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POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
Example:
in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
Synonyms:
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; DFLP; PDFLP; Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)