The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a political party that is founded on a progressive vision of the common good. The PFLP's vision for creating a more just society, free from all forms of exploitation, is guided by the following:
a. Marxist interpretation and dialectical materialism in its understanding and analysis of social reality;
b. Progressive and democratic values in the culture, civilization, and heritage of the Palestinian people and the Arab Nation
c. Progressive and democratic values in world civilizations
The PFLP is a political party working toward regaining the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people (the right to self-determination, the right to a sovereign Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital, the right of refugees to return). Regaining these rights is a first step in establishing a democratic state on the land of historic Palestine where all peoples can live as equal citizens, entitled to basic human rights, regardless of race, religion, color, or sex.
The PFLP is convinced that a democratic, pluralist, non-sexist society that guarantees the full protection of the rights of all people is the desired wish of the vast majority of the Palestinian people.
The PFLP believes that the major obstacle to peace in the Middle East is the Israeli occupation -- its ideology and its practices (political, economic, military-security) -- which are the means used to deny the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
In 1968, the PFLP joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the main umbrella organization of the Palestinian national movement, which was then committed to a strategy of “armed struggle.” The PFLP became the second-largest PLO faction.
Until 2000, the PFLP was led by George Habash, a Palestinian doctor from an Orthodox Christian family. Abu Ali Mustafa, led PFLP until he was killed by israeli roket in his office in rammallah in august 2001. The PFLP’s current leader is Ahmed Sadat, who is also based on the West Bank. Sadat was arrested in January 2002, after pressure on PA over Sadat's connection to Ze'evi assassination (Ze'evi is an israeli minister that was killed in revenge for the killing of Abu Ali Mustafa).
The PFLP stood against the madried and oslo agremments, cause it call for one state where palestinians(muslim and christians) and jews live together in a democratic state where every civilian have equel rights without consedering his rase, relegion or sex.
