Farouk Al-Kaddoumi (rear RTL فاروقالقدومي) (born in 1931) is a Palestinian politician cofounder of the Fatah, secretary-general of the central committee of Fatah, and chief of the political department of the Liberation organization of Palestine to Tunis in Tunisia. He is also known under his name of war in Fatah: Abou Loutof .

Biography

Farouk Kaddoumi was born with Qalqilyah in the West Bank. It leaves with its family for Haïfa at the time of the Civil war of 1947-1948 to Palestine agent. During the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948, it turns over to the West Bank to Nablus. At the end of the Years 1940, it militates for the Parti Baath.

Expatriate in Saudi Arabia in the beginning of the Years 1950, it work for an oil company. In 1954, it returns to the American Université of Cairo in Egypt to study there the Economic scenes and the Political science. It made there the meeting of Yasser Arafat and Salah Khalaf with which it shares the ideas concerning the Palestine.

It leaves the Egypt for the Kuwait, like many Palestinian at the time which Arafat and Khalaf, where he is civil servant in a ministry. In 1959, with these two men, Khalil Al-Wazir and Mahmoud Abbas, it founds the Fatah. It then takes the name of war of Abou Loutof (translated father of Loutof ).

In 1960, it leaves to live with the United Arab Emirates. It turns over to the Kuwait and in 1965, it work with the ministry for health. In 1966, it is constrained to leave the antigovernment country for activity with the Liberation organization of Palestine. It then decides to primarily devote to the Palestinian Résistance. He travels much between Damas and Cairo.

In 1967, it creates a Intelligence service and of Against-espionage, which will be taken in hand by Abou Iyad (Salah Khalaf). In 1969, whereas Abou Am (Yasser Arafat) is named president of the executive committee of the PLO and that thus Fatah takes the control of the organization, Kaddoumi becomes an important figure of the PLO by integrating the executive committee as a person in charge of the mobilization of the popular organizations. In 1973, in Damas, it succeeds in Abou Saïd (Khaled el-Hassan) as a chief of the political department of the PLO, the equivalent of a Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which it occupies always today.

In 1976, Arafat and Kaddoumi meet Meir Vilner and Toufiq Toubi, chiefs of the faction mainly Arab of the Israeli Communist party Maki. This meeting makes it possible to set up a close cooperation between the PLO and Maki.

In 1983, following the “Revolt of the colonels”, the movement knows a scission because of deep dissensions on the policy of dialog carried out by Yasser Arafat. Kaddoumi takes part in the activity of the Fatah-Intifada of Abou Moussa (Saïd Moussa Maragha), author of an attempt at mutiny against Yasser Arafat. It is named all the same as a secretary-general of the central committee of Fatah. At the beginning of the Years 1980, the PLO is forced to flee Lebanon because of the Israeli invasion towards Tunisia, Kaddoumi leaves to live in Tunis.

The September 13rd 1993 take place the Accords of Oslo. Kaddoumi is opposed to it by condemning Arafat and Abbas of treason of the principles of the PLO, and he refuses to regain the Palestinian Territoires with the other Palestinian leaders to create a Palestinian Autorité there. He always lives in Tunis.

The November 11th 2004, Arafat dies. Kaddoumi says the successor of Arafat to the head of Fatah, which creates a new division within the movement, with Kaddoumi on a side and Abbas of the other.