The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn, PFLP) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO, founded in 1964), the largest being Fatah (founded in 1959).
Ahmad Sa'adat has served as General Secretary of the PFLP since 2001. He was sentenced in December 2006 to 30 years in an Israeli prison. The PFLP has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah. It does not recognise the State of Israel, it opposes negotiations with the Israeli government, and favours a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
History
In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel, Palestinian Christian George Habash , established the PFLP, a resistance movement that combined Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the group gained notoriety for a series of armed attacks and plane highjacks, most notably with the capture of an Air France plane in 1967. Among the most prominent members of the group is Leila Khaled , who became an iconic symbol for Palestinian resistance and female power after she highjacked a plane headed from Rome to Athens in 1969.
In the 1970s, after Fatah – the leading secular Palestinian political party founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others, the PFLP has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), the umbrella organisation of the Palestinian national movement. But while Fatah developed links with Arab leaders and sought a less radical approach, the PFLP took a different route.
Like its founder Habash who had become disenchanted with Nasser’s Arab unity, the PFLP became disillusioned with what it saw as apathy among Middle Eastern leaders. The group therefore began fostering links with like-minded militant groups and global superpowers, developing ties with China, the Soviet Union and later on with islamists like Iran.
By the 1980s the rise of Islamist movements through a popular strategy of suicide bombings, particularly by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, the PFLP began to lose ground as one of the leading resistance movements in Gaza and the West Bank. Furthermore, the fall of the Soviet Union left many leftist activists disoriented.
When the PLO signed the 1993 Oslo peace accords with Israel which marked the start of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, the PFLP attempted to reinforce its position among Palestinian resistance groups by consigning to a group of Palestinian organisations that opposed the agreement.
After the occurrence of the First Intifada and the subsequent Oslo Accords the PFLP had difficulty establishing itself in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. At that time (1993–96) the popularity of Hamas was rapidly increasing.
In 1999, the PFLP accepted the formation of the Palestine Authority - the interim self-governing body established as a result of the Oslo Accords to run areas of the West Bank and Gaza - and sought to join the administration of Yasser Arafat, chairman of PLO and leader of the Fatah political party.
The group’s armed military wing, known as the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, is particularly active in Gaza where it has fought against Israel alongside Hamas and PIJ militants.
Ahmad Sa’adat
Ahmad Sa’adat took over as the secretary general of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) after Israel’s assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in 2001; he was imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Jericho a year later. He leads the PFLP’s ‘People’s Pulse‘ list which is contesting the May 2021 legislative elections.
In January 2006, while in prison, he was elected as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). A month later, Israel stormed the PA prison and took Sa’adat and five other inmates; he was then sentenced to 30 years in prison by an Israeli military court. He is currently held in solitary confinement.
Sa’adat was born in 1953 in al-Bireh (Ramallah). He was involved in student politics and joined the PFLP in 1969, and was gradually rose up through the group’s ranks. He has been imprisoned a number of times by Israel and the PA.
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you must be extremely confused to believe what you believe and not what I believe
hey there, you idiot. dont you know that stalin killed 100 communillion jewish people? [citation needed] and 749374739 leninillion queer people?! [citation needed] i win, goodbye. also, you would love israel if it wasn't aligned with the west. [citation needed].
we are less than a year away from liberals saying that Hitler tried to liberate Jews from Stalin's gulags
you know what, fuck it, let's just completely rewrite history, why not?
my headcanon (which I shall soon try and get written on Wikipedia so that it becomes Official Unquestionable Historical Fact™) is that Obama time travelled back to 1939 and became the commander of American forces, and they teamed up with epic mustache guy Otto von Bismarck leading Germany (see, the real problem with Hitler is that his mustache wasn't epic enough) in a war against the USSR, led by, uh, Voldemort. And by that time the USSR had killed, uh, 200 million people. And also Mao and Marx were there and helping.
But the doctors plot! Where three of the nine doctors weren't jewish and ultimately nothing came of it!
From one transgender jewish girl to another, you are doing hashem's work
long after the winds of history clear the garbage from Stalin's grave, this dipshit's head will still be filled with it
Uncritical support for the astounding bravery of the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation
Just know that some irrelevant wage slave half a planet away admires your courage
Just know that some irrelevant wage slave half a planet away admires your courage
TWO! TWO IRRELEVANT WAGE SLAVES ADMIRE YOUR COURAGE!
