Liberation popular front of Palestine

The known in the past Liberation popular front of Palestine or PFLP under the name of Arab Nationalist movement is a militant Palestinian organization, which combines Arab Nationalisme and Marxism, founded in 1967 under the direction of Georges Habache and Ahmed Jibril. This group joined the Liberation organization of Palestine (PLO) in 1968 and becomes, in the organization, the second group by its importance after the Fatah of Yasser Arafat.

The doctrines of the PFLP are anti-impérialiste doctrines in Palestine, from a world point of view. The movement is justified by the popular war animated by the Marxism-Leninism and Arab nationalism. The party asserts a theory of the class struggle. The PFLP fights against several “enemy” , Israel, the Impérialisme, the Sionisme, the capitalist and the Arab operating classes. For the movement, Israel is a State imperialist by nature, because for them the “Zionism world” supports the State of Israel. But the party believes that within the Israeli population, the oppressed class - i.e. proletarian - is likely to make the revolution and to create a new Palestinian State.

The PFLP is defined within the world revolutionary movement. He announces Palestine levelling between Jews and Arabic, but integrated in the “nation Arab” . Because for the PFLP, Arab nationalism represents a fundamental inspiration and an end, which it tries to grant to the theory Marxist-Leninist.

The PFLP knew several scissions since its creation:

in 1968, Ahmed Jibril form an independent group FPLP-GC (General Command) supported by the Syrians.
in 1969, Nayef Hawatmeh form the democratic Face for the release of Palestine (FDLP), ideologically nearer to the Maoists.

The fall of the Soviet Union, the push of the islamist Palestinian movements and the attacks targeted Israeli against the leaders of the PFLP made lose of its influence to this organization.

Ahmad Saadat succeeds Abou Ali Mustafa in 2001, after its assassination with Ramallah by the Israeli armed . The movement via the Brigades of Abou Ali Mustafa asserts, in October 2001, the assassination of the Israeli Minister for tourism Rehavam Zeevi. Saadat takes refuge in the Mouqata' has near Yasser Arafat, which then refuses to give it to Israel.

After negotiations with the the United States and the the United Kingdom, an agreement is concluded between Israel and the Palestinian Autorité. Saadat is stopped and judged in front of a military tribunal. He is imprisoned in the Palestinian prison of Jericho, and the responsibility for its monitoring is entrusted to the Americans and to the British.

The Palestinian supreme court declares this judgment, anticonstitutional, and orders its release, but the Palestinian Authority refuses there. At the beginning of March 2006, the American and British guards decide to leave their station breaking de facto the engagement of London and Washington to ensure the monitoring of the prison of Jericho.

March 14th, 2006, the Israeli armed lance an attack against the prison with Jericho. After one day of seat, it obtains the rendering of Saadat. This attack makes two dead and 20 wounded all Palestinian (guards and prisoners) and starts a series of removals of Westerners in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority arises weakened in the Gaza Strip, the foreigners flee the territory whereas the Hamas is always long in constituting its cabinet after his victory with the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006. Bunches claiming PFLP assert removals and the fires aiming of the Western buildings.

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