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PLO Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO EC; ) is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and acts as the Palestinian government, government of the State of Palestine.''Abbas confirms resignation from PLO Executive Committee'' . The Middle East Monitor, 24 August 2015 "The Palestinian National Council also empowered the central council to form a government-in-exile when appropriate, and the executive committee to perform the functions of government until such time as a government-in-exile was established." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ) is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinians, Palestinian people in both the occupied Palestinian territories and the Palestinian diaspora, diaspora. It is currently represented by the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh. Founded in 1964, it initially sought to establish an Arab world, Arab state over the entire territory of the former Mandatory Palestine, advocating the elimination of Israel. Mediated talks between the Israeli government and the PLO in 1993 (the Oslo I Accord) resulted in the PLO recognizing Legitimacy of the State of Israel, Israel's legitimacy and accepting United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which mandated Israel's withdrawal from occupied territories, while Israel recognized the PLO as a legitimate authority representing the Palestinian people. Despite the Israel–Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar. Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University. Beginning in the 1990s, Ashrawi was a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Ashrawi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Jerusalem in 1996 and was re-elected in 2006. She was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and 2018, becoming the body's first female member. She resigned in 2020. As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights in 1994 and served as its Commissioner-General until 1995. In 1998, she also founded MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP; ) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and Maoist organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dīmūqrāṭiyya (). It is a member organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Alliance of Palestinian Forces and the Democratic Alliance List. The group was founded in 1969 by Nayef Hawatmeh, splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It maintains a paramilitary wing, the National Resistance Brigades. The DFLP's declared goal is to "create a People's democracy (Marxism–Leninism), people's democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state Classless society, without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture." The DFLP is well-known for the 1974 Ma'alot massacre, in which 25 schoolchildren and teachers were killed. Although the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Mustafa (economist)
Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad Mustafa (; born August 26, 1954) is a Palestinian economist and politician who is the current Prime Minister of the State of Palestine, prime minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority since 31 March 2024. He previously served as the Chairman of the Board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), Senior Economic Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and an Independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Previously, he had served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine (First Hamdallah Government, 15th, Second Hamdallah Government, 16th and Third Hamdallah Government, 17th governments; 2013–2015) and as Ministry of National Economy (Palestine), Minister of National Economy of Palestine (17th government, 2014–2015). Mustafa has international experience with government, global institutions, and academia, from spending around 15 years at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. Mustafa spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Struggle Front
The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF, occasionally abbr. PSF) (Arabic: جبهة النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني, ''Jabhet Al-Nedal Al-Sha'abi Al-Falestini'') is a Palestinian political party. Samir Ghawshah was elected secretary-general of PPSF in 1971 and led it until his death in 2009. He was succeeded by Ahmed Majdalani on 8 August 2009. PPSF holds a seat on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive council, though it is generally considered to have a limited influence over Palestinian politics. Early history The PPSF was founded as the Palestinian Popular Struggle Organization (PPSO) in the West Bank in 1967 by Bahjat Abu Gharbieh, a former Ba'athist, following a split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It had close ties to Fatah, and in 1971 it officially became a Fatah-affiliated organization. It fell out with Yasir Arafat in 1973, and left Fatah to act independently. In 1974 PPSF left the PLO to become a fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Majdalani
Ahmed Majdalani (; born 1956) is a Palestinian politician, university professor and researcher. A former Palestinian government minister, he currently serves as Secretary-General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) and is a senior member of the PLO Executive Committee which is considered the highest political level in Palestine. Early life Majdalani was born to Palestinian parents in Damascus, Syria in 1956. He enrolled in the Social Sciences Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he graduated with a PhD in political economics.Ahmed Majdalani Profile Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC). 2010-01-23. Retrieved on 2012-01-23. Political career Majdalani is a member of the |
Arab Liberation Front
Arab Liberation Front (ALF; ''Jabhet Al-Tahrir Al-'Arabiyah'') is a minor Palestinian political party, previously controlled by the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which it founded in 1969 as its Palestinian military wing. It was based out of Iraq and trained by the Iraqi army. The ALF was from its foundation a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its membership was not limited to Palestinians, as its senior leadership roles included several Lebanese and Jordanian volunteers. History and background The ALF was founded in April 1969, announced official in August 1969, as a front of the Iraqi-led faction of the Ba'ath Party, then led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. The ALF has always followed Iraqi government policy on all matters. In line with the pan-Arab ideology of the Ba'ath Party, the ALF was initially opposed to "Palestinization" of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, preferring to argue in terms of the wider Arab world's war with Israel, which it regarded as under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziad Abu Amr
Ziad Abu Amr (; born 22 January 1950) is a Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine and is a member (independent) of the PLO Executive Committee. From 17 March 2007 to 14 June 2007, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 6 June 2013, Ziad Abu Amr was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority by President Mahmoud Abbas. Background Born in Gaza City on 22 June 1950, Abu Amr attended Damascus University in Syria, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and language in 1973.Ziad Abu Amr – Jewish Virtual Library He studied at |
Azzam Al-Ahmad
Azzam al-Ahmad (; born 24 November 1947) is a Palestinian politician, economist and diplomat. He holds a BA in economics from Baghdad University and has held various significant positions throughout his career. He was the head of the From 1971 to 1974, he served as the head of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Ba'athist Iraq, later becoming the deputy head of the GUPS Executive Committee from 1974 to 1980. Al-Ahmad was the Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to Iraq from 1979 to 1994 and has been a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council since 1989. He was elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2006 as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, representing the Jenin Governorate. On 13 October 2022 he became one of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signatories. Early life and family Al-Ahmad was born in the village of Rummanah, located in north of Jenin. In 1968, His father, Najeeb al-Ahmad, was deported across the Jordan River by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussein Al-Sheikh
Hussein al-Sheikh (; born 1960) is a Palestinian politician who has served as the first Vice President of Palestine since 26 April 2025. He has also served as the secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 2022. Biography Hussein al-Sheikh was born in Ramallah in 1960 during a period of the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank. He spent 11 years in Israeli prisons during his youth, during which he learned Hebrew. Political career Al-Sheikh headed he General Authority of Civil Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority since 2007. He was first elected as a member of the Central Committee of Fatah in 2008. On 25 June 2022, the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization reaffirmed al-Sheikh as secretary general and head of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). On 25 April 2025, the president of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (; b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatah
Fatah ( ; ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (), is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah. Fatah was historically involved in armed struggle against the state of Israel (as well as Jordan during the Black September conflict in 1970–1971) and maintained a number of militant groups,Terrorism in Tel Aviv '''' Friday, 13 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asad Abdul Rahman
Asad Abdul Rahman (; born 1944) is a Palestinian political scientist, academic and politician who was a long-term member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Council. Early life and education Abdul Rahman was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in 1944. He obtained a degree in public administration from the American University of Beirut in 1965. He was a member of the General Union of Palestinian Students during his university studies. His political career began in Beirut when he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. Abdul Rahman completed his Ph.D. studies in 1973 and obtained a Ph.D. degree from University of Calgary, Canada. His thesis is entitled ''Military bureaucracy, politics and society in Egypt: The era of Nasir''. Career Abdul Rahman is one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was made a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1969. He worked as a rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
