Sitting near a poster of Che Guevara inside his French prison cell before his release this week, anti-Israel Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah said the “struggle” kept him going during his four decades behind bars.

A court last week ordered the 74-year-old — who was jailed over the 1982 killings of an Israeli diplomat and a US military attaché — to be released from the Lannemezan prison in southern France on Friday.

Abdallah is one of the longest-serving prisoners in France, where most convicts with life sentences are freed after less than 30 years.

Between his bed, desk and microwave corner, Abdallah had decorated the yellow walls of his 11-square-meter cell with the flag of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary, but also a map of the world and postcards.

An office chair near his bed was piled high with newspapers.

“If I’m alive in front of you today, it’s because I’ve kept up the fight — otherwise 40 years [in jail] would turn your brain to mush,” said the prisoner, whose hair and beard have turned grey.

AFP visited his cell on July 17, along with a hard-left member of parliament, Andree Taurinya, who used her right as a lawmaker to visit detention centers to see him on the day the court ordered his release.

Dressed in a red sleeveless t-shirt and beige shorts, he greeted her warmly and they posed together for a selfie.

Abdallah said that........

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