الجبهة الديمقراطية لتحرير فلسطين

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين
الزعيمنايف حواتمة
المؤسسNayef Hawatmeh
Yasser Abed Rabbo[1][2]
تأسس1968
انشق عنPopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
المقر الرئيسيدمشق، سوريا
Paramilitary wingNational Resistance Brigades
الأيديولوجية
الموقف السياسيFar-left
الانتماء الوطنيPalestine Liberation Organization[5]
Democratic Alliance List
الانتماء الدوليAxis of Resistance
Legislative Council
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علم الحزب
Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.svg
الموقع
www.alhourriah.org

الجبهة الديمقراطية لتحرير فلسطين (أو اختصارا الجبهة الديمقراطية أو الديمقراطية) هو فصيل ماركسي لينيني نتج عن الانشقاق عن الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين سنة 1969 م و يتزعمها نايف حواتمة. قام حواتمة بالانفصال عن الجبهة الشعبية لأنه في نظره أصبحت الشعبية تحت قيادة جورج حبش تركز كثيرا على قضايا الكفاح المسلح وهو يريد توجها يركز على تقوية أيدولوجية الحركة أكثر من الاهتمام بقضايا الكفاح المسلح.

من أهداف الجبهة الديمقراطية التي تعلنها هي قيام دولة فلسطينية ديمقراطية شعبية تجمع العرب واليهود دون أي فصل عنصري.

وعارضت الجبهة الديمقراطية جميع الحلول السلمية، وقرارَي مجلس الأمن الرقمَين 242 و338. واتهمت كلَّ الدول العربية، التي تسير في ركب الحلول السلمية، بالتواطؤ والعمالة. وكان رأي نايف حواتمة، في أحداث الأردن، في السبعينيات "أن حل المشكلة في الأردن، يتمثّل في إقامة جبهة وطنية فلسطينية ـ أردنية، تسترد، بالكفاح الشعبي المسلح، حقوق شعب فلسطين، وحقوق سكان الضفة الغربية للأردن. ونقيم حكومة وطنية ديموقراطية، في عمّان".

لقد أيدت الجبهة الديمقراطية انطلاقة الكفاح المسلح الفلسطيني (حركة فتح)، عام 1965. وتبنت إستراتيجية الحرب الشعبية الطويلة الأمد، المستندة إلى ثلاثة أعمدة، هي: الكفاح المسلح، النضال السياسي، والنضال الجماهيري. كذلك، دعت، في بيان في 22 فبراير في مناسبة الذكرى الثانية لتأسيسها، إلى توحيد منظمات المقاومة الفلسطينية، بارتباطها ببناء الجبهة الأردنية ـ الفلسطينية؛ وذلك من أجل مواجهة الدعوات إلى الحل السلمي، ومحاولات القضاء على المقاومة.

وعارضت الجبهة فكرة الدولة الفلسطينية، المقترح إنشاؤها على جزء من أرض فلسطين؛ ورأت أنه لا يشكل حلاً جدياً، ولا يفي بحقوق الشعب الفلسطيني. وأكدت أن الحقوق القومية لشعب فلسطين لن تُستَوْفى كاملة، إلا عند سحق الكيان الإسرائيلي، وتحرير كامل التراب الوطني. كذلك، استنكرت، في بيان، في 26 أغسطس 1971، مشروع الحكم الذاتي في الضفة الغربية، الذي طالب به بعض سياسيي تلك الضفة؛ متهمة إياه بإشاعة التفريط في حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني، في العودة وحق تقرير المصير وتحرير الأرض برمّتها؛ ما ينجم عنه آثار سيئة في الدول العربية، اقتصادياً وعسكرياً.

وشاركت في وفود المقاومة الفلسطينية إلى الخارج؛ فضم الوفد إلى بكين، مثلاً، في مناسبة أسبوع فلسطين العالمي، في مايو1971، مندوبين عن "حركة فتح" و"الصاعقة"؛ إضافة إلى الجبهة الديمقراطية.

لقد شنت الجبهة العديد من العمليات العسكرية الناجحة، على العدوّ، في الأرض المحتلة. ولم تؤيد العمليات الخارجية، التي كانت تشنها على حركة المقاومة الفلسطينية، مثل اختطاف الطائرات. وأكدت أن ضرب المصالح الاستعمارية، في الوطن العربي، يجب أن يواكب تعبئة الجماهير لمواجهة الوجود الإمبريالي؛ أمّا الهجوم على بعض الأهداف الإسرائيلية، في الخارج، فلا يؤثر في اقتصاد العدوّ؛ وإنما ينحصر أثره في مجال الدعاية، الذي طالما كانت حصيلته سلبية؛ كما أنه يتيح للدعاية الصهيونية فرصة تصوير الفدائيين كأنهم جماعة من القتلة والمجرمين. كذلك، كانت الجبهة ترى أن العمل الجماعي، هو أفضل من العمل الفردي؛ لأن أولهما يشرك كافة الجماهير؛ بينما الآخر يقتصر على البطولة الذاتية، وينمّي النزعة الفردية، بدلاً من تنمية الكفاح الجماعي في العمل.

