The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict #57: May I Speak to the Person in Charge, Please? Terrorist Edition Part 1
Who Runs This Business?
Oh, this is an important topic. Let's get to know the multitude of organizations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, each of which wants to be the official leader of the Palestinians. And therefore, they took an active role in the terror attacks of the intifada. This is the first part of the list of these groups. And yes, it is a long list.
The Most Famous: The PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization, mainly known by the acronym PLO, is an umbrella organization that unites several Palestinian national movements. The PLO was established as a replacement for the government of all of Palestine at the initiative of the Arab countries in 1964 by Ahmed Shukeiri. The official goal was to centralize the political activity of the Palestinian public and to centralize the struggle in the State of Israel to the point of its destruction. In addition, the leaders of the Arab countries hoped to gain more control over the public of the Palestinians to prevent them from destabilizing the regimes in Arab neighboring countries. The PLO did not initiate the intifada but quickly intervened in the internal struggle between a variety of Palestinian organizations.
Palestinian People's Party Present Palestinian Communism: We Are All Equal In Poverty
The Palestinian Communist Movement, also known as the Palestinian People's Party, is a socialist party founded in 1982 under the name of the Palestinian Communist Party. This party has never established a military wing and is the only one that has not defined itself as a national party. At the outbreak of the intifada, the Palestinian People's Part initiated a relatively moderate approach to a popular uprising, with minimal affinity to foreign leadership. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party changed its name and argued that the class struggle should be postponed until the liberation of Palestine. This means that this party made sure that the Palestinians would remain poor while giving them a national cause to fight for that would take years to achieve, and during that time, they wouldn't notice that their economic status would only get worse.
A Terror Organization In Disguise: The Fatah
The Fatah Movement, formerly The Movement for the Liberation of Palestine, is a Palestinian movement that has played a central role in Palestinian politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the 1960s. Fatah and its subsidiary organizations carried out terrorist attacks against Israel; therefore, in 1986, the State of Israel declared it a terrorist organization. Fatah is considered the largest and most central branch of the PLO organization. At the outbreak of the intifada, the Fatah movement held an intermediate approach of controlled escalation while fully submitting to the external leadership of the PLO.
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Are We Human? Meet The Killers: The Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a terrorist organization and party that is a member of the PLO that was founded by George Habash and Wadie Haddad in 1967. In its beginnings, the left-wing terror organization combined Marxist-Leninist ideology and Palestinian nationalism and emphasized the Palestinian working class. The declared goal of the Popular Front is: "The liberation of all of Palestine in an armed struggle and the establishment of a democratic and socialist Palestinian state." Unlike other Palestinian terrorist organizations, the Popular Front does not see the struggle to destroy Israel as a religious or national struggle but as part of a broader revolution against "Western imperialism." The organization carried out many attacks in which hundreds of Israelis and others were killed and injured. The State of Israel, the United States, Australia, Japan, and the European Union have declared the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine a terrorist organization.
Stay tuned for tomorrow as we continue to explore the remaining groups vying for control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
That's all for today, class. We'll continue tomorrow.
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