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Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, demonstrated once more that he still has the ability to outlast if not outwit his enemies. Ever since Israel drove the bulk of the P.L.O. from Lebanon in 1982, such radical Palestinian leaders as George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh have sided with Syrian President Hafez Assad in opposing Arafat's leadership. But last week, when the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s so-called parliament in exile, met in Algiers for its first session in 2 1/2 years, friends and rivals alike cheered when Arafat shouted, "This Palestinian land shall remain Arab...
...Algiers, Arafat welcomed back into the fold Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In return, he promised the two Damascus-based radicals that he would renounce the two-year-old Amman Accord, under which he and Jordan's King Hussein had launched a joint peace initiative. In fact, the accord had long since broken down anyway...
More than 20 hard-line organizations opposed to Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization took part. The PLO was not invited, and Nayef Hawatmeh's Moscow-oriented Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine did not attend...
...state can be won only through armed struggle. Backed by Syria and Libya, Habash has clashed repeatedly with Arafat. During the late '60s, some disillusioned Habash supporters set up two splinter groups that are just as radical: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by Naif Hawatmeh, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, led by Ahmed Jibril. Both also enjoy strong support from Syria. Other groups include the Libyan-and Iraqi-backed Popular Struggle Front and Saiqa, a guerrilla force that serves practically as a division of the Syrian army...
...collaborating with the Syrians) and George Habash, two of the most prominent leaders of the "rejection front" have lost much of their influence among the Palestinians. Presently, the only group that poses a threat to Arafat is the Popular Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) headed by Nayef Hawatmeh. PDFLP seems to be acquiring more importance, especially among the Palestinians in certain of the Lebanese camps. But the extent of the threat the PDFLP poses for the PLO remains to be seen, since the two groups basically share the same goals. Both have a relatively accommodating attitude toward...