palestine : Idioms & Phrases

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democratic front for the liberation of palestine

  • noun a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
    DFLP; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PDFLP.
    • in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
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islamic jihad for the liberation of palestine

  • noun a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
    Hizbullah; Organization of the Oppressed on Earth; Lebanese Hizballah; Islamic Jihad; Hezbollah; Hizballah; Hizbollah; Party of God; Revolutionary Justice Organization.
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palestine authority

  • noun combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
    Palestine Authority; Palestinian National Authority.
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palestine islamic jihad

  • noun a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
    Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; PIJ.
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palestine liberation front

  • noun a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border
    Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah; PLF.
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palestine liberation organization

  • noun a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority
    PLO.
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palestine national authority

  • noun combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
    Palestine Authority; Palestinian National Authority.
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  • noun a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
    DFLP; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PDFLP.
    • in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
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  • noun a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel
    PFLP.
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  • noun a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe
    PFLP-GC.
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