Arab Liberation Front

ALF

12/12/2006

The Arab Liberation Front was a somewhat secular Fascist-Socialist-Muslim terror group. They were founded in April 1969 by Iraqi Ba'athist party members as an alliance between the governments of Iraq, Egypt, and Syria and Arafat's Fatah/Palestinian Liberation Organization. The goal of the terrorist enterprise was to destroy Israel and establish a Fascist-Socialist-Muslim dictatorial state in its place.

The ALF's most famous raid occurred on April 7th, 1980 when Palestinian jihadists snuck across the Lebanese border and seized nine Jewish infants, taking them as hostages from a children's dormitory in a kibbutz. The immoral Muslim assault came on last day of the Passover-Unleavened Bread-FirstFruits Festival.

Oddly enough, some say that the ALF was founded as a pan-Arab counterweight to the PLO, designed to diminish the Palestinian orientation of the Arab/Islamic-Israeli conflict. But if that were true, why would Iraq, Syria, and Egypt partner with Arafat's PLO? The answer to that question is actually quite important. You see, dictators need enemies to keep their citizens oppressed. What better enemy for a somewhat secular Fascist-Socialist-Muslim regime than Jews. So to convince Iraqis that he was fighting Jews on their behalf, and thereby keeping them safe from their evil schemes, Saddam Hussein created and funded a mujahideen group in Israel for which he could claim credit.

Regardless of its orientation, due to Iraq's role in establishing the group, and OPEC's role in funding them, the Arab Liberation Front functioned as a proxy for the Iraqi Ba'athist regime. It increased Iraq's influence within the Palestinian communities in Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Yet despite all of this posturing, the ALF was forced to merge into the PLO in July 1969 - less than three months from its inception - to stay viable.

The ALF has become a small, marginalized group within the Palestinian terrorist sphere because it is out of step with the dramatic shift of Islam toward fundamentalism in recent years. In the land of Salafi Islam, a Fascist-Socialist-Muslim terror group cannot successfully compete for jihadists with the likes of HAMAS, Hizballah, and Islamic Jihad.

While the ALF has continued to conduct small attacks against Israeli targets under the umbrella of the PLO, the group has shifted away from conducting its own operations to financing Palestinian suicide bombers associated with organizations like HAMAS, Hezballah, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Under the label of the ALF, Iraq made a practice of sending the families of a suicide bomber $20,000 - a fortune in a place impoverished by Islam. With open financial and political assistance from Saddam Hussein's OPEC regime, the ALF disbursed millions of dollars to the families of Palestinian "martyrs" who successfully killed Jews.

With the removal of the Iraqi Ba'athist regime, the OPECers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran have increased their inducements and rewards so that killing Jews remains a profitable affair.