Taysir Khalid is a member and Politburo

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 member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist, secular political and military organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiyah...

 (DFLP), who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization until 1993, when he resigned in protest against the Oslo Accords

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. He was the party's candidate for President

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 of the Palestinian Authority in 2005. He gained 3.4% of the vote.

After the September 23, 2011 U.N. Speech on Palestinian Statehood by United States president Barack Obama

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, Khalid said that Obama has forgotten that "the victims of the Nazi Beast are practicing the same criminal methods" against the Palestinians.