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50 years ago: True quote by 'Palestnian' Terror G. Habash

Posted on 08/02/2020 11:49:19 AM PDT by Marinario

Leader of the fedayeen: we want a war like the Vietnam war
LIFE Jun 12, 1970, pp. 32-33

... there are only 1,600 or so members. Yet those 1,600, for ill or for good, are attracting the world's attention with acts of terrorism. "Why?" is what I went to ask Dr. Habash. We met at night in the suburbs of Amman, in a building attached to a refugee camp.
The room contained one desk and a few chairs; outside the closed doors, armed fedayeen stood guard
...
Let me explain: the attacks of the Popular Front are based on quality, not quantity. We believe that to kill a Jew far from the battleground has more of an effect than killing 100 of them in battle; it attracts more attention. And when we set fire to a store in London, those few flames are worth the burning down of two kibbutzim...
https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32
https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33

Long before today's anti Israel bloggers' attempt to deny Habash's words, there was already an attempt by the propaganda wing from PFLP and the time.

But Oriana replied:

LIFE - Jul 17, 1970 - Page 19
Oriana Fallaci replies: 

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information (I say 'so-called' because it never showed up during my stay with the fedayeen) evidently ignores the existence of a machine known as a tape recorder. My interview with Dr. Habash was recorded on such a machine. The tape is at his disposal to refresh his memory if he has forgotten, or wants to forget. I would like to believe that Dr. Habash is not informed about this letter of his associates or he would have prevented them from writing so many useless idiocies and senseless insults. Dr. Habash knows .very well that what I wrote was said by him into a microphone. 
The word "terrorism" might not have been used often by me. This was out of politeness which I now regret. But J did use the word, and I even commented that when we Europeans were fighting for our freedom we did not kill children or civilians. Dr. Habash did not react in anger; he explained his theory.

"I obviously edit my interviews. But I did not need to edit much in this one because it was good as it was. It opens as it opened. It ends as it ended and it reports faithfully, all that Habash said in a 90 minute interview in English. 

The words on the tape are clear, the sound excellent. Mistakes are impossible, except for the pronunciation of the year 1957, which I might have understood as 1967, due to his slight lips. The only thing that the tape did not record is Dr. Habash's tears and his mouth's trembling , a human reaction that helped me to like him a lot. In this I might have been wrong.

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information also insinuates that I am a fascist. To such vulgarity I will only answer that when Dr. Habash was doing nothing against fascism, and his people were getting along very well with the Nazis, I was a little girl with pigtails fighting fascism in the resistance in Italy. I recall that there were no Palestinian journalists to interview us or to sympathize with us at the risk of their lives."
https://books.google.com/books?id=jVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA19&dq=%22interview+with+Dr.+Habash+took+place+with+such+a+machine.+The+tape+is+at+his+disposal%22&hl=en

Life - Volume 69, Issues 1-5 - Page 98
https://books.google.com/books?id=ys0aAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22evidently+ignores+the+existence+of+a+machine+known+as+a+tape+recorder%22&


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Related:
As'ad Abukhalil: America's Hezbollah Propagandist
by John Hajjar
Family Security Matters
October 17, 2011
[...]
Distorting history at will, Abukhalil writes that "after General Michel Aoun assumed the presidency of Lebanon in 1988, Phares joined the right-wing coalition known as the Lebanese Front, which consisted of various sectarian groupings and militia. The Front backed Gen. Auon in his struggles against the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad and the Muslims of Lebanon."
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/19557/asad-abukhalil-america-hezbollah-propagandist

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: entebbe; fedayeen; georgehabash; georgehsbash; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; pflp; vanity; waronterror; wot

1 posted on 08/02/2020 11:49:19 AM PDT by Marinario
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To: Marinario

If only there were smartphones...


2 posted on 08/02/2020 11:49:49 AM PDT by Marinario
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To: Marinario
the attacks of the Popular Front are based on quality, not quantity

So horrific how this Palestinian Arab spoke about human life... and according to his language ..On 911, it was both..

