The DFLP crystallized an organizational work strategy at the same time that it developed its political strategy based on its interim program. This ensured the basis for mobilizing the forces of the Palestinian people. Within this context, the DFLP, along with its political initiatives that strengthened the national movement, contributed to various significant actions in the struggle.

A consistent feature in the DFLP's general policy is that there is an intimate relationship between the political line in each national circumstance and the organizational solutions that ensure, to the greatest degree, a national coalition among the various political and social forces. This link enables an efficient undertaking of the immediate tasks, and demonstrates the profound relationship between the actual situation and the people's movement.

The military operations that the DFLP waged (1974 1979) under the banner of the interim program presented a clear model of the correct relationship between armed struggle and political objectives. This occurred at a time when it was necessary to unify the people and their political forces behind this program in order to confront the unjust campaigns to which its vanguard and militants were exposed. At the same time, the organization did not lose sight of the main direction of the struggle and the need for direct military combat with Israel during the civil war in Lebanon, and the various confrontations within the region as well as confrontations against the different proposed American plans.

The DFLP's call for the formulation of a unified leadership for the popular uprising (Intifada) in the first weeks after its outbreak on December 9, 1987, and its initiative to formulate the aims and the missions of the uprising in Communiqué No.2 (January 10, 1988), is evidence of the DFLP's ability to understand public opinion and influence its development by proposing concrete tasks that respond to the people's actual situation, allowing them to best use their energies and abilities to accelerate the national struggle.