Word: habash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough to convene an emergency meeting in Damascus last week; it formed a committee to try to persuade P.F.L.P. Leader George Habash to reconsider...
...three fedayeen groups are op posed, including the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Its leader, George Habash, was barred from Cairo last week by Egyptian officials be cause he also wants to overthrow such conservative Arab leaders as President Sadat's friend and ally, Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Arafat could easily win a vote on the mini-Palestine issue. Meet ings droned on, however, as he sought to shape a consensus without losing dis senters. "Wishes are one thing," Egyptian Editor Salah Gawdah observed last week, "but what is feasible is another...
...organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state for Arabs and Jews...
Credit for the attack on Qiryat Shemona was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command-a small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...
...line commando elements, who will accept nothing less than the dissolution of Israel and the creation of a secular state that would cover all of pre-1947 Palestine. Some of them are talking of Viet Nam-style guerrilla action until that end is achieved. In this camp is George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has condemned the Geneva conference as "disgraceful," as well as the General Union of Palestinian Students...