George Habash
| George Habash جورج حبش |
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| Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |
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In office December 1967 – July 2000 |
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| Succeeded by | Abu Ali Mustafa |
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| Born |
2 August 1926 Lydda, British Mandate of Palestine |
| Died | 26 January 2008 (aged 81) Amman, Jordan |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1967–2008) Arab Nationalist Movement (1951–1967) |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1967–2008)
George Habash (Arabic: جورج حبش), also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" (Arabic: الحكيم, "the wise one" or "the doctor"; 2 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the left-wing secular nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Habash served as Secretary-General of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.
Habash was born in Lydda (today's Lod) to an Eastern Orthodox Palestinian family in 1926. As a child, he sang in the church choir. Habash, a medical student at the American University of Beirut, was visiting his family during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In July 1948, the Israeli Defence Force captured Lydda from Jordanian and Arab Liberation Army forces, expelling all of the town's Arab residents and killing Habash's sister. Habash and his remaining family became refugees and were not allowed to return home.
Political thinkers who were influences on Habash at this period included Constantin Zureiq, whose lectures at AUB on 'Arab nationalism and the Zionist danger' in the late 1940s and early 1950s Habash had attended, and Sati' al-Husri an Arab Muslim intellectual who emphasized national cohesiveness, territorial patriotism, and loyalty to the state, and gave priority to Arab unity over Islamic unity.
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