Nimr Saleh

Nimr Saleh (; 1929–1991), also known as Abu Saleh, was a Palestinian leftist figure who was a member of the Fatah. He was dismissed from the Fatah Central Committee in 1983 due to his opposition and involvement in Fatah uprising.

Early life Saleh was born in Lubya, Mandatory Palestine, in 1929. He was named as a member of its High Central Command in 1965. He acted as the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) liaison with the Lebanese leftist groups which he supplied arms.

Saleh was part of the anti-Syrian group within the Fatah which started an extensive attack against Maronite strongholds in the early 1976. However, he would change his camp later being one of the Syrian supporters. In the same Congress Saleh was reelected as a member of the Central Committee of Fatah.

Saleh was a supporter of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 and rejected the peace plans suggested by the Saudi Crown Prince Fahd in 1981 and the American President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Saleh was a frequent visitor of Moscow where he was highly praised. After being backed by Syria Saleh declared his opposition against Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO, in November 1982. He cited the Fez declaration which proposed another peace plan and Fatah's cooperation with Jordan as the reasons for his opposition.

Saleh and other critics of Yasser Arafat openly expressed their disagreement in the Fatah Revolutionary Council meeting in January 1983. His membership in the Fatah Central Committee ended after the meeting, and his frequent absences from the meetings were cited as the reason for his dismissal from the council.

Saleh then began to support the rebellion against the PLO led by Said Muragha and became one of the leading rebel figures. He argued in an interview with the Syrian daily Tishreen in July 1983 that they were planning to "dismember and rebuild Fatah on the basis of the movement's political programme." He also added in the same interview that they had a strong alliance with the Syria's ruling party, the Arab Socialist Baath Party. He died of a heart attack in September 1991.