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Our "moderate" PLO ally honors murderous terror chief.(Inside Track)(Palestine Liberation Organization)(Brief article)

The New American

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George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), one of the most radical and violent terrorist groups ever, died on January 26, at the age of 82. PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, the supposedly moderate president of the Palestinian Authority and recipient of billions of dollars in aid from the United States and the European Union, eulogized Habash as an "historic leader," declared a three-day mourning period, and ordered flags be flown at half staff in Habash's honor. The PFLP was a major branch of the Arafat-dominated PLO, and Yasser Arafat and George Habash alternated between rivalry and alliance with each other throughout their lives.

Many of the news stories on the terror chief's death referred to Habash as a Christian! Far from being a Christian, Habash was a lifelong, avowed communist. Like Lenin, Stalin, and other communist leaders, Habash had been born into a Christian family, but had rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the ...

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