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  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a left-wing Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967.
In 1968, one of the PFLP's earliest leaders, Ahmed Jibril, broke away to form the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command" (PFLP-GC).
In 1968, the PFLP joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the main umbrella organization of the Palestinian national movement.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pf/PFLP.html   (94 words)

  
 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was founded on December 11, 1967, with the union of two left-wing Palestinian organizations.
The PFLP opposed the Oslo accords and is critical of the Palestinian Authority, despite the fact that it made its peace with Arafat and returned to the ranks of the PLO.
The PFLP's political leadership resides in the PA-administered territories and Syria, and a small operational-terrorist wing in the PA-administered territories (the Shaheed Abu ‘Ali Mustafa Battalions).
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/pflp.html   (598 words)

  
 ooBdoo
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - al-jabhah al-sha`biyyah li-tahrīr filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in 1967.
The PFLP is powerful politically in the Ramallah area, the eastern districts and suburbs of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the primarily Christian Refidyeh district of Nablus, but has far less strength in the rest of the West Bank, and is of little or no threat to the established Hamas and Fatah movements in Gaza.
PFLP claimed that this was a retaliation for the killing of Abu Ali Mustafa.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=PFLP   (2548 words)

  
 Terrorism - In the Spotlight: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) traces its roots to the Arab National Movement (ANM).
This marked a significant escalation in the PFLP's policies (neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have ever threatened the lives of PA officials for fear of damaging the nationalist cause) and suggests a further radicalization of the group.
"Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine," The BBC, Oct. 17, 2001.
www.cdi.org /terrorism/pflp.cfm   (1143 words)

  
 Palestine Liberation Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ahmad Jibril split from the PFLP in April 1968 and formed a new organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC).
The PFLP saw the elimination of Israel as a means towards the ultimate goal of ridding the Middle East of dictators who kow-towed to Western capitalism.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), under the leadership of Ahmad Jibril, is one of the Palestinian organizations known for their unequivocal rejection of any kind of political settlement with Israel, and their reliance on international terrorism to thwart any political process.
www.eyespymag.com /terrorgroupsP-Q.htm   (6015 words)

  
 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic Al-Jabhah al-Sha'biyyah Li-Tahrir Filastin الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Although the PFLP had joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the umbrella organization of the Palestinian national movement, in 1968, becoming the second-largest faction after al-Fatah, it withdrew in 1974, accusing the PLO of abandoning the goal of destroying Israel outright in favor of a binational solution, which was opposed by the PFLP leadership.
Two factions that broke away from PFLP are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
www.biography.ms /Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine.html   (929 words)

  
 Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Palestine)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) Hawatmeh
popular democratic front for the liberation of palestine hawatme
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) Hawatme) is a Marxist-Leninist and formerly pro-Soviet group that split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ps}dflp.html   (278 words)

  
 Terrorism - In the Spotlight: The Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
In December 1967, PLF joined forces with the Heroes of the Return and The Youth of Revenge groups to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Jibril formed a new organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command (PFLP-GC) in 1968 after splitting from the PFLP in April of that year.
At a meeting of the Palestine National Council in April 1996, Abbas even voted to revoke the sections of the PLO's charter that called for the destruction of Israel.
www.cdi.org /terrorism/plf.cfm   (1067 words)

  
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2) -- ADL Terrorist Symbol Database
The PFLP remains active despite its relatively few numbers and the fact that its current leader, Ahmed Saadat, has been held in a PA jail since the killing of Zeevi.
Although the PFLP has no known formal infrastructure in the U.S. for recruiting or financing, it is politically supported by U.S. Palestinian and far-left organizations.
www.adl.org /terrorism/symbols/popular_front_pa2.asp   (396 words)

  
 "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Condemns the Arrest of Its General Secretary and Calls on All to ...
The Popular Front declares that it holds the Israeli occupation and the leadership of Israel and its security agencies responsible for any harm that might be done to the life of the General Secretary of the Popular Front or his comrades.
The PFLP, and with it all the patriotic forces, will continue to press the Palestine Authority to carry on pursuing the case inasmuch as it is an assault on its sovereignty and a violation of an abominable agreement signed under a hail of bullets in the Muqat'ah in Ramallah.
The Popular Front calls on the Patriotic and Islamic forces, the organizations of Palestinian civil society, and all the forces for freedom and justice in the world to continue to act in rejection of this American-backed Israeli piracy and to press for the liberation of the General Secretary from his new place of imprisonment.
mrzine.monthlyreview.org /pflp150306.html   (652 words)

  
 Liberation Graphics: Antonym/Synonym
This poster was published by the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP), which collapsed over internal divisions in the late 1960’s and re-emerged as two separate groups — the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
Palestine is not singled out for special treatment, and Zionism is portrayed as a negative force on all Arab societies.
Arab reaction is seen by the popular fronts to be one of the main barriers to all forms of revolutionary change, from freedom of travel to universal suffrage.
www.liberationgraphics.com /ppp/PDFLP.html   (1015 words)

