Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 37)
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so that the masses realize what danger threatens them.
It calls for a progressive form of coordination and cooper-
ation between media of the individual components of the resis-
tance.
If such tasks face us on worldwide and national levels,
then how does the overall structure of the communication
media measure up to it?
Institutions and Their Unification
The successes attained by Palestinian information work-
ers could have been even greater if Palestinian information
institutions had been united.
The unity of such institutions would ensure an ability to
concentrate and a suitable deployment of forces. It would
ensure also the development of personnel, raising their qualifi-
cations and professional abilities. Information institutions must
plan the training of cadres and their improved qualifications on
a Palestinian-wide level and for the individual organizations:
Fatah - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - El-Sa’iga -
the Arab Liberation Front - the Front for Popular Struggle - the
General Command - and the Front for the Liberation of Pales-
tine.
Each of these organizations has its own information
apparatus whose size varies, just as does its area of impact.
This fragmentation of the apparatus has resulted, natur-
ally, in a fragmentation of resources, abilities, energies and
personnel. We might give some graphic examples. We know
that the question of our national unity is very complicated and
this is not the righit place to deal with it. But when we guarantee
every organization the right to express its own ideas and polit-
ical views, there is no reason to set up fragmented information
institutions.
We shail not mention here newspapers and magazines
because they are instruments for expressing the political and
ideological positions of each individual organization (this, of
course, does not mean that we do not have criticisms of these
instruments).
Below we shall deal with general information areas about
which, in my opinion, there should not be any arguments as to
the importance of unifying efforts expended on them.
Reviving the Palestinian Folk Cultural Heritage
Can there be any difference of opinion on the need to
revive the Palestinian folk cultural legacy? And can there be
any argument that the shortest and healthiest path to this goal
would be the unification of forces into a single entity? Why not
form such a unified whole that we could call the Institute of
Palestinian Folk Cultural Heritage?
Folk Art
Can there be any quarrel on the need to develop Palesti-
nian folk art, song and dance? And can there be any differ-
ences on the need to create a unified institution concentrating
all the talents and ability able to do something in this field,
instead of the fragmentation and squandering going on in
many places? Instead of corrupted cadres we could create a
central ensemble of Palestinian folk dances containing the
best talents.
In this way we will ensure a better presentation of our art.
We can guarantee the continuity of work through a training
institute that belongs to the enseble and looks after the educa-
tion and development of its artistic personnel.
Cinematography
Despite the fact that in this field until now we have had
quasi-individual efforts, important successes were achieved in
short documentary films. Otherwise, Palestinian film art is
growing only slowly, despite the fact that the armed struggle
our youth is waging and the battles it is fighting offer great
opportunities for creative talents and abilities. There is no
doubt that the fragmentation of talents and the non-existence
of a unified institution in charge of artists and that would set out
the policy of training personnel is responsible for the fact that
this art is advancing so slowly.
It should also be said that quite a few documentary films
have been made. Some are extremely good and have won
prizes and recognition at world festivals, while others merely
repeat what has already been said in earlier productions. On
the whole, however, the documentary film on the Palestinian
scene has now reached the phase of quantitative saturation,
and if the qualitative level does not rise this will have anegative
effect on the role it is to play.
In this stage it is necessary to take a more far-reaching,
important step - to begin production of feature films.
The Palestinian revolution, Palestinian history, battles
and heroism offer many opportunites to creative directors and
writers to join together in the production of feature films which
can substantially contribute to national mobilization and to
Clarifying the cause of our people to the world public.
This is one of the most significant information sectors of
strategic importance. A large part of the disorientation of world
public opinion can be laid at the door of feature films produced
by big world firms financed by Zionists for the purpose of dis-
torting the facts and falsifying the picture of the Arabs as a
whole and the Palestinian fighters in particular. There is no
doubt that the creation of an institution able to mobilize the
artistic potential and with the resources to produce feature
films, so that they are able commercially to compete with disin-
formation films, would have a great effect in the fight against
falsification and in spreading healthy ideas.
The question arises: what prevents the creation of such an
institution?
The truth is that there is no objective obstacle. Therefore
the task of setting up a unified film enterprise is a basic duty
that Palestinian information workers must cope with. Such an
establishment would guarantee the production of mature
documentaries and feature films and through an associated
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