Summary

Leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose ideas the PLO’s 1970 pamphlet “Towards a Democratic State in Palestine for Muslims, Christians and Jews” builds on, as presented in Chapter 7 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, which spells his name “Nawaf Hawatmeh” as printed (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.197, n.19).

Details

  • The pamphlet building on his and the DFLP’s ideas was largely adopted by the PLO in 1971 as the call for a democratic, nonsectarian state in Palestine inclusive of Muslims, Christians and Jews (PDF p.196-197).

Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Secular Democratic State, One-state solution