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THE DEPORTED MAYORS

Now Israel has completed another act in the decided to approve the final deportation of series of continuous measures to uproot the Oawasmeh and Milhem because they were found Palestinian people from their homeland. On guilty of endangering the "security of the state December 5, the Israeli government finally of Israel." Now they were expelled for the decided to expel the mayor of ai -Khalil (Heb­ second time, this time via the Lebanese borders, ron), Fahd Oawasmeh, and of Halhoul, Moham­ and delivered to the PLO. The first time, their mad Milhem. Those two mayors were elected expulsion had been ordered by the Israeli under the terms of the Israeli occupation, and military governor of the West Bank. they never carried any arms in their hands. They are two mayors who more or less coexisted with With all their acts of aggression committed the occupation authorities. against the Palestinian civilian population and the public leaders in the West Bank, the Israelis Their only fault is, however, that they are still call themselves "democratic". Of course, human beings and thus prefer to live in freedom they are not terrorists as they claim the Pales­ and dignity in their homeland. The Israeli tinians held under occupation or expelled are. occupation authorities accused them of inciting a resistance operation against an illegal Zionist As usual the Israeli occupation authorities settlement erected by ultra-Zionists with the neglect or disregard world public opinion. They connivance of the military government. They also neglect and scorn the Security Council of accused them of refusing to collaborate with the the United Nations which adopted a decision occupation as agents and spies. They accused calling for the return of the mayors to their them of being supporters of the PLO, as are all homes and towns. But the Israelis never care the Palestinian people under occupation. about those world bodies which once decisively contributed to the creation of Israel at the The Israeli acts of aggression directed against expense of the Palestinian people in 1948. the mayors of the West Bank have become notorious. A few months ago they tried to kill The acts of Israeli aggression against the Bassam Shaka'a, the mayor of Nablus who came Palestinians will continue. The expulsion of the out of it with two legs amputated, and Karim ma yors is nothing but one act in an endless Khalaf, the mayor of Ramallah who lost one leg. seri es of aggression . For the Israel is the best Pal estinian is a dead Palestinian; and if he is not lnspite of all these obvious crimes and acts of dea d, he should live in Australia, Canada or terrorism, the Israelis still pretend to play the anywhere else but not in his original homeland 'emocratic game. The Supreme Court of Israel Palestine. PALESTINE NOTES

his message concern for the hopes and sufferings of the Palestinian people, living under occupation or in diaspora, and for the achieve­ ment of a just peace in the Middle East in accordance with interna­ tional law and UN resolutions, and enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their national rights.

PRCS CONDOLENCES ON ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

Dr. Fathi Arafat, Head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, sent on November 28 a cable to the Italian Red Cross Society expres­ sing the PRCS' condolences on the tragic earthquake. Dr. Arafat also offered to put all the human and Chairman Arafat welcoming President Rafsanjani material potentials of the PRCS at the disposal of the Italian Red Cross.

CHAIRMAN ARAFAT RECEIVES CHAIRMAN ARAFAT CHAIRMAN ARAFAT PRESIDENT RAFSANJANI CONGRATULATES MEETS SYRIAN LEBANESE PRESIDE T PRESIDENT ASSAD ... Chairman Arafat on November 25 received Hojateleslam Hashimi On November 25 Yasse Arafat, Vasser Arafat, Chairman of the Rafsanjani, President of the Iranian Chairman of the PLO E ecutive PLO Executive Committee and Shura Council (Parliament) Presi­ Committee and Ge e a Com­ General Commander of the Forces dent Rafsanjani was visiting Leba­ mander of the Forces o e Palesti­ of the Palestinian Revolution, met non and the PLO during his tour of · nian Revolution, sen t a cable of on November 30 in Damascus with several Arab countries. The meeting congratulation to Le ba se Presi- Syrian President Hafez ai-Assad. was attended by Fateh Central dent Elias Sarkis, on e occasi on The two and half hour meeting was Committee members Farouk Kad­ of Independence Day. a at said attended by Fateh Central Commit­ doumi, Abu Jihad, Abu ai-Walid that the Palestinian peoo e woul d tee members Abu lyyad, Abu Jihad and Hani ai-Hassan; and Fateh never forget the suppo of the and Abu Maher and the Syrian Revolutionary Council members Lebanese people, espec- I after Foreign Minister and Deputy Pre­ Abu Hatem and Abu Tareq. The victory has been achie ed a d Pal es­ mier, Abdel Halim Khaddam. The Iranian side was represented by Dr. tinians return to their omeland. meeting covered the latest develop­ Hadi, Hajj Muhsen, Wijdand Dast Arafat also stressed the neea or the ments in the Palestinian, Arab and and other I rani an cadres. The integrity of Lebanon a international levels, Israeli military meeting, which lasted several hours, of its people and ins - concentrations in South Lebanon, concentrated on developments in stressed that the prese and the challenges facing the Arab the Palestinian and Iranian arenas Palestinian Revolution Nation. The atmosphere at the and at Arab and international is temporary. meeting was described as fraternal, levels. The Iranian delegation brie­ and constructive. fed Arafat on their tour to Algeria, POPE JOHN PA UL II Syria and Libya and also discussed SENDS MESSAGE 0 ... AND SAUDI the current situation in the region CHAIRMAN ARAFAT PRINCE ABDALLAH including the Iraqi-Iranian war and ­ BEN ABDELAZIZ its effects on the region. The Vasser Arafat rece on No- meeting was described as positive vember 8 a message • ~ Pope Chairman Arafat on November and fraternal. John Paul II. The Pope e essed in 30 met also in Damascus with Saudi

4 - December 15, '80 Prince Abdallah Ben Abdel-Aziz, General Commander of the Forces with a number of Palestinian offi­ Second Deputy Prime Minister, of the Palestinian Revolution cers and cadres made a speech to with whom he discussed the situa­ headed a meeting of the Palestinian the fighters, in which he hailed the tion in the Arab region, especially leadership on December 2. During heroic resistance of the Palestinian following the Amman Summit, the the meeting wh ich was attended by fighters at Damour and Sa'diyat Israeli military escalation against members of the PLO Executive two days ago. He said: "The Joint the Palestinian and Lebanese Committee, General Secretaries of Forces are preparing themselves for peoples, and the importance of the factions of the Palestinian the ..worst eventualities that Reagan working for a unified Arab stand to Revolution and representatives and Begin might think of". face the challenges against the Arab from the PLO Central Council. The Nation. discussions centered on current ARAFAT MEETS issues and the latest developments WITH SOVIET OFFICIALS... ARAFATCONGRATULATES in the Arab arena and the region. All NASSER MUHAMMAD Also reviewed were the results of On December 3 Chairman Arafat the Central Council meetings and met in Damascus with Comrade Vasser Arafat sent on December items concerning the completion Vasilij Kuznecov, First Deputy of 1 a cable of congratulations to Ali and implementa ion of the national the Supreme Soviet Presidium Nasser Muhammad, President of the unity resolutions of the Palestinian Council. The meeting which was People's Democratic Republic of National Cong ress i PNC). also attended by Khaled ai-Fa­ Yemen and General Secretary of houm, President of the Palestinian the Central Committee of the National Congress, and the Soviet Yemeni Socialist Party on the occa­ Ambassador in Damascus, focused sion of Independence Day. In his KARAMEH FORCES ·on the current situation in the cable Arafat said that the struggle CARRY OUT MANEUVERS n~gion and local, Arab, and inter­ between the Nation and its ene­ AGAINST CHE ICAL WARFARE national developments. The mies, which include imperialism meeting also dealt with Soviet­ and Zionism, is widening, forcing A battalion of the Karameh Palestinian bilateral relations. The all to exert efforts to achieve the forces on December 4 displayed a Soviet official confirmed the full common aims of dignity, social pro­ series of tactica maneuvers involv­ support of the Soviet Union for the gress, democracy and real peace. ing methods of protection ·against Palestinian people's just struggle Farouk Kaddoumi, Head of the chemical warfare wh ich might be under the leadership of the PLO. ~ PLO Political Department sent a waged by the Israeli forces. Chair­ The Soviet official also praised the, similar cable to Salim Saleh man Arafat who wa s present along Palestinian leadership's mediation Muhammad, PDRY Foreign Minister.

KADDOUMI RECEIVES MESSAGE FROM KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Farouk Kaddoumi, Head of the PLO Political Department received on December 2. a message from th~ Foreign Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. The message dealt with the drafted plan of the unification of both North and South Korea as proposed by Kim II Sung, President of Demo­ cratic Korea.

PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP DISCUSSES NATIONAL UNITY

Vasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and

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efforts. to end the Iraqi-Iranian war. Chairman Arafat handed the Soviet official a message to Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet leadership.

On December 5, Chairman Ara­ fat in Beirut received the Soviet poet and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Soviet Union, Rasoul Hamzatov. Yahya Yakhlif, the General Secretary of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, also atten­ ded the meeting. Arafat talked about the current developments in Abu lyyad addressing Palestinian teacher's congress the Arab region and worldwide, in particular the continuing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian FOURTH CONGRESS teacher, praised the teaching profes­ and Lebanes xeoples in south OF PALESTINIAN TEACHERS sion which holds the responsibility Lebanon. He said that "We are of educating the rising generations. resolved to fight until victory, and Fateh Central Com mittee mem­ He stressed that teachers must, des­ so we have declared a general mobi­ ber Abu lyyad inaugurated the pite all the hardship and obstacles, lization among the Palestinian Fourth Congress of the General exert maximum efforts towards the people". Hamzatov for his part Union of Palestinian Teachers- Leba­ establishment of a homeland in praised the revolution of the Pales­ non Branch on December 5. Abu Palestine where the Palestinian flag tinian people and their heroic resis­ lyyad, who was himself a school will be raised. tance to Imperialism and Zionism. He said that the Palestinian people is endowed with the most Precious The delegation co nfirmed the signatures, speeches vvere delivered attribute-a revolutionary ideology. Soviet Union's support for the just by Muhsin Zalzaleh and Hakam Hamzatov confirmed his country's struggle of the Palestinian people Bal'awi. The PLO representative support to the Palestinian people under the leadership of the PLO. reaffirmed the importance and and condemned Sadat's treason of necessity of the Arab League's the Arab cause. continued efforts to strengthen the unity of Arab ranks. He also spoke PLO SIGNS ECONO IC about the economic achievements ... AND COOPERATION AGREEM ENT of the Palestinian Revolution. FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATIONS WITH ARAB LEAGUE

Chairman Arafat on. December 5 The PLO signed on December 5 received a delegation representing an agreement for cooperation in the the Soviet Friendship Associations collection of statistics "th the and the Soviet-Lebanese Friendship Arab League at the League's head­ Association headed by the First quarters in Tunis. The agreeme nt Deputy of the Soviet Education was signed by Hakam Ba l'a ·, the Minister. The meeting which was PLO Representative in Tunis, and attended by Fateh Central Commit­ Abdel Muhsin Zalzaleh, Assistant tee member Abu lyyad covered the Secretary-General of e Arab relations betvveen the PLO and the League. The signing of e agree- Soviet Union and the latest deve­ ment was attended by the members lopments in the Arab region, espe­ of the League's econo ·c depart­ cially regarding the Palestine cause. ment. Following the ex ange of

6 - December 15, '80 PLO COMMUNIQUE ON ARAB SUMMIT

On November 25, the Executive Committee of the Arab summit will not be adjourned - a decision PLO issued the following communique: made, he said, following consultations with some of the participating delegations. Right after this announ­ "The PLO Executive Committee held an extra­ cement, the head of the PLO delegation expressed ordinary meeting on Monday, November 24, chaired reservations regarding this point, because his dele­ by Vasser Arafat, during which were reviewed the gation ought not to have been excluded from such outcome of the seven-member preparatory Commit­ talks, especially since Palestine is currently presiding tee meetings for the Amman Summit Conference, the over the Arab grouping, and is a directly concerned Arab Foreign Ministers' Conference held in Amman party. This is not to mention the fact that such a from November 20-22, and the results of the exten­ move flagrantly ignores the intensive endeavours sive efforts made by Arafat during his gulf tour, by Arafat has made, with the acknowledgement of all the Executive Committee members participating in the leaders of the Arab states he visited, with the aim the Foreign Ministers Conference, and by the Pales­ of reaching a solution to the present difficulties in tinian leadership as a whole with the aim of achieving accordance with the principal goals set prior to the a unified Arab stand and genuine Arab solidarity in holding of the summit." order to maintain the momentum of the Tunis and Baghdad summits in confronting the Camp David accords and the autonomy plan, which constitute a "This announcement furthermore ignored the conspiracy against the Arab nation and the Pales­ PLO's proposal to delay the summit date for a pe·nod tinian people. of two-weeks, during which a committee representing Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Algeria would undertake "While highly evaluating the efforts exerted by conci I iatory efforts to pave the way for a successfu I Arafat and the Committee members, the Executive summit and to realise the Arab solidarity required in Committee hails Arafat's visits to, and contacts with this particularly delicate phase." numerous Arab states. These efforts show clearly the PLO's concern to achieve Arab solidarity and Arab "Despite everything, the PLO, together with unity in order to confront the enemies of the Arab Algeria, attempted a last initiative to save the nation. However, the PLO was surprised when, at the situation by submitting a letter on behalf of President final session of the Arab Foreign Ministers Confe­ Shazli Ben Jedid and Arafat calling upon King~ rence, the Jordanian representative declared that the Hussein, as the conference's host, to adjourn the r

