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Khaled was a member of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), which the European Union, the United States, Canada and Israel still have on the list of terrorists. Protesters say their invitation to San Francisco State University is futile and provocative. The theme of the podium is: “Teaching Palestine: Whose Narrative? Gender, justice and resistance ”. It wouldn’t be wrong with the confusing topic either, but why is Khaled talking about all this? Why wasn’t someone else who touched him but wasn’t a terrorist?
Khaled was born in Haifa, even during the British period. He had 12 siblings. The vast territory torn away from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was then under British and French rule, that is, under the Sykes-Picot agreement. Hence the “Arab Trianon” arose.
The United States was left out of the deal. When President Wilson was informed later, he called the entire program shit. The United States became more interested in Arabia because you could smell oil there. And the Russians were just worried about something else, and that then hurt him a lot.
Thus, at the whim of the two great European powers, it divided what we used to call the Holy Land. The area was somewhat superficially christened Palestine, so the Arabs who lived there became Palestinians overnight. The Arab monarchy beyond the Jordan added to the loot, and the rest was taken by the French, including Syria and Lebanon.
The administration of the Holy Land was entrusted by the League of Nations to England, many say goat cabbage, because it was treated as a quasi-colony. Finally, after much torment, this area was divided by the UN in 1947, ordering the creation of an Arab and Jewish nation-state.
In 1948, during the first Arab-Israeli war, Khaled’s family fled to Lebanon, except for the head of the family, who refused to move. Khaled once said that dad had no problem in the end, he died there too.
In the founding conflict, thousands of poor Arab families left their homeland and dispersed as runners-up in the surrounding states; In Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt. Huge refugee camps were established along the borders because the host countries did not want to integrate the refugees. This is also the reason why many have mocked the Palestinians as “Gypsies of the Middle East”.
This is how the “Arab Exodus” took place. Not only were the refugees frightened by the rise of Jewish power, but the Arab regimes urged them to leave as well. They have been the innocent victims of the heated propaganda that the Arab coalition will soon destroy Israel and then be able to return home in peace. The one who remains, however, is the traitor.
Most of them never returned home and perhaps never will.
Khaled began active politics at the age of 15 after meeting Dr. George Habash, who graduated from the American University of Beirut. The young woman, following in her footsteps, became a member of the Arab Nationalist Movement for Doctors. This was initially supported by neighboring states and even Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser himself. But in the end, they were expelled from everywhere, mainly because of their fanaticism. This was deemed dangerous by local authorities. They wanted to follow their own policies rather than fall under the influence of the Palestinian armed organizations.
Internal Arab conflicts often culminated in bloodbaths. In September 1970, after 11 days of fighting, the Arab Legion of King Hussein of Jordan defeated the Palestinians and the PFSZ itself in a massacre, led by Yasser Arafat. They were left with no other escape route than Lebanon. It is then that the terrorist group Black Revenge is formed, organized specifically for revenge. They are the ones who will kill 11 Israeli athletes and a German policeman two years later at the Munich Olympics. Khaled and Habas joined the PFLP in Lebanon, which was originally an affiliate of Arafat (among several others), but did not surrender to Abu Ammar. They were stretched out in their own uniform; dressed in camouflage and added to the officers a cheery red beret with a unique insignia. As the PFSZ is an umbrella organization under which a wide variety of groups and viewpoints seek refuge, Khaledék’s self-expression hysteria rose to the roof of the organization’s main council. PFLP chief Wadie Haddad was in constant political rivalry with Yasser Arafat, who viewed the unity of the alliance, but even more her own leadership, as a top priority.
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The memorable Entebbe hostage drama became the turning point (Uganda, July 1976) that destroyed Haddad’s political positions. Israeli commandos rescued more than a hundred Air France passengers and world public opinion rallied against the terrorists and in favor of Israel. It was also alarming in Europe that Haddad was aided by a German terrorist, Wilfried Böse, who was also killed on the spot.
This ugly failure was helpful for Arafat to remove Haddad from the PFSZ, followed by political depravity and then physical annihilation. Haddad died two years later in East Berlin, officially of leukemia. Writer Aaron J. Klein, on the other hand, said that the Mossad poisoned him because they also know the concept of revenge. Klein’s version is that the sweet-mouthed terrorist leader was sent Belgian chocolate smeared with a thin layer of poison. “It took many bitter months for him to die,” Klein writes in his book, “Backlash.”
But what did Khalede do before Entebbe? They should be allowed to be hyperactive. On August 29, 1969, his command forced the TWA Rome-Tel Aviv flight to Damascus. They were given such ears that Jitzak Rabin, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, the later prime minister, would also travel on the plane, but that was only hope. In the end, no one died, but after landing, the plane was destroyed.
