Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 4)
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Comrade Habash:Hands Off Our Camps!
Qn May 24th, Dr. George Habash, General secret-
ary of the PFLP, made a statement about the May
1985 Sabra-Shatila massacres. Below is a sum-
mary:
«There are claims that what is going on in Lebanon is the
result of an individual incident that accidentally expanded, or of
Arafat's doings, or of the return of Palestinian armed presence
as in the past. All these are false claims. The real reason for the
horrible events is the decision of the Amal leadership and its
supporters to completely eliminate the Palestinians’ armed
role in Lebanon. The target of this bloody attack is the Palesti-
nian national role pursued by the Salvation Front which aims to
solidly confront the deviating line in the PLO. The Salvation
Front has seriously evaluated the negative aspects of the pre-
1982 stage in order to renew the Palestinian national role in
Lebanon in a way which suits this stage of struggle.»
Comrade Habash stressed five important points:
«1.Our energies must be concentrated on confronting the
dangers of deviation which would lead to the liquidation of our
people’s cause.
2.We will solve the contradictions between the anti-Zionist
and anti-imperialist forces in a spirit of brotherhood which
serves the joint struggle against the enemy.
3.We will continue to strengthen the Syrian-Lebanese-
Palestinian national alliance so that it may shoulder its tasks at
this critical political turning point in the history of our Arab
nation.
4.Relations among the components of this triangle of
steadfastness should not be based on domination, or on forci-
bly disarming the Palestinian revolution.
5.The Palestinian national role should be effective
everywhere there are Palestinian people, primarily in occupied
Palestine, in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.»
In conclusion, Comrade Habash said, «We shout with our
loudest voice: Hands off our people’s camps! Stop the fighting
and the undermining of cease-fires, in order to unify our ranks
and confront the dangers threatening Lebanon, Syria and the
Palestinian cause. »
Comrade Habash sent his regards to the Palestinian
people, and those resisting in the camps of Beirut in particular:
«| salute every fighter defending their gun. | callon our masses
to hold on to their weapons and fight to defend our people and
cause.»
~ PNSF Holds Amal Responsible
PNSF Press Release
On May 23rd, the Palestinian National Salvation Front
leadership met to discuss the situation in the camps of Beirut.
It reviewed its own efforts to stop the fighting in and around the
camps. Its calls for a cease-fire and a joint Lebanese-Syrian-
Palestinian meeting were rejected by the Amal movement.
Moreover, Amal has violated all cease-fire agreements and
continued to fire on the camps and enact massacres against
the civilian population. In the light of this review, the PNSF
decided to declare the following facts to the Palestinian people
and the Arab nation.
1.Amal claims that its attack on the camps developed from
an individual incident. This is absolutely untrue, because the
contacts that took place after the said incident could have con-
tained any repercussions if that were the case.
2.We do not agree with Amal's claim that all that is hap-
pening in Lebanon is a result of a plan orchestrated by Arafat.
We denounce Arafat's deviating, capitulationist line. The
Palestinian masses in Lebanon have rejected Arafat's line and
its proponents. They declared their support to the PNSF and its
political line, and hosted the PNSF delegation in Sabra, Shatila
and Bourj al Barajneh and Mar Elias camps.
3.The real explanation for Amal’s attacks lies in its claim
that it will not allow the Palestinian resistance movement to
repeat the pre-1982 experience. Yet even this claim is not true.
The PNSF presented a working-paper, on how to regulate
Palestinian presence in Lebanon, to the different Lebanese
forces, including the Amal movement and the Lebanese
National Democratic Front. On May 20th, Amal’s Politbureau
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was supposed to respond to that paper. On the same day,
Amal started its attacks on the camps.
Thus, the PNSF leadership can only see what is happen-
ing in Beirut as the implementation of a political decision on the
part of the Amal movement. This decision serves only the
enemy camp which previously failed to achieve its goals. We
hold the Amal leadership responsible for the Palestinian and
Lebanese blood shed. We demand that this leadership stop
the massacres immediately. We demand that It order a cease-
fire, withdraw all forces from around the camps, and enter into
a dialogue to regulate our militant relations. The framework for
such dialogue is a Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian one. The
basis for cooperation should be agreed upon. - هو جزء من
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