Al-Hajj Abu Ahmed Confirms National Dialogue Reactivates Expanded Unified National Command

Al-Hajj Abu Ahmed Confirms National Dialogue Reactivates Expanded Unified National Command, 8 Feb. 03

Al-Hajj Abu Ahmed, commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah Movement, confirmed that leaders of various factions were in agreement over continuation of resistance under a unified and secret leadership.

Al-Hajj Abu Ahmed's satements confirm the long anticipated reactivation of an expanded Unified National Command.

The Unified National Command was formed during the first Intifada by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front, Fatah and the Communist Party of Palestine, now the Palestine People's Party [Hezb' Shabaiya] in order to articulate the resistance committees in the Land while the PLO leadership, including Yasser Arafat, were in exile in Tunis.

International solidarity groups have balked and split widely over the inclusion of the Islamic factions in the Unified National Command even to the point of refusing to petition for the release of Ahmad Sa'adat, Sec. Gen. PFLP, on several grounds ranging from the outrageous Hoxhaite position of exterminating all religion on the one hand and the refusing for petitions for Sa'adat's freedom on the grounds that the PFLP has "inapproprately involved itself in the activities of the PA" on the other.

Internationalist who have remained in solidarity with the PFLP, the patriotic and Islamic forces, and the Palestinian people as a whole applauded the nationial dialogue and anticipate further positive developments from the third round national dialogue slated to begin after the Eid al-Adha holiday.

Various anonymous activists speaking under the banner of the so-called "rejectionist front" have split hardly against each and every palestinian faction in the National and Islamic Forces and have caused spectators to wonder whether or not we should soon see the announcement of a new "renagades and splitters Party" has been founded. While the "renegades and splitters" hope to supplant both Ahmad Sa'adat and Maher Taher as well as Khaled Mishaal, inter alios, many commentators have privately expressed their belief that this tend will inherit yet another mandate from the so-called "4th International." They imply that the National and Islamic Forces should struggle against itself and become divided and disorganized. Few Marxists agree.

Khaled Mishaal, Hamas, categorically denied reports of Egyptian pressures on the Palestinians to end the intifada 3 Feb. 03. “These charges are not even worth an answer … Hamas works on its own behalf and not for anyone else”, he affirmed.

"It will be a united leadership of our country, rather than leadership by one unemployed leader," meaning Arafat, said Abdel Qader Yassin, a Palestinian leftist author and a conference insider.

Maher Taher, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] delegation in Cairo, voiced optimism about the ability of the Cairo Conference to bring a national consensus on the articulation of Al-Aqsa Intifada 25 Jan. 03.

"The work will focus on the formation of a united national command allowing the participation of all Palestinian factions in decision-making...The key issue on the agenda is the reorganization of the Palestinian home from within, and agreeing on a common political program...Many Palestinian factions enjoy huge influence on the ground and without their real involvement in political decisions these movements will feel marginalized and will act at will," he said.

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