This adventure inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer Eddie Adams to make the hitherto well-known AK 47 portrait of Leila, which quickly spread to the world press. They are also watched and distributed, to this day, by those who have no idea who the woman is. Because of this, Khaled underwent six plastic surgeries (on his nose and chin) so that he would not be immediately recognized wherever in the world he went.
The next action, now terribly successful, was a series of raids under the pseudonym “Dawson Field” (1970). Due to its length, it can also be considered a preview of September 11. In doing so, it was planned to “redirect” four planes to a Jordanian airport in 24 hours. The point of the idea was that if they performed at the same time and in several places, surely one would be successful, and they did.
One of the highlights was the Israeli airline’s Tel Aviv-New York flight, touching Amsterdam. The task was entrusted to Khaled and a fellow Nicaraguan, some Patrick Argüello. They betrayed themselves as a married couple and presented them with a Honduran passport. The assassination was originally planned for four executors, but during a transit in Amsterdam, two of their Senegalese counterparts could not register because they were shut down by local agents of the Israeli secret service. Their passport numbers were noted to be consecutive, the chances of them being very small.
After being late for the action, they had to improvise and quickly swapped two first-class tickets for a Pan Am flight and diverted it to Beirut. The Lebanese authorities received radio instructions to release more people on the plane, otherwise they would all die. Then more terrorists were able to take off in Beirut, with lots of explosives, and Cairo was the target.
Upon arriving there, a heated debate broke out between them about the subsequent plan. Taking advantage of this hesitation, Captain John Ferruggio negotiated an evacuation of 152 passengers (including only two Israelis) and the crew. Soon after, the terrorists blew up the giant plane B-747.
But now let’s go back to the story of the El Al flight, which meanwhile kept turning! After takeoff, Leila Khaled is horrified to see that the two Somalis are not on board. She leans back in her seat helplessly. Her greatest nervousness is described by a passenger, the American Rodney Khazzam: “Leila Khaled was sitting next to me, in a row with my sister, my father and my pregnant mother. We were walking on the Canal when Khaled and her partner suddenly got up and started yelling over the heads of the passengers. They threatened to kill everyone on board or to bring the plane to the ground. They did not say why, but they did not demand anything, no money, no release of the hostages. Nothing. Perhaps it was the scariest because they did not offer opportunities for negotiation, they only mentioned the murder. “
Armed with a pistol and two grenades, Khaled then crashes into the cockpit. Hearing the screams and screams, Captain Uri Bar Lev suddenly takes the plane into a sharp descent and a sharp turn so the terrorists lose their balance. It happened like that.
A passenger unexpectedly hits Argüello on the head with a viscose bottle, who angrily shoots the butler, then begins kicking the cabin door, which the undercover agent inside does not, of course, allow to open. So Argüello takes out a grenade and begins to get annoyed with it. This fragmentary moment is taken advantage of by an Israeli air marshal who travels in the plane and fires four bullets at him.
Khaled was eventually stabbed by a flight attendant and some passengers. The captain made a forced landing in London, where the woman was detained, Argüello’s life could no longer be saved. He died in the ambulance. Khaled was brought before a judge, found guilty and later traded for hostages who had been taken prisoner by the organization during other terrorist acts.
After his release, Khaled reconnected from the violence. He was traveling between Jordan and Lebanon, in and out of England and Ireland without a visa. “Weird” came into contact with two British prison guards and a border guard. He also corresponded with them, to the sincere delight of the secret services.
Khaled became a staunch and fierce defender of the Arab-Israeli peace experiments. “It is not a peace process. It is a political process that is tilting the balance of power toward Israel, not to our benefit. They have all the trump cards and we can’t hold onto anything, mainly because the PFSZ is not uniform. “
About Khaled, his opponents also acknowledge that he is an effective and passionate speaker and that they are not happy when he appears at world and European events. For example, in the European Parliament, where he was even applauded.
He also appeared in Sweden, for example, in 2011, where he spoke at the Communist Party general assembly on May 1 and held a seminar at Stockholm’s Södertörn University.
In Rome, however, he was no longer courteous to him when he was harassed at Leonardo da Vinci airport in November 2017 and stranded in Amman. Italy also includes the PFLP as a terrorist organization.
Khaled San Francisco’s speech is scheduled for September 23. The university leadership is aware of the protests coming from various sides, but to which Dr. Lynn Mahoney, rector of the University, responded: “We recognize that freedom of expression and academic freedom sometimes cause discomfort or pain to others”.
If there is a university debate, it will be interesting to hear what Khaled has to say about the process of the Arab states agreeing in turn with Israel, most recently the Kingdom of Bahrain, since now everything is going differently than he imagined during their fights.
Top image: Leila Khaled on a West Bank mural Photo: Frédéric Soltan / Corbis via Getty Images
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