The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 44)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 44)

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nothing is to be achieved by the protests and demonstrations
of the opposition parties. Hence they envisaged that nothing
could work better than acts of violence against the
defeatists and collaborators in the ruling elite.
Hani al-Hindi later recalled:
We were naive to believe that it takes only a few
bullets in the heads of King Abdulla and other
traitors to engender a revolutionary situation.
However, the group was ready to make use of any
weapon which might serve to develop to a greater
degree the spirit of defiance on the part of our
people, +?
So the story goes that in those fateful years and
by shear coincidence three small groups each comprising a
handful of young Arab radicals were plunged into clandestine
14 The first
revolutionary activities of the same nature.
group consisted wholly of young revolutionary intellectuals
who were either students or recent graduates of the American
University of Beirut. This group genuinely represented the
unity of the Arabs in their struggle against Zionism in the
sense that it included militants from several Arab states.
They were bourgeois by formation, yet revolutionaries by
conviction. The two main leaders of this group were
George Habash and Hani al-Hindi. They succeeded in forming
the Kata'ib in their own image. Habash had apparently been
overflowing with an inborn exuberant energy when he joined
the American University of Beirut as a medical student. He
13,1-Hindi, loc. cit.
14 ness stated otherwise, all the facts in the
following paragraphs of this section are based on state-
ments made by Habash, Al-Hindi and Dhahi in the above
interviews.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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