Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 23)
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factors that accelerated the pace of the Israeli withdrawal from
Beirut. LNRF strikes continued in other regions and are still
harassing the occupiers.
Our party is proud of the fact that our call for resistance
became the slogan of the broad masses of our people, and of
many national and progressive forces; we are proud that it is
supported by people immensely diverse in terms of their class
and ideological leanings. | do not reveal a secret when |
emphasize that our party not only fired the first bullet in the pro-
cess of the Lebanese national resistance, but also contributes
to more than half of the heroic operations against occupation,
in the framework of the LNRF. We mention these facts only in
response to distortions that have come from sectors that were
supposed to be siding with the revolutionary Lebanese forces.
| am referring to some degenerate propaganda organs linked
to the right-wing Palestinian leadership which presented itself
as being behind these heroic operations. This is a complete
distortion of the heroic Lebanese struggle and of the important
Palestinian contribution which essentially came from the
Palestinian left.
Focusing on occupation
Emphasizing the Israeli occupation played a decisive role
among all the factors which contributed to the uprising in Leba-
non, and its current and potential impact on the Arab level. An
unfavorable balance of power existed following the Israeli
occupation and the US-Israeli political and military domination.
Focusing on the occupation not only automatically raised the
level of Lebanese popular and national uprising; it also gave us
confidence and boldness to confront the US occupation and
Phalangist hegemony in both its official (state) and unofficial
capacity. Having paralyzed the Israeli factor, Lebanese
national resistance enforced the paralysis of the other compo-
nents of the enemy alliance, externally and internally, and
deepened the crisis that engulfed their plans. This was and will
remain the central element that, if touched, will affect all
aspects of the enemy plans.
1984 demonstration in Saida dispersed by the Israeli forces
On the same basis, we concentrated our efforts on forcing
the abrogation of the May 17th agreement. We made that
struggle the litmus test for sincerity in rejecting the political con-
ditions of the occupation, since this agreement was actually
the Lebanese copy of the Camp David accords. As such the
struggle against the agreement became an essential part of
the Arab national and progressive forces’ battle against Camp
David.
Overthrowing the Phalangist Party's rule is also among
the national liberation tasks. It was inconceivable for the
Phalangists to attain the presidency if not for the Israeli occu-
pation, US military presence and the activities of US envoy
Philip Habib.
On this basis, the Party concentrated its efforts on fighting
within the framework of the LNRF, and on encouraging and
organizing popular uprisings in the South against the occupa-
tion. We also organized the broadest possible Lebanese sol-
idarity campaign against the occupation, attempting to create
a new national spirit antagonistic to Israel, for the occupation
stood in contradiction to the interests of the vast majority of the
Lebanese people and to all the national interests.
On this basis, the broadest popular energies could be
mobilized; the broadest unity could be forged among the prog-
ressive and national forces upholding the independence,
sovereignty and Arab identity of Lebanon. | can state with con-
fidence that never before has Lebanon had such bredth, size
and diversity allied in one front, as was the case with the unity
of different social, political, ideological and religious tenden-
cies in the National Salvation Front, and its alliance with the
Amal movement. This unity and bredth was furthered by other,
complementary forms of national action, such as the meetings
at Dar al Fatwa which represented a broad sector of the
bourgeoisie in Beirut, the position of liberal Christian trends
such as that of former President Raymond Edde, and the
Catholic and Orthodox churches, rejecting the logic of going
along with the Israeli plans for Lebanon.
National and social liberation
The other kind of tasks, those related to internal reform,
are interlinked with the first kind in a way that makes it difficult
to see them as a separate kind of tasks, despite the importance
of making such a distinction. This is a result of the interrelation
between the tasks of national liberation and those of social lib-
eration within the process of the national democratic revolution
in the countries of the three continents. These countries face
several forms of foreign domination, coexistent with the tasks
of a social nature. This is especially true in the light of the
nature. of the struggle on the international level in our times.
This makes the (local) struggle more comprehensive and inter-
nationalist; its main directions are determined according to the
logic of the main struggle between the «two camps», which is
in essence a class struggle. Thus, accomplishing the tasks of
the national revolution is integrated with the struggle to
accomplish the tasks of the social revolution; the national
struggle is dependent on qualitative advances to accomplish
the tasks of revolutionary social change. Therefore, the forces
most capable of waging the liberation struggle to the very end
are those most capable of waging the struggle aimed at social
change to the very end. In other words, the tasks of national lib-
eration become essential components of the historical tasks of
the working class and its vanguard party.
This relation does not, however, indicate convergence.
Neither does it indicate complete separation into stages, i.e.
accomplishing the tasks of one stage, then starting the other. »
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