The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 45)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 45)

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was always the first in his class, yet he was also an
activist and a student leader. When the Arab-Israeli War
broke out he did not hesitate to join forces with the
irregular Palestinian army. One of the grave problems he
had to face was to tend patients he was ill-equipped to
handle. Though he was still a medical student he treated
his patients sympathetically Making their sufferings his
own. "It was a depressing and desperate task" later he
recalled. When Habash returned to the University after
the war, his friends noticed that he was not anymore the
happy young man they used to know. Indeed he was less
concerned with their conventional pursuits which provided
little or no sacrifice. He was astir with new ideas that
he wanted to expound. In Hani al-Hindi he found a man who
needed a cause, a cause exacting sacrifice; and once they
got together the plan for the future terrorist organization
was spelled out. |
In tracing the roots of the ANM the author has found
the background of Hani al-Hindi very illuminating. He was
born in 1927 in Baghdad where his father, Liet. Col. Mahmoud
al~Hindi, a Syrian, was serving with the Iraqi army. Hani
was raised in an intensely nationalistic home. In the best
Arab tradition, Col. al-Hindi, a zealous nationalist, wanted
to build Hani in his own image. Thus at an early state Hani
was acquainted with the ideas of Arab nationalism.
Furthermore, Hani was carried by his father's revolutionary
activities against the British and the monarchy to experience,

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

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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