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التاريخ

تشكيل الجبهة الديمقراطية

Founder and current head of the DFLP Nayef Hawatmeh, a Jordanian Christian

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was established by George Habash in 1967, in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War.[6] The PFLP was a Marxist-Leninist, Palestinian nationalist and Pan-Arabist organization; it advocated for the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a secular socialist state in Palestine.[7] By 1968, the PFLP had joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), becoming the organization's second-largest member.[6] The PFLP quickly developed a reputation as a violent terrorist group, launching a series of international terrorist attacks in order to draw attention to the situation in Palestine.[8]

Within a few years, ideological and personal conflicts had broken out within the PFLP, resulting in it fragmenting into a number of different factions.[8] The Maoist factional leader Nayef Hawatmeh, a Jordanian Christian,[9] split from the PFLP in 1969 and established the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DPFLP), which was joined by other sections of the Palestinian left and became the third-largest faction in the PLO.[10] As a Marxist-Leninist organization,[11] the DPFLP initially advocated for a proletarian revolution to overthrow the State of Israel and establish a "popular democratic state" along bi-national lines.[10]

War and peace process (1973–1987)

PDFLP poster, the caption of which reads: "Solidarity with the people of the Middle East in their struggle against imperialism, feudalism, Zionism and Arab reaction"

During the 1970s, the DPFLP carried out a number of attacks both against the Israel Defense Forces and against civilians.[10] These attacks consisted of bombings, grenade attacks and kidnappings, the latter often carried out in order to negotiate a prisoner exchange with Israel.[12] The group's largest attack was the Ma'alot massacre of 1974, an attack on an Israeli school in which 27 people were killed.[13]

Following the Yom Kippur War, the DPFLP changed its name to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and started moderating its position towards support for a two-state solution.[10] Along with Fatah and As-Sa'iqa, the DFLP became part of the moderate faction of the PLO, which advocated for Palestinian participation in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Supported by Egypt and Syria, the moderates of the PLO together represented over 80% of the Palestinian fedayeen and occupied a majority on the Palestinian National Council (PNC).[14]

The DFLP, Fatah and As-Sa'iqa submitted a proposal to the PNC that classified their goals: their strategic goal was the eventual independence of Palestine from "Zionist imperialism"; while their immediate goal was to force the State of Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, in order to secure self-determination for the Palestinian people in those territories. The PNC adopted a similar resolution, calling for the establishment of a Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, while also refusing to recognise the State of Israel.[15] During the 1977 meeting of the PNC, the DFLP expressed support for the establishment of an independent State of Palestine on territory controlled by the PLO.[10]

الانتفاضة الأولى والانشقاق (1987–1993)

By the outbreak of the Southern Lebanon conflict in the mid-1980s, the DFLP stopped carrying out terrorist attacks against civilian targets and instead started conducting border raids against Israeli military positions in Southern Lebanon.[12] During the First Intifada, the DFLP became increasingly critical of Fatah for its continued participation in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. This caused a rise in internal tensions, as one of the DFLP's leaders Yasser Abed Rabbo expressed support for Yasser Arafat's engagement in the peace process. In 1991, Rabbo was elected as the DFLP's Secretary General and brought the organization into the peace process, causing a split within the organization.[16] Hawatmeh's faction refused to participate in the negotiations, joining together with the PFLP in order to form an anti-Arafat front organization in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where they challenged Arafat for leadership of the PLO.[17] Rabbo ultimately left the DFLP in 1993, establishing the Palestinian Democratic Union (FIDA) and going on to participate in the 2000 Camp David Summit.[16]

فترة أوسلو (1993–2000)

By the time of the Oslo Accords, the dissolution of the Soviet Union had resulted in a loss of funding for the DFLP. The DFLP thus lost its influence over the Palestinian independence movement, while Islamist groups such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad rose to prominence.[17] In 1999, the DFLP reconciled with Fatah and considered recognising the State of Israel in the event of a peace treaty, which convinced the United States Department of State to drop the DFLP from its list of designated terrorist groups.[17][18]

الانتفاضة الثانية وتجدد العمل الفدائي (2000–2005)

