Ghassan Kanafani was a renowned Palestinian writer and leader of the PFLP. In this rare interview he answers why he refused to 'talk to Israeli leaders'. Ghassan was murdered by the Israelis along with his 17 year-old niece in a car bomb in 1972.
This rare video was filmed in Beirut 2 years before his assassination, the Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani is allso asked about his view of Arab governments
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #FPLP #Israel
This rare video was filmed in Beirut 2 years before his assassination, the Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani is allso asked about his view of Arab governments
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #FPLP #Israel
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๐ต๐ธ Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation
Leila came to public attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous #DawsonField hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of #BlackSeptember in #Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane,she was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members
On August 29, 1969, Leila was part of a team that hijacked #TWAFlight840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus
No one was injured, but after the passengers disembarked, the hijackers blew up the nose section of the aircraft. After this hijacking, and a photograph of her holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a #kaffiyeh
she underwent six plastic surgery operations on her nose and chin to conceal her identity and allow her to take part in a future hijacking, and because she did not want to wear the face of an #icon.
Biography โ Palquest
#LeilaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Palestine
Leila came to public attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous #DawsonField hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of #BlackSeptember in #Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane,she was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members
On August 29, 1969, Leila was part of a team that hijacked #TWAFlight840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus
No one was injured, but after the passengers disembarked, the hijackers blew up the nose section of the aircraft. After this hijacking, and a photograph of her holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a #kaffiyeh
she underwent six plastic surgery operations on her nose and chin to conceal her identity and allow her to take part in a future hijacking, and because she did not want to wear the face of an #icon.
Biography โ Palquest
#LeilaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Palestine
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๐ต๐ธ My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary by Leila Khaled
Publication date 1971
ูููู ุฎุงูุฏ,
Leila Khaled's autobiography was published when she was only 29, which is an unusually young age for someone documenting their lifeโs achievements.
But by then Khaled, who gained notoriety as a plane hijacker and icon of Palestinian #resistance, had already experienced more than most people manage during a lifetime.
My People Shall Live details Khaledโs early years with her family as they fled the catastrophe that engulfed the Palestinians after the creation of Israel.
She then lived as a refugee in Lebanon and Kuwait, joined the left-wing Arab Nationalist Movement in Beirut at 15, and later became part of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinians (#PFLP).
More than anything, My People Shall Live depicts the events, tragedies, and injustices that create a "terrorist" in the eyes of the Israeli government and its allies.
#Palestine #LeilaKhaled #Book #Autobiography
Publication date 1971
ูููู ุฎุงูุฏ,
Leila Khaled's autobiography was published when she was only 29, which is an unusually young age for someone documenting their lifeโs achievements.
But by then Khaled, who gained notoriety as a plane hijacker and icon of Palestinian #resistance, had already experienced more than most people manage during a lifetime.
My People Shall Live details Khaledโs early years with her family as they fled the catastrophe that engulfed the Palestinians after the creation of Israel.
She then lived as a refugee in Lebanon and Kuwait, joined the left-wing Arab Nationalist Movement in Beirut at 15, and later became part of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinians (#PFLP).
More than anything, My People Shall Live depicts the events, tragedies, and injustices that create a "terrorist" in the eyes of the Israeli government and its allies.
#Palestine #LeilaKhaled #Book #Autobiography
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๐ต๐ธ Black September | Three Planes Were Hijacked By The PFLP
Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
#LeilaKhaled #Hijack #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #Jordan #PFLP #DawsonField #History #Documentary
Footage : planes on the tarmac, FPLP Press conference.Leila Khaled prisoner exchange
#LeilaKhaled #Hijack #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking #Jordan #PFLP #DawsonField #History #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ Leila Khaled The Orange Tree | 2015 Documentary
The original and best documentary about the remarkable Leila Khaled, Palestinian Freedom Fighter, Hijacker, Peace Activist.
Dir Rola Mansour, Producer Philip Lloyd
#Palestine #Liberation #Resistance #LeilaKhaled #FreedomFighter #Hijacker #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking
#BlackSeptember #PFLP #History #Fedayeen #Documentary
The original and best documentary about the remarkable Leila Khaled, Palestinian Freedom Fighter, Hijacker, Peace Activist.
Dir Rola Mansour, Producer Philip Lloyd
#Palestine #Liberation #Resistance #LeilaKhaled #FreedomFighter #Hijacker #Hijacking #PlaneHijacking
#BlackSeptember #PFLP #History #Fedayeen #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ Leila Khaled Interview: Palestine is an International Liberation Struggle |Break ThroughNews - 27th October 2023
Amid Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, Palestinian icon Leila Khaled spoke about the Palestinian struggle for freedom and about the need for intensified international solidarity with Palestine. She also spoke about her history in the liberation movement and the inevitability of resistance.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #LeidaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Liberation #Apartheid
23/10/2023
Amid Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, Palestinian icon Leila Khaled spoke about the Palestinian struggle for freedom and about the need for intensified international solidarity with Palestine. She also spoke about her history in the liberation movement and the inevitability of resistance.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #LeidaKhaled #PFLP #Resistance #Liberation #Apartheid
23/10/2023
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๐ต๐ธ Hamas, Fatah and the history of Palestine liberation | Azzam Tamimi | The Big Picture S3E02
The history of Palestinian liberation movements is paved with setbacks, betrayals and bitter rivalries.
