Sixty years of revolution.. Victory is coming?

The Palestinian people celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of the Fatah movement on January 1, 1965, that giant launch of the Palestinian people’s revolution to liberate occupied Palestine and enable Palestinian refugees to return to their historical homeland, in implementation of General Assembly Resolution No. 194.

After the British-led colonial powers colluded to enable the Zionist Jewish gangs to control 78% of the land of historic Palestine, and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of the Palestinian Arab people outside their historic homeland by declaring the establishment of their colonial settlement entity and then enabling them to launch their aggressive war on June 5, 1967, which resulted in the occupation of the rest of Palestine, the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands, and calling them displaced persons to live with the millions of Palestinian refugees who preceded them a life of asylum in exile, stripped and deprived of their basic right to return to their cities and villages from which they were forcibly expelled as a result of American policy and its axis biased towards the Israeli colonial entity by virtue of its aggressive function of working to protect American interests and influence in the Arab homeland, which confirms and explains the reasons and factors for its reversal of its pledges and obligations as a permanent member state of the Security Council to work to consolidate international security and peace and to ensure the implementation of international resolutions issued by the Security Council and the General Assembly, and to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and establish their independent state, as With the rest of the peoples of the world, in implementation of the principles and objectives of the United Nations and its Charter.

The launch of Fatah, with its timing, goals, resistance strategy, and the rallying of the Palestinian people, the vanguard of the Arab people, around it, constituted an earthquake for the Israeli colonial entity, its masters and makers, who thought they had succeeded in taming, subjugating and subjecting the Palestinian people to surrender to the Zionist-American plans.

Fatah, the leader of the Palestinian revolution, launched and formed its launch in defiance of regional circumstances and by rejecting the results of the June 1967 aggression, by escalating its resistance with a long-term popular war of attrition deep inside the occupied territories against the Israeli occupation forces, inflicting military losses on its human ranks, equipment, facilities and economy, and achieving the great victory in the Battle of Karameh with the support and participation of the heroes of the Jordanian Arab Army on March 21, 1968. This victory dispelled the claim of the Israeli colonial entity that it is an invincible army, and thus threatened the influence and interests of the countries that created and established this racist, aggressive entity, and what it means in terms of the decline of European hegemony not only in the Middle East, but also in the countries of the Third World.

This victory, its results and repercussions pushed America and its axis to work through its terrorist Israeli agent, which it provided and empowered with more elements of military, political and economic power to achieve a specific goal represented in eliminating the Palestinian revolution and its backbone, the Fatah movement, which had assumed leadership of the PLO since 1969.

The Fatah movement went through stages of struggle recorded in the history of the modern Palestinian struggle on the path to freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital:

First: The construction and establishment phase was inaugurated by launching its first operations on 1-1-1965 inside the occupied Palestinian territories, and the attempts to distort and cast doubt on various factors that accompanied it. This phase extended until the June 1967 aggression, and what resulted from it was the occupation of the rest of Palestine “the West Bank and the Gaza Strip”, the Golan Heights and Sinai.

Second: The Fatah movement, led by the martyr Abu Ammar, announced its refusal to surrender to the arrogance of the Israeli enemy, which was waiting for the leaders of the concerned countries to declare surrender, according to the statement of the Israeli Defense Minister at the time, Moshe Dayan, that he was waiting for his office phone to ring.

This stage witnessed an escalating popular liberation war on several fronts, accompanied by Palestinian, Arab and international popular support for the Palestinian revolution. This support was not popular, but was accompanied by official support from the countries surrounding occupied Palestine, most notably Jordan and Egypt.

This popular and official tide, support and rallying on the world stage was also reflected in the global liberation movements, which led to a further decline in the influence of the American camp in the Middle East region, which the American strategy considers to constitute national security in light of the Cold War between the American and Soviet axes, due to its important geopolitical, economic and strategic position. This prompted America to move to the executive phase to militarily eliminate the threat looming over its influence and interests, which are represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and its backbone, the Fatah movement. Then came the broad and comprehensive aggression of the Israeli colonial entity by invading Lebanon in 1982, targeting the revolutionary and resistant military presence. The exit of the Palestinian resistance from Lebanon was to spare the blood of the Lebanese people and to remove the pretexts of the militarily superior Israeli entity to destroy Beirut and Lebanese cities, to begin the third phase of the Fatah movement’s struggle.

Third: After the military withdrawal from Lebanon, the Fatah movement faced a conspiracy of secession after defending the independent decision, and refusing to be subservient to any official Arab regime, and to be a card in the hands of that regime or another. The beginning of the third stage was the preparation for a massive popular uprising inside the occupied territory, which was launched under the leadership of Fatah in December 1987, during which the Palestinian people presented hundreds of martyrs, and thousands of prisoners and wounded. During which the Israeli enemy failed, over the course of years, to abort the popular revolution of the Palestinian people with its components, despite its use of all forms of oppression, persecution, killing, torture, arbitrary arrests, imposing collective punishments, and other violations and crimes that are classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity. By committing these crimes, it revealed the falsehood and impudence of this expansionist entity, despite its refusal to implement international resolutions calling for an end to the occupation of the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, claiming that it is the only oasis of democracy in the Middle East, and its love of peace and respect for international legitimacy. Consequently, this falsehood and claim raised the level of global support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, independence, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state. The flame of the uprising remained. The first was burning until regional and international changes occurred, the most important of which was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to changes in the balance of power in favor of the American axis. This was followed by the Oslo transitional phase agreement in September 1993, which heralded the beginning of the stage of struggle from within the homeland to build state institutions on the path to ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian Arab state with Jerusalem as its capital, and resolving the refugee issue in implementation of General Assembly Resolution No. 194.

Fourth: The signing of the Oslo Accords resulted in the move to the homeland, and the public reception of the martyred President Abu Ammar in Gaza, Jericho upon his return to the homeland, and to Jenin and Nablus was nothing but an expression and referendum on the renewal of the pledge of allegiance, and the affirmation of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and its program to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the borders of June 4 within a period of time not exceeding five years, according to the timetable stipulated in the Oslo Accords, which the forces of Israeli terrorism and extremism turned against, starting with the killing of Rabin as punishment for concluding the agreement and its ratification by the Knesset, in a path that led to the extremists of Israeli extremism and terrorism taking over the reins of power, armed with an aggressive expansionist strategy aimed at perpetuating its colonial occupation and completely evading the implementation of its obligations to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied since the June 1967 aggression, leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital at the end of the transitional period, which is supposed to end in May 1999.

This Israeli coup against the Oslo Accords, as well as the occupation itself, is a coup and a challenge to the principles and charter of the United Nations, which represented the greatest challenge facing the Palestinian leadership that led the stage armed with international law and the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, and with broad support from the international community. The recognition of the Palestinian state by 149 countries, and its acceptance as an observer member in the United Nations, which prevented and prevents its acceptance as a member with full rights and duties, the American veto and the American policy biased towards the Israeli colonial entity, which is manifested in the ugliest form in its unlimited support for the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing that the Israeli enemy has persisted in committing for fourteen months in the Gaza Strip and for years, albeit at a lesser rate in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state, without fear of accountability and punishment, with American enablement. The challenge to the decisions of the International Court of Justice by refusing to implement them is only one example of hundreds of examples of Israeli-American politics that prevent the achievement of regional and international security and peace in the medium and long term.

Sixty years after the launch of Fatah, the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a question remains in people’s minds: Has Fatah succeeded in achieving its goals through its leadership of this stage? Is it still qualified to lead the next stage with its challenges?