Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
The PFLP-GC split from the PFLP in 1968 because of philosophical differences with the PLO, primarily Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization. Despite being an original member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Ahmad Jibril, the PFLP-GC's founder and leader, consistently opposed the PLO's shift toward political negotiations with Israel. The PFLP-GC left the PLO in 1974 to join the Rejectionist Front, an umbrella of Palestinian groups that objected to what they saw as...