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
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the
George Habash
…George Habash (1 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian politician and physician who was the founder and first general-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from 1967 to 2000. Habash was born in Lydda, Mandatory Palestine, in 1926. In 1948, while he was a medical student at the American University…
George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, was PFLP's Secretary General at its beginning. He had been influenced by the ideas of Constantin Zureiq and Sati' al-Husri, Arab nationalists of the 1940s and 1950s.
A PFLP patrol in Jordan, 1969
PFLP graffiti in Bethlehem
PFLP graffiti in Sebastia