Word: habash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, second largest of the commando groups, has an estimated membership of 3,500. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash, a Lydda-born physician who was educated at the American University of Beirut. Habash's group is more flamboyant than Fatah. Marxist-Leninist in outlook, the P.F.L.P. despises the kingships of Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking...
...Habash, the most intellectual of the commando leaders, feels that revolutionary violence is the only means of achieving the P.L.O.'s goal of a new secular, democratic Palestine to replace Israel. Suspecting that Arafat was getting soft on the enemy, Habash recently pulled the P.F.L.P. out of the P.L.O.'s executive committee (many Palestinians are still trying to get him back in). Prior to the Rabat summit, he warned against the dangers of "capitulating" to the U.S. and Israel on the Palestine issue, and threatened to set up a new radical liberation group that would oppose the P.L.O. Habash...
...Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is led by Jordanian Christian Nayef Hawatmeh, 40. He and his 500 Marxist followers split from Habash's organization in 1969, complaining that the P.F.L.P. was not vigorous enough in combatting right-wing Arab governments like Jordan's. Their most notable recent operation was the Ma'alot raid in Israel last May, in which 21 schoolchildren were killed. The attack prompted a massive Israeli retaliation by air on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is another militant splinter from the Habash group. Led by Ahmed Jebreel, 45, a onetime Syrian army officer, the General Command's hard-core force of 150 guerrillas was responsible for the Qiryat Shemona raid in Israel last spring in which an apartment house was attacked and 16 occupants were killed...
...sake of unity. The militant Marxist P.F.L.P. opposes not only Israel but also such "reactionary" Arab monarchs as Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. Although Faisal has generously subsidized Arafat's Fatah guerrillas, the King has never given a riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would settle-temporarily, at least-for Palestinian control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The alternative, they argue...