The, "secular left, " of the palestinian national liberation movement as represented by the PFLP(G-C) and the DFLP, Yoshie?
George Habash and co. are just as noxious as Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
BTW, C. Hitchens in the latest issue of the quarterly salmagundi riffs on conversations over the yrs. w/Edward Said, in which Said expressed (at that time) hopes that the politically retrogade Islamists would be isolated. Footage, for example, in last Friday night's PBS Frontline documentary on the Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem give one pause in terms of that reading of the balance of ideological forces. Michael Pugliese