{{Short description|Palestinian politician (1937–1970)}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Khaled Yashruti | image = | image_size = | office = Member of the [[National Command of the Ba'ath Party|National Command]] of the [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] | term_start = 1 September 1959 | term_end = 23 October 1963 | birth_date = 1937 | birth_place = [[Acre, Israel|Akko]], [[Mandatory Palestine|British Palestine]] | death_date = 1970 | death_place = [[Beirut]], Lebanon | spouse = | party = [[Ba'ath Party#Lebanon|Lebanon]]/[[Ba'ath Party#Palestine|Palestine]] Regional Branch of the [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] }} '''Khaled Yashruti''' (1937 in [[Acre, Israel|Akko]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] – 1970 in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]]) was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] political activist and a leading member of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]].<ref>Mishali-Ram, Meirav. Conflict Change and Persistence: The India-Pakistan and Arab-Israeli Conflicts Compared. United States, Lexington Books, 2019. 172.</ref>
== The Right wing of Fatah== Beyond the [[Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)|Baghdad-oriented Ba'ath Party]]-linked [[Arab Liberation Front]] (ALF), there were some high-ranking members of [[Fatah]] itself who were heavily influenced by the original/non-Marxist [[Pan-Arab]] doctrine of the Ba'ath.
These people rejected the [[Soviet Union]] and Arab states close to it (The [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)|pro-Syrian Ba'ath]], [[Algeria]], [[Libyan Arab Republic (1969–1977)|Libya]] and [[South Yemen]]). They resented Yasser Arafat's rapprochement with Moscow and the PLO's progressive drift towards "third-worldist" left-wing rhetoric.
They were viewed as the "conservative" right-wing of Fatah. Many were members of the Galilean/Northern Palestinian aristocracy (such as Khaled Yashruti's father, who was the hereditary Shaykh of the [[Shadhiliyya]] [[Sufi]] brotherhood in pre-1947 Palestine). Most had studied in the United States or at the [[American University of Beirut]] in the late 1950s.
== Involvement in the PLO ==
He created Jabhat Tahrîr Filistîn (Palestine Liberation Front) in Liban.<ref name="aboufakhr">Saqr Abou-Fakhr, « [https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-etudes-palestiniennes-2001-4-page-48?lang=fr Genèse des organisations de la résistance palestinienne avant 1967] », ''Revue d'études palestiniennes'', 2001/4, No. 81, {{p.}}48.</ref> Khaled Yashruti progressively became their leader in the mid-1960s, and became a member of the PLO leadership in 1968, two years before Fatah's commanders were expelled to Lebanon from Jordan. Yashruti's faction had the backing of the Al-Bakr/[[Saddam Hussein]] Ba'athist government in Baghdad and was generally favorable to U.S. involvement in the [[Middle-East]] as a counterweight to the growing influence of the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Israel]].
In parallel to his political activities, Khaled worked as a civil engineer and real estate entrepreneur in Lebanon. He died in 1970 in an accident, where a huge crane fell on him while he was inspecting construction works in downtown Beirut. Some Palestinian and Lebanese journalists argued this was not an accident, but murder.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030003656/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907221,00.html?iid=chix-sphere ''“Another Battle of Beirut ”'' (Time Magazine, May 14, 1973)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050428131534/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=6942 ''“The Shadhiliyya Zawiyat ”''] * [http://www.cryptome.org/cia-pulp/cia-esau-49.pdf ''“The Palestinian Fedayeen”'' (Declassified CIA Report, 1971)]
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