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Fatah-SOG carried out bombings and other attacks against international targets, especially Israeli and Syrian (in 1976 and 1984–90, Syria and allied Lebanese militias attacked the PLO and Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon); but it is also believed to have attacked European and American interests.
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 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.
It became active in December 1968, as a member of the PLO. Syria tried to build up an alternative to Yasser Arafat, who was then emerging with his Fatah faction as the primary Palestinian fedayeen leader and politician. [5] As-Sa'iqa was initially the second-largest group within the PLO, after Fatah. [6]
Zuheir Mohsen (Arabic: زهير محسن; 1936 – 25 July 1979) was a Palestinian Politician who was the leader of the Ba'athist As-Sa'iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) between 1971 and 1979.
With the signing of the Prisoners' Document, the political leadership of all factions in the Palestinian territories, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had implicitly recognized Israel [1] [10] [6] [25] [7] and explicitly accepted a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 boundaries, based on the UN Charter and international law, and Hamas ...
Falastin Al Thawra was established in 1972, and its first issue appeared on 28 June that year. [1] The magazine succeeded another PLO publication entitled Fatah which appeared between 1970 and 1972. [2] Falastin Al Thawra was started when a Unified Information Unit was formed by the PLO to have a consolidated communication and media strategy. [3]