George Habash

George Habash (1926–2008) was a Palestinian physician and political leader who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and led it for decades.

Wadie Haddad: A Palestinian physician and PFLP leader who organized its armed operations. Habash’s longtime colleague, Haddad led the PFLP’s external operations.
Palestinian exodus (1948): The displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. The loss of his hometown, Lydda, became a formative experience in Habash’s political life.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: A Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. This was the organization Habash founded and led.
Dawson's Field hijackings: The September 1970 hijacking of four passenger aircraft by the PFLP, with a fifth attempted hijacking. The operation brought intense attention and condemnation to Habash’s organization.
Yasser Arafat: A Palestinian political leader who chaired the Palestine Liberation Organization and founded Fatah. Arafat’s nationalist strategy and PLO leadership competed with Habash’s revolutionary approach.
Lydda: A Palestinian city captured by Israeli forces in July 1948 and later renamed Lod. Habash was born in Lydda and fled during its capture in 1948.
Marxism–Leninism: A communist ideology combining Marx’s class analysis with Lenin’s theory of revolutionary organization and state power. The PFLP adopted Marxism–Leninism as Habash moved beyond pan-Arab nationalism.
Black September: The 1970 conflict in Jordan in which King Hussein’s forces fought Palestinian armed groups. The confrontation weakened the PFLP’s position in Jordan and reshaped its operating environment.
Nayef Hawatmeh: A Palestinian political leader who founded the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Hawatmeh broke with Habash over ideology and political strategy.
Nakba: The Arabic name for the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948. Habash’s displacement belongs to the wider Palestinian catastrophe known as the Nakba.

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