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๐ต๐ธ My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary by Leila Khaled
Publication date 1971
ูููู ุฎุงูุฏ,
Leila Khaled's autobiography was published when she was only 29, which is an unusually young age for someone documenting their lifeโs achievements.
But by then Khaled, who gained notoriety as a plane hijacker and icon of Palestinian #resistance, had already experienced more than most people manage during a lifetime.
My People Shall Live details Khaledโs early years with her family as they fled the catastrophe that engulfed the Palestinians after the creation of Israel.
She then lived as a refugee in Lebanon and Kuwait, joined the left-wing Arab Nationalist Movement in Beirut at 15, and later became part of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinians (#PFLP).
More than anything, My People Shall Live depicts the events, tragedies, and injustices that create a "terrorist" in the eyes of the Israeli government and its allies.
#Palestine #LeilaKhaled #Book #Autobiography
Publication date 1971
ูููู ุฎุงูุฏ,
Leila Khaled's autobiography was published when she was only 29, which is an unusually young age for someone documenting their lifeโs achievements.
But by then Khaled, who gained notoriety as a plane hijacker and icon of Palestinian #resistance, had already experienced more than most people manage during a lifetime.
My People Shall Live details Khaledโs early years with her family as they fled the catastrophe that engulfed the Palestinians after the creation of Israel.
She then lived as a refugee in Lebanon and Kuwait, joined the left-wing Arab Nationalist Movement in Beirut at 15, and later became part of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinians (#PFLP).
More than anything, My People Shall Live depicts the events, tragedies, and injustices that create a "terrorist" in the eyes of the Israeli government and its allies.
#Palestine #LeilaKhaled #Book #Autobiography
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๐ต๐ธ Leila Khaled The Orange Tree | 2015 Documentary
The original and best documentary about the remarkable Leila Khaled, Palestinian Freedom Fighter, Hijacker, Peace Activist.
Dir Rola Mansour, Producer Philip Lloyd
#Palestine #Liberation #Resistance #LeilaKhaled
#Fedaiyat #FreedomFighter #Hijacker #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking
#BlackSeptember #PFLP #History #Fedayeen #Documentary
The original and best documentary about the remarkable Leila Khaled, Palestinian Freedom Fighter, Hijacker, Peace Activist.
Dir Rola Mansour, Producer Philip Lloyd
#Palestine #Liberation #Resistance #LeilaKhaled
#Fedaiyat #FreedomFighter #Hijacker #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking
#BlackSeptember #PFLP #History #Fedayeen #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ Black September | Three Planes Were Hijacked By The PFLP
Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
#LeilaKhaled #Hijack #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #Jordan #BlackSeptember #PFLP
#Fedaiyat #DawsonField
#History #Documentary
Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
#LeilaKhaled #Hijack #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #Jordan #BlackSeptember #PFLP
#Fedaiyat #DawsonField
#History #Documentary
๐ต๐ธ Edward Heath was pushed by the US into exchanging the iconic Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled for dozens of western hostages after the world's most spectacular multiple aircraft hijacking in September 1970.
Leila Khaled was at the centre of a crisis sparked by the seizure of five civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The PFLP blew up three of the aircraft for the television cameras at a disused RAF airstrip in the Jordanian desert, and 56 US and European passengers were used to bargain for the release of seven Palestinian prisoners in Britain, Germany and Switzerland.
One was Leila Khaled, who had been handed over to the British authorities at Heathrow after an attempt to commandeer an El Al flight was foiled and her fellow hijacker, Patrick Arguello, a Nicaraguan, was shot dead by Israeli guards.
#LeilaKhaled #Fedaiyat
#Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #PFLP #DawsonField #Jordan #Hostages #PrisonerExchange #UK #US #Palestine #Resistance
Leila Khaled was at the centre of a crisis sparked by the seizure of five civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The PFLP blew up three of the aircraft for the television cameras at a disused RAF airstrip in the Jordanian desert, and 56 US and European passengers were used to bargain for the release of seven Palestinian prisoners in Britain, Germany and Switzerland.
One was Leila Khaled, who had been handed over to the British authorities at Heathrow after an attempt to commandeer an El Al flight was foiled and her fellow hijacker, Patrick Arguello, a Nicaraguan, was shot dead by Israeli guards.