ARAF AT PRAISES revolutionary commitment since "we have no GUPS ROLE IN home or land, and our students are pouring in LIBERATION STRUGGLE from all over the world for this purpose." In response to the comments made by the U.S. State Department in this regard, Arafat said that Vasser Arafat on December 1 sponsored the the mobilization decision was based on volunta­ 21st anniversary celebrations of the General ry participation and not conscription. Arafat Union of Palestinian Students, and the gra­ added: "I am not asking states to help us in war, du-ation of the first unit of the student battalion. but to allow our students to join the Palestinian The ceremony was attended by Fateh Central Revolution in order to fight alongside the Joint Committee member Abu lyyad, GUPS Execu­ Forces in the defence of South Lebanon and the ·tive Committee Chairman Sakhr Bseiso, and a very existence of our Revolution." number of cadres of the Palestinian Revolution. Chairman Arafat delivered a speech on the The PLO Chairman warned Reagan and Begin occasion, in which he praised the GUPS, its that "we are the important factor in the Middle work on the Palestinian, Arab and international East equation and there can be no stability, levels, and the human sacrifices it has mad~ in peace or security if Palestinian rights are the defence of South Lebanon, the Jordan ignored." Arafat then reiterated that Palestine Valley, Sinai and every other battlefield. He 'II be victorious despite all the conspiracies and added: "The role played by this union stems initiatives. Sakhr Bseiso also spoke and stressed from the firm belief that the gun is the only the Union's role in supplying the Revolution independent Palestinian decision-maker." 'th fighters and in remaining one of its main pillars. He also confirmed the Union's commit­ Concerning the decision for Palestinian gene­ ment to Arafat's decision for general mobili­ ral mobilization, Arafat said that this is a zation of the Palestinian masses."

Palestine - 7 line, and which leads the struggle of the Palestinian /1 PLO COMMUNIQUE people in this dangerous end delicate phase, deems it "\ ON AMMAN SUMMIT necessary to warn the Arab nation - on the official and popular levels, .. as to the gravity of the present summit for two weeks until the conciliatory talks had rupture in Arab ranks. The PLO nevertheless affirms been conducted." its determination to continue efforts to safeguard the committed unified Arab position in the face of all the "In fact, the Head of the PLO Political Depart­ Arab nation's enemies." ment and Algeria's Foreign Minister requested an interview with King Hussein to inform him about the "Fully conscious of the PLO's nationalist and initiative, but the request met with no immediate patriotic duties, the Executive Committee expresses response, and was finally turned down the next day its regret and pain at the unjustified attitude of by Jordan's Foreign Minister. In this respect Arafat parties which have ignored its efforts and initiatives, had earlier sent a special letter to King Hussein con­ and the initiatives of other Arab brethren which tried taining a similar proposal." to save the Arab stand from rupture in order to reach a unified stand based on brotherly relations." "Out of concern for Arab unity and effective solidarity, the PLO would like to register its firm "Out of its concern for the higher Arab interest attachment to the formula of joint Arab action on all the PLO Executive Committee addresses a sincere levels and in all its institutions, as represented in the appeal to all parties to re-consider such stands as will Arab summit meetings, on condition that it is based lead to further schisms, thus endangering the great on a unaminous and unified Arab stand adequate to cause of Palestine and the Arab and Islamic holy sites. confront the Camp David accords and its signatories, The PLO calls for urgent and swift action to unite the as well as all imperialist-Zionist plots which aim at Arab stand." harming our Arab nation's rights, and particularly the Palestinian cause." "In light of the above, the PLO announces with deep regret that it will not participate in the summit, "The Palestinian Revolution under the leadership but that it will pursue its endeavours to hold an Arab of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of our su mmit unifying Arab ranks and attended by all the people, which faces the Zionist enemy in the front- member states of the Arab league."

KANE AND KADDOUMI ATTEND that peace and stabilitY. in the Middle East could JERUSALEM PHOTO EXHIBIT not exist without the realization of the Pales­ AT U.N. HEADQUARTERS tinian people's right to return, self determi­ nation and the establishment of an independent Falilou Kane, President of the UN Palestinian state. He attacked the Camp David agreement, Rights Committee, in the presence of Farouk describing it as a conspiracy against the Pales­ Kaddoumi, Head of the PLO Political Depart­ tinian people. Finally he appealed to the inter­ ment, inaugurated in New York on December 3 national community to reject and condemn the a photographic exhibition on Jerusalem. The Israeli annexation of Jerusalem. exhibition, held at the UN headquarters, was attended by representatives of UN delgations On December 4, the Arab League office in and press and television reporters. More than New York gave a reception in honour of Farouk one hundred pictures are on exhibit representing Kaddoumi and the Palestinian delegation the struggle of the Palestinian people and focus­ attending the General Assembly session. Farouk ing .on Palestinian cities, in particular Jerusalem. Kaddoumi and the Palestinian delegation were welcomed by Clovis Maksoud, Director of the Mr. Kane delivered a speech in which he Arab League office in New York, who spoke stressed the need for the Palestinian people to about the debate on Palestine currently being exercise their national rights and drew attention held at the UN General Assembly. to the increasing concern of the international community with regard to the Palestinian cause In a speech Kaddoumi declared: "We are not and the need to put an end to Israeli occupation. against negotiating with the U.S.A., we in fact encourage such an initiative. But I wonder if the Farouk Kaddoumi then expressed the PLO's U.S.A. would recognise the legitimate rights of gratitude to the UN, through its Secretary­ the Palestinian people and the P LO. We would General, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, and thanked Mr. like to live in peace just like all other peoples. Kane for his words of solidarity. He stressed the We would like the Palestinian refugees to return need for achieving Palestinian national right and to their homes and land. We are not only escalating the Palestinian struggle against Israel fi~ting against Israel but against all the forces and US imperialism. Farouk Kaddoumi stated backing Israel, spearheaded by the U.S.A.

8 - December 1 5, '80 TEACHERS AND STUOENTS ARRESTED, NEWS BLACKOUT ISRAELI TERROR CANNOT BREAK OUR PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE

The heroic uprising of our people in the occupied territories is continuing. Despite the terror of the occupation forces who are shooting demonstrators at random, have arrested between 50 and 100 youths and have clamped a news blackout on the events, day by day the Palestinians, in particular youths and students, are taking to the streets in Nablus, Beth­ lehem, Ramallah, Bir Zeit, Jerusalem and elsewhere to call for an end to occupation and terror. In particular, they are protesting the arbitrary closure of Palestinian universities and education centers by the Israeli military government.

What started as a deliberate provocation on the part of the Israelis - the closure of a Palestine Week festival at Bir Zeit University in mid-November, has Hassan Milhem. Israeli troops moved in to break up mushroomed into the "worst unrest since the occupa­ the demonstration!i, arresting tens of students, firing tion of the West Bank in 1967." (Times, November tear gas grenades and shooting over the protesters 26, 1980.) heads.

As we go to press, on December 8 hundreds o The most violent incidents over the last four days Palestinians came out to the streets of towns through­ have been in Bethlehem and Rarnallah, and the out the occupied territories in a continued series of military occupation authorities on December 9 closed demonstrations protesting against the deportation o down Bethlehem University until further notice, West Bank Mayors Fahd Oawasmeh and Muhammad following clashes in the town between troops and students.

BEGIN GOVERNMENT PALESTINIAN FLAG IMPOSES NEWS BLACK-OUT RAISED, PLO HAl LED ON REPRESSION Correspondents have been barred entry into Beth­ The BBC on December 11 reported that the lehem and Ramallah, and a number of Western Foreign Press Association has launched a protest journalists trying to gain entry into the two towns of to the Israeli government. It said that the siege on December 8, as students raised the Pales­ occupation authorities were "arbitrarily arrest­ tinian flag over the University. The Military Governor ing journalists and confiscating photo and TV of the West Bank notified the mayors of Bethlehem material." They charged the coverage on the and nearby Beit Sahour and the Dean of the Palestinian student demonstrations and the University that severe measures would be taken if violent army repression. The Foreign Press Asso­ road blocks set up by students were not dismantled, ciation said that the Israeli government was students' identity cards not handed over and the violating all regulations, and the Israeli military Palestinian flags lowered. authorities on . December 9 again arrested and detained foreign newsmen who tried to report In Ramallah, Israeli troops stormed into the ~ on a demonstration near Ramallah. · town's secondary schools for girls, arresting a number of students. Sixteen Ramallah students are to come

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before military tribunals on charges of ta king part in demonstrations. In nearby Bir Zeit, Israeli authorities threatened to close the University for good, alleging it was a source of tension in the West Bank. By December 10, university and school students re­ mained on strike. Girl students mistreated In Nablus, students at ai-Najah National University staged a huge demonstration during which slogans hailing the PLO were raised . The Israel i forces Wa'el a -Qader. Professor Muhammad Sawalha and arrested Ghassan ai-Masri, member of the Un iversity's schoo eacher Nayla Za 'ter are still under detention . Student Council, Muhammad ai-Mallah, Walid ai ­ Surian, Secretary of the Student Council. The Israel i AI- ajah National University has decided to go on forces also confiscated the identity card of professor str e •or two days in protest against the Israeli force's encirclement of the University and other parts ARAFAT'S MESSAGE TO MASSES UNDER OCCUPATION

Chairman Arafat on November 29 addressed a message to the masses of the occupied territo­ ries, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, calling on them to remain steadfast in the face of Zionist repression and terror. In his message, addressed to all sectors of the Palestinian people in every Palestinian village and town, Arafat said: "We are following up with pride and confidence your great uprising and heroic struggle against the occupation and its repressive tools; and we look up to the sacrifices which you make daily on the correct path, the path of liberation and dignity. Despite the organized terror of the Zionist occupier, your determination has never faltere c! nor has your belief in ultimate victory been shaken.

"Your upnsmg in all parts of the homeland, which coincides with the International Day or Solidarity with the Palestinian People and with the legendary steadfastness of the joint Pale s­ tinian-Lebanese forces in south Lebanon and ir: all positions of the Revolution, has given th e world an honorable picture of Palestinian reality which is built on sacrifices and which must be victorious and realize its goals of return, self­ determination and the establishment of an inde­ pendent state."

Slogan i11 Jerusalem 10 - Df'cem bPr 15, '80 of Nablus. Students in Jerusalem, are on strike for the third day running and protest demonstrations are continuing in the city. Four students are reported to have wounded in recent Israeli attacks on demon­ stratiors.

In Gaza there have been massive demonstrations in protest against the deportation of the West Bank mayors. Dozens of Palestinian students have been arrested following violent clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators.

UNIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVES PROTEST ISRAELI MEASURES

Representatives of the West Bank universities of Bir Zeit, Najah and Bethlehem, of institutes of higher education and student councils held a meeting at the headquarters of the Workers Syndicate of the Jeru­ salem Electricity Company on December 3. Follo­ wing the meeting a communique was issued calling for the unity of Palestinian national ranks, and the determination to hold on to the Palestinian people's legitimate rights. The communique also called on all local and international institutions and organisations to denounce current Israeli measures and support the Palestinia students in their just struggle. Finally, the communique confirmed the determination of the Palestinian universities and their students to confront and resist all Israeli attempts at controlling educa­ tional affairs in the occupied territories.

