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George Habash ( ) also known by his laqab " al-Hakim " (Arabic: الحكيم — the wise one or the doctor ) (August 2, 1926 – January 26, 2008) was a Palestinian nationalist . Habash, a Palestinian Christian , founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , which pioneered the hijacking of airplanes as a Middle East militant tactic.1Habash served as Secretary-General of the Palestine Front until 2000, when ill-health forced him to resign.2He died in Amman , Jordan in 2008.3
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George Habash (arabic جورج حبش)(also known by his nom-de-guerre Al-Hakim) ( 1925 - ) a leading Palestinian politician, he was the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine from 1967 until 2000 , when he stepped down due to illness. He was born in Lydda to a Greek Orthodox family. The family became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war . Habash was a medical student at The American University of Beirut , subsequent to graduation he worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. He was a founding member of the Arab Nationalist Movement . After the Six-Day War he helped found the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . Habash resides in Damascus , Syria . v t e
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George Habash ( ) also known by his laqab " al-Hakim " ( — the wise one or the doctor ) (2 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Marxist and Palestinian Christian who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . Habash served as Secretary-General of the Palestine Front until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.
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George Habash ( ), also known by his laqab " al-Hakim " ( , "the wise one" or "the doctor"; 2 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the left-wing secular nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).Habash served as Secretary-General of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.
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Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1926–2008) George Habash ( ), also known by his laqab " al-Hakim " ( ; 1 August 1926 – 26 January 2008), was a Palestinian Christian politician and physician who founded the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).Habash served as General Secretary of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.
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Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1926–2008) leaders George Habash (1 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian politician and physician who was the founder and first general-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from 1967 to 2000.Habash was born in Lydda , Mandatory Palestine , in 1926.In 1948, while he was a medical student at the American University of Beirut , he returned to his hometown of Lydda during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War .The city's Arab Palestinian population, including his family, was forcibly driven out in an event known as the Lydda Death March , which led to the death of his sister.In 1951, after graduating first in his class from medical school, Habash worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and ran a clinic in Amman .He later relocated to Syria and Lebanon.In 1967, after being sidelined in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) by Yasser Arafat , he founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist–Leninist group opposing the existence of Israel and advocating for a one-state solution in the entire region .In the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings , Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan, which led to the Black September conflict and his subsequent exile to Lebanon.Habash remained opposed to a two-state solution even after the PLO signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993.He resigned as secretary-general of the PFLP due to ill health in 2000, dying of a heart attack in 2008.He was also known by his kunya as " al-Hakim " ( Arabic : الحكيم , romanized : Al-Ḥakīm , lit. ' The Wise Man ' or ' The Doctor ' ).There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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