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Will the Palestinians Survive the Peace Process? ROBERT VITALIS Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Resist Newsletters Resist Collection 3-31-1986 Resist Newsletter, Mar. 1986 Resist Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/resistnewsletter Recommended Citation Resist, "Resist Newsletter, Mar. 1986" (1986). Resist Newsletters. 190. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/resistnewsletter/190 Inside: Mothers in the Peace Movement: A Response Newsletter #184 A call to resist illegitimate authority March 1986 Will the Palestinians Survive the Peace Process? ROBERT VITALIS Note: Most of the information con­ tained in this article is culled from material published in the mainstream Israeli press and translated in such publications as !SRA/Counter-Source (formerly israeleft), the dispatches of Israel Shahak, and the English language edition of Aj-Fajr. For the historical background and more detail­ ed discussion of the issues raised here, see Noam Chomsky's invaluable study, The Fateful Triangle, Boston: South End Press, 1983. This is part one of a two-part article. June1986 will mark the nineteenth year of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip. In May 1986, Israelis will celebrate the thirty-eighth Sisters of a Palestinian prisoner, after their anniversary of independence. Thus house on the Gaza Strip was destroyed. one-half the history of the Jewish state is the history of Israeli domination of tatives of the Palestinian people and longer be able to avoid a political set­ the occupied territories, a period long their aspirations for statehood-have tlement with the PLO led the state to enough for a mythology of the occupa­ joined what Chomsky calls the interna­ launch a war in the Summer of 1982 tion to have developed; for control, tional consensus on an acceptable (with full US support) in an attempt to domination and exploitation to have resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli destroy the PLO as a political force. been institutionalized; for racism and conflict-namely a negotiated political For some months prior to June 1982, hatred to have taken hold; and for a settlement based on two states: Israel the Israelis had applied what they call­ new generation of Palestinian national­ within her pre-1967 borders and ed the "iron-fist" in the occupied ter­ ists to have emerged. Palestine in what is now the occupied ritories. Uri Avnery called it "a reign Since 1973, Palestinian nationalism territories. of terror" directed at Palestinian has come to focus on the demand for According to Yehoshua Porath, the mayors, union activists, journalists, an independent Palestinian state in the Israeli scholar and historian of the student leaders and other segments of West Bank and Gaza. The dominant Palestinian national movement, the factions within the PLO-the represen- fear that Israeli leaders would no Continued on page Two Palestinians Continued from pag~ On~ the nationalist movement in the oc­ Jordanian approach to negotiations. resistance groups as well as many in­ cupied territories. A major weapon in To simplify the issue: two opposing dependents refused to attend. It is this this campaign consisted in the views have emerged on strategy. The body which ratified Arafat's indepen­ systematic use of The Emergency majority on each side supports a nego­ dent initiative, resulting ultimately in Regulations, a set of laws passed dur­ tiated end to the conflict, but divides the signature of the Arafat-Hussein ing the time of the British mandate over the means to achieve it. One posi­ agreement in February 1985. which the government still considers to tion sees an alliance with Jordan, in a Some see in this Amman meeting be in force. These laws served the diplomatic front with Egypt and the and the February agreement a reflec­ Israelis from the beginning of the oc­ United Staes, as a means. of at least tion of wider changes, both in the cupation in 1967 as the legal basis for "saving the land" from Israel. The se­ regional balance of forces and in the "enlightened" and "relatively benign" cond challenges the assumption that PLO, where the power of the comman­ practices (as the occupation is com­ the PLO is strong enough to survive do organizations has given way in part monly characterized) such as collective such an initiative and argues that the to pro-Jordanian West Bank leaders punishment, administrative detention, proper course is to form a front with and other more conservative elements. and deportation (harassment and Syria against lJS interests, until such According to Rashid Khalidi, "like it violence are practiced without recourse time as the balance of forces changes. or not, we are now in a different situa­ to colonialist legislation). The success of the Southern Lebanese tion. The Palestinians have changed Israel's real objective in the Lebanon in driving out the Israelis is held as an socially and their position vis-a-vis the war was related to the real objective of