Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such remaining Arab monarchs as Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal have any say, Habash will not be building anything. The Saudi King is anxious to bring Hussein and the relatively moderate Al-Fatah guerrillas together to negotiate a modus vivendi that will allow the fedayeen to continue their hit-and-run attacks on Israel. The P.F.L.P., however, will be pointedly excluded from any such parley. "We do not care for the Reds of the Popular Front," said a Saudi leader last week...
...Common Man. Habash was sharply critical of Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, not only for accepting a Saudi subsidy but also for misreading Hussein's intentions last September. "The big error," said Habash, "was that certain commando groups-I am speaking of Fatah-did not recognize that the Jordanian regime is reactionary and ordered by American imperialism. Because Jordan is Arab and because Hussein is an Arab name, they thought he would not attack. But the threat was exactly like the danger we face from Israel. There is no difference between Hussein and Moshe Dayan...
Jordan's King Hussein and the Palestinian guerrillas, in rare agreement, argue that to seal the bridges would be to cede the West Bank to Israel irrevocably. Al Fatah calls the boycott office "a sinecure for parasites and inefficient officials." (It is common knowledge among European companies that a bribe of $2,000 to $5,000 is often enough to get a name removed from the list.) The guerrillas also criticize the boycott machinery as "superfluous." Curiously, that is precisely the word used by Israel's Anti-Boycott Director Arazi to describe his own assignment...
ALGERIA. More than 20 "national liberation fronts" and assorted movements maintain offices or representatives in Algiers, which has won the reputation of being the "home of revolutionaries." These groups include Al-Fatah, the Viet Cong, the Angolan resistance movement (M.P.L.A.) and the Black Panthers, whose local office is presided over by Eldridge Cleaver. There is even a representative for a group known as the Movement for the Autodetermination and Independence of the Canary Islands, which have belonged to Spain since the 15th century. "Catholics go to Rome," remarked an Algerian official, "Moslems to Mecca, and revolutionaries come to Algiers...
...most recent skirmish two weeks ago cost them 20 men. The fedayeen are also fighting one another, at least with words. George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last week declared coexistence with Jordan impossible and openly called for Hussein's overthrow. Fatah, which seeks harmony with Hussein as the safest course, suggested that the Popular Front was giving the King's men a pretext to attack guerrilla groups...