Nayef Hawatmeh
Nayef Hawatmeh (Arabic نايف حواتمة, DMG Nayif Hawatma; born November 17, 1935 in as- Salt, Jordan ) is a Palestinian politician Jordanian origin.
Life
Hawatmeh comes from a Bedouin, Greek Orthodox Arab family. The school he attended in Amman. Later he went to Cairo to study medicine. However, he did not complete this study. Years later, he studied philosophy at the University of Beirut. His studies he completed in Moscow. There he received his doctorate. Hawatmeh belongs to the Marxist spectrum.
Early on felt Hawatmeh the Arab national movement connected. He was among the first who represented the idea of an independent Palestinian state, and advocated a negotiated settlement with Israel.
In 1958 he first fought in Iraq against Abd al - Karim Qasim, after his expulsion from Iraq, he went in 1963 to Yemen. In 1967 he returned to Jordan and was founder and general secretary of the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), the 1969 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP ) seceded. As a leader he was already active in the left wing of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM ), which is considered the forerunner of the PFLP. The events of Black September meant that Hawatmeh was sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan.
He is currently in Syria, where the DFLP receives support. Since Israel is the DFLP are to blame for the hostage-taking at a school in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot in 1974, in which 22 students were killed, it is Hawatmeh not allowed to enter the Palestinian territories.
Hawatmeh was against the signing of the Oslo Accords, calling it a " sell-out ". In 1999, he set up a meeting with Yasser Arafat and shook hands with the Israeli president Ezer Weizmann, when he met this at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan. This gesture earned him strong criticism from its Palestinian and Arab colleagues.
In 2004, he was briefly a member of an Israeli- Palestinian non-governmental organization that tried to bring about a coalition of Palestinian groups which together support the two-state solution and calls for the cessation of hostilities in the Al -Aqsa Intifada.
In 2007, Israel indicated that it would Hawatmeh authorize the entry into the West Bank for the first time since 1967 to allow him to participate in a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).