Steadfastness and Confrontation Front

The front of the steadfastness and rejection, according to other data also front of steadfastness and confrontation (English steadfastness and Confrontation Front, Arabic جبهة الصمود والتصدي, DMG ǧabhat aṣ - Sumud wa -t - taṣaddī ) or front of steadfastness and resistance was 1977-1981, a fact only informal rejection front of some Arab states and the PLO against a policy of Ännäherung of Egypt to the United States and Israel.

Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi sought ever since a brief and unsuccessful armed single-handedly against Egypt in 1977 to a strong and broad anti - Sadat front. To this end he invited the "revolutionary " regime of Algeria, South Yemen, Syria, Iraq and the PLO to Tripoli in 1978 held a second conference in the Algerian capital. The final declarations of December 1977 and February 1978 condemned the impending separate peace at Camp David, demanded the isolation of Egypt and expressed solidarity for the "just cause" of the Palestinians. The Final Declaration of the Heads of State of the front is published in Europa-Archiv, Episode 20/1980, pp. 581ff.

The only Iraq but signed because of differences with Syria not the Tripoli Declaration, the Algiers conference was ever away and took a supposedly more radical position with which it wanted to put himself at the head of an active front of steadfastness and liberation. 1978 and 1979 Baghdad invited the Arabs to a summit, where finally the exclusion of Egypt from the Arab League, and a ( short-lived ) reconciliation of Iraq and Syria were decided ( Charter of Joint National Action Syria - Iraq). Egypt, which in 1979 also excluded the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, founded with the League of Arab and Islamic peoples, a counter-organization and promoted in turn anti-regime opposition groups in Libya, Syria and Yemen VDR.

The front of the steadfastness, however, was extended in 1980 on the initiative even of Libya and South Yemen the communist nor the communist regime of the non-Arab Ethiopia - Libya, Ethiopia and South Yemen in 1981 included an additional Tripartite Alliance.