History of religious organizations' occupation in the Palestinian liberation struggle -sankar pal
The long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine has resulted in destruction and death on both sides. The world has been divided in two in the name of a political settlement. At one time, Yasser Arafat, the founder of the Intifada, had won the support of the world for the Palestinian liberation struggle.
The Intifada, which began in December 1987, was the beginning of a revolution in Palestine, led by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It started as a result of an incident in which an Israeli truck carrying four Palestinian workers to work got into an argument with Israeli soldiers and the workers were brutally murdered. The next day, an Israeli soldier was killed. This led to a bloody conflict.
Although Yasser Arafat founded the Fatah movement in the late 1950s, the idea behind the movement was to use arms to bring back the Palestinians who were expelled from Israel in 1948. Fatah, an acronym for Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini ("Palestinian National Liberation Movement"), is a political and military organization established in Palestine by Arabs. It was launched in the late 1950s by Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad).
As this movement progressed, leftist organizations began to emerge in Palestinian politics, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is headquartered in the Gaza St7rip. The PFLP believes that a single state of Israel and Palestine is possible. The "one-state solution" refers to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the creation of a single, federal or confederal Israeli-Palestinian state that would include all of Israel's current territory, including East Jerusalem, as well as the West Bank and possibly the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.
The PFLP refuses to work in the government under the Palestinian Authority and criticizes its policies, particularly its security coordination with Israel. The party did, however, contest the 2006 parliamentary elections on the Shaheed Abu Ali Mustafa list and won three seats.
Their conflict with the PLO escalated in 2016 when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended the monthly stipend of $70,000 from the Palestinian National Fund (which was established in 1964 to finance the activities of the PLO and its constituent groups). In 2017, the Palestinian National Fund significantly reduced spending on the Palestinian military sector, while doubling the cost of foreign travel for Palestinian ministers.
The PFLP received support from the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Syria, South Yemen, Libya, North Korea, and Iraq at various times. However, it had a strong conflict with religious organizations, particularly extremist organizations such as Hamas and al Qaeda.
The influence of Hamas in the Palestinian struggle is currently being felt, and this has resulted in the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians. There is much discussion in political circles about the extent to which Hamas has infiltrated the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Hamas emerged as an offshoot of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood during the first Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, in 1987. The group is committed to armed resistance against Israel and the establishment of an Islamic Palestinian state in its place.
Hamas has continued to support Palestinian armed resistance, winning a large number of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections and gaining a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council. It then took control of the Gaza Strip from Yasser Arafat's Fatah party in a civil war in 2007. Since then, it has ruled Gaza as a de facto autocracy and one-party state.
Iran has been a consistent financial and military backer of Hamas since the 1990s, well before the group took control of Gaza. It has gradually increased its funding, and the group now earns an estimated $100 million per year. It has established its dominance in Gaza. Hamas has a secret international investment network that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Companies based in Sudan, Algeria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries use these assets to finance Hamas.
