When J Nassar erroneously replaced Habash's own words: racist targeting Jews with 'Zionists'

Submitted by Migeulito (United States), Aug 4, 2020 at 21:25

When J Nassar erroneously replaced Habash's own words: racist targeting Jews with 'Zionists'

Re PFLP's terrorist George Habash's 1970 quote in [racist] targeting Jews internationally.

LIFE Jun 12, 1970, pp. 32-33

https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33

Let me explain: the attacks of the Popular Front are based on quality, not quantity. We believe that to kill a Jew far from the battleground has more of an effect than killing 100 of them in battle; it attracts more attention. And when we set fire to a store in London, those few flames are worth the burning down of two kibbutzim...

And it was recorded on tape available for propagandist who tried to deny it.

https://books.google.com/books?id=jVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA19&dq=%22interview+with+dr.+Habash+took+place+with+such+a+machine%22]

In 1975, an Arab author M. Hussain has dtill quoted Habash as the original quote re targeting Jews internationally.

'The Palestine Liberation Organisation: A Study in Ideology, Strategy and Tactics,' Mehmood Hussain, University Pub., 1975, p. 46

https://books.google.com/books?id=MbZtAAAAMAAJ&dq=&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Quantity

But by 1991, another one, J.R. Nassar has conveniently replaced the word 'Jew' with 'zionist':

'The Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence,' Jamal Raji Nassar, Praeger, 1991, p.89

Prior to 1972 , George Habash , leader of the PFLP, defended these acts...

https://books.google.com/books?id=U9KPAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22battleground%22

When S. Lubet [The Protocols of the Euphemisms of Zion.
What anti-Semites really mean when they complain about "Zionists."
by STEVEN LUBET, JULY 15, 2019
https://thebulwark.com/the-protocols-of-the-euphemisms-of-zion/] emailed Nassar, his answers ran something along the line that Habash neant "Zionists"...

But Nassar's explanation shows inaccuracy on his part himself disproving his professed sincerity.

Nassar, before he quotes Habash's line about targeting Jews internationally and replacing it with "zionists" (Which doesn't make sense. On what basis or based on what document has he been "selecting" so-called "Zionists" out of all Jews anyhow?), he takes another line from that very 1970 Habash's interview, which Habash only said later on. But Nassar puts it before the infamous quote. It's Habash's argument about pre 1948 groups attacking British etc. (the fringe Zionist groups that targeted British officials which he erroneously tried compare himself and his targeting of civilians to) But in quoting that line, Nassar does not replace "zionists" with Jews. Of course.

Showing his goal.

0In placing it before the infamous quote, it is an ad attempt to soften the original and to make some moral equivalence eventhough the subject by the infamous quote is Jews outside of Israel, which that line Nassar bought/brought to be placed in the wrong earlier place, has no relation to.

Also, that same Habash who boasted in that very 1970 interview being so meticulous and that he makes sure that no European dies in his attacks. It does not seem he "made sure" no non-Zinists pious Jews so frequent in that city are not hurt in his Feb.21 1969 attack on a Jerusalem market.

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