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...Nayef Hawatmeh's Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (500 members), which has usually sided with Arafat's moderates, has recently been flirting with the rejectionists. Says a senior official in Amman, Jordan: "The P.L.O. is incapable of making a decision and is unable to effectively use the support...
...Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is led by Jordanian Christian Nayef Hawatmeh, 40. He and his 500 Marxist followers split from Habash's organization in 1969, complaining that the P.F.L.P. was not vigorous enough in combatting right-wing Arab governments like Jordan's. Their most notable recent operation was the Ma'alot raid in Israel last May, in which 21 schoolchildren were killed. The attack prompted a massive Israeli retaliation by air on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon...
...problem for the National Council is that the P.L.O. is dangerously split. Arafat and some other leaders, notably Saiqa's Zuhair Mohsen Nayef Hawatmeh, whose Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was re sponsible for the Ma'alot massacre (TIME, May 27), prefer to take what they can get and establish an autonomous mini-Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza strip and the Hemmeh region...
Common Cause. On the other side are those commandos who are prepared to compromise, perhaps by accepting an "interim" Palestinian state. In this category are elements of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian...
...guerrillas are non-Palestinians. No fewer than 2,500 members of the Beni Sakhr, Jordan's most powerful Bedouin tribe, have joined Arafat's Al-Fatah or other guerrilla groups. Other non-Bedouin Jordanians have also joined the fedayeen. One of them, Nayef Hawatmeh, even heads his own radical guerrilla group, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine...