Nayef Hawatmeh ( ar, نايف حواتمة, Nāyef Ḥawātmeh, Kunya: Abu an-Nuf) is a

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

ian politician who was active in the Palestinian political life. Hawatmeh hails from a Jordanian clan and is a practicing

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. He is the General Secretary of the

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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) since its formation in a 1969 split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which he was also a founder. He was active as a leader in the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), which preceded the PFLP. He presently resides in exile in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, from which the DFLP receives some support. Hawatmeh opposed the 1993

Oslo Accords The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993;

, calling them a "sell-out", but became more conciliatory in the late 1990s. In 1999 he agreed to meet with

Yassir Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

(who had signed the accords) and even shook hands with the Israeli President, Ezer Weizmann, at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan, drawing strong criticism from his Palestinian and

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peers. In 2004 he was briefly active in a joint Palestinian-

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i non-governmental attempt to start a coalition of Palestinian groups supporting a

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, and called for a cessation of hostilities in the al-Aqsa Intifada. In 2007 Israel indicated it would allow him to travel to the

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for the first time since 1967, in order to participate in a meeting of the

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(PLO).

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawatmeh, Nayef Living people Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine politicians Jordanian communists Jordanian Christian socialists Maoists Jordanian Melkite Greek Catholics Jordanian Arab nationalists Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members 1938 births

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