Democratic Palestine : 7 (ص 9)
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Celebrating the des lon of Israeli trucks after a successful Lebanese National Resistance operation in Nabatiyeh.
ourselves and our Palestinian allies. However, we are confi-
dent that by working to consolidate the anti-imperialist alliance,
by exposing the maneuvers of the United States, and by ready-
ing ourselves to repulse armed aggression, we can foil these
designs. We, as Lebanese progressives, will be ready for this
next confrontation. We trust that our allies in Syria and the
Palestinian movement will be ready also. ,
The Lebanese Communist Party’s Politbureau
issued a statement warning against the current
Lebanese-Israeli military talks leading to a new
May 17th-style treaty. Could you elaborate on your
position?
There is no doubt that Israel, the US and the regime in
Lebanon would like to see these talks deviate from their stated
objectives and eventually evolve into direct negotiations
towards a new treaty similar to the May 17th treaty, though
perhaps less offensive in form. For this reason, our Politbureau .
not only cautioned against such a possibility but actually
expressed its rejection of these talks, standing in solidarity with
other nationalist and religious forces that also rejected them
and expressed similar concerns.
Israel was forced to make substantial concessions in
agreeing to talks that are strictly military in nature and con-
ducted under UN rather than US auspices. The truth of the
matter is that Israel will go ahead with the talks to show good-
will, while maintaining positions that can only lead to a dead-
lock. The ultimate Israeli objective is not to withdraw from
southern Lebanon, but rather to redeploy its forces in such a
way as to maintain its occupation at a reduced cost in terms of
casualties inflicted by the Lebanese Resistance. The enemy is
hoping that the combined pressures by the US, Israe! and the
Lebanese regime will succeed in channeling the talks towards
committing Lebanon to guaranteeing Israel’s security, and
forcing Lebanon to seek Arab guarantees, particularly Syrian,
for Israel's security along its northern borders. This, of course
is designed to prevent the Palestinians as well as the
Lebanese nationalist forces from waging their struggle.
However, our rejection of these talks does not stem trom
the same considerations as those expressed by other parties
which question the integrity of the nationalist wing of the gov-
ernment, represented by Nabih Berri of the Amal Movement
and Walid Jumblatt of the PSP as well as Prime Minister
Karami. We consider as legitimate the position of calling for
going ahead with the talks, insisting on total and unconditional
Israeli withdrawal according to the relevant Security Council
resolutions and rejecting any compromise on this matter. Our
own position as a communist party is designed to reinforce this
position of the nationalist elements in the cabinet, to encour- -
age them to end the talks if their conditions are not met, and to
join in calling for popular armed action to force the withdrawal
of the occupation forces.
Recently it was announced that a preparatory
committee had been formed to found a national
democratic front. What has the committee been
able to achieve to date?
The formation of the preparatory committee followed con-
sultations among various nationalist and progressive parties,
including the Communist Party. It is well known that since the
Lausanne talks, our party has called for a more advanced form
of coalition as compared with the National Salvation Front. We
estimated that the National Salvation Front had fulfilled its
‘objectives, which amounted to the following: defeating the May
17th accords, preventing the Phalangist Party from controlling
Mount Lebanon (and eventually all of Lebanon), preventing the
Phalangists from controlling state institutions (political, military
and security-related) and finally beginning a national dialogue
to build a new Lebanon. These objectives were fulfilled to a
great degree, although not in their totality.
We in the Communist Party believe that a national front
represents at any given time a class coalition uniting represen-
tatives of the various social classes that have an interest in
such unity. The pursuit of total liberation (from Israeli occupa-
tion), the unification of Lebanon and reforming its political sys-
tem are objectives that require a new class coalition that is
united on such advanced tasks and not limited by the political
program of the National Salvation Front. Rather there could
exist other forms of cooperation with these allies that agree
with us on, say, the need to rid Lebanon of Israeli occupation,
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