Arab unity in the struggle against imperialism does not necessarily mean wiping out the national independence of legitimate states or unwarranted amalgamations and annexations. Those matters are to be dealt with solely by the Arab people themselves. Of course, amalgamations, separations or divisions, to be regarded as progressive, must be free of any form of national oppression or domination of one nationality over the other. Under some circumstances, it may become necessary in the struggle against imperialism to oust imperialist puppets or occupy territory in the immediate vicinity where imperialism has strongly embedded itself with native royalist bourgeois compradore elements. If the only way to remove them is through the use of revolutionary force supported by the mass of workers and oppressed peoples, then it will be done.
Peaceable measures are of course preferable.
But imperialist colonialism rarely gives way to peaceable methods. Its entire history is of the use of unmitigated force and the cruelest violence. The effort to complete the bourgeois democratic revolution in the conditions of imperialist domination and military intervention lays the basis for the transition from the bourgeois democratic phase directly into the socialist revolution. And this transition facilitates the socialist revolution. One of the tasks of socialist revolution is to free all nationalities of oppression and exploitation by others.