Fu'ad Nassar
Fu'ad Nassar | |
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National Liberation League | |
In office 1943–1951 | |
General Secretary of the Jordanian Communist Party | |
In office 1951–1956 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1914 National Liberation League, Jordanian Communist Party |
Fu'ad Nassar (
Nassar was imprisoned in Iraq. He returned to
When remaining West Bank elements of the League merged into the Jordanian Communist Party in 1951, Nassar became general secretary in the Jordanian party. He was arrested on 29 December 1951 and sentenced to ten year imprisonment. He was released by the Nabulsi government in 1956, but he had to leave Jordan soon thereafter as King Hussein stepped up repression against communists forces.[5]
With Nassar in exile, a power struggle emerged within the party. The acting general secretary inside Jordan, Fatim as-Salifi, was more prone towards seeking reconciliation with the government. Whilst the sector loyal to as-Salfiti party promoted non-military struggles against Israel, Nassar argued that communists should actively take part in the liberation struggle. Moreover, he opposed United Nations Security Council Resolution 242. He formed the Ansar Forces, a Palestinian communist militia 1970, under joint command of the Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi parties.[6] The Ansar Forces lasted for three years, and in practice received little assistance from the Jordanian Communist Party.[5]
In January 1973, Nassar was the first communist to be adopted into the Palestinian National Council.[5] Nassar died in 1976.[2]
References
- ^ a b Beinin, Joel. The Palestine Communist Party 1919 - 1948, in MERIP Reports, No. 55. (Mar., 1977), pp. 3-17.
- ^ a b Biographies of Palestinian political leaders since 1967 Archived 2008-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
- JSTOR 4321987.
- ^ Comrades and Enemies "s1.7.72"
- ^ a b c Palestinian Political Parties and Organizations mideastweb.org
- ^ "Report". Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.