#LeilaKhaled #Fedaiyat
#Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #PFLP #DawsonField #Jordan #Hostages #PrisonerExchange #UK #US #Palestine #Resistance
๐ต๐ธ For 22 Years | PPPA
Year 1970
#PFLP #Hijack #PlaneHijacking #Hijacking #BlackSeptember #Fedayeen #DawsonField
#LeilaKhaled #Poster #History
Year 1970
#PFLP #Hijack #PlaneHijacking #Hijacking #BlackSeptember #Fedayeen #DawsonField
#LeilaKhaled #Poster #History
๐ต๐ธ Leila Khaled Interview: Palestine is an International Liberation Struggle |Break ThroughNews - 27th October 2023
Amid Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, Palestinian icon Leila Khaled spoke about the Palestinian struggle for freedom and about the need for intensified international solidarity with Palestine. She also spoke about her history in the liberation movement and the inevitability of resistance.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #LeidaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Liberation #Apartheid
23/10/2023
Amid Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, Palestinian icon Leila Khaled spoke about the Palestinian struggle for freedom and about the need for intensified international solidarity with Palestine. She also spoke about her history in the liberation movement and the inevitability of resistance.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #LeidaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Liberation #Apartheid
23/10/2023
๐ต๐ธ Thread Recap
Documentary The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : 6 Days That Changed The Middle East #TheWarInJune
The Battle of Karameh - 1968 - Articles, video, posters | 1 | 2 | 3
#AlKarameh
Black September 1970 - Articles, videos, Documentaries - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | #PLO #PFLP #Jordan #BlackSeptember
Black September 1970
Palestine Poster Project Archive -
| 1 | 2 | 3 | - #Poster #BlackSeptember #Archive
Leila Khaled Hijacker, Freedom fighter icon, Interviews , Documentary, Biography and Autobiography | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |- #LeilaKhaled #PFLP
#Fedaiyat
Black September Organisation #BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO | 1 | 2 | 3 |
#Palestine #History #Fedayeen #Recap - 01
23/01/2024
Documentary The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : 6 Days That Changed The Middle East #TheWarInJune
The Battle of Karameh - 1968 - Articles, video, posters | 1 | 2 | 3
#AlKarameh
Black September 1970 - Articles, videos, Documentaries - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | #PLO #PFLP #Jordan #BlackSeptember
Black September 1970
Palestine Poster Project Archive -
| 1 | 2 | 3 | - #Poster #BlackSeptember #Archive
Leila Khaled Hijacker, Freedom fighter icon, Interviews , Documentary, Biography and Autobiography | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |- #LeilaKhaled #PFLP
#Fedaiyat
Black September Organisation #BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO | 1 | 2 | 3 |
#Palestine #History #Fedayeen #Recap - 01
23/01/2024
๐ต๐ธ Black September - The Battle For Amman 1970 ( Jordan )
The battle between the Palestinian commandos and the Jordanian Army ,at the end of it whole areas of Amman, Irbid and other main towns lay in ruins. The Palestinians claimed 25,000 had died in the fighting.
#BlackSeptember #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Amman #Jordan #JAF #History #Documentary
The battle between the Palestinian commandos and the Jordanian Army ,at the end of it whole areas of Amman, Irbid and other main towns lay in ruins. The Palestinians claimed 25,000 had died in the fighting.
#BlackSeptember #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Amman #Jordan #JAF #History #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ Hamas, Fatah and the history of Palestine liberation | Azzam Tamimi | The Big Picture S3E02
The history of Palestinian liberation movements is paved with setbacks, betrayals and bitter rivalries.
What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional and global political interests, ideological differences and disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla tactics.
Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank.
British-Palestinian academic and political activist Dr Azzam Tamimi.
In the light of the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel, and the devastating toll on civilian life, Dr Tamimi explains how these movements began, and why another Palestinian uprising is inevitable
#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #History #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Hamas #AzzamTamimi
10/10/2023
The history of Palestinian liberation movements is paved with setbacks, betrayals and bitter rivalries.
What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional and global political interests, ideological differences and disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla tactics.
Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank.
British-Palestinian academic and political activist Dr Azzam Tamimi.