3 posted on 08/02/2020 11:54:58 AM PDT by Carlez
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To: Marinario

“Kill, kill, kill” - The battle cry of Muhammad’s Companions, Tabari VIII: 141

“Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them. Lie in wait for them, ambush them, overwhelm them. I have ordered you to kill them.” - Muhammad, Ishaq: 618

“The dhimmi (non-Muslim) is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle” - Sufi theologian and jurist al-Ghazali

“We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.” - H. Mussawi, eliminated leader of Hezbollah

“Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.” - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

“You love life and we love death.” - al-Qaeda - 3/14/2004

“We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.” - Muslim demonstrator in Toronto. Canada - 2006

“To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi’ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.” - Amir Taheri - 2006

“We produce practically nothing on our own, we can do almost nothing for ourselves, we cannot even manage our wealth.” - Dr. Mahathir Mohammed, the former prime minister of Malaysia, speaking about Islamic nations - 2006


4 posted on 08/02/2020 11:57:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Marinario

If only there were smartphones...

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The cell phone bomb the only invention by muslim Arabs in 1400 years


5 posted on 08/02/2020 11:58:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Marinario

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6 posted on 08/02/2020 12:13:48 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Oriana Fallaci was the bravest of the brave in her search for the truth. She died much too soon.

Her 1970 interview with Habash proved for all time that Pallies are a pack of murderous savages more interested in killing Jews than acquiring their own state.


7 posted on 08/02/2020 12:33:09 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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They tried to assassinate her character. She was only against radicals.


8 posted on 08/02/2020 1:31:48 PM PDT by Marinario
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Arab nationalist planned hijackings - Los Angeles Times - By Kim Murphy, Jan. 27, 2008
...He studied medicine at the American University of Beirut, founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel. After Israeli forces crushed an Arab assault and moved into the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, Habash formed the PFLP to continue operations against Israelis. It became the second-largest faction within the PLO, after Arafat’s Fatah organization.
In one of its first operations, an Israeli El Al airliner was hijacked to Algiers in July 1968, forcing the Israelis to free 16 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the plane and its passengers.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-27-me-habash27-story.html
9 posted on 08/02/2020 1:32:27 PM PDT by Marinario
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In 1975, an Arab author M. Hussain has still quoted Habash re targeting Jews (internationally) as in the original quote. The Palestine Liberation Organisation: A Study in Ideology, Strategy and Tactics Mehmood Hussain, University Pub., 1975, p. 46
https://books.google.com/books?id=MbZtAAAAMAAJ&dq=&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Quantity

But by 1991, another one, J.R. Nassar has conveniently replaced the word 'Jew' with 'zionist': The Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence, Jamal Raji Nassar, Praeger, 1991, p.89
Prior to 1972 , George Habash , leader of the PFLP, defended these acts...
https://books.google.com/books?id=U9KPAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22battleground%22

By 2008 after Habash's death as it became public, again, Arab blogger tried to deny the quote altogether.

10 posted on 08/02/2020 2:06:37 PM PDT by Marinario
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Habash, PFLP Anti semitism:

Overlooked Palestinian terror group returns with a vengeance, Ben Cohen, JNS.org

November 24, 2014

...the rescue operation mounted by Israel to free around 100 hostages from an Air France plane that had been hijacked seven days earlier by Palestinian terrorists and diverted to Uganda, then under the boot of the brutal dictator Idi Amin. After a week of sheer hell, during which the German leftist hijackers separated the Jewish from the non-Jewish passenger...

If the Entebbe episode failed to convince outside observers of the PFLP's hard-wired anti-Semitism, then its bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris in October 1980 should have set aside any lingering doubts...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/opinion/fl-jjps-cohen-1126-20141124-story.html

11 posted on 08/02/2020 4:38:21 PM PDT by Marinario
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