Al-Hakim was one of the founders of the PFLP and served as its General Secretary until 2000. Habash continued observing the thawabet and principles of true liberation with dedication and steadfastness his entire life. From Al-Lydd, he is a survivor of the Nakba and dedicated his life to the service of his people, leveraging his academic experience not to self-elevate as others so often do, but to treat people as a doctor in the camps while living a humble life. He taught us to emphasize our own sustainability, to safeguard our dignity, and to labor for the cause of liberation.
His vision for liberation was always clear, analytical, and pragmatic. Al-Hakim fiercely held that any interaction, acknowledgment, or partnership with the colonizing enemy is a transgression against not only all struggling colonized people, but especially against those marginalized by the bourgeoisie. He emphasized that the enemy was not just the zionist entity, but that US imperialism remains the head of the snake that consumes the global south.
Al-Hakim was particularly mindful of the essential role and rights of refugees, farmers, women, students, and laborers. George Habash taught us that we are not less because we struggle, bringing forth the word "laborious" not merely as an indication of social status, but that the laborious are the leaders of resistance and revolution.
Today we notice this as the camps offer their own as soldiers in the name of liberation, elevated in martyrdom. Al Hakim was never apologetic about armed Palestinian resistance, which served our people’s dignity and pushed forth our struggle. All the while, cultural laborers, artists, and teachers safeguarded our essence through his teachings. An anti-imperialist model to all, George Habash never overlooked us even when normalization grew increasingly popular among the traitors and stayed committed to the Arab front of rejectionists against imperialist interests throughout the region.
Today, Al Hakim’s teachings and leadership as a founder of the PFLP remain all the more relevant: we refuse normalization, we will fight imperialism wherever the winds of the Nakba pushed us, and we will never relent until we liberate all of Palestine from the river to the sea! That is what George Habash taught us, and we forever hold him as a revolutionary strategist, fighter, and teacher. In the words of Al-Hakim: "Revolt! You have nothing to lose but your chains and your tents."
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On the image: "Our promise to every orange tree on the land of Palestine. Our promise to every olive tree on the land of Palestine. Our promise to every sprout that grows on the land of Palestine: Our promise is to keep fighting. And fight. And then keep fighting. And keep fighting! For years. For decades. For centuries if necessary."
—Al-Hakim
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