Keep the PFLP on the EU Terror List

Since placing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on its terrorist list in June 2002, the European Union (EU) has been subjected to sustained pressure to revoke its decision. The push has come not only from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the terrorist group's...

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Published in:	Middle East quarterly 2019-06, Vol.26 (3), p.1-10
Main Author:	Kapusnak, Jan
Format:	Magazinearticle
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Councils Criminal sentences Disguise Emancipation Human rights Khaled, Leila Left wing politics NGOs Non-governmental organizations Nongovernmental organizations Objectives Organizations Political activism Political leadership Political prisoners September 11 terrorist attacks-2001 Terrorism Terrorist organizations Terrorists Violence Watch lists (Antiterrorism measures) Zionism
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Summary:	Since placing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on its terrorist list in June 2002, the European Union (EU) has been subjected to sustained pressure to revoke its decision. The push has come not only from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the terrorist group's parent organization, 1 but also from left-wing EU parliamentarians and Western nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The EU's terrorist list was established in December 2001 as part of the union's response to the 9/11 attacks. The list was created with a view to facilitating the implementation of the newly-passed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373 aimed at depriving terrorism of financial resources and punishing its abettors. A standard ploy used by terrorist groups to disguise their true nature is to cast themselves as comprising distinct military and political wings-the former engaged in legitimate acts of resistance, the latter in promoting purely political goals.
ISSN:	1073-9467 2767-049X