The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn, PFLP) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO, founded in 1964), the largest being Fatah (founded in 1959).
Ahmad Sa'adat has served as General Secretary of the PFLP since 2001. He was sentenced in December 2006 to 30 years in an Israeli prison. The PFLP has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah. It does not recognise the State of Israel, it opposes negotiations with the Israeli government, and favours a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
History
In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel, Palestinian Christian George Habash , established the PFLP, a resistance movement that combined Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the group gained notoriety for a series of armed attacks and plane highjacks, most notably with the capture of an Air France plane in 1967. Among the most prominent members of the group is Leila Khaled , who became an iconic symbol for Palestinian resistance and female power after she highjacked a plane headed from Rome to Athens in 1969.
In the 1970s, after Fatah – the leading secular Palestinian political party founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others, the PFLP has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), the umbrella organisation of the Palestinian national movement. But while Fatah developed links with Arab leaders and sought a less radical approach, the PFLP took a different route.
Like its founder Habash who had become disenchanted with Nasser’s Arab unity, the PFLP became disillusioned with what it saw as apathy among Middle Eastern leaders. The group therefore began fostering links with like-minded militant groups and global superpowers, developing ties with China, the Soviet Union and later on with islamists like Iran.
By the 1980s the rise of Islamist movements through a popular strategy of suicide bombings, particularly by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, the PFLP began to lose ground as one of the leading resistance movements in Gaza and the West Bank. Furthermore, the fall of the Soviet Union left many leftist activists disoriented.
When the PLO signed the 1993 Oslo peace accords with Israel which marked the start of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, the PFLP attempted to reinforce its position among Palestinian resistance groups by consigning to a group of Palestinian organisations that opposed the agreement.
After the occurrence of the First Intifada and the subsequent Oslo Accords the PFLP had difficulty establishing itself in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. At that time (1993–96) the popularity of Hamas was rapidly increasing.
In 1999, the PFLP accepted the formation of the Palestine Authority - the interim self-governing body established as a result of the Oslo Accords to run areas of the West Bank and Gaza - and sought to join the administration of Yasser Arafat, chairman of PLO and leader of the Fatah political party.
The group’s armed military wing, known as the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, is particularly active in Gaza where it has fought against Israel alongside Hamas and PIJ militants.
Ahmad Sa’adat
Ahmad Sa’adat took over as the secretary general of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) after Israel’s assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in 2001; he was imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Jericho a year later. He leads the PFLP’s ‘People’s Pulse‘ list which is contesting the May 2021 legislative elections.
In January 2006, while in prison, he was elected as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). A month later, Israel stormed the PA prison and took Sa’adat and five other inmates; he was then sentenced to 30 years in prison by an Israeli military court. He is currently held in solitary confinement.
Sa’adat was born in 1953 in al-Bireh (Ramallah). He was involved in student politics and joined the PFLP in 1969, and was gradually rose up through the group’s ranks. He has been imprisoned a number of times by Israel and the PA.
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The Adventure Time creators changed Marshall Lee from asian-coded to canonically black and Polygon is reporting it as "people are mad that Marshall Lee isn't white!"
Motherfucker he was never white, Mr. Lee is Asian, you gave both the gender variants asian haircuts?
Lib inverse of Walking Dead Glenn being cast as white in the parody lmao
Hey libs, make a diverse cast with black characters instead of erasing your one asian-coded character
I am accusing you of Sinophobia
Also Jake/Bender is black nobody can tell me he is white. You know what you were writing. Honkies practicing the J.K. Rowling school of diversity
both bender and jake are swaggy white boys --->
Finding out John DiMaggio is white was a trip
Black voice actor that should definitely have had a (canonically) black coded character is Kratos (at least for the spiritual reboot)
Chris Judge slaying the white gods, exiled, and teaching his mixed race son Atreus how to survive stuck between 2 dangerous worlds is 👌
GOW RAGNAROK SPOILER
spoiler
Atreus is literally a shapeshifter stuck between worlds and cultures, rediscovering his identity, that is me, that is good shit.Edit: spoiler tag was broken
Edit 2: canonically
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Also Khan and Minh from King of the Hill are better POC representation than anything out of Stephen Universe or any other CalArts stuff I haven't watched, they show up every episode and are not whitewashed
(John Redcorn has the worst)
Libs trying to compensate for stereotypes by coding everyone as white is peak lib coloniser mentality, White is not the default
the problem is that jake is an animal. On the one hand, that means they can't depict cake as black outside the voice, so making another character black who might be a less obvious choice is essential(not saying any of them are inherently not black outside of Fin/Fionna, but that they mostly don't have any traits that suggest a particular race to me(outside of BMO and lady rainbowcorn)). On the other hand, it's bad that the only black coded character is an animal.
I think it's not bad since Jake and Cake get the most screen time, feels like a checklist and bloats the story to add diversity via side characters instead of being centered
Same reason why Bender is great, he's more or less the main character, incredibly active and driving the story always, iconic
My friends and I picked up on it immediately, same with the Ninja Turtles. IMO It's better to be centered as POC in a cool sci fi or fantasy body than to be an afterthought, or worse have a white character wearing black skin
That said the new Ninja Turtles is peak representation and shows everything wrong with sanitized representation like we see in Spider verse: Copaganda 1 & 2
Jake being the main character, funny, charming and a loving father more than makes up for being an animal imo, everything is a metaphor
Only mistake was making Finn the Only human (and Fry for that matter) white
Edit: body
that's fair.