Arafat and his group lack imperative social/poltical platform.
Yet, besides new mode of terrorism, they maintain an extensive propaganda apparatus, which incorporates various sources: Nazi anti-semitism, Anti-colonialist literature (Applied here in inappropriate setting) South American radical literature, and religious motives

The camp rallied around its fighters, and many residents reported volunteering to guide them, hide them and feed them.

And what about the explosion and ambush last Tuesday which killed 13
soldiers? "They were lured there," he says. "We all stopped shooting and
the women went out to tell the soldiers that we had run out of bullets and
were leaving. The women alerted the fighters as the soldiers reached the
booby-trapped area..."