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CPGB-ML: George Habash and the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination (£1.00) |
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 George Habash was born in 1926 in Palestine in the town of Lydd, which became Lod after the Israelis ethnically cleansed it at the time of partition in 1947.
At the time when George Habash was born, Palestine was a British ‘Protectorate’, a euphemism for a British share in the spoils of war, specifically the first world war. At the end of the war, the former Ottoman Empire was divvied up between the victors, with Palestine falling to the British, who had for decades been cultivating a special relationship with Palestine’s jewish minority and with the world zionist movement, which had its eyes on Palestine as the centre of a jewish homeland.
In the summer of 1948, whilst studying medicine in Beirut, George went back home to help organise resistance to the zionist catastrophe that was sweeping over the Palestinian people, driving them from their ancestral homes and lands into exile and dispossession.
At this time, he and his whole family, along with 95 percent of the inhabitants of his native city, were forced out at gunpoint by the zionist terrorists and ethnic cleansers commanded by Yitzhak Rabin. Years later, Habash was to observe:
“It is a sight I shall never forget. Thousands of human beings expelled from their homes, running, crying, shouting in terror. After seeing such a thing, you cannot but become a revolutionary.”
The three articles printed in this pamphlet were delivered as speeches to a memorial meeting honouring Al-Hakim (the wise one, the healer), Comrade Dr George Habash, founding secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The meeting was held in Central London on 8 February 2008 and organised by the CPGB-ML. |
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