example for the resistance. Arab countries and vis-a-vis what they the iron fist-namely to destroy the From the perspective of the Palesti­ can do to Israel has changed.'' support for the PLO among the nians and the attainment of their na­ Anotehr Palestinian scholar, Naseer Palestinians in the occupied territories. tional rights, this "Jordanian option" Aruri, describes the changes a bit more The regime hoped to promote an alter­ is hardly auspicious (the same is true of starkly, "It may be that now the last native leadership in the occupied ter­ the "Syrian option"). Though King organized presence of Arab revolu­ ritories. According to Likud's plan, Hussein asserts support for the right to tionaries has finally decided to join this non-PLO, "moderate" Palesti­ statehood, post-Beirut diplomatic forces with the ''moderate'' Arab nian constituency would eventually maneuverings have permitted him to regimes, which have decided to submit negotiate some form of ''autonomy'' weigh Palestinian demands beside Jor­ to Washington's terms." for the Palestinians within "greater dan's historical claims to the West Continued on page Six Israel.'' Bank. From the US perspective, Hus­ Though the Palestinians suffered a sein's involvement in the peace process grave setback, the Israelis succeeded will strengthen his resolve to act Correction: The photos of the Philip­ neither in destroying the PLO nor in honorably on the Palestinians' behalf, pines in Resist Newsletter #182 are weakening its influence in the occupied that is, to turn his back on the second credited to Rebecca Ratcliff of territories. By 1985 Israel was again at of two rights reaffirmed by all Arab Grassroots International. war with the PLO, with the full states in Rabat (October 1974): the cooperation of the US, under the guise recognition of the PLO as sole, legiti­ of what is labeled the "peace process." mate representative of the Palestinian Not surprisingly, by the summer of people. No Palestinian, other than 1985 the Israeli government of Shimon those directly beholden to the Jorda­ Peres had raised the iron fist once more nian regime, feels secure in entrusting against the Palestinians in the West his or her future to Hussein. In any Bank and Gaza. case, both Israel and the US reject the right of the Palestinians to an indepen­ A PLO Inching Toward Jordan dent state, thereby significantly pre­ Since the defeat in Beirut, Arafat's determining the outcome of any promotion of an alliance with Jordan Israeli-US sponsored peace process. has dominated the PLO's agenda. Op­ Arafat has pushed the Jordan option position to the plan within the military forward, relying on his considerable wing of Fatah, Arafat's own organiza­ personal power within the PLO, which ILLEGfflMATIAUTIIORIT~ ,...,..,, fect"I/UW.,~ "61 tion, turned into an armed rebellion by derives from his widespread support mid-1983. With Syrian backing, the among the Palestinians in the occupied The Resist Newsletter is published ten Fatah rebels fought Arafat loyalists in territories and the diaspora com­ times a year by Resist, Inc., 38 Union Eastern and Northern Lebanon. Some munities. Nonetheless, the decision to Square, Somerville, MA 02143. (617) elements of the PLO opposed to the forge ahead has exacted a significant 623-5110. Jordanian alliance and critical of toll on the m:iity of the PLO. Arafat Resist staff: Ken Tangvik Arafat have retained their official ties knowingly increased the chances of a Meredith Smith to the organization. Disagreements permanent fissure in November 1984, Nancy Moniz also exist within the majority tendency when he convened the Palestine Na­ Typesetting: Vicki Gabriner in the PLO leadership which supports tional Council (usually described as the Gay Community News the Arafat position, involving the tim­ Palestinians' legislature in exile) in Printing: Red Sun Press • "' ing and terms of a joint Palestinian- Amman, Jordan. Most of the major Page Two Resist Newsletter March 1986 Mothers in the Peace Movement: A Response KATE CLOUD Womenin the disarmament movement-where have we been and where are we going? How should we look at the contributions of women peace activists? Have certain women activists in the disarmament movement actually encouraged our own marginal­ ization by claiming ''a special relation­ ship to peace"? How should feminist analysis and criticism be presented and what are the implications for future political work? These are some of the questions rais­ ed for me by Karen Kahn's article, "Gender Ideology and the Disarma­ ment Movement" (RESIST, Dec. '85). In her introductory paragraphs, after referring to the Women's Pentagon Actions, Greenham Common, the Seneca Peace Encampment and Women's Action for Nuclear Disarma­ ment, Kahn states her premise: I argue that by justifying their resistance in terms of "women's special relationship to peace", women activists laid the groundwork from the perspective of my role as responded with many parents, mostly for their own marginalization.
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