JERUSALEM lah, Bethlehem, Nablus and other areas in the NATIONAL BODIES occupied territories. CONDEMN ISRAELI MEASURES 4. Refusal of the Israeli annexation of any section of the occupied territories. Palestinian national associations in Jerusalem 5. Denouncing the Jordanian attempts at issued a statement on December 3 condemning interference in the activities of national organi­ the Israeli measures taken against the West Bank zations, and cultural institutions, notably the educational system. The statement confirmed West Bank Nurses Union. these groups' rejection of anynew laws or 6. The Israeli deportation of the citizens measures interfering in the West Bank educa­ Milhem, Oawasmeh, and stressing the necessity tional system, and denounced ,the restriction of of their return to resume their duties. movement orders placed on , several West Bank 7. Denouncing Israeli restriction of move­ figures. ment orders imposed on West Bank leaders and other Palestinian citizens. The statement stressed the following points: 8. Asking that no support be extended to the "Hebron Villages League", which is backed by 1. Refusal of any amendment in regulations Israel and Jordan against our people. or laws applying to the occupied territories and 9. Denouncing the Israeli authorities in force before the occupation, especially article attempts to prevent municipality councils from No. 16 of 1964, and article No. 82 of the functioning properly. Jordanian labor law. The statement finally called for closing ranks 2. Refusal of Israeli attempts to seize thin and outside of the occupied territories national organizations and bodies, especially the for the confrontation of all the capitulationist Jerusalem Electricity Company. conspiracies; and stressed the Palestinian 3. Denoun~ing the Israeli authgrities closure people's right to exercise self-determination and of Arab universities institution and schools, and establish an independent state under PLO leader­ their firing at styaent demonstrations in Ramal- ship. *" •

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inhabitants of the Camp appea.led to national organisations and insti­ tutions of the occupied territories and to all peace loving forces in the world to put an end to such mea­ sures.

TWO HOUSES DEMOLISHED IN RAMALLAH

On November 20, the Israeli military authorities demolished two homes in Kfar Na'meh in the Ramallah region on the pretext that they were built too close to the main street. The Israeli authorities imposed a curfew on the town until the demolition work was comple­ ted. The Israeli authorities also threatened to de mol ish five houses Attempt to deprive Palestinian workers of tl1eir trade union leadl-rs in Kfar Na'meh because they claimed they were built without permits. CLAMP DOWN ON officer for educationa a d c ltural TRADE UNIONS; LEADER affairs in the occupied er{tories, PUT UNDER HOUSE ARREST and was distributed o a I school INTERNATIONAL JURISTS and college heads on Dece ber 2. PROTEST The Israeli military governor of ISRAELI CRIMES the Bethlehem region notified SHAK'A IN GE EVA George Hazboun, Deputy Mayor of AS GUEST OF u __ At the closure of their 11th Bethlehem and Secretary-General conference on November 24 in of the West Bank Association of Mayor Bassam a- a a'a of Malta, the International Assembly Unions and of the Bethlehem Nablus, arrived on November 27 in of Democratic Jurists adopted two Workers Union, that he will be pre­ Geneva upon an officia - itation resolutions on the Palestine ques­ vented from moving out of the from the U.N to pa rt·c-pa e in the tion stipulating that no just and Bethlehem area for a period of six festival organised on e occasion permanent peace in the Middle East months. Hazboun was also notified of the International Day o Solida­ region could take place without that the Bethlehem Workers Union rity with the Palest" -an Peopl e. recognition of the Palestinian is to be closed down by the military Bassam Shaka'a met e Presi­ people's rights to self-determination authorities on the grounds that it is dent of the lnternationa ed Cross and statehood. The resolutions con­ "illegal". It was not explained what and the Arab ambassadors in demned the Camp David accords, law the union was infringing. The Geneva. The Mayor o Gene a also Israeli attacks on South Lebanon union was established on July 7, visited Shak'a. and Israel's policy in the occupied 1980 according to existing Israeli territories, including the illegal deci­ regulations and other laws relative DUHEISHAC sion to annex Jerusalem. to unions in the West Bank. ENCIRCLED

MORE BOOKS BANNED The Israeli troops are surroun­ IN WEST BANK ded Duheisha Camp, near Bethle­ JERUSALEM ELECTRICITY hem on December 4, a er a total COMPANY CONFRONTS As part of the on-going cam­ curfew imposed for our days. The ISRAELI TAKEOVER paign against educational establish­ Israeli forces have arres ed hun­ ments in occupied Palestine, the dreds of the camp's i a -tants and The Chairman of the board of Israeli authorities banned from ci r­ subjected them to orture under directors of the Jerusalem Electri­ culation in the West Bank several interrogation, accord- to reports city Company, Anwar ai-Naseibeh, more books dealing with Palestinian from the occupied te ories. The has protested vehemently against history and the circumstances of detainees are charged involve- the proposed Israeli takeover the the Palestinian struggle. The order ment in the popular up -s-ng, which company. The statement of protest, was issued by the Israeli mi I itary took place one wee be ore. The issued jointly with the secretary of

1,2 - December 15, '80 the company's labour union, affir­ large an Israeli se ement already med that the company would resist built in the reg ia . The villagers the takeover bid as one body. Is­ charged the authorities with depriv­ AL·FA.JR raeli Energy Minister, Yitzhak ing them from their main source of Modai, in an interview with the Tel I ivel ihood. Aviv daily Ma'aviv on December 4 said that the Israeli government was RESISTANCE AGAINST determined to go ahead with the LAND THEFT NEWSPAPER FOR BIDDEN takeover, due to come into force on IN RAMALLAH REGION TO USE THE WORD 1 January 1980. "PALESTINIAN" IN MASTHEAD The notables of the villages of Ain Yabroud, Deir J"ryis, ai-Mazraa' The Jerusalem English Language ISRAELI AUTHORITIES ai-Sharqieh and Silwad in the weekly A!-Fajr was ordered to de­ SEIZE 80 DUI'JUMS Ramallah region, a confirmed the lete the words "Palestinian Weekly" FROM KFAR OADDOUM determination of e people in the ·from its masthead on the grounds area to hold or to their 300 that it violates the permit given to The villagers of Kfar Oaddoum dunums of land Tal ai-Aqour the newspaper in May 1971. protested, in a memorandum which the lsrae l·s plan to seize. Quoting excerpts from the written addressed to the West Bank military During a meeting "th the Israeli order, AI-Fajr said this measure was governor, the seizure of another 80 Deputy Military Governor of one of many taken against nationa­ dunums of agricultural land of their Rama llah I the ro·ables stressed list publications to silence Palesti­ village. The land was taken to en- their rejection of ""'e and theft. nian opinion.

Kader to three years in prison each and fined them the equivalent of I L 3,000, on charges of attacking the Tulkarm military governor, raising the Palestinian flag, hurling stones at Israeli military vehicles and participating in last May's demonstrations during which the Palestinian student Najeh Abu Ali was killed. The Israeli military court also sentenced the Palestinian · student Nasser Muhammad Mahmoud Jadallah from Sour Baher near Jerusalem to three years suspended sentence for affiliation to the Pales­ tinian Revolution.

FOUR GAZA STUDENTS SENTENCED TO JAIL

The Israeli military court in Gaza on Decem­ ber 4 sentenced the Palestinian students Samir Said Abed, lmad ai-Saghtawi, and Kamel Kamal ai-Saqr to 10 months in jail each, and Bassam MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS: Shaat to six months in jail each, for parti­ ci pation in anti-Israeli demonstrations. The trial 76 YEAR-0 LD MAN of the Bir Zeit students Samed Salma, Walid SENTENCED TO JAIL ai-Sharif, Othman Alyan, Sharif ai-Tibi, Hani ai-Saytouni, Hani Nour ai-Deen and Ziad Abdeh, On December 2, an Israeli military court in ·s set for December 7 at the Ramallah military Jerusalem sentenced 76 year-old Midhat Abu tribunal. Zaid from Jabaliyah camp to 16 months in jai l on charges of membership in the Palestinian ARREST OF NABLUS Revolution. MUNICIPAL LEADERS

PALESTINIAN YOUTHS The Israeli authorities have arrested ai-Hajj CONVICTED FOR RAISING Khalil Lativi member of the Nablus Municipal PALESTINIAN FLAG Council and Nabil ai-Shak'a (43), both of whom suffer from poor health, as .well as Mohammad The Israeli military court in Tulkarm sen­ Ladi , head of a Nablus school and Ghassan tenced Mohammad Kheiry (14) and Jamal Abdel a -Shaka'a.

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pounds. Israeli fire brigades only managed to bring the fire under control at dawn. The Palestinian commandos returned safely to base.

No. 111/80: Palestinian commandos of spe­ cial unit "D" operating inside the r eg ion. The Israeli forces circled the occupied territories on December 1 villages of Azmout, Salim, De ir planted timed incendiary charges ARMED RESISTANCE Hatab and Askar Ca mp, cut off all inside the Israeli commercial center roads lead ing to Nablus, and arres­ on lgribis street in Jerusalem. The COMMANDO OPERATIONS ted dozens of Palestinians on sus­ charges exploded on Schedule at IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES picion of their involvement in the 9:15 A.M. causing a fire which operation . spread all over the center and neigh­ No. 109/80: bouring stores and buildings. The Palestinian Commandos operat­ No. 110/80: damages caused by the fire are like­ ing inside the occupied territories Pa lestinian Comma ndos operat­ ly to be considerable. on November 25 ambushed a bus ing inside the occupied erritories belonging to a settler group along on November 30. planted timed No. 112/80: the Deir ai-Hatab Askar road, near explosive charges ins ide a clothes A Palestinian commando of spe­ Nablus. Our militants surprised factory attached to e Israe li cial unit "8", on November 29, them with automatic weapons fire army, in Migdal Ha'imaq settle­ opened fire on an Israeli soldier in and hand grenades, causing several ment, north of Afoula. A 11 :00 the Zakhroun Ya 'coub region, casual ities among the passengers . P.M. the charges went off, causing a south of Haifa. The soldier was Some passengers tried to shoot at major conflagration, destro ing the wounded in the head. The Palesti­ our militants, who answered, silenc­ contents of the factory a d i juring nian commando seized the Israeli ing their fire and continued their several guards. Losses fro e fire soldier's equipment and returned movement outside the operation are estimated at mil lions o Israeli safely to base.

Beg·n rea ff irming the original expulsion order of

"Is expulsion of elected mayors of the occu­ p"ed erritori es helpful to a just peace, is it manitarian, is it legal" asked Halhoul Mayor ·1 em at a press conference in Beirut on Fahd Qawasmeh Mohammad Milhem Oece ber 6.

ilhem pointed out that among the Zionist Cab" et members Deputy Prime Minister Yadin ISRAELI GOVERNMENT e Hea lth Minister opposed expulsion, two bers have resigned (Weizmann and Dayan), e ·sunder criminal prosecution (Abuhatzeira) a d o we re absent, so that Prime Minister RE-EXPELS MAYORS Beg" irtually unilaterally decided on December 5 o re~xp e l the mayors. ·

ayors Oawasmeh and Mi I hem were first QAWASMEH AND MILHEM de o ed on May 3, five hours after a successfu I a es 1n1an military operation in Hebron. Co mandos attacked a building in central The Zionist government re-expelled Palesti­ e on seized by right-wing Israeli settlers. nian mayors Fahd Oawasmeh and Mohammad ro 1948 to shortly after the 1967 war, the Milhem on December 5. The mayors of Hebron · ding was used as a school by the United and Halhoul, were expelled across the Lebanese a ions, which was closed by the Israeli govern­ border by the Israeli army immediately follo­ ' and the building remained empty for wing a press conference by Israeli Prime Minister se e al years. Fanatical Israeli settlers took over

14 - Decem ber 15, 'BO lives under difficult psychological, political and economic circumstances. My problem is that I was born in Halhoul as was my great grand­ father. So I want to return to my family, and to carry out the job for which I was elected by my people 4 years ago." As they were holding the ·press conference in Beirut, the Palestinians on the West Bank were echoing their demand to return by holding demonstrations and strikes.

