Democratic Palestine : 11 (ص 11)
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1985 Escalation of Armed Struggle
In the first six months of 1985, there were 92 anti-occupation operations in Palestine, inflicting an esti-
mated 200 casualties in the Zionist ranks, including over 10 killed.
The relative stagnation of armed
struggle in occupied Palestine in the
months just following the 1982 Zionist
invasion of Lebanon, indicates the
dialectical relation between the pace of
armed struggle in Palestine and overt
Palestinian presence in surrounding
countries, especially Lebanon. In the
wake of the Zionist invasion, the Palesti-
nian revolution’s top priority was pre-
serving the fighting Palestinian gun in
Lebanon, and regulating Palestinian-
Lebanese nationalist relations in a way
to warrant this. At the same time, the
Palestinian revolution did not ignore the
necessity of creating the prerequisites
for escalating armed struggle in the
occupied homeland in the light of the
outcome of the 1982 war.
As a result of these efforts, armed
struggle began to escalate, quantita-
tively and qualitatively in the occupied
homeland. This escalation became
obvious in the first part of 1985, arousing
the concern of the Zionist leaders and
settlers. This renewed the debate in the
enemy's ranks as to whether «Operation
Peace for the Galilee» had been effec-
tive in terms of eliminating the infrastruc-
ture of the Palestinian revolution. This
infrastructure constitutes the external
mainstay for the development of armed
struggle inside Palestine.
The rising tide of military operations
in Palestine is very significant, espe-
cially as they were carried throughout
the occupied territories, including the
land occupied in 1948. In these opera-
tions, enemy patrols were surprised and
confronted by militants using rifles and
grenades. A new element was intro-
duced: remote- and electronic-control-
led explosions which worried the enemy.
Another new method of struggle
emerged with the abduction and execu-
tion of Israeli soldiers. In addition, the
enemy has_ generally failed to
apprehend the commandos. Zionist
leaders attribute this failure to the effec-
tiveness of cells operating inside Pales-
Burhan Karkutly
tine, in terms of structure, organization,
planning and execution.
The enemy’s worry
The escalation of military opera-
tions in the occupied homeland touched
off an extensive reaction and debate in
the Zionist entity. Zionist spokesmen
were forced to acknowledge that bet-
ween January and June 1985, the
Palestinian resistance carried out 37
operations in the part of Palestine
occupied in 1948, and 137 in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. This was in addi-
tion to 119 incidents of throwing rocks
and molotov cocktails. The Israeli news-
paper Haaretz published a list of 14
operations in Jerusalem, in June alone,
and referred to the authorities’ failure to
arrest the commandos.
Another important development is
that a number of our people have
started, on their own, to undertake
attacks on the Zionist soldiers and
settlers. This is a result of the acute
escalation of mass confrontation with
the Zionist authorities and settlers.
Israeli Defense Minister Rabin acknow-
ledged this fact, saying «Tha recent
attacks on Jewish civilians were perpet-
rated by scattered terrorists who are not
affiliated with any organization. This
development arouses great concern,
especially as it is very difficult to fight this
sort of terrorism.»
Quoting a military official, news
agencies reported on June 20th, that in
the West Bank a tremendous amount of
weapons had been stolen from Israeli
army depots. Rabin commented as fol-
lows, «It has been proven that some of
the weapons found in possession of
detained terrorists come from the Israeli
army.»
The Israeli newspaper Hadashot,
relying on Official Israeli statistics,
reported that during June, 23 operations
and attempts were launched as com-
pared with the average of 16 operations
monthly during the preceding period.
Hadashot attributed this rise to fierce
competition among Palestinian organi-
zations.
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