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, 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
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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.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
…الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabha ash-Shaʿbiyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) is a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the largest being Fatah. A secular…
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