WI: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine responsible for 9/11?

On September 11, 2001, it was believed by some for a short time during the initial chaos that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - a secular Marxist-Leninist political and military organization, were responsible for the 9/11 Terror Attacks. This of course was ultimately proven to be untrue; and it would be quickly discovered that Al-Qaeda was the true culprit of the attack.

So the question I ask is the following, what if the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine were actually responsible for the attack; what would be the ramifications and effect of that?
 
"I stand with Israel" is a lot more popular now.
Has anyone mentioned the reactions of Muslim countries and Hamas? I don't think that even [communist] terrorism should deter them from sympathy for the Palestinians. Seriously, they would check the actual perpetrators because it might just as well be another terrorist group.
 
George Bush launches a second red scare, and the US begins to cooperate more closely with Islamists than ever before.
 
Has anyone mentioned the reactions of Muslim countries and Hamas? I don't think that even [communist] terrorism should deter them from sympathy for the Palestinians. Seriously, they would check the actual perpetrators because it might just as well be another terrorist group.

Islamophobia skyrocketed in the west thanks to 9/11 and related attacks.

A similar effect would happen if a Palestinian group do the same, a communist worse of all.
 
The premise is really weird, because why would the DFLP ever do something like that? They're a leftist guerrilla group which, at most, incidentally targets Americans in relation to their war against Israel. They have no incentive to ever do this.
 
The premise is really weird, because why would the DFLP ever do something like that? They're a leftist guerrilla group which, at most, incidentally targets Americans in relation to their war against Israel. They have no incentive to ever do this.

Indeed. Frankly this thread may be more suited as an ASB scenario.
 
The premise is really weird, because why would the DFLP ever do something like that? They're a leftist guerrilla group which, at most, incidentally targets Americans in relation to their war against Israel. They have no incentive to ever do this.

Well, it might depend on what sort of anti-colonial analysis they have.

If they regard the USA as being the de facto metropolitan, with Israel as just a settler outpost(even if the settlers come from all over), then attacks on American soil might be seen as "bringing the war home", comparable to Algerian attacks in France in the 1950s, or the IRA going into England in the 1980s.

But I don't exactly know what their analysis was. And, to be honest, Marxist groups did not generally go in for the type of nihilistic, mass-scale slaughter of civilians seen on 9/11.
 
The premise is really weird, because why would the DFLP ever do something like that? They're a leftist guerrilla group which, at most, incidentally targets Americans in relation to their war against Israel. They have no incentive to ever do this.

Well, it might depend on what sort of anti-colonial analysis they have.

If they regard the USA as being the de facto metropolitan, with Israel as just a settler outpost(even if the settlers come from all over), then attacks on American soil might be seen as "bringing the war home", comparable to Algerian attacks in France in the 1950s, or the IRA going into England in the 1980s.

But I don't exactly know what their analysis was. And, to be honest, Marxist groups did not generally go in for the type of nihilistic, mass-scale slaughter of civilians seen on 9/11.

It is really weird in retrospect and in great thought, but I thought it'd be interesting anyway.
 
What religion are the majority of members of DFLP
Can I imagine the U.S. will give Israel the Ok to annex Gaza and the West Bank
 
Thinking about it, a marxist group would likely forego the WTC attacks as morally dubious(Ward Churchill aside, very few leftists believe that a filing clerk at an investment bank is equivalent to Eichmann), but still carry out something like the attacks on the Pentagon and the White House. The latter being justified on the grounds that most of the people who die will be the ones actually making the decisions that mess up the world.

And, if they really wanted to keep their moral bases covered, they would attack the White House at night, to minimize civilian casualties.
 
What religion are the majority of members of DFLP
Can I imagine the U.S. will give Israel the Ok to annex Gaza and the West Bank

IIRC either non-practicing Muslims, plus a disproportionately Christian cadre class. It would be likely in this scenario that quite a few of the perpetrators would be nominal Catholics and Orthodox.
 
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