{"id":2106,"date":"2024-03-11T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:13:29","slug":"russia-want-more-terror-groups-in-plo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/russia-want-more-terror-groups-in-plo\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia want more terrorgroups in PLO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia want more terrorgroups in PLO<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Delegates from 14 Palestinian organizations \u2013 including several terrorist groups \u2013 met late February in Moscow following an invitation from Russia. Moscow wants the terrorist groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad and PFLP to unite with the PLO in order to play a political role in a two-state solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Soviet intelligence service KGB recruited Yasser Arafat and his Fatah faction early on. The KGB\u2019s recruitment of Mahmoud Abbas began around 1979, when Abbas arrived in Moscow to study at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. Photo: Al Jazeera English<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I<\/span>n his welcome speech, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described how the lack of unity in the Palestinian ranks was one of the pretexts used to delay talks on a two-state solution. While Russia wants to give Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP a political role within the PLO, both the US and the EU list the three organizations as terrorist groups.
\nThe Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) participated in the Hamas massacre on October 7 in southern Israel. The PFLP shared videos, images and texts on its website and social media praising the massacre.
\nMoscow\u2019s relationship with Palestinian terrorist groups is long-standing. In November 2016 Ronen Bergman, investigative journalist and writer at Israel\u2019s largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet news), detailed how secret KGB documents revealed the Soviet Union\u2019s deep involvement in the Palestinian acts of terror directed at Israel and the West from the late 1960s.
\nBoth the PFLP and Fatah took part in the Munich attack against the Israeli Olympic team in 1972 when Jews were once again murdered on German soil 27 years after the Holocaust.
\nThat the Soviet security service KGB waged a kind of \u201cshadow war\u201d against Israel via the Palestinian terrorist organizations, is revealed in the notes collated and kept by the defected KGB archivist Vasiliy Mitrokhin during his 30 years of service and which are now at Cambridge University.
\nFor six months, Ronen Bergman went carefully through documents in the archive, translating them and comparing the material with other sources. The archive revealed links going back to the late 1960s when the Soviet spy agency had code names for the PLO\u2019s various factions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arafat recruited<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The KGB early recruited Yasser Arafat and his Fatah faction where operational collaboration was mainly carried out using Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), who was responsible for countless terrorist attacks on Israel.
\nThe PFLP was particularly interesting because of their Marxist-Leninist ideology. Their leader George Habash\u2019s deputy Dr. Wadi Haddad was the mastermind behind a series of hijackings involving Leila Khaled and others.
\nThe Mitrokhin documents reveal how the KGB chief Andropov wrote a top-secret report in late 1969 to the then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev detailing Haddad\u2019s recruitment into operations \u201cfor Soviet interests.\u201d
\nIn early July 1970, Brezhnev gave the KGB the green light to supply Haddad with money, rockets, missiles, land mines, naval mines, silencers, and military training. Through the KGB, Haddad also established close ties with the Stasi, East Germany\u2019s secret service, who provided training and weapons for the PFLP. The KGB also helped the PFLP contact members of the Baader-Meinhof group.
\nAccording to the Mitrokhin documents, the KGB also supported Nayef Hawatmeh, the leader of the DFLP, who used his newspaper to spread KGB publicity and propaganda. Ahmed Jibril (code name \u201cMayorov\u201d) head of the PFLP-GC, also received support from Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abbas recruited 1979<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The KGB\u2019s recruitment of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, began around 1979 when Abbas arrived in Russia to study at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. When Abbas\u00a0finished his thesis, he returned to Lebanon where he spread Soviet propaganda framed by the KGB and Stasi. Abbas accused Israel of colluding with the Nazis, as part of a widespread propaganda campaign run by the KGB in an attempt to create a link between anti-Soviet elements and the Nazis \u2013 the ultimate symbol of evil, writes Ronen Bergman.
\nDuring the meeting in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Lavrov congratulated the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in his efforts to form a new cabinet.
\n\u201cOur colleagues from the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs \u2013 whom you know well \u2013 are at your service\u201d, he said.
\nAt the same time that the PFLP and other Palestinian terrorist groups visited Moscow in late February, German police hunted down two terrorists from the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof League. About 130 police participated in the search, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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