PLO STATEMENT ON DEPORTATION OF QAWASMEH AND MILHEM

The PLO issued a statement on December 6th Th e may ors at Dt>cember 6 press conference concerning the Israeli authorities' deportation of Fahd Oawasmeh and Muhammad Hassan the building with army assistance in April 1979, Milhem, mayors of Hebron and Halhoul. They and it now contains 5 families and a military have been deprived of the right to live in their post. After the commando attack, the neigh­ homeland Palestine, despite all international boring shops and homes were destroyed and the resolutions, including the UN Security Council street is cordoned off and the area under heavy resolutions, declaring the deportation order in­ army guard. According to Milhem, some of the valid and stressing the mayors right to remain in commandos who carried out the operation were their homeland. later captured, but they have testified that meither Milhem nor Oawasmeh had any direct The statement said that the Israeli authori­ or indirect involvement in the attack. Prime ties' determination to deprive mayors Fahd Minister Begin's decision to expell the mayors Oawasmeh and Muhammad Milhem from living was clearly related to the attack, and the Israeli in their homeland Palestine, despite their being government alleged at the time that the mayors elected representatives of Hebron and Halhoul, were involved in "inciting" the local Palestinian proves once agin the enemy's di.sregard for population. human and moral values; for world public opinion; for all UN resolutions and for the The two mayors spent the next 5 1 / 2 months appeals made by the Vatican and the UN travelling around the world, appealing to the Secretary General. The statement said: United Nations, government officials end public opinion to support their demand to return to "The decisions of the military administration their homes and positions. Their appeal resulted show to the world the true racist and fascist face in two Security Council resolutions, and nume­ of the Zionist occupation against which our rous telegrams to the Israeli authorities. They people struggle with determination. The arbitra­ were readmitted on 14 October to have their ry deportation of Oawasmeh and Milhem did case heard by the Advisory Committee of the not and will not stop their determination to Mrlitary Government of the occupied West return. Moreover this last show of 'justice' and Bank. After two days of hearings, held at the 'democracy' by the Zionist authorities was a Allenby Bridge which connects the West Bank to miserable effort, which only led to the detention Jordan, the Advisory Committee upheld the of the two mayors, in addition to their being in deportation order. The mayors began a 10 day the big jail of occupation. The threads making hunger strike, and their lawyer, Felicia Langer up the self-rule conspiracy have now become appealed to the Israeli High Court. On the fifth clear to the whole world, exposing the illusions day to their hunger strike the mayors were of the capitulationists who rely on a false peace transferred to Ramleh prison, where they waited and stressing that as long as Palestine rem

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What is the difference between the Pa lestinians the Emergency Military Security Regulations dating living in 1967 occupied Palestine and 1948 occupied from the time of the British Mandate as the legal Palestine? Despite the Zionist myth that the Pales­ pretext f or banning the conference. The Emergency tinians living in 1948 occupied Pa les tine enjoy full iii ary Security Regulations are the Zionist "legal" citizenship rights with Israeli Jews, the answer is norfT'S governing the occupation in the West Bank and becoming increasingly clear that there is no diffe­ Gaza. Allegedly the military occupation in the 1948 rence. Both areas are subjected to a policy of military occup'ed areas was supposed to have ended in 1966. occupation, although the military occupa tion in the B n ·oking the Emergency Military Security Regula­ Galilee, Triangle and Naqab (Negev f is perpetrated fans. Beg in has officially placed the 1948 area with some attempt at disguise. When Begin came into Pa es ·ans on the same footing as West Bank and office in 1977, the disguise was lifted. The PLO has Gaza Palestinians - in a state of military subjugation. consistently offered a binational solution to Zionist exclusivism whether in the form of a democratic - e Z ioni st government has been building a secular state or in the form of a transitiona l separate ca oa ·gn t o intimidate the 1948 area Palestinians for Palestinian state. The Zionists reject any measure of onths. In the first week of November Begin's coexistence and particularly affected in this struggle ad so on Arab affairs, Benjamin Gur Arye, anti­ are the Palestin ians living the longest under Zionist c'pa·ed he cl amp-down by warning against support occupation since 1948. for e conference. The Jerusalem Post of November 9 ~e o ed him as saying: "Israel cannot stand idle This year Palestinians living in the 1948 occupied ~us· take legal steps against those who intend to areas have attempted to form a common front with ~...., 11e the good relations between Jews and Palestinians struggling for independence in the 1967 sraeli Arabs have to understand that any occupied territories. In June, a coordinating meeting - e support for the radical groups will not be in was held in the Galilee to organize a national ·erest." conference to unite all 1948 area Palestinians around support for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and • er cohort of Begin in the Likud, Knesset Gaza and recognition of the PLO as the sole - Amn on Linn, formed a puppet committee to representative of the Palestinian people. The national • e Arab People's Conference. His "Jewish­ conference was set for December 6. On December 1, ssociation for Understanding" has been a Begin donned his role of Defense Minister and banned eac for intimidating Palestinians not to join the the scheduled Arab People's Conference. Begin used ::Jeop e's Conference. The Post reported on

Th e same outlook, th e same stra ll': - Maa lot settlement in Galilee (left

I 6 - Decem ber I 5, '80 November 9: "A leaflet the group distributed on are already banned. The Rakah is the only legal November 5 both in Arabic and in Hebrew warned anti-Zionist party to which 1948 area Palestinians can that the radicals' exploitation of 'the painful pro­ affiliate. The first moves to an outright banning of blems of the Arab population' would lead to the the Rakah come in the form of a bill pending in the radicalization of the Jewish population, and would Knesset to reform electoral representation in the undermine confidence between the two peoples." Knesset. The percentage of the vote necessary for a Knesset seat would be increased from 1% to 2.5% of Linn has been one of Begin's main backers in the total vote. The hope would be that combined perpetrating a policy of outright elimination of the wi th intimidation measures, the Rakah would never 1948 area Palestinian population. lan Lustick, a be able to gain 2.5% of the total vote. Zionist sociologist, describes Linn this way: "Linn has consistently favored the use of the 'strong hand,' ZIONIST EXPOSE e.g., the expulsion of Arabs suspected of involvement OF FAILURE in guerilla organizations, the banning of radical Arabs from Israeli universities, an increase in the use of Even committed Zionists are now admitting administrative detention, the firing of Arab teachers Zionism's historical failure to offer any solution to and other government employees who support the the national question of the destiny of the Palestinian Communist Party, and the use of tough police and people. If for more than 30 years, Zionism has not border patrol units to quell demonstrations in Arab su cceeded i'l buying off or completely suppressing villages. Commenting on strong-hand aspects of his the 14% minority Palestinian population in the 1948 proposals Linn explained that 'though my policy is a occupied areas, what does this bode for the untimate little brutal, the future of Israeli Arabs is very uture of the Zionist entity itself when it has complicated and that is the only way."' persistently maintained its hold over more than a mill ion Palestinians in 'the West Bank and Gaza? There are now plans afoot to completely ban the Communist Party. (Rakah). The Rakah received over A Zionist sociologist, lan Lustick, has tried to 50% of ' the Palestinian vote in the 1977 Knesset ad dress this question frankly in his book published elections. All nationalist Palestinian political parties is year entitled Arabs in the Jewish State. * Linn describes himself in the Preface this way: "All my life Arabs in Israel by Natural Region, 1977. have been involved, as a participant, leader, and resource person, in Jewish and Zionist organizations."

What Lustick accomplishes despite himself is to ex pose in a striking manner the Zionist policy of attempting to completely subjugate and control every aspect of life of the 1948 Palestinians from their educational possibilities to their very means of economic survival. What Lustick fails to see from his Z'onist blinders is the crystalizing resistance of the 948 Arabs and the steady erosion of Zionist consolidation. He thinks that the Zionists in their olicy toward the Palestinians have maintained a •· ow cost" system "of effective control." "There ave existed certain structural conditions, certain · stitutional ized norms, and even some aspects of fficial policy in the Arab sector which have interfe­ ~ed with the exertion of effective control over the rab population and which have provided Arabs with portunities for limited resistance to the regime. \ ese factors are referred to as structural, institu­ \ 0 20 - anal, or programmatic "aberrations .... " (Pg. 80-81) \ L__j stick thinks that" ... no significant independent \ km. I ab social, economic, cultural, or professional orga­ - zati ons have been formed; there are no independent l 0 Less than 15% ab newspapers; no Arab leaders of national stature ' \ \ D 15-35% e emerged; no Israeli-Arab terrorist organizations \ 1m::::m::1 36-50% ... a e crystallized; and there have emerged; only \ - 51-65% sea ered instances of protests or demonstrations. " \ Source: Based on data from -66- 80% . 4) But in the next sentence he contradicts the StatistiCJ I Abstract of Is­ \ \ msel f by trying to belittle the objective importance rael 28 (1977): 26-27. (The - 81-95% map does not include the pop- \ he 1976 Land Day events in the Galilee: "The ulation of East jerusalem.) I -More than 95% munist-organized general strike on March 30, ~ 6, in which approximately 20-25% of the Arab 1 . force participated was by far the largest 'mass

Pale stin e I 7 sh ield." Ten days later the Washington Post reports ISRAELI MILITARY that "in Bethlehem ... students erected roadblocks OCCUPATION outside the university and vvhen the first army truck arrived, pe lted it with stones from second-floor IN GALILEE windows." The forms of resistance become similar as the nature of the mi litary occupation becomes similar in the two occupied areas of Palestine .

An Array of New Military Settlements in Galilee action' of Arab citizens in Israel's history." Lustick writes that "by the end of August 1973, the La nd Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency What has happened since 1976 is that the identifi­ had established 564 settlements of all types, including cation of the 1948 area Palestinians with the PLO, over 500 agricultural settlements." (Pg. 101) But, Palestinians in the other occupied territories and "three hundred, or 55 percent, of the agricultural Palestinians in exile has become so complete, that settlements established between 1948 and 1971 had now the Begin government has felt compelled to failed, by that later date, to reach the stage of reinstitute a policy of outright military occupation. 'consolidation. " (Pg .. 1 03). Zionism has ultimately The Arab People's Conference was to be the public failed in ousting the Palestinian population in the assertion of the united 1948 Palestinians' support for Gali ee despite a mamouth 30-year campaign. the PLO and the public affirmation of their Pales­ "Stre uous ef forts have been made to channel Jewish tinian identity. Banning the conference will not do se tters to isolated settlements in upper Galilee. Large away with the new realities created in large part by tracts of Arab land have beeri expropriated and new Zionist policy itself. to s, such as Maalot and Carmie!, established as urba e ish centers in an otherwise almost totally News from the Galilee, Triangle or Naqab reads Arab area." However, Lustick writes that "many much the same as news from the West Bank and sett ements have had to be abandoned, and neither Gaza. On November 9, the Jerusalem Post report~ · Maa o or Carmie! nor Upper Nazareth has grown to that " A 15-year-old boy from nearby Sakhinin village any i g near the proportions that had been pro­ was arrested on Friday on suspicion of throwing a jec ed." Pg. 130) By 1975 there had been a serious stone at a military vehicle and breaking its wind- ou - · of Jews from the Galilee which led to

18 - December 15, '80 the Judaization of the Galilee campaign. Palestinian resistance. On November 9 the Post reports that "in Haifa, 100 new flats will be built for The Begin government has escalated the settlement Arab residents." But, "some old buildings in danger campaign in the Galilee by dotting the hills over­ of collapse will be demolished ... " looking Palestinian villages with lonely military out­ posts. The Jerusalem Post of November 7 reports: "A ACRE new lookout settlement named Gillon was establi­ shed ... in the Segev region in Western Galilee. This is Acre is a prime example of the Zionist housing the 27th point to be set up in the Galilee in the past policy for Palestinians. The Palestinian population has two years." But the proliferation of new military grown to three times its size after the mass expulsions outposts has not stopped the out-migration. What is in 1948 while in the past ten years there has been new is that since the plans for civilian settlement have out-migration of Jews from the city. Lustick writes been an abject failure, Palestinian land is being that "by the early 1970's... severe overcrowding confiscated simply for purposes of enforcing the problems had developed among the 9,000 Arab military occupation. The same is true for the West inhabitants of the Old Town where many houses were Bank where the Post of November 11 reports that on the point of collapse .... The Arab community has "when the Likud took office in 1977 there were repeadtedly stressed its desire for Arab housing~ 3,200 Jews living in 24 West Bank settlements, while projects to be constructed outside the walls of the , today there are 17,400 in 68 settlements." But Old Town, but adjacent to it, on empty lots within overall there has been more Jews leaving the country this year than coming in. Lustick notes: "A sustained and spectacular rate of natural increase in the Arab sector (38.4 per thousand in 1976 as compared to 18.0 per thousand among Jews), failing levels of Jewish immigration, and increasing Jewish emigra­ tion ... have combined to raise the issue of the long-term stability of Israel's Jewish majority ... In 1976 Arabs already constituted a solid majority in western and central Galilee and were very close to a majority in the northern region as a whole."

THE HOUSING CRISIS

The Palestinian population in the Galilee, Triangle and Naqab has not suffered any decline whatsoever. Instead, there is a rapidly rising birth rate, 2.5 times that for Jews. This has created a severe housing shortage as successive Zionist administrations have denied Palestinians building permits vainly hoping that they would simply vanish from the Zionist entity. Lustick notes: "In an interview conducted in 1974, Akiva Feinstein, director of the Arab Depart­ ment of the Ministry of Housing stated that since his department came into existence in 1957 the ministry had constructed 2,000 housing units for Arabs, an average of 118 per year. In another interview the official spokesman for Housing refused to provide statistics concerning funds allotted during the 1973/1974 fiscal year for Jewish and Arab housing. 'A comparison of such figures,' he explained, 'would appear ridiculous.'" (Pg. 105)

The housing shortage, the continuing land expro­ priations for settlements and the general economic dependence of the 1948 area Palestinians is a major factor in the growth in their militancy. Land expro­ priations are what triggered the 1976 Land Day events. The stepped up Judaization campaign in the Galilee is what spawned the organizing drive for the Arab People's Conference. The Begin government has recognized the volatility of the housing crisis and has used a carrot and stick approach to try and quel opular Palestinian rally with Nazareth Iayor Tawfiq Zayyad on occasion of Land Day Palestine - 19 ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION IN GALILEE

Acre itself. However, although thousands of housing pe rm • ... :he magistrate rejected the defendant's units have been built in Acre, up to 1973 the plea e started building his house only after he government had allotted only forty of its new units had a permit from the District to Arab residents." (Pg. 131) Pla n mi ssion."

