George Habash in 1972

Boker Tov, Boulder shares a post from her archives: Oriana Fallaci's interview with George Habash back in 1972 as found in her book The Force of Reason:

"Our revolution is a part of the world revolution. It is not confined to the reconquest of Palestine," he said. "The time has come to admit that we want a war like the war in Vietnam. That we want another Vietnam, and not only for Palestine but for all the Arab countries."

Then he said: "The Palestinian problem is not an aside problem. A problem separated from the Arab Nation's realities. Palestinians are part of the Arab Nation. Therefore the entire Arab Nation must go to war against Europe and America. It must unleash a war against the West. And it will. America and Europe don't know that we Arabs are just at the beginning of the beginning. That the best has yet to come. That from now on there will be no peace for the West."

There's enough there to show that the Palestinian issue is not a purely Arab-Israeli issue; it is an issue facing the West as a whole.

On the other hand, Habash is not your typical Arab--he is not Moslem, so his ideology is more Arab Nationalist and Socialist: Vietnam and Revolution. It is not identical to the Islamist agenda. The enemy may be the same, but the goal is different. I don't think Habash was interested in world conquest--and if he was, it wasn't to spread Islam.

But the basic threat is the same.
And either way, the West is still napping.

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