Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 6)
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- Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 6)
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Platform of the PNSF
On March 25th, a press conference was convened in Damascus to announce the formation of the Pales-
tine National Salvation Front (PNSF). In attendance were the General Secretaries of the PNSF’s compo-
nent organizations: George Habash of the PFLP, Ahmed Jibril of the PFLP-General Command, Abu
Musa of Fatah-Provisional Leadership, Samir Goshe of the Popular Struggle Front, and Issam al Qadi
of Saiqa. Also present were PNC President Khalid Fahoum, and PLO Executive Committee members:
Abu Maher Yamani, Abel Mohsen al Maizer, Mohammad Khalifeh, and Talal Naji. Journalists were pre-
sented with the text of the PNSF’s political program, which is as follows:
Preamble
The Palestinian people have accomplished major gains
through their prolonged struggle, especially the past twenty
years of the modern Palestinian revolution. These gains are
manifest in the following:
-keeping the Palestinian cause alive despite all attempts to
liquidate it;
-reuniting the Palestinian people in one national entity;
-asserting the militant, independent identity of the Palestinian
people in the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion (PLO);
-gaining Arab and international recognition of the PLO as the
sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
These gains have been achieved through all means of strug-
gle, first and foremost armed struggle. For the sake of these
gains, the Palestinian people have offered great sacrifices.
The PLO embodies the will, unity and struggle of the
Palestinian people to achieve their national aims. Thus, the
PLO has been the most important obstacle in the face of the
liquidationist, capitulationist plans and projects. It is the most
effective weapon in the hands of our people in their struggle to
achieve their national rights, namely the right to return to our
homeland, exercise self-determination and establish an inde-
pendent Palestinian state on the Palestinian national soil.
The PLO is faced with internal and external threats. These
endanger the national cause. They endanger the PLO’s rep-
resentation of the Palestinian people, as well as its indepen-
dence and its national program opposed to imperialism,
Zionism, reaction and capitulation.
Egypt was withdrawn from the Arab-Zionist conflict as a
result of Sadat's policy. This led the Egyptian government to
sign the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-lsraeli treaty.
This fact encouraged imperialism and Zionism to intensify their
offensive in the Arab region. The 1982 Israeli invasion of Leba-
non was the culmination of this offensive. This invasion led to
the evacuation of the Palestinian revolution’s forces from
South Lebanon and Beirut. Hence, the Palestinian revolution
faced difficult objective and subjective (internal) conditions.
The imperialist-Zionist-reactionary plots intensified, aiming to
liquidate the Palestinian people's national cause. Accordingly,
they have attempted to divert the PLO from the nationalist path
opposed to liquidation. They have tried to split, liquidate and
impose hegemony over the PLO.
These realities brought the PLO face to face with a crisis.
This crisis was aggravated by the ongoing wrong practices of
the deviating right-wing leadership in political, military, organi-
Zational and financial matters. The leadership started to deal
openly with US liquidationist solutions. For example, it claimed
there were positive points in the Reagan plan. It continued con-
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tacts with the Egyptian regime. It shifted its alliances and rela-
tions on the Arab and international levels. It continued to hold
meetings with prominent Zionist figures. It tried to put an end to
the role of the Palestinian revolutionary forces in Lebanon. It
dispersed the revolution’s forces to Arab countries far from the
focal point of the struggle against the Zionist enemy. It concen-
trated on diplomatic moves rather than armed struggle. It dealt
a blow to the principle of unity, and conducted the affairs of the
PLO singlehandedly. It kept violating the resolutions of the
Palestinian National Council (PNC). It misused and wasted the
funds of the Palestinian National Fund.
Later, Arafat visited Cairo and met Husni Mubarak,
despite the fact that the Egyptian regime was still committed to
the Camp David accords. By so doing, Arafat relieved the
Egyptian regime from its isolation in Arab and Islamic circles.
Arafat acted in harmony with the policy of the Jordanian
regime. In April 1984, he was about to sign a joint statement
with this regime. He convened an illegal session of the PNC in
November 1984. On February 11, 1985, he did in fact sign an
agreement with King Hussein of Jordan. This liquidationist
deal signifies the Palestinian right wing's direct involvement in
the US liquidationist plans. It threatens the national cause. It
means that the Palestinian right wing has given up the PLO's
right to represent the Palestinian people.
These practices have clarified the qualitative threat that
the deviationist, capitulationist line poses to the national
cause. This line is in clear-cut violation of the resolutions of the
PNC sessions and the will of our people. It has dealt a severe
blow to the common political base of Palestinian national unity.
The danger of this line lies in its attempt to drag the PLO
towards the positions of the reactionary, capitulationist camp,
towards the Camp David accords and the Reagan plan. There-
fore, this deviating line and its proponents are considered the
main threat facing the Palestinian people. This line threatens
the revolution from within. It threatens the correctness of the
revolution’s political line, its nationalist program and its
achievements.
Recent developments have proven that all the previous
Practices (of the deviating leadership) were not merely
exploratory tactics or small mistakes. They are links in a chain,
constituting a line that attempts to seek common ground with
the imperialist-Zionist-reactionary solutions of liquidation.
Thus by following this line, the leadership has put itself in
contradiction with the real interests and goals of our masses.
By so doing, it has proven itself to be corrupt and incompetent.
This leadership is unable to continue the struggle for our
national goals. With its deviating line, it is held responsible for
all the problems that the Palestinian revolution is facing in all
aspects and arenas. - هو جزء من
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