The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 39)
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- The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 39)
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The founding leaders of the Kata'ib were young men
in their early twenties. They were imbued with extreme
political ideas during their bitter experience as volunteers
fighting side by side with the regular Arab armies in .
Palestine. On the battleground they viewed with alarm the
contrast between Israel's strength and the miserable
weakness of the divided Arab armies. The forceful evacuation
of Palestinians from their rightful realm exasperated their
painful experience. Dr. George Habash, later recalled:
I was humiliated by the events of 1948. The
Israelis came to Lydda and forced us to flee.
It is a picture that haunts me and that I'll
never forget. Thirty thousand human beings
walking, weeping ... screaming in horror ...
women with babies in their arms and children
tugging at their skirts ... and the Israeli
soldiers pushing them with their guns. Some
people fell by the wayside, some never got up
again. It was terrible. Once you have seen
this, your heart and your brains are transformed
-e- what's the point of healing a sick body when
such things can happen? One must change the
world, do something, kill if necessary, kill
‘even at the risk of becoming inhuman in our
turn.°
The author has no means to verify the authenticity
of the above reminiscence, but this is beside the point.
The important thing we are concerned with here is to
understand the psychological impact of the Zionist
occupation of Palestine and the humiliating defeat of the
Arab armies on the Arab youth who later raised to defend
their homeland with vigour and enthusiasm. Hani al-Hindi
3oriana Fallaci, "A Leader of the Fedayeen: 'We
Want a War Like the Vietnam War'" in Life, June 12, 1970,
p. 34. - تاريخ
- 1971-02-07
- المنشئ
- Basil R. Al-Kubaisi
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