The DFLP declared that its goal was to ‘’ create a people ’ s democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews would live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, a state which allows Arabs and Jews to develop their national culture .’’

The DFLP condemned attacks outside Israel ( such as the aircraft hijackings for which the Habash PFLP gained notoriety ) and was essential in making the binational state the goal of the PLO in the 1970s, insisting on the need for cooperation between Arabs and Jews.

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

From the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

The DFLP continued to cautiously support Arafat's attempts to open negotiations with Israel, but this was not uncontroversial within the membership.

Essentially the Damascus-headquartered DFLP under Hawatmeh was able to retain its external branches, whereas the majority of the organization within Palestine, mainly on the West Bank, was taken over by FIDA.

The DFLP was subsequently represented in the Palestinian delegation at the unsuccessful Camp David negotiations of July 2000.

By that time, the Rejectionist Front was composed primarily of leftist groups, among them the PFLP, DFLP, General Command, PLF, and numerous other small factions.

In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the U. S .- backed Rogers Plan that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, but the plan mentioned the West Bank to be under King Hussein's authority and that was unacceptable for the more radical organizations ; the PLO, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) opposed the plan, criticized and scandalized Nasser.

According to Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), the land was to be used to construct "[...] eight Jewish industrial villages, in implementation of the so-called Galilee Development Plan of 1975.

In 1991 the DFLP split, with a minority faction led by Yasser Abd Rabbo ( who had become increasingly close to Yasser Arafat ) favouring the Madrid negotiations that led initially to limited Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The DFLP is not listed as a terrorist organization by the United States government or the United Nations.

In 1974, 102 Israeli Jewish school children from Safed on a school trip were taken hostage by a Palestinian militant group Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) while sleeping in a school in Maalot.

Some left-wing Palestininan movements, such as the PFLP and the DFLP, began openly questioning the Jordanian monarchy and raising slogans calling for the " resistance " to seize power, while also stirring up conservative and religious feelings by provocative anti-religious statements and actions.

In early 1968, a leftist, supposedly Maoist, faction headed by Hawatmeh broke away from PFLP to form the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP, initially PDFLP ).

FIDA took a more moderate stance than the main DFLP ( led by Naif Hawatmeh and based in Damascus, Syria ) towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has tried to establish itself as a left-wing democratic alternative in Palestinian politics.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

Succumbing to pressure from PLO sub-groups such as the PFLP, DFLP and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ), Arafat aligned the PLO with the Communist and Nasserist Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ).

In the January 2006 PLC elections, FIDA ran its candidates on the al-Badeel ( Alternative ) slate together with the DFLP and the Palestinian People's Party ( PPP ).

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

The peace of the community was badly disturbed, and people across the nation, reading of the incident, felt uneasy.

One man, badly burned about the face and eyes by an arc welding torch, was blinded and could not find a doctor at the time.

The figures on the worksheet paper in front of her were jumping and waving around so badly it was all she could do to make them out clearly enough to copy them with the typewriter.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police.

Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986 – 87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

During one such chase he was badly injured when he tumbled from a cliff, lying unconscious for about a day.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

Some observers speculate that Alan Jay Lerner's pride was so badly bruised by Muselli's much-publicized rejection of him ( due to his drug addiction and neglect of their son ) that in revenge he portrayed her as a gold-digging spendthrift.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

Lieutenant Robert Cuthbert assumed command and successfully disentangled his ship, allowing the badly damaged Majestic to drift further southwards so that by 20: 30 it was stationed between Tonnant and the next in line Heureux, engaging both.

He suffered pain from the injury for the rest of his life and was badly scarred, styling his hair to disguise it as much as possible.