Democratic Palestine : 7 (ص 4)
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Editorial
For A Unifying PNC
The meeting in Amman, which was termed the 17th ses-
sion of the PNC, started on November 22nd and ended its work
on the 29th. It was boycotted by the majority of the Palestinian
organizations and by a good number of national personalities.
The reasons for this boycott were clearly and openly
Stated by the Democratic Alliance (PFLP, DFLP, PCP, PLF).
The Democratic Alliance refused to attend for two main
reasons: The timing of the meeting and the place. The Demo-
cratic Alliance asked the Central Committee of Fatah to post-
pone the meeting in order to have more time for further efforts
to bring all the Palestinian organizations into a comprehensive
national dialogue. This dialogue was supposed to result in an
agreement concerning the political and organizational pro-
grams to be presented at a later PNC. This, of course, did not
take place.
As for the place, the Democratic Alliance considered
Amman a dangerous choice because of the political connota-
tions involved. The Jordanian regime has done its best over
the past years to obtain a mandate from the PLO and Arab
summits to negotiate the future of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip with the USA and ‘Israel’. The Jordanian regime has
made it plain that it considers UN Security Council resolution
242 and the Reagan plan as a suitable basis for such negotia-
tions. The PLO, for its part, had previously rejected both.
The Democratic Alliance expressed its concern about
holding the meeting in Amman for these political reasons.
In any case, the meeting which took place in Amman lost
its political and organizational legality in the moment it was
boycotted by the majority of the organizations, for this violated
the basic principle upon which the PLO was established, i.e.
the principle of a broad coalition of all the political representa-
tives of the various social strata of the Palestinian people.
Moreover, the process whereby a quorum was achieved
in Amman further underlined the illegality of the meeting. As of
the 16th session, the PNC had 384 members, of whom six had
died since the last session, leaving 378. The two-thirds major-
ity required as a quorum was thus 252 members in attendance,
with less than 127 absent. However, 168 members of the PNC
did not attend the meeting in Amman. For the purpose of mus-
tering a quorum in Amman, 47 members were changed in
mathematical juggling contrary to the rules and regulations of
the PNC.
Dangerous results
The results announced in Amman showed how very jus-
tified the concern and fears of the Democratic Alliance were. In
fact, the results ring the bell of danger that the PLO might be led
astray by the new Egyptian-Jordanian alliance.
The meeting, although rejecting the Camp David agree-
ments, opened the door wide for contacts and relations with
the Egyptian regime. At the same time, the meeting of Amman
decided to have «special» relations with the Jordanian regime.
The proposals of King Hussein, presented in the speech he
delivered at the opening session, were neither rejected nor
accepted, but referred to the Executive Committee for study.
These three issues indicate that the Fatah leadership has
in mind to go ahead with a new political move together with the
Jordanian and Egyptian regimes, aimed at paving the way for
negotiations on the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
What next?
The meeting in Amman is not «the end of the world». This
is what Dr. George Habash, General Secretary of the PFLP,
said in his recorded message to the Palestinian people. The de
facto which the Central Committee of Fatah is trying to force on
the rest-of the Palestinian organizations will not last long. The
PFLP has already announced the outline of its plan of action for
the near future:
The first point in this plan is quite important because it
stresses the determination of the PFLP, and its allies in the
Democratic Alliance, not to support, facilitate or participate in
any effort to create parallel institutions to those of the PLO.
The second point is that the PFLP will put all its efforts into
strengthening the alliance between the organizations of the
Democratic Alliance, and will work to broaden the Democratic
Alliance by inviting nationalist figures to join.
The third point is that the Democratic Alliance will work to
pave the way for a comprehensive Palestinian national
dialogue that will lead to a unifying PNC as soon as possible.
In summary, the democratic forces that boycotted the
meeting in Amman will not accept the results of that meeting,
but at the same time will not create a parallel PLO in any form.
Rather, the democratic forces will continue the dialogue with
the Central Committee of Fatah and with the National Alliance
(Fatah opposition, Saiqa, PFLP-General Command, Popular
Struggle Front) to prepare for a unifying PNC.
How things will go in the immediate future is very difficult
to foresee, because the efforts of the Democratic Alliance will
not be exerted in a static situation. Yet we can be sure of one
thing: The coming months will be quite decisive for the future of
the PLO.
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