Page 154

4. Prepare a broad commando plan and undertake a technical study of bridges, roads, factories, airports, barracks, weapons, ammunition and supply depots, the oil-refining plants in Haifa, and all sensitive centers inside the country and along its borders. Then prepare every means and all trained personnel to implement the stated fedayeen plan immediately upon receiving orders from the leadership, in order to create confusion and panic among the enemies and cut their lines of communication.

5. Train as many Palestinians as possible militarily and technically to carry out the commando and fedayeen plan described above and conduct guerrilla warfare inside the country, in mountainous regions, fortified positions and the Negev mountains. Palestinians know the routes of their country, their mountain passes and their locations. They are also resentful, fighting, courageous and skilled in guerrilla warfare, as British commanders testified during the Palestinian revolts.

6. Israel has very long borders adjoining Egypt, Palestine under Jordanian administration, and the Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese countries. Most of its borders in Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are mountainous. The Arab areas are higher than the Israeli area and dominate it. If organizations made up of trained Palestinian youths living around these borders were assigned military and commando tasks, they would achieve impressive results that would greatly affect the course of the war.

7. The leadership of the Palestinian organizations should study sensitive targets inside Israel and along its borders and prepare everything necessary to carry out the commando plan and create panic immediately upon receiving the signal from the supreme leadership.

8. This program can be implemented with little expense and few means, out of proportion to the great results it would produce, and it can begin immediately along all of Israel’s borders.

After that we submitted a memorandum in 1955 to the Political Committee of the Arab League, which stated the following:

“...The Jewish colonial conspiracy directed at the entire Arab homeland, beginning