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...Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly routine guerrilla missions. The most recent target was the Israeli seaside town of Nahariyeh, where three guerrillas last June went ashore in a rubber boat, killed four Israelis and then were shot down. Fatah is generally opposed to overseas commando operations...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, second largest of the commando groups, has an estimated membership of 3,500. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash, a Lydda-born physician who was educated at the American University of Beirut. Habash's group is more flamboyant than Fatah. Marxist-Leninist in outlook, the P.F.L.P. despises the kingships of Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking...
Habash, the most intellectual of the commando leaders, feels that revolutionary violence is the only means of achieving the P.L.O.'s goal of a new secular, democratic Palestine to replace Israel. Suspecting that Arafat was getting soft on the enemy, Habash recently pulled the P.F.L.P. out of the P.L.O.'s executive committee (many Palestinians are still trying to get him back in). Prior to the Rabat summit, he warned against the dangers of "capitulating" to the U.S. and Israel on the Palestine issue, and threatened to set up a new radical liberation group that would oppose the P.L.O. Habash...
...charisma, but he can inspire devotion nonetheless. In part, that may be because he seems to care genuinely about his fellow Palestinians-in-exile. He will take time to get involved in such homely matters as helping to arrange a fedayeen marriage or seeing that a commando's child is enrolled in the right school...
Apparently, the Japanese wanted to be turned over to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization, one of whose commando groups has close contacts with the Red Army. Although the P.L.O. played a crucial role in getting the Japanese released, the Palestinians, who are trying to get recognition by the U.N., denied that they had taken custody of the men. At week's end their whereabouts remained a mystery. One thing, however, seemed highly probable: like 25 other Arab and Japanese hijackers who have surrendered to Arab governments in the past 20 months, the three men responsible for the latest...