The Begin government finally did build new flats THE FUTURE IS NOW for Acre Palestinians. The Post of November 26 reports that 324 flats were completed for Acre comes to the conclusion that "the regime Palestinians, but they were built 5 kms outside of ,..·e ced a real decrease in its ability to the city on an isolated site. The Post adds: "At ieast a e the Arab population. At some point the 300 families live in old buildings, some of which are ces of this deterioration will force the in danger of collapsing. In many cases families with eons to make a decision between accept­ ten children live in one or two damp rooms, without level of control over the Arab minority some of the most basic faci I ities." What is the o which they have been accustomed or government master plan for the Old Town in Acre. costs (in time, energy, money, and, Lustick states the aim is to reduce the number of avorable international publicity of rever­ Palestinians in Acre by shipping them out to rural d." The Begin government has made its areas. "Under the terms of the government proposal ·ts not in the direction of "a lovver level the Arab section of Acre will be converted from an • The decision is an all-out attack on the Arab urban district to a 'living museum city' serving a esti nians in similar ways that the brutal almost exclusively as a Jewish-owned and operated pation is being conducted in the West tourist attraction." (Pg. 132)

While the Zionist government propagandizes about policies are not bringing their desired a few new flats for Palestinians, there has been a re ewal of a mi I itary occupation in the massive campaign to demolish Palestinian homes built OOCl.lllt"ed areas is vvelding the Palestinians there "illegally". One bill pending before the Knesset ers and sisters in the West Bank and would authorize the electric and water companies not a onal consciousness of 1948 area to supply services ·to such structures. The demolition in the process of rapid consolidation of Arab homes is so massive that virtually all Arab e consolidation of Zionist encroach­ and Druse councilmen have organized to stop the "litary occupation intensifies it can be campaign. The Post of November 11 reports that "the a struggle of the subjugated will be 44 Arab chairmen met in Nazareth, the 10 Druse ?Dr>r::rco..; o ·ncreased militancy and its form will chairmen in Acre. Together, they represent 90 per­ d struggle of the rest of the Pales- cent of the country's Arabs and Druse." While the committee of Arab and Druse councilmen were meeting "a Druse resident of Kifra, near the Lebanese border, was ... sentenced by a Nahariya magistrate to • l,y n the Jewish State, Uni versity of Texas Press 45 days in prison for constructing a house without a (Aust 980.

20 - Ve e ember I 5, '80 PALESTINIAN ESCAPES TURKEY CUTS FROM PRISON, ANOTHER ISRAELI TIES DIES IN HOSPITAL TO MINIMUM

A Palestinian detainee escaped In a move to further improve its from Hebron prison where he was relations with the Arab states saving a 20-years sentence for affi­ Turkey has decided to withdraw all liation to the Palestinian Revolu­ its diplomats from Israel and to tion. A 15-year-old Palestinian maintain diplomatic relations at a detainee, Salameh Mohammad ai­ "symbolic level" only. Turkey is Hassouni, from the village of ai­ the only member of the Islamic Se'ir near Hebron died· on Novem­ Conference and the only Moslem ber 23 in the 1akassed hospital state except Egypt that maintains while undergoing treatment. The diplomatic relations with Israel. Israeli authorities had been forced These relations have been at charge to release Salameh from prison be­ d'affaires rather than ambassadorial fore the termi na on of his six-year level. The Turkish charge d'affaires jail sentence a e to several con­ was recalled in August to protest ~ tagious and chro ·c diseases which Israel's annexation of Jerusalem he contracted wt"l i e in prison. and Turkey closed its consular

ANNEXATION MOVES: been permitted to see what is going ISRAEL DRIVES ROADS on, they have discovered something INTO SOUTHERN LEBANON very strange: a large number of con­ crete roads, built for heavy traffic In the "Times" of November 11, and leading from the Israeli fron­ Robert Fisk reports on new Israeli tier. Th~ peculiar thing is that the moves for the annexation of the roads do not lead anywhere - they Israeli .«•ttlemt•uts on thl' l;olan JJ,.ights parts of Southern Lebanon under just come to an end in the middle its occupation: of a field or on a stony hillside. The THREE NEW SETTLEMENTS United Nations have their sus­ IN GOLAN HEIGHTS Just south of the crumbling picions, however, and the local stone village o ajdel Zoun in villagers inside the United Nations On November 16 in a press con­ Southern Lebanon, United Nations area are convinced they know the ference on the American television, troops hear ni~ explosions from reason; They believe that the Is­ Begin announced bluntly: "Israel the direction of jor Haddad's en- raelis are annexing the land, it will cannot descend from the Golan clave. And on e few occasions be interesting to hear the expla­ Heights. This is the general concen­ that United Na officers have nation the Americans receive." sus I can express now. Israel will be on the Gola'n Heights." Begin's announcement came at a time when the Israeli Knesset is discussing the annexation of the Golan. Voting on this matter will come up within two months. To prove Begin's state­ ment, at the end of November the Israeli authorities stepped up estab­ lishing new settlements.

According to a report by the Israeli daily Davar three new settle­ ments are now under construction in the occupied Golan Heights. Two of the colonies are scheduled for habitantion by the beginning of the next year. They will be of an agricultural character belonging to the Kibbutzim in the Northern Golan region. The third settlement situated in the south of the Heights are supposed to finished by March 1981.

Palestine- 21 £/on Jloreh settlement in Nablus area NEW ROAD connecting the Elan Moreh settle­ CONNECTING SETTLEMENT ment with Nablus. The decision was office in Jerusalem. Moslem coun­ WITH NABLUS taken following a guerrilla opera­ tries have long been urging Turkey tion against an Israeli transport bus to break off its ties with Israel. on the main road. The daily added During the last three decades there On November 27 e Israeli that Israeli security experts agree was close economic and technical daily Ma'ariv reported the that the recent commando opera­ cooperation between Turkey and Israeli authorities plan o ild a tion reinforced arguments for build­ Israel. The decision to freeze ties new road within the nex days ing the new road. with Israel can be seen as a turning point in Turkey's Middle-East poli­ cy. Palestinian inhabitants, including ch· dren, who are kept in jail for ISRAEL ARM SALES ong periods. DOUBLED IN YEAR He also said that the Israeli Israel has more than doubled its authorities are even attempting to military exports during the last year destroy the heritage of the Palesti­ to an amount of$ 1.25 billion. This nian people. He concluded the press rise is due to an increase of con­ conference by confirming that the tracts with South Africa's apartheid Palestinian people are heroically regime and also with countries confronting Israeli oppression and which previously did not buy mili­ are determined to regain their legiti­ tary eq1,1ipments from Israel. Follo­ mate rights, and that current Israeli wing the permission of the Carter measures against the Palestinian administration to sell Israeli-U.S. people can only increase this deter­ Kfir jet fighter to Mexico, Vene­ mination to pursue their struggle zuela, and Colombia, Israel has also Israel Shalwk inside the occupied territories. expanded its sales to South Ame­ rica since early November SHAHAK SPEAKS FURTHER PLANS AGAINST ISRAELI 0 TO JUDAIZE JERUSALEM HOW ISRAEL Israel Shahak, e SEES ITS FUTURE Human Rights League On December 4 the Israeli Minis­ IN THE ARAB WORLD clared in a press co terial Committee for Settlement Washington on Decembe'" Affairs approved a new plan to Israel's military chief of staff, West Bank and Gaza S seize more Palestinian - owned Lt. Gen. Raphael Eytan, suggested come a kingdom of e land in the Jerusalem area for the on November 30, 1980 that an out­ the torture, harassmen establishment of 13,000 residential break of war between Syria and tive punishment carried units, as part of a larger plan to Jordan would be to Israel's advant­ Israeli authorities agai Judaize the Holy City, and com­ age. This was reported by AP. tinians. Shahak state plete the annexation of Jerusalem. "Every clash, every disagreement, nized terror against t This latest plan stipulates the sei­ ~very split between two Arab states people was not onl zure of more than 4,400 dunums of • that are extreme toward us, makes Israeli soldiers, but a land locat-ed on the Jerusalem­ it easier for Israel," he said in armed and protected Ramallah road and south of the answer to questions from an au­ who are planted il e Nabi Ya'coub settlement. The Is­ dience in southern Israel. "The occupied territories aga raeli authorities have already pre­ deeper the disunity in the Arab of Palestinian iando vented the Palestinian owners from world, the more advantageous it is added that the lsra building on the above-mentioned to Israel." authorities indiscri m · a + land.

22- December JS, '80 / / /

ISRAELI STATISTICS INDICATE SHARP RISE IN EMIGRATION f On December 4, the Associated Press by its .. \ Tel Aviv correspondent Marcus Eliason reported on the latest figures on emigration from lsra:::!:

Israeli government statisticians have released figures suggesting a sharp increase in emigration from this country, which depends on constant immigration of Jews.

The statisticians warn that the figures could mislead if they are read wrongly. But an increase in emigration would be in line with warnings that economists and sociologists have been soun­ ding for some time: That the worsening econo­ my and social climate are driving growing numbers of Israelis abroad.

The figures issued by the government Bureau of Statistics show that in the first 10 months of this year, 448,997 Israelis left the cou.ntry and only 416,195 returned.

That leaves a discrepancy of 32,802 - more than double the figure for the corresponding period of last year.

Moshe Sicron, the author of the survey, says, "This is a clear indication of an increase in emigration."

Emigration is an explosive word in this coun­ try, whose very reason for existing is to get Jews ment spokesmen point out, can distinguish an to come to I ive here. emigrant from a tourist on a package tour. An emigrant about to leave is hardly likely to The very word for emigration, yerida, in­ announce his plans to the passport officer at dicates the contempt in which emigrants are Ben -Gurion International Airport. And besides, held. It means "descent," implying that those they say, who is an emigrant? Is a medical who leave Israel fall from a high station in life. student finishing his studies in Italy or an agricultural expert on a four-year stint in Mexico The government has made strenuous efforts, t o be considered guilty of Yerida? including the offer of financial aid, to induce emigrants to return, but to little avail. The survey shows that since 1948, 375,000 Israelis have left the country and did not come Authorities consistently deny that there has back - roughly 11 percent of the current popu­ been a rise in emigration despite rising crime, lation. tripledigit inflation arid monthlong annual stints •. of military reserve duty. Alongside the emigration figures are the statistics on aliya - the word for immigration The long lines outside the U.S. consulate's that in fact means "ascent." They show a sharp visa section are said to consist mainly of vaca­ drop, ·from 37,200 newcomers last year to tioners taking advantage of cheap transatlantic 22,000 at most this year. fares. Mr. Sicron says that this is due to a drop in Statistics, they say, can lie. No one, govern- arrivals from the Soviet Union.

Palestine - 23 ISRAELI ATTACK ON DAMOUR AREA IN LEBANON

of Palestine in 1974 and was in his third year of civil engineering at Poznan University in Poland.

