, the enemy spares no efforts to use
all means to divert the Palestinian public opinion from its
course and to weaken its attitude. Concerning such
endeavours requires expending maximum information efforts, - هو جزء من
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