AL-ASIFA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Asifa mean? 

• AL-ASIFA (noun)
  The noun AL-ASIFA has 1 sense:

1. a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups

  Familiarity information: AL-ASIFA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AL-ASIFA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

al-Asifa; al-Fatah; Fatah

Context example:

al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)

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:

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Jordan (an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea)

Holonyms ("al-Asifa" is a member of...):

Palestine Liberation Organization; PLO (a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority)