Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Palestine)

Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) Hawatmeh

Last modified: 2003-05-31 by santiago dotor
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from Yahoo! News Photos	from Yediot Akhronot

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• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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I guess the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is another (new/alternative?) name for PDFLP.

Ole Andersen, 18 October 2000

Israeli newspaper Yediot Akhronot of 19 August 2001 shows this flag hoisted during a palestinian demonstration in Gaza. Palestinians have so many groups and subgroups that it is almost impossible to keep track of their flags. However, the inscription drove me to the calculated guess that this is the flag of the DPLO (Democratic PLO), a communist-orientated 'refusal' (i.e. opposed to the Israel-Palestinian Oslo Agreements) organization, in the "old" days quite active in terrorists attacks. Today it has lost ground to other extremist organizations.

Anonymous, 25 August 2001

I cannot make out an inscription on the flag —perhaps your image is clearer— but the symbol (minus the 'rainbow' on top) is that of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) — a communist organization, as the symbol indicates, which may have been part of the PLO umbrella but now is opposed to any peace talks. I am not sure if the 'rainbow' indicates that it is a separate organization, or just an added design element for the flag (red, of course, requiring a white border for the star). The 'rainbow' is black-white-green (metal separating colors), the remaining Pan-Arab (and Palestinian) colors, along with red, already present.

Nathan Lamm, 26 August 2001

From the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism website:

The DFLP (a.k.a. Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) Hawatme) is a Marxist-Leninist and formerly pro-Soviet group that split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969. (...) At the Spring 1977 Palestine National Council meeting, the DFLP gave full support to the Palestine national program, seeking the creation of a Palestinian state in any territory liberated from Israel.

Santiago Dotor, 10 April 2002