After a period of relative inactivity during the 1990s, the DFLP renewed armed attacks against the IDF during the Second Intifada.[12] They carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.[19][20]

On 11 September 2001, an anonymous caller claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks in the United States on behalf of the DFLP; but the DFLP itself denied the accusations and formally condemned the attacks.[20][21] On 25 August 2007, Palestinian militants from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and DFLP attempted to enter the Israeli border town of Netiv HaAsara from Gaza. The militants used a ladder to scale the Israel-Gaza border and were killed by the Israel Defense Forces.[22]

عانت الجبهة من انخفاض في شعبيتها بعد سقوط الاتحاد السوفيتي والصعود المتوالي للحركات الإسلامية وانتقال الصراع إلى داخل الأراضي الفلسطينية كما عانت من الانفصالات الداخلية ومنها انفصال ياسر عبد ربه بجماعة من الحركة وتأسيس حزب فدا الذي كان مقربا من الرئيس الراحل ياسر عرفات. عارضت الحركة اتفاقية أوسلو وخففت من أعمالها العسكرية منذ ذاك الوقت على الرغم من معارضتها إياها. شاركت الجبهة في الانتخابات الرئاسية سنة 2005 وحصل مرشحها، تيسير خالد على 3.35% من الأصوات.

حرب إسرائيل-حماس 2023

The DFLP's armed wing, the National Resistance Brigades, confirmed their participation in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war through their military spokesman Abu Khaled.[23][بحاجة لمصدر محايد] On 7 October, during the attack on Israel, they claimed to have lost three fighters in combat with the IDF, and said on 8 October that they were engaged with Israeli forces in Kfar Aza, Be'eri, and Kissufim.[24][بحاجة لمصدر محايد]

النفوذ السياسي

The DFLP ran a candidate, Taysir Khalid, in the Palestinian Authority presidential election in 2005. He gained 3.35% of the vote. The party had initially participated in discussions with the PFLP and the Palestinian People's Party on running a joint left-wing candidate, but these were unsuccessful. It won one seat in the 2005 PA municipal elections.[بحاجة لمصدر]

In the 2006 elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, the Front formed a joint list called al-Badeel (The Alternative) with Palestine Democratic Union (FIDA), the Palestinian People's Party and independents.[25][بحاجة لمصدر محايد] The list was led by the historic DFLP leader Qais Abd al-Karim (Abu Leila). It received 2.8% of the popular vote and won two of the Council's 132 seats.[بحاجة لمصدر]

The DFLP retains important influence within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).[26] It was traditionally the third-largest group within the PLO, after Fatah and the PFLP, and since no new elections have been held to the PNC or the Executive Committee since 1988, the DFLP still commands important sectors within the organization. The PLO's role has admittedly diminished in later years, in favor of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), but it is still the recognized representative of the Palestinian people, and a reactivation of the PLO's constitutional supremacy over the PNA in connection with power struggles in Palestinian society is a distinct possibility.[بحاجة لمصدر]


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Organization and leadership

The DFLP held its 5th national general congress during a time-span from February to August 2007. The congress was divided into three parallel circles: West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Palestinian exiles. The congress elected a Central Committee, with 81 full members and 21 alternate members.[بحاجة لمصدر]

Subsequently, after the closure of the 5th national general congress, the Central Committee re-elected Hawatmeh as Secretary-General of the DFLP. The Central Committee also elected a 13-member political bureau, including notably Majida Al-Masri, Taysir Khalid and Qais Abd al-Karim.[27][بحاجة لمصدر محايد]

قاعدة الدعم

The DFLP is primarily active among Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon, with a smaller presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Its Jordan branch has been converted into a separate political party, the Jordanian Democratic People's Party (JDPP or Hashd), and the DFLP is no longer active in the political arena there.[بحاجة لمصدر]

The DFLP mainly attracts Palestinians with a more socially liberal and secular lifestyle, as well as Palestinian Christians, primarily in cities like Nablus and Bethlehem.[بحاجة لمصدر]

The party publishes a weekly newspaper in several Arab countries, al-Hurriya (Liberty).[28][بحاجة لمصدر محايد]

العلاقات الخارجية

The DFLP is believed to receive limited financial and military aid from Syria, where it is active in the Palestinian refugee camps. The DFLP's leader, Nayif Hawatmeh lives in Syria. It provided military training for Marxist–Leninist militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1980 and the Sandinistas.[26]

The DFLP is not listed as a terrorist organization by the United States government or the United Nations. It was dropped from the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations in 1999, "primarily because of the absence of terrorist activity, as defined by relevant law...during the past two years."[29]

انظر أيضاً

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