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100 1 $aCubert, Harold M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96081261
245 14 $aThe PFLP's changing role in the Middle East /$cHarold M. Cubert.
260 $aLondon ;$aPortland, Or. :$bFrank Cass,$c1997.
300 $axiii, 235 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 194-224) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: overview of the PFLP's ideology and aims --$g1.$tHistorical and ideological background --$g2.$tWestern incursions; Ottoman concessions --$g3.$tArab nationalism: issues and programmes --$g4.$tA history of Palestinian nationalism --$g5.$tThe PFLP succeeds the ANM and competes with the dominant Fatah movement --$g6.$tThe Palestinian national movement since 1988 --$g7.$tTowards an Israel-PLO accord --$g8.$tIdeology --$g9.$tStructure --$g10.$tOperating environments and methods --$g11.$tThe PFLP's role and position within the PLO --$g12.$tFatah-PFLP rivalry within the PLO --$g13.$tConclusion.
520 $aThis is Harold Cubert's groundbreaking history of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent Marxist faction within the Palestinian national movement. Taking an academically rigorous but politically neutral approach, Cubert explores the group's background and provides a thorough analysis of its aims, methods, structures, and the factors responsible for its recent decline.
520 8 $aThe PFLP rejects any settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict that falls short of the total elimination of Israel and the establishment of an independent state on what it claims to be Palestinian land. It is implacably hostile towards the United States and its allies in Europe and the Middle East, and is committed to a strategy of armed conflict.
520 8 $aCubert views the organisation's inflexibility as the key factor behind its lack of success. He illustrates this by contrasting the PFLP with Fatah, the dominant faction in the PLO. Fatah did not share the PFLP's rigid, ideological approach; it was primarily concerned to establish Palestinian self-rule on 'liberated land' and it was prepared to compromise with the West, particularly in the years following the collapse of the soviet bloc.
520 8 $aThis enabled Fatah to transform itself from an underground movement to a quasi-government with strong international ties. The PFLP, by contrast, became increasingly isolated. Today, from its headquarters in Damascus, it can do nothing without the Syrian government's approval and Syria is on the verge of a peace agreement with Israel...
610 20 $aJabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88194429
650 0 $aArab-Israeli conflict.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002535
650 0 $aNational liberation movements$zPalestine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103158
852 00 $bleh$hDS119.7$i.C83 1997