Although it has not initiated a significant terrorist attack since 1989, the PSF is reported to have moved its base of operations back to the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Its presence and support in the Occupied Territories, however, remains minimal. In 1999 Syrian leaders claimed to have told a number of Palestinian terrorist groups, including the PSF, to "get used to confining their role to a political one," although U.S. officials said that they had no independent confirmation of this claim. <P><br /><br />In recent years the PSF has indeed appeared to have rejected violence in favor of political means.  The group has taken part in Palestinian legislative elections (garnering little support) and appears to have given up terrorism tactics permanently.

Palestinian Resistance has only claimed one attack in its history, the 1980 bombing of the Syrian Embassy in Paris. This attack was also claimed by two other terrorist organizations (the Jewish Brigades and the Afghan Collective), as well as the Lebanese Front. The first two groups, like Palestinian Resistance, were both previously-unknown groups that dropped off the map after one claim. The latter group, the moderate Lebanese Front, was not known to be radical or internationalist, as the group's main objective was to ensure the unity of the Christian political faction during the Lebanese Civil War. <br /><p><br /><br />According to their alleged spokespeople, the Jewish Brigades opposed Syrian anti-Semitic policies, the Afghan Committee opposed Syrian alignment with the Soviet Union, and the Lebanese Front opposed the occupation of Lebanon by Syrian forces. Palestinian Resistance was the only one out of these groups not to state a justification for the attack.<br /><p><br /><br />Little information about Palestinian Resistance is available. Assuming the group exists, it can be inferred that it opposes Syria and perhaps the Syrian occupation of Lebanon as well. Officially, the Syrian government blamed the attack on agents acting on behalf of the U.S. and Israel and not on any of the groups that claimed the attack or any of the myriad anti-Syrian Lebanese groups that existed during the Lebanese Civil War and through the Syrian occupation.<br />