The PFLP has consistently rejected political compromise…

The PFLP has consistently rejected political compromise with Israel—it opposed the peace process begun with Israel in the 1990s—and pledged to replace that state with a secular, democratic state in Palestine.

It takes a vigorously anti-Western and anti-capitalist stance on other Middle Eastern questions.

Under the leadership of George Habash, who steps down as leader of the PLFP in 2000, the organization has successfully organized clandestine cells in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.

In August 2001, Habash's successor, Abu 'Ali Mustafa, is killed in when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at the PFLP's offices in Ramallah.

The DFLP, which does not operate internationally, has confined its attacks—which have involved knives, guns, car bombs, and grenades—to Israel, the West Bank, and ...