In the light of the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel, and the devastating toll on civilian life, Dr Tamimi explains how these movements began, and why another Palestinian uprising is inevitable
#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #History #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Hamas #AzzamTamimi
10/10/2023
๐ต๐ธ The Wailing Wall of Palestine: Black September | 2020
This was the time when the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP) came into being and would later on achieve a cult status within the Third World and a terrorist one without for their spectacular plane hijackings across the world. This was also the period when Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir had infamously said, โThere is no such thing as a Palestinian people.โ So for the Palestinians the challenge was dual: to prove their identity as well as their independence.
Israelโs capture of the #WestBank in the 1967 war meant that Palestinians swelled into tiny #Jordan altering the demographic balance; which in turn meant that the only way King Hussein could remain the head of an artificially-carved country was to rely on #imperialism and Israeli #colonialism this hitherto has been the fate of the two other artificially created Arab states in the region, Kuwait and to a greater extent #Lebanon
#Palestine #BlackSeptember #History
This was the time when the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP) came into being and would later on achieve a cult status within the Third World and a terrorist one without for their spectacular plane hijackings across the world. This was also the period when Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir had infamously said, โThere is no such thing as a Palestinian people.โ So for the Palestinians the challenge was dual: to prove their identity as well as their independence.
Israelโs capture of the #WestBank in the 1967 war meant that Palestinians swelled into tiny #Jordan altering the demographic balance; which in turn meant that the only way King Hussein could remain the head of an artificially-carved country was to rely on #imperialism and Israeli #colonialism this hitherto has been the fate of the two other artificially created Arab states in the region, Kuwait and to a greater extent #Lebanon
#Palestine #BlackSeptember #History
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๐ต๐ธ Black September Organisation - 1/2
In addition to sowing civil war and the disintegration of Lebanon, the 1970 Jordanian-Palestinian war led to the creation of the Palestinian #BlackSeptember movement. The BSO was created in 1971, as a small cell or #commando faction that split from the PLO, specifically the Fatah #faction. Recruits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP), as-Saโiqa and other groups also joined.
Initially, most BSO members were #Fatah dissidents who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern #Jordan. He continued to fight the Jordanian army after the withdrawal of the #PLO leadership. He was killed, allegedly by execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971. According to them, the Jordanian Prime Minister at the time, #WasfiTal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.
#BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO #AbuAliIyad #Palestine #Resistance #History #Documentary
In addition to sowing civil war and the disintegration of Lebanon, the 1970 Jordanian-Palestinian war led to the creation of the Palestinian #BlackSeptember movement. The BSO was created in 1971, as a small cell or #commando faction that split from the PLO, specifically the Fatah #faction. Recruits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP), as-Saโiqa and other groups also joined.
Initially, most BSO members were #Fatah dissidents who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern #Jordan. He continued to fight the Jordanian army after the withdrawal of the #PLO leadership. He was killed, allegedly by execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971. According to them, the Jordanian Prime Minister at the time, #WasfiTal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.
#BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO #AbuAliIyad #Palestine #Resistance #History #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ PFLP Ghassan Kanafani, Richard Carleton interview | 1970
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, #Beirut 1970. The conflict was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (#PLO )under the leadership of #YasserArafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of #KingHussein. At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon. In 1972, #GhassanKanafani and his niece were killed in a car bomb set by the #Mossad outside his home, he was 36.
#Palestine #PFLP #Fedayeen #Jordan #Lebanon #BlackSeptember #History #Documentary
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, #Beirut 1970. The conflict was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (#PLO )under the leadership of #YasserArafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of #KingHussein. At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon. In 1972, #GhassanKanafani and his niece were killed in a car bomb set by the #Mossad outside his home, he was 36.
#Palestine #PFLP #Fedayeen #Jordan #Lebanon #BlackSeptember #History #Documentary
๐ต๐ธ Ghassan Kalafani | Palestine Poster Project Archive
Kanafaniโs revolutionary journey began with the Arab Nationalist Movement but was cut short due to his disillusionment with its Pan-Arab agendas, which blurred and scattered the Palestinian identity in the process of creating a unified Arab geographical and political continuum.
It is by becoming a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967 and especially helped by being the founder/editor of the widely circulated weekly Al-Hadaf, that Ghassan Kanafani transcended Arabism to Palestinianism.
Note : he was also the author of some of the very early FPLP posters (1968/69/70) & Paintings - Drawings
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Fedayeen #Art #Poster #AlHadat #Press #Journalist #Author #Writer #Artist #Culture #Resistance
Kanafaniโs revolutionary journey began with the Arab Nationalist Movement but was cut short due to his disillusionment with its Pan-Arab agendas, which blurred and scattered the Palestinian identity in the process of creating a unified Arab geographical and political continuum.
