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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second-largest PLO faction after al-Fatah, carried out a number of attacks and plane hijackings mostly directed at Israel, most infamously the Dawson's Field hijackings, which precipitated the Black September crisis.
The PLO closed Black September down in September 1973, on the anniversary it was created by the "political calculation that no more good would come of terrorism abroad" according to Morris. [7] In 1974 Arafat ordered the PLO to withdraw from acts of violence outside the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The PLO would not live up to the agreement, and came to be seen more and more as a state within a state in Jordan. [32] Fatah's Yasser Arafat replaced Ahmad Shukeiri as the PLO's leader in February 1969. [32] Discipline in the different Palestinian groups was poor, and the PLO had no central power to control the different groups. [35]
In this conflict, it acted alongside the as-Sa'iqa faction of the PLO to support Syrian interests. [13] Already deployed from 1975 in Lebanon, the PLA acted as cover for the Syrian Armed Forces during the start of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1976, as invading Syrian soldiers were dressed in PLA uniforms. [6]
Fatah al-Intifada (Arabic: فتح الانتفاضة Fatah Uprising) is a Palestinian militant faction founded by Said Muragha, better known as Abu Musa. [5] Officially it refers to itself as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement - "Fatah" (Arabic: حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني- فتح), the identical name of the major Fatah movement. [5]
Ashraf Abouelhoul, managing editor of the Egyptian state-owned paper Al-Ahram and a specialist on Palestinian affairs, said Hamas was more interested in a deal than Fatah, because reconciliation ...
The Hamas proposal was rejected by several of the other factions. In the view of the secular factions, Hamas tried to replicate the experience of the Fatah dominance in PLO. In the end the factions agreed in December 1993 to form the Alliance of Palestinian Forces with each faction, regardless of size, would have two seats in the APF central ...
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