Ziad Muhammad Abd Rabbo was born in Nablus in 1961. He joined Fateh in 1975 and participated in varia s military training sessions. He was a last year stude t ·n the Electrical Engineering School at the Midd e East University in Turkey. Another Pales­ tinian f g ter killed was Ist. Lt. Muhammad Shehadeh. He vas born in Tal ai-Zaatar camp in Lebanon in 1954. e became a member in Fateh in 1969 and partie a ed ·n the 1970 Black September in Jordan. He Ia e ook part in many operations in the occupied home a and in 1976 defended Tal ai-Zaatar camp g steadfast to the end.

eral for the martyrs of the December 3rd s eld on December 4th at the mosque of the Arab ersity in Beirut. The funeral turned into a mass· e demonstration of Lebanese and Palestinian de errr.· ation to resist the continuing Zionist aggres sio aga st Lebanon and a rememberance of the In the early morning hours of December 3, Zionist ultima e goal of liberating Palestine. Thousands of military forces attempted two landings by sea on the ers and militants crammed the streets in the Lebanese coast south of Damour. Lebanese-Pales­ ersity area to follow the coffins draped tinian Joint Forces repulsed the attack which was wi a es inian flags to the martyrs' cemetary. supported by a destroyer and several helicopters. But at the same time, other Zionist vessels managed to e day of the funeral an official PLO spokes­ land near Sadiyat. A fierce battle ensued. When the ·ss ed the following statement: Zionist landing force met with heavy resistance, heli­ copters and Zionist naval vessels opened up heavy · ~ e atest operation is part of Israel's policy to cover fire along the coast. The battle last an hour and esca a-e ts aggression against the Palestinian and a half with the Zionists suffering an undetermined Leba -se peoples. It is supported by the U.S: and it . amount of casualties evacuated under the heavy cover sig •·ca t y comes at the threshold of the new fire. The Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Forces suffered adrr1 -s '"a on headed by Ronald Reagan, who is four martyrs in the battle. kno • r his enthusiastic support of Israel and his for the use of force. As is usual in the Zionist aggression against Leba­ non, the main victims were civilians. Eleven civilians i itants who courageously resisted yester­ were killed and 13 others were wounded. Most of the - are ready and capable of foiling imperialist victims died or were wounded by the indiscriminate ·s, they depend on the undefeatable will Zionist shelling of the area. But several of the victims e a estinian and Lebanese people. were killed when the Zionist troops attacked a Ttants inflicted heavy losses on the in­ passing civilian car. til a · ~::1 Israeli forces and prevented them from ach g eir aims. This Joint Forces confrontation The following day, the Excecutive Committee of has bee added to the Iist of other battles - Beaufort the General Union of Palestinian students announced cas e a- armaq, Sidon - places where Israel wished the death of Muhammad Jamal Abu Ayta and Ziad to · e • e revolution decisively, but failed. Muhammad Abd Rabbo, university students who joined the ranks of the resistance in response to a .. rr' tants, side by side with the other men of PLO call for general mobilization, two months ago. the ~ Forces, will continue their confrontation of Muhammad Jamal Abu Ayta was born in Kuwait in the m and its plans. Israel and imperialism will 1958. He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation fa il ·e e their conspiratorial plans."

24 - December 15, '80 "PALESTINE" DOCUMENT: on June 2, 1980, the Israeli services most probably used JDF terrorists as their tools.)

There is no "Palestine people," and there is no "Palestine". The lands that today constitute the State "THERE IS NO of Israel, Judea, Samaria (the West Bank), Gaza and PALESTINIAN PEOPLE" the Golan are parts of the Land of Israel, the sole land of the Jews.

The Jewish claim to the Land of Israel is not an By Meir Kahane ordinary nationalist one. It is NOT merely derived from the fact that ONCE Jews were sovereign there, were the majority, ruled the land under their own government and that never was the land empty of Jews. All this is true but this is not the main claim of the Jewish people. Jewish refusal to give up lands is sometimes based on the logical and self-evident fact that to give up lands to a people that has constantly threatened to destroy you is sheer madness, and that Jews dare not trust to their kindly intentions in the future. This too, is true, but again, it is not the reason for Jews remaining on the lands liberated after June, 1967.

The fundamental and REAL Jewish claim to the Land of Israel is based on the fact that there is a Divine grant of the land to the Jewish people, and Terrorist Meir Kahane that God gave the Holy Land to the Jewish people in order that it be holy and create a holy society (In the following we publish the program issued by therein. No other arguments- Jewish or Arab- have the "Jewish Defense League" in the U.S. in 1975: any relevance to the essential fact that the One who The movement led by Rabbi Meir Kahane has become created the entire world and who possesses it, has the notorious both for its violent activities in the U.S. power and the right to give unto whomever he and for its terror against Palestinian civilians in the chooses and this was what was done more than 3,000 occupied territories. The program is published here years ago at the time of Moses and Joshua. This is without deletions. The passages which claim diffe­ what remains our inalienable right today. The Land rences with the official point of view of the Israeli of Israel in its Biblical boundaries is the Divine to the government of the time, must be considered of an Jewish people, it belongs to the Jewish people in its entirely tactical nature. The Israeli secret service entirety and no alien trespass has any merit or chance (Massad) had already under the Labour government of success. established its connexions with the "Jewish Defense League". Under the Begin government~ the Zionist Zionism is NOT one more movement of national military, intelligence and settlement institutions have li beration. It is not one more like all the rest any established a network of links to the fascist "Gush more than the Jewish people is one more like all the Emunim" settler groups which in turn are linked to rest. The believing Jew as the believing Christian the JDL and Meir Kahane's "Kakh" party. (See also nows that there is a Divine pledge - repeated again "Palestine" 1980 No. 9, "Crazy Jim"; No. 11, "Israel and again in the prophets of the Bible- that the Jew - Fascism on the Rise"; No. 18, 'The Terrorist will be brought back from the Exile, gathered from Coalition"). Eli Hazeev, "Crazy Jim", the Gush the corners of the earth and brought home - to the Emunim terrorist settler killed in Hebron earlier th is Land of Israel. The believing Jew and the believing ~ year, was a member of the JDF and even had links to Christian know that this resurrection of a Jewish state, the FBI. In their bomb attacks on Palestinian mayors and this return of the Jew to his home is a

Palestine - 25. NECESSARY precondition for the coming of the the official stand of the government of Israel which final redemption and the establish ment of the 1) recognizes a "Palestinian" people after years of Kingdom of God. Zionism, the establishment of the refusing to do so 2) believes that there are· State of Israel, the return of millions of Jews home, "moderate Palestinians" who will both challenge the the mi racu I ous victories of the many Arabs, the PLO t esis and leadership as well as permanently liberation of Judea-Samaria {the West Ba nk), Gaza accept a Jewish State 3) believes that peace with the and the Golan, the return of Jewish sovereignty over Arabs by concessions is possible, 4) is prepared to the Holy City and Temple Mount are all pa rts of the give up parts of the Land of Israel to the Arabs, and Divine pledge and its fulfillment. 5l refuses t o allow Jews to settle unrestrictedly in any part o e Land of Israel under Jewish control. There can be no " Palestine", a name that was invented by the Romans to symbolize the end of the e differ wi th these stands and maintain that the Jewish people, for that would be to diminish and to go er ment of Israel, through its short-sighted, timid force back the miracle of God and to go against the and acci lating pol icy, not only destroys the vision Divine era of redemption . There can be no and e dream of redemption but brings potential "Palestine" for if there is, then there is no Israel . disaste down on the heads of the Jewish people. We ma tai that there must be an immediate program of In all this we Dl FFER FUNDAMENTALLY with dec a · g:

BEGIN CANCELS DETENTION OF FASCIST KAHANE Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin cancel­ led a three-month administrative detention order issued against the leader of the fascist Kach movement, Rabbi Meir Kahane, who has been responsible for numerous attacks against Pa les­ tinians in the occupied territories. Israel i press reports even hinted in June that Kahane's move­ ment together with the other extreme right wing Gush Emunim movement are behind the attempted assassination of three West Bank mayors.

The action of the Israeli Prime Minister seems to have been a reward and an encouragement to Kahane for his continuous incitement against Palestinians. Kahane immediately obl iged the Prime Minister. In a letter to the Jerusalem Post {August 3, 1980), he said:

"Let me state unequivocally: We of the Kach Movement are committed to (the passing) of a Knesset· (Parliament) law to remove all the Arabs. Those who wish to leave willing,J,y will be compensated for their property ... Those who are unwilling would be removed without compen­ sation ... "

(Palestine Solidarity,September 1980) • inUwr &•J[in: On•• terrorist proteding the other •

26 - DecPm ber I 5, '80 1) I here are no meaningful Arab moderates who state, as in 1967 - before they were taught to be will permanently accept any Jewish state, of any size. more discreet and allow the world a face-saving way The ultimate Arab goal is the elimination of any to allow Israel to die. We are not fooled by those, Jewish state. who, in 1956 - BEFORE Jews had liberated the lands the Arabs claim constitute the major cause - 2) There is no "Palestine people" or "Palestine" t ook arms from the Soviets and prepared to wipe out entity. the Israel of that time. We are not fooled by those who, in 1947, turned down even the pathetic, 3) All of the Land of Israel belongs exclusively to grotesque tiny state that the United Nations gave the the Jewish people and Arabs are welcome to live Jews. We are not fooled by those who rioted against there as individuals but not as a sovereign people. and killed Jews in 1921, 1929, 1936, 1937, and 1938. We are not fooled. There are no "moderate" 4) If there are those who wish to create something Arabs. There are only clever and less clever, patient known as "Palestine" they are welcome to do so in and impatient. The final solution for ALL is the same "Jordan" which in itself is a fictitious state created - the total elimination of any Jewish State. And so, by the imperialist British by cutting away, in 1921, we repeat: the eastern part of the Land of Israel. The Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians" had the opportunity to There is no "Palestine people" and there is no create a "Palestine" in 1947 in a far larger part of the " Palestine". We wf:lcome those non-Jews who now Land of Israel but refused to do so. They lost that live in the Land of Israel under Jewish control to chance forever and if they refuse to create a state in remain as free and comfortable citizens in a free, "Jordan" now, but insist upon war, they will lose democratic Jewish State ordained by God and which again and lose "Jordan" in the process because constitutes the first step to the final Messianic era and WHILE WE WILL NEVER BEGIN A WAR FOR the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. THOSE PARTS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL NOW UNDER FOREIGN RULE, SHOULD THE ARABS BEGIN THAT WAR AND WE LIBERATE STILL :MEDITERRANE AN SEA OTHER AREAS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THEN THOSE WILL NEVER BE GIVEN UP EITHER. SYRIA 5) The Arabs today sit in large areas of the Land of Israel promised by God to us. For the sake of peace, we are prepared to go to a peace conference with mass to show which lands we claim as our own but declare that we are prepared to declare a state of non-belligerency and not demand those lands back. In exchange for that concession, and as the price they should pay for their aggression of 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973, the Arabs must recognize the State of Israel in the area it now controls.

SINAl ' \ \ PENINSULA \ 6) Immediate, unlimited and unrestricted Jewish \ settlement in any and every part of the Land of Israel EGYPT \ \ ·, including Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan. (U.A.R.)

There is no "Palestine" people and there is no "Palestine." We are not dismaged by the Arabs, we are not shocked, we are not confused. Above all, we are not fooled by them. Not by their vague an d tantalizing hints of "recognition", not by their aura ---- IN'fF:RNATIONAL of "moderates." We are not fooled by those who for ROUND ARIES 26 years have threatened to do away with the Jewish AND AR~HSTlCE LINE~; ll'l1 ere end the bord,•rs of th e ''Greater Isra el '"? Palestine - 2.7 BRITISH GOVERNMENT CRIMES IN PALESTINE:

ESTABLISIDNG THE ZIONIST

STRANGLEHOLD

by Faris Glubb

only been secretly accepted, but Arab and British claimants to special consideration were roughly and even reateni ngly told to 'accommodate themselves' as best they might. All this gave the concession a sin is er appearance... As appears clearly now, the opera ion was difficult to perform in perfect decency wi · e po li t ical climate of Britain in the nineteen­ t e ies."1 After a sluggish start, Rutenberg's corpo a ion grew into one of Zionism's most valuable eco o ic assets.

andate administration made a move at e same time to cover another aspect of z ·o is economic penetration - the eviction of Pa es · ian peasants from their land. In 1920, the Zio ·s Commission had bought a large estate of abo 50,000 acres at Marj Ibn Amer from absentee Ia do ds, the Sursock family of Beirut, who later beca e cl osely connected with the neo-Nazi Phalan­ gis party. The peasants who had been tenant farmers o e estate, in some cases for generations, were e ic ed and made to swell the growing ranks of the urba nemployed, and a number of Palestinian Lord Samuel {left) with Lord Balfour• ho es ere destroyed to make way for the new and General A llen by: Th e sellout starts se e , ostensibly on the grounds of "hygiene". This The late 1920s were a period of temporary is a c enient excuse often used by the Zionists for setbacks for Zionism. The advent to power in Poland t e des ruction of homes, as it not only makes such of Marshal Pilsudski, who repeated discriminatory a a so nd justified, but also brings the Palestinians' measures against the Jews, coupled with economic sta da ds of hygiene into disrepute, making it easier prosperity in Germany, led to a slackening of to st p racial prejudice against them in the West. European Jewish migration to Palestine. An added stimulus had to be provided for Zionist colonisation outrage provoked by the Marj Ibn Amer efforts to succeed. s was partly allayed by the mandate In March 1926, the British mandate authorities a · "es issuing the 1920-21 Transfer of Land approved the concession for establishing the Palestine 0 · a ce. Thi s required in theory that any land sales Electric Corporation to be given to Pinhas Rutenberg, req · e government approval, which would only be a Russian Zionist, who had been Russian Minister of g· e 1 e Director of Lands was "satisfied that any Police in Kerensky's regime before the October te a i occupation will retain sufficient land in the Revolution. d" or elsewhere for the maintenance of himself s amily." However, the High Commissioner, The manner in which the Rutenberg Concession ad he power to agree to the sale of large tracts was authorised was highly dubious. It had secretly o ght this was "in the public interest" under been accepted by Winston Churchill as Colonial ,. · ance of a few months earlier, which the new Secretary as early as 1921. But "misleading ras designed to replace. 2 statements were made in (Britain's) Parliament with the result that a scheme for water-powered electrifi­ ac . neither of these ordinances ameliorated cation appeared to be open to tender from all s a ion. Apart from the fact that they were quarters, while in fact Rutenberg's scheme had not based on the wrong approach of "giving an

28 - December 15, '80 aspmn to a cancer patient", and tackling one of the symptoms of the problem rather than its root cause, there was an easy way to circumvent the supposed protection for tenants in the 1920-21 Ordinance. By evicting the tenants before the sale, an absentee landlord could then sell the land with vacant posses­ sion, and the provisions of the Ordinance no longer applied.

