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Putting the Kibosh on Habash

The biggest irony of Karma Nabulsi‘s paean to George Habash is that the real fight for Palestinian leadership is between the Islamists and the young secularists: . . . this revolutionary of a bygone area,…

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HabashThe biggest irony of Karma Nabulsi‘s paean to George Habash is that the real fight for Palestinian leadership is between the Islamists and the young secularists:

. . . this revolutionary of a bygone area, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, virtuoso rhetorician, with his charismatic grin, perpetual cigarette and black leather jacket . . .

One doesn’t have to be a Marxist to measure the enormity of his contribution, nor be devoted to a purist understanding of politics to appreciate the value of his extraordinary force.

The only people enjoying this eulogy are a handful of stodgy and increasingly irrelevent old men in Mahmoud Abbas’ Muqata headquarters.

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