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Nayef Hawatmeh (kunya
Kunya (Arabic)

A kunya or Kunyat is an honorific widely used in place of given names through the Arab world and the medieval Muslim world. It is a component of an Arabic name, a type of epithet referring to the bearer's first-born son or daughter....
 Abu an-Nuf, b. 1935/37 in Salt
Salt, Jordan

Salt is an ancient agricultural town and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem....
, Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
), is a Palestinian politician of Jordanian
Jordanian

Jordanian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Jordan, an Arab country in Southwest Asia* A person from Jordan, or of Jordanian descent....
 origin. His name can be transliterated from the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 in many ways; variants include Naif Hawatma, Niaf Hawathme, etc.

Hawatmeh hails from an Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
 tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Greek Orthodox Christians.






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Hawatmeh
Nayef Hawatmeh (kunya
Kunya (Arabic)

A kunya or Kunyat is an honorific widely used in place of given names through the Arab world and the medieval Muslim world. It is a component of an Arabic name, a type of epithet referring to the bearer's first-born son or daughter....
 Abu an-Nuf, b. 1935/37 in Salt
Salt, Jordan

Salt is an ancient agricultural town and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem....
, Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
), is a Palestinian politician of Jordanian
Jordanian

Jordanian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Jordan, an Arab country in Southwest Asia* A person from Jordan, or of Jordanian descent....
 origin. His name can be transliterated from the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 in many ways; variants include Naif Hawatma, Niaf Hawathme, etc.

Hawatmeh hails from an Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
 tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Greek Orthodox Christians. He is the General Secretary of the Marxist
Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
 Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxism-Leninism, secular political and military organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiyah ....
 (DFLP) since its formation in a 1969 split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Marxism-Leninism, secular, nationalism Palestinian political and paramilitary organization, founded in 1967....
 (PFLP), of which he was also a founder. He was active as a left-wing leader in the Arab Nationalist Movement
Arab Nationalist Movement

The Arab Nationalist Movement , also known as the Movement of Arab Nationalists and the Harakiyyin, was a pan-Arab nationalist organization influential in much of the Arab world, most famously so within the Palestinian movement....
 (ANM), which preceded the PFLP.

He presently resides in Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
, from which the DFLP receives some support; Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 blames the DFLP for the 1974 Ma'alot massacre
Ma'alot massacre

The Ma'alot massacre was an attack by Palestinian militants on May 15, 1974 in Ma'alot, Israel, in which 22 Israeli high school students, aged 14-16, from Safed were killed by members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine....
, and so will not permit him to enter the Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....
.

Hawatmeh opposed the 1993 Oslo Accords
Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles was a milestone in the Palestinian - Israeli conflict....
, calling them a "sell-out", but became more conciliatory in the late 1990s. In 1999 he agreed to meet with Yassir Arafat (who had signed the accords) and even shook hands with the Israeli President, Ezer Weizmann, at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan, drawing strong criticism from his Palestinian and Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
 peers.

In 2004 he was briefly active in a joint Palestinian-Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i non-governmental attempt to start a coalition of Palestinian groups supporting a two-state solution
Two-state solution

The "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is the consensus solution that is currently under discussion by the key parties to the conflict, most recently at the Annapolis Conference in November 2007....
, and called for a cessation of hostilities in the al-Aqsa Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada

The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian people uprising, a period of intensified Israeli?Palestinian conflict violence, which began in late September 2000....
.

In 2007 Israel indicated it would allow him to travel to the West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
 for the first time since 1967, in order to participate in a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
 (PLO).