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Syria The Palestinians
In another move consistent with the Assad Doctrine, Syria
continued its attempts to control the Palestinian movement and to
prevent any Palestinian-Israeli agreement. Accordingly, Syria
sponsored the creation of the Palestine National Salvation Front,
headquartered in Damascus, an umbrella organization comprising
Palestinian splinter organizations that rejected any compromise
with Israel. Syria supported these groups as proxy forces against
Arafat's more moderate PLO, which had joined with Jordan to
explore possible negotiations with Israel. In mid-1986 Syrian and
PLO leaders met with inconclusive results to negotiate a
reconciliation; such a rapprochement, however, would necessarily
entail a return of the PLO to the rejectionist camp and its
subservience to Syrian control.
Data as of April 1987
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