The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 50)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 50)

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and Husayn Tawfigq represented the “Egyptian Group". All
pending issues were resolved and a new leadership of three:
Al-Hindi, Dhahi, and Husayn were elected and empowered to
take the necessary steps to unite the three groups under the
name of Kata'ib Al-Fida' Al-'Arabi. This leadership was
later enlarged to include George Habash and Abdul Kader Amer.
The latter had been accused of throwing grenades at the
British Club in Alexandria, he escaped with his companions,
Mustafa Kamal al-Thafrawi and Abdul Rahman Marsi, from jail
and all three took refuge in Syria.
The Kata'ib adopted the political program of the
Beirut-based group stressing the issues of Arab unity and
the liberation of Palestine as its ultimate objectives.
The "Egyptian Group" which was more experienced in
clandestine activities provided the new organization, as
mentioned earlier, with a set of tools and organizational
concepts that proved to be invaluable.
It took the new leadership about four months before
it could launch its first attack. On August 5, 1949, armed
men of the Kata'ib unfortunately attacked a synagogue in
Damascus killing 12 and injuring 27. It was believed that
the Kata'ib carried out its assault on the synagogue to
protest the Palestine peace negotiations. conducted by the
United Nations Conciliation Commission in Lausanne,
Switzerland. The leadership of the Kata'ib had ordered
the bombing on the assumption that the. outrage would perhaps
check the Lausanne peace negotiations, Syria's provisional

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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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