Thus acts of dispossession continued, and the unsatisfactory situation required another palliative. During the last year of Lord Plumer as High Commissioner in succession to Lord Samuel, in 1927 and 1928, a committee was appointed to devise revisions to land transfer regulations. That this was British High Commissoner Arthur Wauchope {left) handing concession for Palestine Electric Corporation to Russian Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg (center) merely a palliative not designed to serve the Palestinian people's interests was obvious from the should become "the inalienable property of the fact that the committee was headed by the Zionist Jewish people" on which only "Jewish labour shall be General, Norman Bentwich. employed." Under the terms on which the Keren Kayemeth leased land to Zionist settlers "the lessee The result was the 1929 Protection of Cultivators undertakes to execute all works connected with the Ordinance, which cancelled the previous requirement cultivation of the holding only with Jewish labour. that an evicted tenant be provided with .alternative Failure to comply with this duty by the employment land. Instead, a cultivator who could prove at least of non-Jewish labour shall render the lessee liable to two years' tenancy was required to be given a year's the payment of a compensation of ten Palestinian notice of eviction as well as some financial compensa­ pounds for each default... Where the lessee has tion. This was totally inadequate, as the mandate contravened the provisions of this Article three times, authorities kept no record of tenancies, and so it was the Fund may apply the right of restitution of the extremely difficult for a person to prove length of holding without paying any compensation whatever. " 4 tenancy. Also, it failed to take steps to end evictions, The lease also provides that· the holding may not be merely offering financial compensation. As the hel d by any non-Jew, even through the right of official British government report by Hope Simpson "nheritance, without the Keren Kayemeth enforcing admitted, what was required was "not compensation its right of restitution. for disturbance, but a provision against disturban­ ce."3 The Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund) also insisted that any Zionist settler receiving a loan Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner who for agricultural work should work on the land with appointed the Bentwich Committee, has often been his family, and "hire Jewish workmen only" if he described as an eminently fair man, without bias re quires outside help.5 towards either the Palestinians or the Zionists, a man who ran the administration with integrity. By all RACIST DISCRIMINATION accounts, he did not have the pro-Zionist bias that FURTHERED BY MANDATE characterised Lord Samuel, and the Zionists were at first worried that his appointment would be to their Such provisions demonstrate the full import of disadvantage, as he had a reputation of being an Zionist land purchases in Palestine as far as the hon!'!st and distinguished soldier. But he had the Palestinian people were concerned. They meant that, disadvantage that, in Palestine of the late 1920s, once land was sold to the Zionists, it was in fact scrupulous impartiality, while usually a noble quality, irretrievably lost to the Palestinians, in that not only was not what was required, as it meant being could no Palestinian ever purchase it again, but also impartial between usurpers and rightful inhabitants. no Palestinian could ever be employed on it again. Lord Plumer thus attempted the impassive task of he sale of land to Zionists thus became an insidious being just in implementing an unjust policy. hreat to the Palestinian people in their own country. Far from discouraging such a situation, the mandate ZIONIST BOYCOTT authorities actively encourgaed it by promulgating OF PALESTINIAN aws which, while giving a semblance of protecting LABOUR AND PRODUCE Palestinian tenant farmers, in fact stimulated their e propriation. They also took no legal action to The late 1920s also witnessed the growth of a orevent the boycott of Palestinian labour and particularly damaging form of economic dispossession nroduce by the Zionists, a racist measure which of the Palestinians, the Zionist boycott of their ,.. ghtly aroused wide indignation when Nazi Germany labour and produce. Article 3 of the Constitution of applied it against the Jews from 1933 onwards. the Jewish Agency for Palestine specified that land I acquired by Zionists should be taken in the name of As did the Nazis, so also the Zionists often used Keren Kayemeth (the "Jewish National Fund" and ohysical violence to enforce their boycott and ~

Palestine - 29 at least with tolerance, a quality which today is almost unknown in Palestine." It also referred to Pa lestinian· concern over "the more extreme statements of" Zionist policy", the massive rate of Zionist immigration and the "large sales of lan-d in consequence of which large numbers of Arabs were evicted without promise of other land for theft­ occupation." Its report made some modest recommendations for ending legitimate grievances, such as checking evictions.7

The Shaw Commission report was regarded as something of an embarrassment by the government on the grounds that it was "pro-Arab". The Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield appointed another commission under Sir John Hope Simpson to make a fu rther inquiry. The Hope Simpson report also contained some valuable honest observations including one that "the principle of the persistent and deliberate boycott of Arab labour in the colonies is Nazi German racism: · "Germans, Don't Buy (rom leu:s" not only contrary to the Mandate, but it is in Zionist racism in Palestine: "Jews, Don't Employ Arabs" addition a constant and increasing source of danger to the country." He also recommended a curb to the flood of Zionist immigration, observing that "if there abandoned their pretence of hiding behind the "rule are su·table Arab workmen unemployed, it is not of law" which the British mandate so kindly provided right t at Jewi sh workmen from other countries for them. A Jewish resident of Haifa, who adopted a ·should be imported to fill existing posts." 8 position opposed to Zionism, gave a valuable account of how the boycott methods had developed by 1944: In October 1930, Passfield issued a White Paper "Some time in 1944 a rumour spread that a couple embod ing the Hope Simpson report's recommen­ of Arab workers were employed at the back of a cafe datio s. This provoked a storm of protest from the in Tel Aviv. The result: a crowd of thousands went Zionists, backed up by their allies such as powerful and smashed the windows and broke up the furniture. interests in the United States and the South African As the Arab peasant, out of sheer poverty, was ready whi e racist General Smuts. British Prime Minister to sell his produce for a much lower price than was Ra msa acDonald backed down and on 14 asked by Jewish agriculturalists, the Zionists Fe bruary 1931 wrote a letter to Dr. Chaim prevented the fellaheen (peasants) from coming and Weiz a n, ostensibly to "explain" the White Paper selling their produce in the Jewish market. And when, but · act watering it down so much as to make it~ under pressure of hunger, a fellah dared to break the dead etter. Not that the White Paper would have boycott, he was subjected to beating and spoilation radically changed British policy, but it meant that the of his produce ... Not one Zionist party - not even Bri is go ernment "would keep its hand on Zionist the most extreme left of Hashomer Hatzair, now im ·gra ·an and land-purchase and would prevent the increase of either throwing the country into Mapam - opposed the boycott of the Arab workers 1 0 and peasants. " 6 econo ·c disorder." Even this however was intolerab e to the Zionists. Lord P;ssfield wh'o as a BEFORE: pi.onee o~. moderate thought in the Labour Party JEWS AND ARABS tned o. m1t1ga t~ some of the harm caused to ordinary LIVED SIDE BY SIDE peop e Palestine, was stepping out of line with the polic of the British ruling class as a whole. He was forced o resign and retire from public life. In August 1929, rioting erupted in Jerusalem and other towns. The immediate spark which ignited this has been. attributed to disputes on religious and personal 1ssues, but the underlying causes were far p . more involved and due in broad terms to the steady 2 C--c. 3686. The Hope Simpson Report, pp. 17. 35. process of Zionist encroachment on Palestinian rights 3 - ~ 00. 35-36. 4 ra ease o f Keren Kayemeth, Article 23, quoted by Hope under the mandate. A commission headed by Sir Simpson Report. Walter Shaw was appointed to inquire into the 5 grerment o f Keren Hayesod for Repayment of Advances, immediate causes of the riots, without investigating A cJe I. c_oted by Hope Simpson Report. the root causes related to policy. While t he Shaw 6 Cl'ff. The Struggle for the Middle East (International Commission was thus debarred from pointing to the phlet. London , 1967), p.1 . . 3530, The Shaw Commission Report. Balfour Declaration as the origin of the trouble, it . 3686, op. cit. nevertheless noted that before the First World War . 3692. "the Jews and Arabs lived side by side if not in amity, . Jeffries, Palestine, the Reality (London, 1939), p. 629.

30 - December 15, '80 WORLD EVENTS

U.N. CONDEMN POLICIES military strategy against the 'communist threat'." The OF SOUTH AFRICA ANC leader continued that the establishment of a AND ISRAEL network of military bases in the horn of Africa, the Gulf and Indian Ocean regions "cannot be seen in South Africa and Israel pursue a policy of isolation from this NATO strategy in southern genocide and trample upon all human rights. This is Africa". Another factor for South Africa's strategic the gist of the debates on South Africa's pol icy of significance for NATO is "for suppressing our apartheid and on Israel's occupation practices in the people's march to freedom". plenum and in the special political committee respectively, of the 35th U.N. General Assembly. The PINOCHET JUNTA discussions have confirmed that the two racist REFINED ITS METHODS regimes pursue the same targets with the same OF TERROR methods, while the same imperialist backers enable them to continue and escalate their aggressive An International Commission met to investigate policies. Both regimes get assistance from those forces the crimes of the Chilean military junta in Rome on of international reaction which at present are November 29 and 30. The Commission demanded the aggravating tensions in the world. South Africa immediate halt to arbitrary arrests, torture and terror exploits the growing international tensions for in Chile. At a meeting of its secretariat the perpetuating apartheid and its occupation of commission demanded information about the where­ Namibia, and Israel for establishing a "Greater abouts of more than 2000 "disappeared" persons in Israel". Both regimes invoke their common interests the country. They called for the restoration of human with NATO, which are guiding leading NATO rights in Chile. Investigations culminated in the countries in their decisions on South Africa and moving statements of seven Chileans, victims of junta Israel. reprisals. They described how they were arrested and tortured. The daughter of Chilean Trade Union The majority of countries have seen through the official Pedro Henriquez directed an appeal to the hypocrisy of these NATO representatives who always International Community to save the life of her talk of defending human rights, as a result of the father who has disappeared since 13 November. The debates. s~atements and the report of inquiry clearly proved that the Pinochet junta has refined upon its methods ANC: of terror. It was confirmed that more than 3,300 NATO EFFORTS TO people were arrested in Chile this year. INTEGRATE SOUTH AFRICA

The efforts to integrate the South African racist state "into NATO's military umbrella" have been described by Alfred Nzo as "the beginning of a sinister conspiracy and a dangerous step". What the recent meetings between the South African Foreign Min.ister Pik Botha and NATO secretary General Josef Luns as well as other NATO country leaders signified, the Secretary General of the African National Congress' of South Africa declared in a statement on November 26, was that "it marks the beginning of a more open collaboration between NATO and Apartheid." It is well known that "it is the NATO countries that supply arms - and now licences for their production - to South Africa." But now the world is "witnessing an open violation of the U.N. mandatory arms embargo." Alfred Nzo, pointing to the great role that South Africa is playing in the NATO strategy says, that in this context the Apartheid state "is not passive". It reassures the NATO member states "that Apartheid is a bulwark against 'communism' and that the existence of the apartheid system is in the interest of the west's

