Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 3)
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- Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 3)
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As we go to press, the Amal movement, together with the
6th and 8th Brigades of the Lebanese Army, continue their sav-
age offensive against the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut.
These forces are using a wide range of weaponry, including
heavy artillery and rocket launchers, hence inflicting excessive
death and injury on the Palestinian masses, and causing
heavy damage to the camps. It is clear that Amal is determined
to capture and destroy the camps, and disarm the Palesti-
nians. Amal has turned a deaf ear to appeals from Lebanese,
Arab and international progressive forces, to stop these
attacks.
Amal launched its attack on the false pretext of combatting
Arafat's forces and ill designs for Lebanon, but everyone
knows that Arafat's influence in Lebanon now is limited. Rather
the attack on the camps is hitting the Palestinians who are
opposed to Arafat's deviating policies, and who joined
Lebanese progressives and nationalists in fighting the US,
Israeli and fascist forces in Lebanon.
One can trace Amal's preparations for the attack on the
camps back to when the Israeli occupation forces started
evacuating South Lebanon. At this time, the Amal movement
began preparing itself politically and militarily. It began agitat-
ing its members against the Palestinians. It began to strike out
at the Palestinians and even more at Lebanese progressives.
Nabih Berri has more than once stated that Amal will prevent
the Palestinians from attacking the Zionist enemy across
Lebanon's border, and that only the «legal Lebanese» institu-
tions, together with Amal, are responsible for security in the
Palestinian camps.
To avoid conflict with Amal, the Palestine National Salva-
tion Front had previously presented a working paper to
Lebanese parties, including Amal. This paper outlined the
PNSF's view on how to regulate relations between Palestinian
and Lebanese nationalist forces, based on the necessity of
consolidating the Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian alliance.
Instead of responding to this working paper, Amal opened fire
on the Palestinian camps.
The fact of the matter is that the Amal movement is abiding
by the Zionist enemy's conditions as spelled out in an Amal-
Israeli agreement, reached through French mediation. Thus,
Amal, the 6th and 8th Brigades, and their backers are attempt-
ing to end the Palestinian nationalist role in Lebanon.
At this juncture, we must reaffirm that we will fight all such
secret and public agreements until we foil them. We will never
give up our right to defend the Palestinian refugee camps. We
would like to remind all conspirators - old and new - that past
attempts to control or liquidate our people have failed. Our
people are determined to continue their struggle until fulfilling
their national rights.
Press Release May 25th:
More than 300 Palestinian and Arab women are now stag-
ing asit-in at the Red Cross headquarters in Damascus. They
call on international humanitarian organizations to send the
needed medical supplies and insure the flow of water to the
besieged Palestinian camps in Beirut. The protesting women
also called on international organizations to intervene to end
the siege of the camps.
PFLP Military Statement May 25th:
Due to the failure of Amal and the 6th Brigade to break into
the Palestinian camps in Beirut, the Lebanese Army leader-
ship prepared to send select military forces to support the
attackers. The 6th Brigade was provided with new armaments
and a special road opened for it through East Beirut (excerpt).
PFLP Military Statement May 26th:
The forces of the Palestinian revolution succeeded in
pushing back the attackers’ advance in Sabra and Shatila
camps. Bourj al Barajneh is under neavy snelling. This morn-
ing the Amal forces escalated their provocations in the Baalbek
area and increased their blockades around Al Jalil camp (East-
ern Lebanon).
The PFLP military spokesman announced that new efforts
are being made to reduce the siege of the camps. To this pur-
nose, special units of the Palestinian revolution, joined by
Lebanese nationalists, have begun striking the attackers from
the rear. Two such attacks were successfully carried out today
against Amal positions in Hamed Street and Barbour Street
(excerpt).
Table of Contents
5 Editorial
Palestine
6 Platform of the PNSF
8 Support the PNSF
10 Prospects of the Amman Accord
12 Bethlehem Student Elections, Military Operations
13 Palestinian Women Boycott the Right Wing
14 Prisons in Occupied Palestine, Hunger Strikes, «Opera-
tion Galilee» Frees 1,150
18 AlFaraa-Zionist Torture Factory
19 Prison Art
Lebanon
20. The Iron Fist and the New Israeli Invasion
22 National and Class Struggle
Interview with George Hawi, LCP
Arab World
26 Jordan
27 Sudan-Popular Revolution
29 «For aunited, federal, democratic Sudan»
Interview with Dr. John Garang of the SPLM
30 Impending Aggression on Kurdistan
World
31 Star Wars Block Disarmament
32 Debate: The Meaning of Solidarity
34 Interview with AKEL -Cyprus
Culture
35: Poetry
36 Short Story-«The Jew and the Zionist» - هو جزء من
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