Word: habash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just who started the battle between the swaggering guerrillas and Jordanian soldiers loyal to Hussein is unclear. The guerrillas were members of the ultra-militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is led by a radical Arab Christian physician named George Habash, an exponent of terror tactics against civilians, including children. In the small town of Zarka, twelve miles north of Amman, quarrels broke out between guerrillas and soldiers of the Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Regiment, a unit especially faithful to Hussein. Both sides were armed, and the confrontation quickly expanded into episodes of violence. By the time it ended...
After Arafat and the King reached their agreement, the battle flared up again, then finally faded. At the Jordan Intercontinental, sleepy hostages were roused from bed and assembled to meet P.F.L.P. Leader Habash. "We believe that we had the right to use you and your lives to put pressure on the Jor danian government and on the Amer icans," he told them. "I must be frank and tell you that we were near to executing our plan. We were determined to blow up the hotels. You must try to understand why we did it. For 23 years, we have been...
...heroes of Arab youth: nine-year-olds train with real guns and chant a fedayeen cry, "Oh Zionists, do not think you are safe. Drinking blood is a habit of our men." They are the idols of grown Arabs, who refer affectionately to Arafat as "the old man," to Habash as "the doctor," and to the fedayeen generally as "the boys...