Taking Stock

George Habash (1926- ) is founder of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was interviewed in Damascus, where he has lived since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, on 23, 24, and 25 October 1997 by Mahmoud Soueid, director of IPS Beirut. The following are excerpts of the much longer interview, which was published in its entirety in an Arabic monograph by IPS Beirut.