<P> Jibril decided that Hawatmeh's theorizing was chafing the PFLP and producing an organization of impotent intellectuals, and declared as such when he formed the General Command . Habash, he stated, had become a puppet to the professors of the exile, the elite among the refugees who were well - educated and wealthy, yet preached class revolution to the masses in the camps . </P> <P> The PFLP - GC was founded in 1968 as a Syrian - backed splinter group from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It was - and still is - headed by Secretary - General Ahmed Jibril, also known by the kunya "Abu Jihad" (not to be confused with Khalil al - Wazir, the head of Fatah's armed wing who used the same nom de guerre), a former military officer in the Syrian Army who had been one of the PFLP's early leaders . The PFLP - GC declared that its primary focus would be military, not political, complaining that the PFLP had been devoting too much time and resources to Marxist philosophizing . </P> <P> Although the group was initially a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it always opposed Yasser Arafat and opposes any political settlement with Israel; for this reason, it has never participated in the peace process . The PFLP - GC left the PLO in 1974 to join the Rejectionist Front, protesting what they saw as the PLO's move towards an accommodation with Israel in the Arafat - backed Ten Point Program of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). Unlike most of the organizations involved in the Rejectionist Front, the PFLP - GC never resumed its role within the PLO . </P> <P> From the start, the PFLP - GC was more concentrated on means than ends . They never depended on a political platform; most of their recruits were young, exiled, poor, illiterate, and angry . The General Command promised a gun in every hand, and the means to write their own narrative rather than read and praise those of others as the better off exiles did in universities in Europe . </P>

Popular front for the liberation of palestine-general command (pflp-gc)