Aims of the Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews (ص 6)

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Aims of the Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews (ص 6)

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6 Palestine Resistance Movement and the Jews
From an interview with Abu Amar, Arab World (English, New York),
May, 1969
“The goals of Al Fatah and Arab nationalism are humanitarian
in principles and method, unlike Zionism which uses Nazi-like
tactics in achieving its ends. Our revolution is aimed at the
liberation of man from all kinds of discrimination. We reject
the techniques of brutality and murder used by Zionists. Arabs
have never discriminated against the Jews; historically, many
Jews found a haven in the Arab homeland when they were being
persecuted by Europeans. We also sympathized with the suffer-
ing of the Jews under the Nazis, but this sympathy does not
mean that we ought to pay the price for Hitler’s crimes. Why do
we, as Palestinians, have to suffer terror, hunger and deportation
for what someone else has done? Our aim 1s to bring an end to
the concept of a Jewish Zionist state, a racist expansionist state.
Our aim is to destroy this state, this concept—but not its people.
We want a democratic Palestinian state. We will not force
anyone out who is willing to live under the banner of this state
as a loyal Palestinian. It does not matter whether he is Christian,
Moslem, or Jew.” (page 27)
From a dialogue* between Abu Eyad and Lutfi Khoult (Editor of al Tali’at),
published in al Tali’at (Arabic, Catro), June, 1969
‘““Khouli: What does Al-Fateh exactly understand by ‘Palestinian
democratic state’?
“Abu Eyad: We have always believed and declared, and will
continue to declare, that armed struggle is not an end in itself.
It is a means for a great humanitarian aim. Since 1917 Palestine
has been subjected to wars, revolutions and bloody fighting.
The time has come for this land and its people to live in peace
as other human beings. We carry arms in order to achieve a
truly peaceful settlement of the problem, and not a false settlement
* The entire dialogue can be found in Basic Political Documents of the Armed
Palestinian Resistance Movement, Leila S. Kadi, Palestine Research Center,
Beirut, 1970.

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