Khalid Abd al-Majid () is a

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politician and militia leader. Since 1992, he heads a breakaway faction of the

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(PPSF), a minor

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group within the

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(PLO). The PPSF split after a 1991 decision by the organization's leader, Samir Ghawshah, to support

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's peace appeals to

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. Abd al-Majid led the radical wing of the organization, with

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n and possibly

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n support, as it broke away and rebased in

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, where he presently lives. The Abd al-Majid faction of the PPSF has little influence on

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, and is believed to have become more or less subordinated to the Syrian government. It has no representation in the

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(PNA), which it does not recognize as a legitimate representative of the Palestinians, as the PPSF argues it was set up through an illegitimate agreement, i.e. the 1993

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