Palestinian Nationalism Fatah, The PLO, Yasser Arafat, and others

“One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.”

Do you agree with this statement? Where is the line between terrorist and freedom fighter?

The Palestinian National Charter

Yasser Arafat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/middle_east_yasser_arafat0s_life/html/1.stm

The roots of the Palestinian question do not stem from any conflict between two religions or two nationalisms Neither is it a border war between two neighboring states. It is the cause of a people deprived of its homeland, dispersed and uprooted, living mostly in exile and in refugee camps…Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Extract from Yasser Arafat’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, 13 November 1974

Fatah

The Palestinian Liberation Organization

Karameh, Jordan - 1968

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Dawson’s Field Hijacking - 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5de6fYWKDWU

Entebbe Raid - 1976

Black September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-WvfWXn7U&safe=active

“One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.”

What would you consider the PLO and other Palestinian organizations? What other means would be effective in Palestinian’s achieving their desired ends (goals)?