(1926-2008) A Palestinian political and military figure. After his family became refugees during the War of 1948, Habash never returned to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In 1951, he helped found the Arab Nationalists’ Movement in Jordan in order to recruit Arab support against the State of Israel and to liberate Palestine. Soon after Israel’s victory during the War of 1967, Habash formed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a diaspora Palestinian movement informed by Marxist ideas; the PFLP became well known for their use of plane hijackings. Habash was often in opposition to Yasser Arafat, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the leader of Fatah, and continued that opposition once Arafat began negotiations with Israel through the Oslo Process in the 1990s. Though granted permission by Israel to return the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 1996, he refused. In 2000, Habash resigned his leadership of the PFLP. See Thorold, Crispin. “Obituary: George Habash.” BBC. 27 January 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7211505.stm.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/habash-george