Issam Sartawi
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Issam Sartawi was a Palestinian cardiologist, guerrilla leader, politician and diplomat. He led a small fedayeen organisation in Jordan between 1968 and 1971 and became during that time a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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![This picture, purportedly of Sartawi, wearing a kuffiyah, was used to illustrate a section on the AOLP in a 1971 CIA report[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Isam_Sartawi_from_Esau-49_p54.png/500px-Isam_Sartawi_from_Esau-49_p54.png)
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Issam Sartawi was a Palestinian cardiologist, guerrilla leader, politician and diplomat. He led a small fedayeen organisation in Jordan between 1968 and 1971 and became during that time a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). He merged his organisation into Fatah, and became the personal envoy of Yasser Arafat to both European governments and moderate Israeli civil society. He is remembered for both his moderate stance within the PLO and his participation in dialogues with his Israeli counterparts during the 1970s.
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