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استحقاقات الراهن والأفق القادم
120 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1993
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George Habash
11 books7 followersGeorge Habash (Arabic: جورج حبش) was a Palestinian politician and physician who founded the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Habash was born in al-Lydd, Mandatory Palestine, in 1926. In 1948, while a medical student at the American University of Beirut, he went to his home town of al-Lydd during the 1948 Nakba, when the city's Arab Palestinian population including his family were driven out in what became known as al-Lydd Death March that led to the death of his sister. In 1951, after graduating first in his class from medical school, Habash worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and ran a clinic in Amman. He later relocated to Syria and Lebanon. In an effort to recruit the Arab world to this cause, Habash founded the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) in 1951.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, and after Fatah and Yasser Arafat became the leading figures in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Habash and his colleagues founded the PFLP as a front of several Palestinian factions, like the "heroes of return" and "Palestinian Liberation Front", along with the ANM. On 11 December the PLFP released its first press release and Habash became its first secretary-general.
The PFLP is a leftist Marxist–Leninist movement which opposes the existence of Israel and advocates for a single democratic and secular state in the entire region. In the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings, Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan, which led to the Black September conflict, and his subsequent exile to Lebanon. He remained opposed to a two-state solution even after the PLO signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993. He resigned as secretary general of the PFLP due to ill health in 2000, and died after a heart attack in 2008.
He was also known by his kunya as "Al-Hakim" (Arabic: الحكيم, 'The Wise Man' or 'The Doctor').
Habash was born in al-Lydd, Mandatory Palestine, in 1926. In 1948, while a medical student at the American University of Beirut, he went to his home town of al-Lydd during the 1948 Nakba, when the city's Arab Palestinian population including his family were driven out in what became known as al-Lydd Death March that led to the death of his sister. In 1951, after graduating first in his class from medical school, Habash worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and ran a clinic in Amman. He later relocated to Syria and Lebanon. In an effort to recruit the Arab world to this cause, Habash founded the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) in 1951.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, and after Fatah and Yasser Arafat became the leading figures in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Habash and his colleagues founded the PFLP as a front of several Palestinian factions, like the "heroes of return" and "Palestinian Liberation Front", along with the ANM. On 11 December the PLFP released its first press release and Habash became its first secretary-general.
The PFLP is a leftist Marxist–Leninist movement which opposes the existence of Israel and advocates for a single democratic and secular state in the entire region. In the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings, Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan, which led to the Black September conflict, and his subsequent exile to Lebanon. He remained opposed to a two-state solution even after the PLO signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993. He resigned as secretary general of the PFLP due to ill health in 2000, and died after a heart attack in 2008.
He was also known by his kunya as "Al-Hakim" (Arabic: الحكيم, 'The Wise Man' or 'The Doctor').
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