The PLO's Secret War: Yasser Arafat’s Early Years

Before Yasser Arafat became the face of the Palestinian national movement, he was fighting a hidden war in the shadows of Cairo and the refugee camps. This episode explores the founding of Fatah in the 1950s, a clandestine organization that rejected both Arab state intervention and the United Nations' reliance on diplomacy. We delve into the early Fedayeen raids across the Green Line, the ideological split between revolutionary nationalism and traditional clan politics, and the brutal internal struggles that shaped the Palestine Liberation Organization. Through the eyes of George Habash and Khalil Wazir, we see how a small group of exiled students transformed from marginalized activists into the vanguard of a revolution, setting the stage for the decades of conflict that followed.

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