It is by becoming a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967 and especially helped by being the founder/editor of the widely circulated weekly Al-Hadaf, that Ghassan Kanafani transcended Arabism to Palestinianism.
Note : he was also the author of some of the very early FPLP posters (1968/69/70) & Paintings - Drawings
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Fedayeen #Art #Poster #AlHadat #Press #Journalist #Author #Writer #Artist #Culture #Resistance
๐ต๐ธ Ghassan Kanafani: Voice of Palestine (1936-1972) - Palestine Chronicle โ
Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, โa commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.โ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted โthe leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad
Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, โa commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.โ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted โthe leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad
๐ต๐ธ The Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Was a multi-sided armed conflict initiated by Palestinian militants against Israel in 1968 and against Lebanese Christian militias in the mid-1970s. It served as a major catalyst for the outbreak of the #LebaneseCivilWar in 1975.
Fighting between the Palestinians and the #ChristianMilitias lasted until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which led to the expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from Lebanese territory.
While the #PLO relocated to #Tunisia in the aftermath of Israel's invasion, other Palestinian militant factions, such as the #Syria-based #PFLPโGC, continued to carry out low-level operations from Syrian-occupied #Lebanon. After 1982, the insurgency is considered to have faded in light of the inter-Lebanese #MountainWar and the #Israelโ#Hezbollah conflict, the latter of which took place for the duration of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon.
#Fedayeen #Resistance #History #Fedayeen
Was a multi-sided armed conflict initiated by Palestinian militants against Israel in 1968 and against Lebanese Christian militias in the mid-1970s. It served as a major catalyst for the outbreak of the #LebaneseCivilWar in 1975.
Fighting between the Palestinians and the #ChristianMilitias lasted until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which led to the expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from Lebanese territory.
While the #PLO relocated to #Tunisia in the aftermath of Israel's invasion, other Palestinian militant factions, such as the #Syria-based #PFLPโGC, continued to carry out low-level operations from Syrian-occupied #Lebanon. After 1982, the insurgency is considered to have faded in light of the inter-Lebanese #MountainWar and the #Israelโ#Hezbollah conflict, the latter of which took place for the duration of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon.
#Fedayeen #Resistance #History #Fedayeen
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๐ต๐ธ (30/6/1969) Palestinian PFLP Leader Major Abu Ali Mustafa
Footage : 30 Jun 1969 Leader of Popular Front For Liberation Of #Palestine Major Abu-Ali interviewed in #Amman on his organization's furture plans
Abu Ali Mustafa was a Palestinian leader who lived and died defending the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinian people.
In August 27, 2001, a U.S-made Israeli army Apache helicopter fired two missiles into his office, blowing him to pieces. This was one of many targetted assassinations of Palestinian leaders, one component of Israel's brutal and consistent policy of ethnic cleansing being carried out against the Palestinian people.
http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=taxonomy/term/2
http://arab-resistance.info/?cat=5
http://www.abualimustafa.org/
Biography :
https://archive.org/details/Abu_Ali_Mustafa_PFLP
#PFLP #Jordan #AbuAliMustafa #History #Documentary
Footage : 30 Jun 1969 Leader of Popular Front For Liberation Of #Palestine Major Abu-Ali interviewed in #Amman on his organization's furture plans
Abu Ali Mustafa was a Palestinian leader who lived and died defending the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinian people.
In August 27, 2001, a U.S-made Israeli army Apache helicopter fired two missiles into his office, blowing him to pieces. This was one of many targetted assassinations of Palestinian leaders, one component of Israel's brutal and consistent policy of ethnic cleansing being carried out against the Palestinian people.
http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=taxonomy/term/2
http://arab-resistance.info/?cat=5
http://www.abualimustafa.org/
Biography :
https://archive.org/details/Abu_Ali_Mustafa_PFLP
#PFLP #Jordan #AbuAliMustafa #History #Documentary
๐ต๐ธ The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel, Palestinian Christian George Habash, established the PFLP, a resistance movement that combined Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the group gained notoriety for a series of armed attacks and plane #highjacks, most notably with the capture of an Air France plane in 1967. Among the most prominent members of the group is Leila Khaled, who became an iconic symbol for Palestinian resistance and female power after she highjacked a plane headed from Rome to Athens in 1969.
