Steve, I checked with my Dafka sources and they sent me this:

The PLF is a faction of PFLP. The same as DPFLP. They split off from the leadership.Abu Nidal was the ringleader on the Achille Lauro. See:

judaism.about.com/library/1_terrorism/bl_terrorismisrael_c_pfl.htm

IF Argue endorses the PLF then he still endorses a terrorist group per the US state department.

BECKY: I personally don't give a shit what the State Dept. says about whether an organization has terrorist affiliations or not. To me, I don't want to support any organization that uses violence, endangers innnocent civilian life, uses terror of the general population as a method, or uses suicide bombers.

This puts me at odds with my own government (USA) many times (see past posts for lists of my anti-war work). And since I am a citizen here, I feel a greater responsibility to affect US policy than of any international country or people.

When it comes to Israel, it's the one place on earth where you can make a case that the people NEED to be heavily armed or they WILL BE KILLED if they aren't.

However, my continued support for the $3 billion a year for Israel (and the $2 billion a year to Egypt) are based solely on those being provisions of the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

I don't think we should tinker with this. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I do not justify ANY act by Israel where it used violence for violence's sake, where innocent civilian populations were intentionally or recklessly harmed, or where any Jewish suicide bomber was used (I'm not aware of ANY Jewish suicide bombers ). Building a wall might not be popular, but it doesn't spread terror. So my standards are the same for how I judge (from the safety of my beachside Californian community)how Israel uses its military vs. how Arafat, the PA, and the Palestinian terror groups use their military powers.


But when it comes to your support of the PFLP or the PLF, I have to ask you, how you can justify your support when they use these methods?

I mean these guys pushed an old man into the sea, dumping him from his wheelchair!! Steve, you should completely disassociate from these organizations right now.