Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rabin last week summoned a Cabinet meeting to review counterterror precautions. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough...
...flared up in the past and been papered over for the sake of unity. The militant Marxist P.F.L.P. opposes not only Israel but also such "reactionary" Arab monarchs as Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. Although Faisal has generously subsidized Arafat's Fatah guerrillas, the King has never given a riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would settle-temporarily, at least-for Palestinian control...
Israeli officials released Capucci, hoping to avoid a diplomatic incident that could damage relations with Christian communities. But continued investigation led the police to conclude that the prelate, an outspoken advocate of the Palestinian cause, was an important liaison between the Fatah command in Beirut and its terrorists inside Israel...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...
...Jordan, where 700,000 Palestinians live fairly peacefully under Israeli occupation. But fedayeen extremists demanded that such a government be a "fighting authority" and that establishing a mini-Palestine be considered only the first step toward recovery of all of old Palestine. As a result, Arafat apparently shifted Fatah to the attack at Nahariya...