In the 1970s, after #Fatah โ the leading secular Palestinian political party founded in 1959 by #YasserArafat and others, the #PFLP has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the #PLO, the umbrella organisation of the Palestinian national movement.
#Palestine #Resistance #GeorgeHabash #LeilaKhaled #History
In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel, Palestinian Christian George Habash, established the PFLP, a resistance movement that combined Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the group gained notoriety for a series of armed attacks and plane #highjacks, most notably with the capture of an Air France plane in 1967. Among the most prominent members of the group is Leila Khaled, who became an iconic symbol for Palestinian resistance and female power after she highjacked a plane headed from Rome to Athens in 1969.
In the 1970s, after #Fatah โ the leading secular Palestinian political party founded in 1959 by #YasserArafat and others, the #PFLP has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the #PLO, the umbrella organisation of the Palestinian national movement.
#Palestine #Resistance #GeorgeHabash #LeilaKhaled #History
๐ต๐ธ Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question โ Palquest | the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
#Palestine #Resistance #PFLP #History
#Palestine #Resistance #PFLP #History
๐ต๐ธ George Habash's contribution to the Palestinian struggle | As'ad AbuKhalil for The Electronic Intifada
George Habash lived his life for Palestine โ every minute of it. He represented a model of revolutionary struggle that is exemplary in its dedication and asceticism, no matter what one thinks of the PFLP or its long political and military experience. One should not hesitate from rendering a harsh judgment against the #PFLP; ultimately it failed politically and militarily. And any evaluation of Palestinian political violence must be made in the context of #Zionist mass violence that for decades had set out to destroy Palestinian society and resistance and replace it with its own exclusivist vision.
But whatever that judgment it should not detract from an appreciation of the profound influence of the PFLPโs founder who helped shape the politics and worldview of a generation. The present political scene is devoid of any leaders of such character.
#Palestine #Resistance #GeorgeHabash #PFLP
George Habash lived his life for Palestine โ every minute of it. He represented a model of revolutionary struggle that is exemplary in its dedication and asceticism, no matter what one thinks of the PFLP or its long political and military experience. One should not hesitate from rendering a harsh judgment against the #PFLP; ultimately it failed politically and militarily. And any evaluation of Palestinian political violence must be made in the context of #Zionist mass violence that for decades had set out to destroy Palestinian society and resistance and replace it with its own exclusivist vision.
But whatever that judgment it should not detract from an appreciation of the profound influence of the PFLPโs founder who helped shape the politics and worldview of a generation. The present political scene is devoid of any leaders of such character.
#Palestine #Resistance #GeorgeHabash #PFLP
๐ต๐ธ George Habash was the antithesis of #YasserArafat:
He was honest, while Arafat was dishonest; consistent when Arafat was inconsistent; principled, while Arafat was shifty; transparent, while Arafat was deceptive; sincere, while Arafat was fake; dignified while Arafat was clownish; modest, while Arafat was arrogant; tolerant of dissent, while Arafat was autocratic, and on and on.
George Habash embodied an era that extended from the #Nakba, or mass expulsions of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948, until the ending of the first phase of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. Up until that time, when a deep ideological transformation took place in the Arab world, Habash was a major actor on the Arab political stage. He was feared by Arab regimes, and respected and loved in the refugee camps. I donโt believe I have ever seen the ordinary people of the camps react to a person as they reacted to Habash. Their love for him was genuine because they felt that he was genuine.
Source
#Palestine #GeorgeHabash #PFLP
He was honest, while Arafat was dishonest; consistent when Arafat was inconsistent; principled, while Arafat was shifty; transparent, while Arafat was deceptive; sincere, while Arafat was fake; dignified while Arafat was clownish; modest, while Arafat was arrogant; tolerant of dissent, while Arafat was autocratic, and on and on.
George Habash embodied an era that extended from the #Nakba, or mass expulsions of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948, until the ending of the first phase of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. Up until that time, when a deep ideological transformation took place in the Arab world, Habash was a major actor on the Arab political stage. He was feared by Arab regimes, and respected and loved in the refugee camps. I donโt believe I have ever seen the ordinary people of the camps react to a person as they reacted to Habash. Their love for him was genuine because they felt that he was genuine.
Source
#Palestine #GeorgeHabash #PFLP