Left side of the road

Material published by and about the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the late1960s and early 1970s.

Al Fateh, Palestine National Liberation Movement, Voice Newspapers, Swansea, 1970?, 8 pages. Includes the history of the issue of Palestine, the Aims and Objectives of Al-Fateh and its approach to the settler state of Israel.

Address by the Al-Fateh Delegation to the Second International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples, in Cairo, January 1969, no publisher, 7 pages.

Palestine Lives, No 1, February 1975, PLO Information Department, Beirut, 1975, 16 pages. The issues of occupation, illegal settlements, ‘Nazification’ of the state of Israel, and Palestinian Resistance are nothing new as are shown in this almost 40-year-old magazine.

Palestine Lives, No 2, March 1975, PLO Information Department, Beirut, 1975, 20 pages. Palestinians in Jordan and the ‘nature of Israel’ and its incompatibility with the existence of a Free Palestine.

Palestine Lives, No 3, April 1975, PLO Information Department, Beirut, 1975, 28 pages. The Palestinian women at the heart of the struggle and so-called American ‘solutions’

Palestine Lives, No 4, May 1975, PLO Information Department, Beirut, 1975, 32 pages. The lessons from Vietnam, the Phalangists in Lebanon, the Palestinian working class and Naivy-Tirza Women’s Prison.

Political and armed struggle, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, Beirut, n.d., early 1970s, 47 pages. A statement of the aims of Al-Fateh in both the political and armed struggles.

Revolution Until Victory, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, n.d., early 1970s, 36 pages. The history of Al-Fateh from its formation to the end of the 1960s

They claim there is no resistance, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, Beirut, n.d., early 1970s, 28 pages. The resistance struggle expressed through poetry.

The Palestinian Freedom Fighters and the World Press, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, Beirut, n.d., 1970? 28 pages. What the world press wrote about Al-Fateh May 1968 to March 1969.

A Palestinian View, Fayez Sayegh, General Union of Palestinian Students, Beirut, n.d., early 1970s, 20 pages. ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ versus ‘Palestinian Problem’.

Dialogue with Fateh, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, Beirut, 1970, 104 pages. Dialogue between the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fateh, and the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Al-Tali’a (Vanguard) in 1969.

Do you know? 20 Basic Facts about the Palestinian Question, The Palestine Liberation Movement Fateh, Beirut, April 1969,

The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance, London Office of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, London, n.d., early 1970s, 11 pages. The attempts by the Palestinians to establish, and maintain, a system of welfare and social services despite the efforts of the Israeli state to make life untenable under their occupation.

Who are the Palestinians? A profile of a nation. London Office of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, London, n.d., early 1970s, 7 pages.

Nabka – the untold story of a cultural catastrophe, PLO, n.d., 22 pages.

P.L.O. Research Center Publications [Beirut, Lebanon]

Palestine Books – No 13 – Greater Israel – a study in Zionist expansionist thought, Ass’ad Razzouk, December 1970, 324 pages. Missing cover.

Palestine Books – No 30 – Settler colonialism in Southern Africa and the Middle East, George Jabbour, August 1970, 220 pages.

Palestine Monographs – No 1 – Zionist colonialism in Palestine, by Fayez A. Sayegh, September 1965, 84 pages. (Mediocre double-page scan, but quite legible.)

Palestine Monographs – No 58 – The role of the Zionist terror in the creation of Israel, Bassam Bishuti, April 1969, 218 pages.

Palestine Monographs – No 62 – Israeli belligerent occupation and Palestinian armed resistance in International Law, Dr. Ezzeldin Foda, November 1970, 170 pages.

Palestine Essays No 47 – Zionist relations with Nazi Germany, Faris Yahya [Faris Glubb], January 1978, 85 pages.

The Facts about the Palestine Problem

Posted on 20/07/2014 by Michael

Young Palestinian Refugee

The Facts about the Palestine Problem was a series of pamphlets produced from 1968 until, at least, 1970. They were published by The Arab Women’s Information Committee based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Financial constraints effected regularity of the, planned, monthly bulletin – a problem that the Palestinian cause has always had to face, even when ‘supported’ by some of the most wealthy nations on the planet.

The stated aim of the editors was to produce a factual background to the situation in Palestine following the disastrous war of June 1967 (known as the Harb – The Setback – in Arabic) which saw the annexation of huge tracks of Palestine by the Israeli Zionists.

At the time of the 1967 ‘Six Day War’ pro-Zionist propaganda was riding high in the capitalist ‘west’ with the idea being promoted that Israel was the innocent victim of an anti-Semitic plot of genocide. These bulletins were part of the propaganda fight back to put the case of the Palestinian people.

Events in the now almost 50 years since that war the world has witnessed countless examples of the attempted genocide (now re-branded as ‘ethnic cleansing’) of the Palestinian population by the increasingly Fascistic Zionist State of Israel.

Notwithstanding the time that has passed since The Facts about the Palestine Problem were first published they still contain many facts and details that many people don’t know about, realise or understand. It is hoped they may be useful in reminding people of what is happening in that part of the world by providing an historical background.

51st state of the united states

The attitude of the United States of American to the migration of American Jews to Palestine, especially in the time just before the formal declaration of the State of Israel on 15th May 1948.

Plan Dalet

The Zionist Plan for the occupation of Palestine before 15 May 1948.

The Promised Land

The Zionists claims that the existence of the State of Israel on the land of the Palestinians lay in what was written in the Christian Bible.

From the Nile to the Euphrates

The Zionist plan for the expansion of the State of Israel to cover all the territory between the rivers Nile and Euphrates, demonstrated by a series of maps and accompanying statements.

The Arabs under Israleli Rule – The Gaza Strip

The treatment of civilians in the Gaza Strip under Israeli Occupation after 7th June 1967.

Did you know that…

Zionist attitudes and Palestinian reality after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 and the war of June 1967.

The Background – Statements by Zionists

Statements by Zionists, from the late 19th century until the 1960s, where they declare their true intentions in Palestine.

Jerusalem June 1967 – The Occupation

What was happening in Jerusalem during the first days of ‘The Setback’, from 5th to the 8th June 1967.

The Background – Statement by Zionists 2

Further statements by Zionist about their plans and intentions over the Palestinian homeland.

For an Arab-Jewish State in Palestine

The argument for a state of Palestine that would be home for both Arabs and Jews. This first appeared in the French newspaper Le Monde on 9th January 1969.

Israel and the Demilitarised Zones

How Israel has been using the so-called ‘Demilitarized Zones’ as an extension of the Zionist State of Israel.

Israeli Designs on Lebanon

Statements from the 20th century where the Zionists have made it clear that their idea of the State of Israel extends from the Nile to the Euphrates.

The Machiavellian Approach

Tactics used by some Zionists in trying to convince Jews to leave their original homes and to migrate to Israel.

When the Soldiers Cried

How the Israeli Defense Forces treated prisoners after the war of June 1967 – and a trend that has continued to the present day.

Women’s Resistance

The women of Palestine fight against the occupation in the Occupied Territories and abroad.

The Facts, March 1968

Includes statements by Zionists, over the decades, of their intentions for the ever greater expansion of the State of Israel.

The big lie of the boots

One of the more successful lies that the Israeli Settler State was able to peddle in the aftermath of the so-called ‘Six Day War’ of June 1967.