  
 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ('''PFLP''') (Arabic &1575;&1604;&1580;&1576;&1607;&1577; &1575;&1604;&1588;&1593;&1576;&1610;&1577; &1604;&1578;&1581;&1585;&1610;&1585; &1601;&1604;&1587;&1591;&1610;&1606; - al-Jabhah al-Sha'abiyah li-Tahr&299;r Filas&7789;&299;n) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967.
On September 6, 1970, the PFLP (including Leila Khaled) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich; and on September 9, 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bombay to Rome.
The PFLP shot and killed the far-right Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in November 17, 2001 in revenge.
popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine.area51.ipupdater.com   (985 words)

  
 American Experience | Hijacked | People & Events | PBS
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine emerged from the ashes of the Six Day War.
The P.F.L.P. was founded on December 11, 1967, by George Habash, a 42-year-old doctor and Palestinian of Greek Orthodox background whose family had been forced to flee their home during the 1948 war.
From the P.F.L.P.'s perspective, American and European airlines were acceptable targets because their governments supported Israel, and in the September 1970 hijackings, only one of the five attacked airplanes belonged to El Al.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/hijacked/peopleevents/p_pflp.html   (567 words)

  
 JMCC / Politics in Palestine
Formed as popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) after splitting from the PFLP in Fe.
Is a militant PLO faction that split from the PFLP and later from the PFLP-GC (1977) to follow a pro-Iraqi stance.
The Liberation of Palestine is considered within the context of a Pan-Arab movement led by Syria.
www.jmcc.org /politics/factions.htm   (1256 words)

  
 Support
The Arab Liberation Front (Jabhat al-Tahrir al-‘Arabiyya) was established as a guerrilla group on 6/11 April 1969 by Iraqi Ba‘thists.
Description: The Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) was established as the official military branch of the PLO in 1964, in accordance with the resolutions of the 1st Palestinian Conference.
Recently, with the establishment of the Palestine National Authority (PNA), important parts of those brigades in Egypt and Jordan were absorbed into the PNA security forces.
www2.hawaii.edu /~roniel/cso.html   (1582 words)

  
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (1) -- ADL Terrorist Symbol Database
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (2)
The Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-GC splintered from the PFLP in 1968 due to differences between PFLP head George Habash and Ahmad Jibril, who started the new group.
www.adl.org /terrorism/symbols/popular_front_pa_gen1.asp   (350 words)

  
 Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
The PFLP, established in December 1967, was the outgrowth of an old and established Middle East movement, the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), founded in Beirut in 1949 by Dr. George Habash, a Christian Palestinian.
The PFLP was created by the Arab Nationalists as a counterweight to Fatah—which had made enormous inroads among the Arab and Palestinian masses, largely due to its doctrine of “armed struggle” against Israel.
A comparison of PFLP and Black September (Fatah) international operations during both periods (July 1968-Sept. 1970 and Sept. 1970-Oct. 1973) shows that the PFLP was in the lead in the first period, and Black September in the second.
www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=145   (12001 words)

  
 Interview: PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat
The continuous attacks by the Israelis against the PFLP, especially between 1991 and 1995, together with the severe financial crisis it faced beginning in 1994, led the Shabak to assume that the PFLP had gone from the proverbial intensive care unit to the grave.
FB: The popular support for the Palestinian struggle is always high among the masses of the Arab world, but the majority of their governments have not taken a strong political stance against Israel or U.S. support of Israel.
When the PFLP insists on its commitment to the Right of Return, it simply insists on its commitment to the Palestinian national agenda that was approved in numerous meetings of the Palestine National Council.
www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org /node.php?id=111   (2700 words)

  
 FactsOfIsrael.com: Palestinian terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is destroyed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Four PFLP activists who took an active role in the assassination are also behind bars in the Jericho facility, including the head of the group's armed wing.
PFLP activists said the 23-year-old brother was not a member of the group's armed wing.
By weakening the PFLP and destroying its political and military infrastructure, Israel is in fact strengthening Yasser Arafat's rival Fatah group.
www.factsofisrael.com /blog/archives/000330-print.html   (1076 words)

  
 "Syria and Terrorism" by Boaz Ganor
In 1985, as a result of pressure on the part of Western countries, mainly the United States (and after a number of bloody attacks perpetrated by the organization in Europe), Syria was forced to limit its support for the organization and to close down most of its offices in Syrian territory.
The PFLP was established in late 1967 by Dr. George Habash, and adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology.
The Democratic Front numbers about 1,000 members, most of whom are organized in nine battalions in Lebanon, although it also maintains bases and training camps in Syria.
www.jcpa.org /jl/saa26.htm   (4204 words)

  
 Founding the Palestine Liberation Organization
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was the second largest of the commando groups.
The Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine split from the PFLP which it accused of not being militant enough.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command was another splinter group of the PFLP They were responsible for the 1974 incursion into Northern Israel in which 16 residents of Kiryat Shemona were murdered.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1948to1967_plo_backgd.php   (746 words)

  
 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Habash ran the PFLP until his death in 2000, after which Mustafa Zubaydi (whose nom de guerre was Abu Ali Mustafa) was elected head of the PFLP.
After Arafat took the political steps to renounce terrorism in 1988 and then entered into the Oslo peace process of the 1990s, he could not be the point man in violent attacks on Israelis and other Jews as he did in the earlier days of his PLO organization.
PFLP leaders continue to be based in Ramallah, not far from the offices of Yasser Arafat.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_plo_pflp.php   (459 words)

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