Canadian solidarity pos WORLD EVENTS

FORCES OF EL SALVADOR An FMLN statement emphasizes that in El STEP UP ACTIONS Sa lvador "peace can only be achieved by smashing the regime which is pursuing genocide and is armed, Leaders of the Revolutionary Democratic Front militarily trained and kept alive by the USA." The gathered on November 27 at San Jose High School in sole alternative for solving the national crisis is to set San Salvador for a secret meeting. But 200 men in up a revolutionary-democratic government as was army uniforms surrounded the school and dragged proposed by the murdered FOR leaders. out 29 victims, including six leaders of the FOR, and disappeared. Twelve hours later the bullet-ridden The FMLN is stepping up its combat-readiness, is bodies of six leaders were discovered in a little town improving its military technique as well as its tactical near the capital. The six leaders are Juan Chacon, the and military knowledge. FMLN is intensifying its head of the Popular Revolutionary Block, Humbert,o cooperation with the people to prepare them for the Mendoza, of the Popular Liberation Movement, forthcoming decisive actions 'against the common Enrique Barrera of the National Revolutionary enemy. Movement, Enrique Alvarez Cordova, the president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, Manuel Franco, Rafael Menjivar, the Executive Chairman of the a leader of the National Democratic Union and FOR Commission in exterior in an interview with the Donoteo Hernandez, leader of a small union. Manuel GDR ews Agency (ADN) in Mexico declared: "Our Franco visited the PLO earlier this year. answer to the bestial murder of six leaders of the Re olutionary Democratic Front (FOR) of El The military junta denied any involvement in the Salvador is stepped up political and military. struggle. incident and a right-wing commando group claimed We are going to intensify military actions by the responsibility for the murders. But the presence of popular revolutionary army on all our fronts." army troops at the school indicates that in fact the junta stands behind the murderers. Lately, with the Execution of the operation by the junta's national victory of Reagan, attacks against the Salvadorean guard in which the FOR leaders had been kidnapped, revolution are encouraged. A short time after his tortured and killed clearly indicated the participation election, the Reagan camp indicated implicit support of advisors from southern American military dictator­ for the military government. Military aid and combat sh ips, Rafael Menjivar told the newsmen. Brutality of equipment have been, promised to support junta the junta was an expression of the hopelessness of its forces fighting the Salvadorean revolution. policy and of its deep national and international The perfidious murder of six leaders of the iso a ion. Revolutionary Democratic Movement (FOR) by the Salvadorean military junta is a hard blow to the liberation movement of El Salvador. The murders, however, have strengthened the unity in action and combat determination of the revolutionary forces. This is indicated in statement of the FOR and the Farabundo Marti Mltional Liberation Front (FMLN) and shown by the fact that within three days the successors of the dead were named and the new FOR Executive Committee was presented. In addition to Saul Villalta who is the Committee's new president, it is made up of another seven representatives of the mass organisations united in the FOR.

Latest information about massive FMLN attacks on barracks and other establishments of the junta army show the unbroken morale of the people's revolutionary army.

- It became obvious once again that the alleged preparedness of the rulers in El Salvador for a "dialogue" with the people's liberation organisations is only an attempt to win time in face of growing FMLN achievements.

32 - December 15, '80 29th NOVEMBER:

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY DAY WITH PALESTINIAN

PEOPLE Presidium at Beirut Solidarity Conference

The UN has designated November 29th as a day of a number of speeches were delivered successively by solidarity with the Palestinian people and this year it Usama ai-Fakhouri, on behalf of the Lebanese was marked by rallies and ceremonies the world over. ational Movement; Omar ai -Hamdi, Secretary­ Ge neral of the Arab People's Congress; Sami r San bar, The main official commemoration of the event on behalf of UN Secretary-General Dr. Kurt Wald­ was held at the UN building in New York on heim; Tony Mingalou, on behalf of the peoples of November 28 sponsored by the Committee on the Southern Africa; Gen. Costa Gomez, former President Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian of Portugal; and Mr. Pascal, member of the Central People. The Committee specifically emphasized the Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. need to bring about a comprehensive settlement of the Middle East dispute so as to enable the Palestinian In the main address, PLO Chairman Arafat people to enjoy their legitimate rights which have affi rmed the Palestinian Peop le "will continue our been recognized and reiterated by the General As­ struggle, loyal to the pledge I made to the world on sembly on various occasions. beh alf of the Palestinian People and the Arab Nation, that the olive branch will remain in our hands desp ite During the special meeting, statements were made all attempts to snatch it away. We will protect it with by the Un ited Nations Secretary-General, the Presi­ our guns and blood. I am also fully confident that the dent of the General Assembly and the President of day is near when we will plant together the blessed the Security Council, the Chairman of the Commit­ olive tree in the land of peace, the land of heavenly tee, Falilou Kane, the President of the United Nations messages and of civilizations, the land of Palestine; Council for Namibia, Paul John Lusaka (Zambia); the day when our people wi II have achieved victory Chairman of the Special Committee Against Apart­ an d established the laws of humanity as set out in the heid, B. Akporode Clark (Nigerian); and the Chair­ Universal Declaration of Human Rights." man of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in the occupied territories, Nadaraiah He then reminded that "we do not fight alone, but Balasubr~maniam (Sri Lanka). A message was also are backed by all honest forces in the world, the read from the President of Cuba Fidel Castro in his on-Aligned and socialist states. These ", he added, capacity as current Chairman of the non-aligned ·are the steadfastness and confrontation front that countries. A statement received from the Chairman of o one can defeat and that we hold on to in order to the . Palestine Liberation .Organization (PLO), Yasser attain in this Arab Nation the strong stand which will Arafat, was read by a representative of the P LO. ch ange the course of history."

UN General Secretary Kurt Waldheim stated in his KADDOUMI AT UI\J: address to the meeting that, "despite a wide measure U.S. AND ISRAEL BLOCK of agreement on the principles, an over-all settlement RESOLUTIONS ON PALESTII'JE of the Middle East problem is still proving elusive. Determined efforts must therefore be made to Farouk Kaddoumi, Head of the PLO Political achieve such a settlement through negotiations in­ De partment, declared during the UN session on volving all the parties concerned including the PLO." 0 ale stine which began Monday December 1, that the organization had been unable to implement its MASS RALLY IN BEIRUT resol utions on the Middle East questions since it was ampered by the conspicuous resistance of imperialist In celebration of the International Day of Soli­ orces spearheaded by the US and Israel. He added : darity with the Palestinian People, a massive popular ad it not been for the support of the US, Israel rally was held on November 29 at the Beirut Ara b auld have never dared to pursue such an impudent University. Apart from Yasser Arafat's main address, olicy; it is the US veto at the UN Secu ri ty Council

Palestine - 33 29th NOVEMBER: that has saved Israel from sanctions." Kaddoumi solidarity wi th the struggle of the Palestinian people denounced statements by US leaders expressing on the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. objection to any moves in the direction of reali zing Among the senders were President Hafez ai -Asad of Palestinian inalienable rights. "The noticeable in ­ Syria; Cypriot President Spiros Kyprianou; Dr. Vassos crease of US military presence, the formation of the Lyssarides, Head of the Cypriot Socialist Party; Rapid Deployment Forces and the joint maneuvers Comrade Mi niatovich, the Head of the Yugoslav State with the Camp David parties reveal the true in­ Council; and Heng Samrin, the President of the tentions of the US vis-a-vis the Middle East", he De mocratic Republic of Cambodia. explained. In commemoration of this day, the Cypriot Falilou Kane, the President of the U Committee Foreign Mi nistry as well as the Central Committee of of 23, said in this respect that the Pa lestinians have the Cypri ot Communist Party (AKEL) and the been and still are the victims of Israel, hich has Ce ntral Committee of the Cypriot Socialist Party adopted an expansionist and belligeren t policy which issued communiques expressing support for the Pales­ violates international law as well as var·ous UN t inian people's struggle under the PLO leadership. · resolutions. In Tunis, the National Assembly called on all SOLIDARITY MESSAGES wa rd parliaments to support Palestinian inalienable POUR IN rights, while the Abu Dhabi Foreign Ministry express­ ed, ·n a communique released on the occasion, Expressions of solidarity with the P LO poured in abso u e su pporte for the Palestinian struggle. to the UN and PLO offices the world over. Other RALLIES national liberation movements were quick :n showi ng their unity with the Palestinian struggle. The South­ west African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO. sent a A so the socialist countries organized vallies to message to the P LO Embassy in Dar Es Sal aam mar e event. Chairman Arafat received a special expressing the firm solidarity of the Namib·an people cable from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. The with the Palestinian people's just struggle under the cable said that the PLO, which is recognized by the leadership of the PLO. SWAPO sent a sim· ar message inter at"ona l community as sole representative of the Pales i ·an people, has became one of the most to the PLO office in Casablanca. prog ess·ve forces in the Arab liberation movement The President of the UN Palestin ian Rights Com­ and a active participant in the Non-Aligned Move­ mittee and UN Secretary-General Dr. Kurt Waldheim men T e cabl e added that the peoples of the Soviet un·a , ho believe in liberty, independence and received cables from Veri '"' ' 1S c:+;:. +oco a~~r~ s sing their soc a progress, fully support the struggle of the Pa es i ian people against Israeli aggression and impe­ International Day of SOLIDARITY with ria is conspiracies and in order to foil separate deals the Palestinian people November 29 and ac ie e a just a comprehensive settlement in the Midd e East. 1980 oscow, a huge ceremony was held on No­ vember 27 and attended by the heads of international peace a d solidarity committees and organisations, ambassadors of the member states of the Non-Aligned Mo e and Soviet officials. Fateh Central Co · ee member Abu Mazen delivered a speech on the occas·on. The Soviet Committee of Solidarity wi e A ro-Asian states sent a cable to the PLO Exec •· e Committee on the occasion. In Czechoslo­ popular celebrations, seminars and exhibits e d on th is occassion. The solidarity of the people of the German Democratic Republic e s ruggl e of the Arab people of Palestine was a at a meeting at the leather processing o eustadt-Giewe (Schwerin country) on be 27. The meeting was attended by delega­ ~ • e PLO and the GDR solidarity committee abs cu rrently having special training in this I jcJurnH inrernationale de SOl.~ a solida ri ty rallies were held in India, in­ avec le people palestinien, 29 nowmbre a govern ment-sponsored ceremony in New ded by a number of state officials. Rallies Palestine lnformabcrl D:Xe 0<=--Canada ~------1 eld in Bangladesh, in Aden, and Zambia.

34 - DecPm bcr 1 5. '80 SOLIDARITY

PALESTINIAN WORLD CHAMPION

A three-member team from the Palestinian Body­ building Association affiliated to the PLO partici­ pated in an international bodybuilding contest held at the Congress Theater in Paris on November 8. The Palestinian team was invited by the World Amateur Bodybuilding Association .

When the final results were announced, Darif Shabana of the Palestinian team was named the World Champion in the light weight category. It was the third consecutive time that Shabana captured the title. The first time was in London, then in Italy and FILM ON PALESTINIAN CHILDREN SHOWN now in Paris. Shabana is the only Arab who has won AT LEIPZIG Fl LM FESTIVAL the title three consecutive times. The PLO projected a film on Palestinian children During meetings of the World Association's gover­ during the 23rd annual International Documentary ning board resolutions were passed which excluded and Short Film Festival which opened in Leipzig on Israel from the organization and rejected South November 21, 1980. The film entitled "Children Africa's application to join. Fawzi ai-Kodari, from the without a Childhood" is a rebattal of Israeli policy in Palestinian team, was elected a deputy president of the West Bank; it deals with the childhood of the World Association and another Palestinian, Abdul Palestinians both in Israeli-occupied lands and in Karim ai-Ghazi, was chosen to head the judges' refugee camps. The film was warmly received by the committee for the Middle East. audience.

I remain, yours a true and loyal supported of the Palestinian Revolution.

Your Brother,

Brian Do way, Victoria, Mahe, SEYCHELLES. Dear friends,

I am very happy that you send your information bulletin regularly. It helps me and my friends in our solidarity work with the Palestinian people in Poland.

I finished the Technical University a year ago and just now I am serving in the army. But it does not stop my solidarity work. I organize "Palestinian evenings" for the Polish soldiers, the first one from these was held in October. I asked the PLO office in Warsaw for help and they gave us a copy of the Palestinian film "The Fifth War", casettes with Palestinian music and placards, In . the same building where the evening was held we organized a photo exhibition about Palestine. The exhibition and the film made a big impression on all of us. In the end of the evening we Our friend Brian Do way at his ofjice called for the permanent support for the struggle of the Palesti­ nian people. We consider our evening to be very successful. In "Palestine" bulletin Vol. 6. No. 13. there was information about PALESTINE NATIONAL DAY the International Solidarity Work Camp in Rashidiyeh. TI1e idea of organizing such a camp is very good for getting more infor­ Dear Bro thers, mation about the real situation of the Palestinian people. I think this is the best way for many peoples of the world to express On the occasion of your National Day, it gives me great t11eir support and solidarity with the Pal estinian cause. pleasu re to express on my own behalf to your great Leader Olairman Yasser Arafat personally and to the Palestinian People Revolution Until Victory! wa rmest wishes for the prosperity in your great struggle to regain With friendly greeting, control over you r homeland which is being occupied illegally by Marek Heinrich! Zionism with the support of U.S. Imperialism. IVROCLAW, POLAND. 29 NOVEMBER 1980:

W T PALE E