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What of the Palestinians who live inside the 1967 borders, and what of the Jews themselves? Would apartheid end in South Africa, or the state be transformed, by recognizing its right to exist? le "Serving Israel's interests"

Despite the obvious answers to all these questions, there are, nonetheless, an increasing number of people who, today, are pushing for an international peace conference on the Middle East with the goal of establishing a Palestinian "mini-state" alongside the Israeli state.

A revealing example of the dangers for the Palestinian revolution of such a proposal comes from the pen of Jerome M. Segal, a research scholar at the University of Maryland and a founder of the Jewish Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.

Segal, who represents the "left" wing of the Zionist movement, writes the following in a Feb. 16, 1988, Los Angeles Times article titled, "A Palestinian state serves interests of Israelis, too:"

"Ironically, of all the alternatives an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza is the one solution that best serves Israeli security...

"A Palestinian state would be the fullest possible satisfaction of the demands of Palestinian nationalism... It would win the support of the P.L.O. and is the only likely basis on which the P.L.O. would formally abandon the right to return to the land and villages lost in 1948. As the recognized embodiment of the Palestinian cause, only the P.L.O. can compromise in the name of the Palestinians...

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A P.L.O. faithful to its original program would include in its leadership those anti-Zionist Jews who have fought the colonial-settler state. In this way, the Jewish masses themselves would be able to see who really speaks for them, and who offers them a way out of perpetual war, insecurity, and deprivation.

The Palestinian revolutionary movement can only advance by hammering out a new strategy based on combining the Palestinian national struggle with the struggle of the workers and peasants of the whole Middle East for liberation from both capitalist and imperialist domination.

November 23. 1987 50 85. 82. C$2 50,1258 Subscribe today to International Viewpoint!

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Dear friends, We send you this letter from inside our beloved land-our land of honor, of dignity, courage and defiance-from our Palestine, from Jerusalem, the sacred city.

We send you this letter in the name of our people, a patient people who are today standing tall and are waging a struggle unparalleled in our entire history.

We want you to know that the Palestinian people have not been defeated. They are alive. They are struggling. They are saying that they will not accept humiliation and submission.

The confidence of our people in the legitimacy of their struggle is immense. And our people know that their victory is certain-whatever the sacrifices, whatever the price that must be paid.

Today, our peopie are suffering. They are shedding their blood to win their freedom, dignity, and honor; their right to determine their own destiny; their right to live in their homeland and to build a free, democratic, and sovereign state in all of Palestine.

To all free men and women, to all our comrades, we say the following:

The Palestinian people have been the victims for many decades of an international plot—of vicious attacks—aimed at exiling them and chasing them from lands upon which they have lived centuries.

We have been expelled from our lands— lands which have now been settled by foreigners in accordance with the aims of colonialism and imperialism. This settlement has been imposed by the laws of oppression promoted by the Western nations and the Eastern totalitarian regimes. These oppressive laws are also those of international Zionism.

We have been subject to terror, assassination, and torture. Today, we are deprived of even our most elementary and legitimate rights.

They have wanted to make of us an exiled people, destined permanently to refugee camps. They have wanted to physically destroy and eliminate us.

Through the wars of 1948 and 1967, they carried out the occupation of all of Palestine. But they forgot that by occupying all of Palestine they also unified the entire Palestinian people in their struggle against oppression.

That is what is happening today as the children, the elderly, the women, and the youth have risen up as one one single person, without arms, to face the military machine of Zionism and imperialism—to face the violence of the guns, the clubs, the kidnappings, and the assassinations.

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