Four! Husband and I cried watching the glider videos yesterday.
Socialism is powered by faith in the human condition when freed from Capital. Hope doesn’t solve problems, but that doesn’t mean don’t hope.
I've heard it said that "action is the absence of hope" and i think about that a lot
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heading to a protest today, feeling anxious. I got over heated last protest. I started my fucking period.
edit: gonna wear a sports bra as a top to stay cool
edit: back now. all went well, shutting down now. it was cool, i wore a shirt.
They should just do what I do, post that massive Dessalines Github repo of US atrocities whenever a hog defends imperialism. They'll win the moral battle eventually.
There is something about how the shape of modern capitalism is viewed as natural that makes it culturally acceptable to just make shit up about how they were originally formed. Even in relatively serious contexts, a claim like "some guy in ancient history invented the stock market when he wanted to trade his part of a mine for a farm" is often presented without even a consideration that it might need a source. Explanations for these forms are sought from myth rather than from actual history.
Marx already made fun of how nothing is more popular in economics than Robinsonades, i.e. stories of people trapped on a lonely island, which is kinda what all these myths of "one person has one thing, another has something else, then the two interact and invent money/wages/stocks" boil down to.
I was literally just about to reconcile with some close friends I cut out of my life until they scolded me for my support of Palestine. Instead I'll join a communist party and get better friends
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
I have had to read a lot of Freuds takes lately and feel the same about psychoanalysis and also feeling a bit weird about Freuds endless preoccupation with peoples junk.
glory to the Palestinian resistance
glory to the martyrs
death to israel
death to amerikkka
good night :sleepi:
Osama Hamadan, senior spokesperson of Hamas, has told Al Jazeera, that they are not attacking civilians.
Rights groups like Amnesty International, have pointed out that Israeli civilians had been killed by Hamas.
“You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians. Settlers attacked Palestinians…We hope that Amnesty has international humility to send us more developed weapons to attack just only the soldiers,” Hamdan said.
Amnesty International give Hamas weapons
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/8/israel-palestine-escalation-live-israeli-forces-bombard-gaza
They're asking for weapons that are more advanced, not more weapons, as in another delivery to follow a previous one.
Settlers aren't civilians. They are non-combat support for the occupation.
So, how exactly do we extract the smolbean colonists out of the occupation zone? Any resources you'd recommend for learning more about that?
No, I'm, like, genuinely asking. There are now a lot of people who do not want to be in a specific location because they do not want to die; and I also want them to not be in that specific location, because their presence in that location is non-combatant support for a colonial regime; and I also favor these people just leaving Occupied Palestine instead of dying, because dying is not poggers.
So basically, finding some way to support the flight of settlers out of the country seems like kind of a win-win, right? And I figured that if you were proposing it, that you'd have some idea of how to actually go about it.
Ah, yes, it is famously easy to drive out of that part of the world!
...Well, I mean, maybe you got the Mosesmobile and you're gonna drive to Cyprus via the cleavage of the seas...
The thing some news outlets are doing of equating 1 Israeli life to X {other country} lives based on population size is one of the grossest propaganda techniques I have ever seen in my life
Does that mean if you are a sovereign citizen your life is worth 1.5 billion Chinese or Indian lives?
Did anyone else have four square thingies in their school playground?
Did anyone else have no idea how the fuck it worked because the other kids had like 100 rules and you just gave up trying and never played with the other kids and this caused problems for our already paper thin popularity?
There was "baby bouncies" and many other rules. I think there was a cherry bomb rule? I was not an athletic kid but I occasionally did play 4-square.
Literally watching this video is what made me come here and ask this lmao nice.
ETA: in the states we play it with like a dodgeball though
"My lover is 24 years old and he is tender, and very mature for his age".
So many people to convert to
at work, got my work cut out for me.
Critical support to hamas and uncritical to palestinians
turns on TV
Immediately blasted by pro-Israel bootlicking News coverage by the same people arming Nazis in Ukraine
turns off TV
Realise that this is the stance of the so-called left wing of the two major parties in my country
become depressed
You're not alone
We have this jackass as our leftest lefty