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, 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.
