George Habash
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George Habash was a Palestinian politician and physician who was the founder and first general-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine from 1967 to 2000.
Habash c. 1969
Habash received an undergraduate degree in medicine from the American University of Beirut in 1951
Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Darwish & George Habash in Syria c. 1980
"Interview with Comrade George Habash," published by the PFLP on 3 August 1974
Black September
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Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main ph
George Habash
…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. Habash remained opposed to a two-state solution even after the PLO signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993…
View of Jabal Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp in Amman
King Hussein after checking an abandoned Israeli tank on 21 March 1968 during the Battle of Karameh. The perceived joint Palestinian-Jordanian victory led to an upsurge in support for the fedayeen in Jordan.
Fedayeen of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Jordan, early 1969
PLO leaders Yasser Arafat, Nayef Hawatmeh and Kamal Nasser speaking at a press conference in Amman after the June events, 1970