Democratic Palestine : 11 (ص 16)
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Comrade Habash’s
Press Conference
While the PFLP delegation was in Moscow, the Soviet Afro-Asian
Solidarity Committee organized a press conference for Comrade
George Habash. Below we print the main part of his opening
adoaress.
When we read the Soviet media
concerning the Middle East and the
Palestinian issue, we feel great comfort
in the fact that its analysis closely corres-
ponds to that of progressive Arab and
Palestinian forces...Before answering
questions, allow me to brief you on the
PFLP’s analysis of the present condi-
tions of the Palestinian revolution...
The aggressive policies of the
United States, and the Reagan
Administration in particular, are based
on several dangerous themes:
deteriorating international relations,
destroying detente, accelerating the
arms race, and determined refusal to
respond positively to the Soviet propos-
als aimed at preventing the militarization
of outer space. Naturally this aggressive
policy also applies concerning the Mid-
die East and Palestinian cause, militarily
and politically.
From the military angle, the US has
recently conducted a new round of the
Bright Star maneuvers with Egypt and
other reactionary Arab states. On
another front, the US has consolidated
the strategic cooperation agreement
with ‘Israel’.
From the political angle, the US
imperialist attack aims at drawing the
Arab countries into a set of bilateral
«peace» settlements with ‘Israel’, in
order to spread the Camp David accords
throughout the Arab world. It also aims
at preventing the Soviet Union from
becoming a partner in any solution to the
Middle East crisis. The central aim of the
Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, was
to force the politics of Camp David upon
Lebanon, as the first step towards
imposing it on other Arab fronts. The
May 17th agreement between ‘Israel’
and Lebanon was designed as the
embryo of the second link in the Camp
David process. The patriotic Lebanese
and Palestinian forces, in alliance with
Syria and supported by the Soviet
Union, were able to force the cancella-
tion of this agreement. The Camp David
policy failed at the second link, but US
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imperialism immediately attempted to
force it on other Arab fronts.
Inevitably imperialism’s _ efforts
were directed against the Palestinian-
Jordanian front. Please try to grasp the
importance of the Palestinian link, con-
sidering that the Palestinian cause is the
core of the anti-imperialist struggle in the
entire region. Through this link, the
extent of imperialism’s aggressiveness
appears, directed not only against the
Palestinian people but against the
peoples of the world.
Dangers of the Amman accord
| am sorry to say that the Amman
agreement signed February 11th, bet-
ween King Hussein and Yasir Arafat.
has paved the way for the imperialist
moves to implement a new Camo David.
Regardless of how much the bourgeois
strata in the PLO attempt to conceal the
reality of this agreement, it is clear that it
represents a foothold for imperialist polt-
cy in the Middle East. This agreement
has become the main tool utilized by
imperialism to sharpen inter-Palestinian
differences and extend these differ-
ences to the Arab countries, in order to
divide and weaken the anti-imperialist
forces and states. Hence, resistance to
the new link of Camp David is mini-
mized.
The PFLP is convinced that the
Amman agreement heralded the most
dangerous stage for the Palestinian
national struggle since the PLO’s estab-
lishment. It means that the Palestinian
right has involved itself in the US's bilat-
eral peace settlement trend. The Arafat-
Hussein agreement differs significantly
from the official PLO leadership's previ-
Ous incorrect policies. In the past, we
accused the deviationist leadership of
adopting a conciliatory policy towards
US imperialism. However, this agree-
ment, which has been massively
refuted, is not a mere flirt with the
Reagan Administration. It is actual
involvement in the US’s «comprehen-
sive peace settlement». Of course,
Reagan welcomed this agreement as a
positive first step, as did the Camp David
regime of Mubarak in Egypt.
After the announcement of this
agreement, the PFLP defined our posi-
tion on the new conditions for the Pales-
tinian revolution as follows: (1) Struggl-
ing without any leniency against the
Amman agreement, and the political
‘trend and leaders that brought it about:
Clarifying that this agreement means
liquidation of the Palestinian and Arab
liberation movement. (2) Uniting all
nationalist and democratic Palestinian
forces within the PLO to confront this
agreement. (3) Confronting this agree-
ment is the correct basis for unifying all
nationalist and democratic Palestinian
forces; it is ultimately necessary to elimi-
nate the deviationist trend in order to
achieve true national unity based on a
firm anti-imperialist line.
We warn against downplaying the
dangers of the agreement, for it
threatens the essence of the Palestinian
Cause. Some argue that the agreement
was stillborn, and indeed there are three
major obstacles facing it: (1) appointing
the Palestinian half of the Jordanian-
Palestinian joint delegation; (2) deter-
mining the next step after the proposed
US-joint delegation discussions; (3) the
real problems involved in any actual
meeting between the joint delegation
and ‘Israel’.
These obstacles are real. Yet we
should not downplay the dangers of the
agreement or the political trend that
engineered it. Sadat was able to elimi-
nate the major obstacles to the Camp
David accords, and the signatories to
the Amman agreement are just as capa-
ble of the same. Thus, continued resis-
tance is necessary to prevent the suc-
cess of the agreement and entrench the
obstacles.
Finally, we cannot view the Palesti-
nian cause or plan for victory in isolation
from our nationalist and internationalist
ties. While refusing the deviationist
trend, Palestinian democratic forces in
the PLO must propose the correct alter-
native program for achieving our
people’s national aims. We put forth our
national program: an_ independent
Palestinian state established without
conditions, the right of our people to
return and exercise self-determination in
their country, drawing strength from
progressive Arab unity and international
solidarity to accomplish these aims. It is
impossible to achieve a just solution to
our cause without the direct involvement
of the Soviet Union, the true friend and
supporter of our cause. @ - هو جزء من
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