[fse-esf] Tribute to George Habash

[Yannis Almpanis]

    “INTIFADA” 
    Solidarity Association to the
    Palestinian People 
    
   
   
    
     
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Tribute to George Habash

On Saturday
26th of January 2008 died one of the most important figures of the
Palestinian Resistance, George Habash. George Habash had been the creator of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP). He represented on the one hand the most militant tendencies of the
Palestinian movement and on the other hand the meeting point of the struggling
Palestine with the international Left.

 

The life of
George Habash identified with the course of the Palestinian resistance
movement. Born in the 1st of August of 1925 in the town Lydda in
central Palestine, he will follow the refugee path in 1948. He studies medicine
in the American University
of Beirut,
where he initiates his political activity. He joins the nasseric pan-arab
nationalism and he participates in the creation of the Arab National Movement.
In 1967, six months after the six days war, he creates the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The Popular Front becomes worldwide known
when it’s members overtake airplanes and lead them to Jordan. Besides his
special militancy, Habash rises to eminence by his insistence for the
conjunction of the Palestinian cause with the democratic-socialist change in
the Arab countries. Legendary has been his phrase “the road to Tel-Aviv passes
through Amman and Beirut”. At the same time he is curving a
path that alienates him from pan-Arabism and brings him closer to Marxism and
the New Left that is rising from the hearth of 1968. Later on he will denounce
the Oslo
agreement and he will insist until the end for the necessity of the
continuation of the Resistance. He will never stop working for the unity of the
Palestinian people.

 

The
Intifada Solidarity Association to the Palestinian People expresses it’s warm
condolences to the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine for the death of George Habash. It may be that the physical existence
of George Habash has come to an end, but his memory will never be erased. He
will continue on as a paradigm for those who struggle for the social liberation
in Palestine
and the entire world.

 

Athens, 

28 January 2008


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