Ahmed Jibril

Ahmed Jibril (Arabic: أحمد جبريل; born 1928) is the founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), part of the left-wing, secular Palestinian rejectionist front, so-called because they reject proposals for a peaceful settlement with Israel. Image File history File links PAAhmedJibril. ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a left-wing Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria. ...

Since its inception in 1968, the PFLP-GC has staged numerous attacks against Israeli and other targets, both military and civilian.

Jibril's son, Jihad Ahmed Jibril, who headed the PFLP-GC's military wing and was in line to replace Jibril as leader of the group, was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on May 20, 2002. Central Beirut Beirut (Arabic: ‎ translit: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Early life

Jibril was born in Jaffa, now in Israel, in 1928, but his family moved to Syria, where he was raised, and where he served as an army captain. He founded the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1959, then joined George Habash to found the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1967, a communist armed movement opposed to the nationalism of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Jaffa port Jaffa (Hebrew יָפוֹ, Standard Hebrew Yafo, Tiberian Hebrew Yāp̄ô; Arabic يَافَا ; also Japho, Joppa; also, ~1350 B.C.E. Amarna Letters, Yapu), is an ancient port city located in Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. ... George Habash (Arabic جورج حبش) (born 1926), sometimes known by his nom-de-guerre Al-Hakim الحكيم , meaning the doctor, a leading militant and Palestinian politician, as founder and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967-2000. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - al-jabhah al-sha`biyyah li-tahrīr filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in 1967. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology that holds that (ethnically or culturally defined) nations are the fundamental units for human social life, and makes certain cultural and political claims based upon that belief; in particular, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate... Arafat redirects here; for the hill east of Mecca, see Mount Arafat Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President of... Fatah (Arabic: فتح); a reverse acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: Palestinian National Liberation Movement) is a major Palestinian faction and the largest constituency of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a multi-party confederation. ...

Break from the PFLP

Jibril broke away from the PFLP because of disputes between Habash and the Syrian government. Jibril has not wavered in his support of Syria, and his group remains based in Damascus. Damascus by night, pictured from Jabal Qasioun; the green spots are minarets Damascus (Arabic: ‎ translit: Also commonly: الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. ...

Although for decades the PFLP-GC's ideology was almost identical to the PFLP, Jibril never wavered from his belief that Palestine could only be liberated through military attrition. He joined Habash and other splinter groups in the so-called "rejectionist front," which opposed negotiations of any kind with the Israeli government. He launched a variety of inventive attacks, including the "Night of the Hang-gliders" (1988).

Relationship with Islamist states

Jibril was also the first old-guard Palestinian militant to embrace the aid of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Unlike George Habash, a Greek Orthodox Christian, Jibril was able, as a Muslim, to correlate Islamic radicalism and his Marxist ideology. By the early 1990s, with the rise of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Jibril had ceased to be a key threat to the Israelis. The Hezbollah flag Hezbollah (Arabic ‮حزب الله‬, meaning Party of God) is a Shia Islamist group in Lebanon founded in 1982 to fight the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon. ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ... This article is about political Islamism. ... Marxism is the philosophy, social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary. ... The Hamas emblem shows the Dome of the Rock, two crossed swords, Palestinian flags, and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ...

Signature

Jihad Jibril, 41, Jibril's son and the future leader of the PFLP-GC, was killed in Beirut on May 20, 2002.

The PFLP-GC maintained cells in several European cities, which carried out anti-American or anti-Israeli operations behalf of Syria, Libya, and Iran. Image File history File links JihadAhmedJibril. ... Image File history File links JihadAhmedJibril. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command is a left-wing Palestinian nationalist organization. ... Central Beirut Beirut (Arabic: ‎ translit: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Samuel Katz's Israel vs. Jibril distinguishes the PFLP-GC and Jibril's strategy from the rest of the PLO by its emphasis on military training and equipment, and not on declarations and publicity stunts. This caused the group to fail to make a significant mark on the public debate. Since 1994's Oslo Accords, support for the PFLP-GC dwindled among doves, who flocked to Fatah's new Palestinian Authority, and among hawks, who mainly backed Hamas and the PFLP, which was more established in the West Bank. The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, with Mahmoud Abbas signing for the... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ...

On May 7, 2001, the Israeli Navy seized a Palestinian boat filled with heavy weapons in the port of Haifa. Jibril is believed to have been behind the shipment of weapons, which were bound for the Gaza Strip. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... Nickname: Red Haifa Official website: www. ...

See also

• Kiryat Shmona massacre

On April 11, 1974, a three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the Israeli border from Lebanon. ...

External links

• [[1]] A serie of interviews made by Pan-arab channel Al-jazeera in 2004 (In Arabic).