Birth: NULL/NULL/1929 Death:NULL/NULL/1991
Born in Lubia, near Tiberias, in 1929; moved with his family to Qula, Lydda; became a member of the Fateh High Central Command in 1965; was warned in 1968 for leading dissent within Jordan; was allowed to head the Fateh militia in Jordan, but then dismissed after seen to be creating a personal power base; was elected to the Fateh Central Committee in Sept. 1971 to hold overall responsibility for Syria and Lebanon (after the death of Walid Nimr); turned increasingly leftist and, from Oct. 1973, strongly promoted the role of the USSR; led the anti-Syrian position by attacking Maronite strongholds in the early 1976; backed the 1979 Soviet intervention into Afghanistan; strongly opposed the Fahd (1981) and Reagan (1982) plans; denounced -with Syrian support – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Nov. 1982 for the Fez Declaration and cooperation with Jordan; backed the rebellion led by Sa’id Muragha from Jan. 1983 for which his membership in the Fateh Central Committee was suspended and he was dropped from the Fateh list for the PNC; joined the Syrian-backed dissident Fateh-Uprising led by Muragha the same year; was placed under house arrest in June 1984 by the Syria government due to his involvement in the struggle between Fateh dissidents; died of a heart attack in Sept. 1991.
