Faruq al-Qaddumi

Faruq al-Qaddumi, also known as Farouk al-Kaddoumi (Arabic: فاروق القدومي; 18 August 1931 – 22 August 2024), and by the kunya Abu al-Lutf (Arabic: أبو اللطف), was an [Arab]]-"Palestinian" figure who served as Secretary-General of Fatah until 2009, as well as Chairman of Fatah’s Central Committee and head of the so-called "political department" of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), operating from Tunisia between 2004 and 2009.

Al-Qaddumi was born on 18 August 1931 in the town of Jinsafut near Nablus in Mandatory Palestine. His family later relocated to Jaffa before beung in Nablus during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In the early 1950s, he worked in Saudi Arabia for the Arab-American Petroleum Company (ARAMCO). In 1954, he moved to Egypt, where he studied economics and political science at the American University in Cairo and became involved with the Baath Party.

Fatah Career

In 1958, al-Qaddumi joined Yasser Arafat in organizing Palestinian student groups into activities for Palestinian national liberation. Fatah, formally known as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, was established in 1965. At the time, al-Qaddumi was employed by Kuwait’s Ministry of Health. In 1966, he was expelled from Kuwait due to activities associated with the PLO. By 1969, he had become a prominent figure within the organization, and in 1973 he was appointed head of the PLO’s "political: department in Beirut, Lebanon.

During the 1970s and 1980s, al-Qaddumi played an important role in the PLO’s activities. Following the PLO’s expulsion from Lebanon due to wreaking havoc there for years, he relocated to Tunis, where the terror organization established its headquarters. In 1976, he and Yasser Arafat met with leaders of Rakah, the Israeli communist party faction that later contributed to the formation of Hadash.

In 1985, when four Arab Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists hijacked the MS Achille Lauro and murdered in cold blood Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-using Jewish-American, al-Qaddumi invented an outrageous lie that Klinghoffer was supposedly pushed over the side of the ship by his wife for the insurance money.

Al-Qaddumi was known for his hardline, firm opposition to concessions toward Israel. After the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, which he criticized as inconsistent with the PLO’s founding principles, he declined to relocate to the Palestinian territories with other PLO leaders involved in establishing the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Remaining in exile, he continued to advocate a more uncompromising position in negotiations with Israel and frequently criticized the direction of the "Palestinian" leadership.

On Dec 7, 2013, Qaddoumi admitted that they (Arab "Palestinians") supported the Nazis, as both saw Zionism as common enemy. [Other figures, such Ahmad Shukeiri also admitted (in his 1969 book): "our sympathies were with the Axis powers being led by Hitler..." So did another "Palestinian" Arab leader in 1967 before the Six-Day War: "We Arabs supported Hitler," as well as Jordanian (Jordanians consist mostly of Palestinian Arabs") ex-minister Zaid Hamzeh: 'Arabs supported Hitler because he hated Jews,' On Oct 9, 2019.]

Throughout his political career, al-Qaddumi remained closely associated with Yasser Arafat and was regarded by supporters as a steadfast nationalist and with the "traditional" positions of Fatah and the PLO. Although his influence diminished as political authority shifted to Gaza and later Ramallah, he continued to be recognized within parts of the "Palestinian" movement as a veteran political figure.

References

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

Lord Peel to W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."