What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional and global political interests, ideological differences and disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla tactics.
Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank.
British-Palestinian academic and political activist Dr Azzam Tamimi.
In the light of the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel, and the devastating toll on civilian life, Dr Tamimi explains how these movements began, and why another Palestinian uprising is inevitable
#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #History #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Hamas #AzzamTamimi
10/10/2023
The history of Palestinian liberation movements is paved with setbacks, betrayals and bitter rivalries.
What began as an attempt to unify the resistance against Israeli occupation has over time been undermined by regional and global political interests, ideological differences and disagreements over the justification, and use, of guerilla tactics.
Today the question of who represents Palestinian interests is hotly contested, with Hamas and Fatah vying for control, and a wave of dissatisfied young factions on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank.
British-Palestinian academic and political activist Dr Azzam Tamimi.
In the light of the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel, and the devastating toll on civilian life, Dr Tamimi explains how these movements began, and why another Palestinian uprising is inevitable
#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #History #Resistance #PLO #Fatah #PFLP #Hamas #AzzamTamimi
10/10/2023
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๐ต๐ธ The Wailing Wall of Palestine: Black September | 2020
This was the time when the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP) came into being and would later on achieve a cult status within the Third World and a terrorist one without for their spectacular plane hijackings across the world. This was also the period when Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir had infamously said, โThere is no such thing as a Palestinian people.โ So for the Palestinians the challenge was dual: to prove their identity as well as their independence.
Israelโs capture of the #WestBank in the 1967 war meant that Palestinians swelled into tiny #Jordan altering the demographic balance; which in turn meant that the only way King Hussein could remain the head of an artificially-carved country was to rely on #imperialism and Israeli #colonialism this hitherto has been the fate of the two other artificially created Arab states in the region, Kuwait and to a greater extent #Lebanon
#Palestine #BlackSeptember #History
This was the time when the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP) came into being and would later on achieve a cult status within the Third World and a terrorist one without for their spectacular plane hijackings across the world. This was also the period when Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir had infamously said, โThere is no such thing as a Palestinian people.โ So for the Palestinians the challenge was dual: to prove their identity as well as their independence.
Israelโs capture of the #WestBank in the 1967 war meant that Palestinians swelled into tiny #Jordan altering the demographic balance; which in turn meant that the only way King Hussein could remain the head of an artificially-carved country was to rely on #imperialism and Israeli #colonialism this hitherto has been the fate of the two other artificially created Arab states in the region, Kuwait and to a greater extent #Lebanon
#Palestine #BlackSeptember #History
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๐ต๐ธ Black September Organisation - 1/2
In addition to sowing civil war and the disintegration of Lebanon, the 1970 Jordanian-Palestinian war led to the creation of the Palestinian #BlackSeptember movement. The BSO was created in 1971, as a small cell or #commando faction that split from the PLO, specifically the Fatah #faction. Recruits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP), as-Saโiqa and other groups also joined.
Initially, most BSO members were #Fatah dissidents who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern #Jordan. He continued to fight the Jordanian army after the withdrawal of the #PLO leadership. He was killed, allegedly by execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971. According to them, the Jordanian Prime Minister at the time, #WasfiTal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.
#BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO #AbuAliIyad #Palestine #Resistance #History #Documentary
In addition to sowing civil war and the disintegration of Lebanon, the 1970 Jordanian-Palestinian war led to the creation of the Palestinian #BlackSeptember movement. The BSO was created in 1971, as a small cell or #commando faction that split from the PLO, specifically the Fatah #faction. Recruits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP), as-Saโiqa and other groups also joined.
Initially, most BSO members were #Fatah dissidents who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern #Jordan. He continued to fight the Jordanian army after the withdrawal of the #PLO leadership. He was killed, allegedly by execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971. According to them, the Jordanian Prime Minister at the time, #WasfiTal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.
#BlackSeptemberOrganisation #BSO #AbuAliIyad #Palestine #Resistance #History #Documentary
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๐ต๐ธ Ghassan Kanafani: Voice of Palestine (1936-1972) - Palestine Chronicle โ
Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, โa commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.โ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted โthe leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad
Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, โa commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.โ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted โthe leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad
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๐ต๐ธ Ghassan Kalafani | Palestine Poster Project Archive
Kanafaniโs revolutionary journey began with the Arab Nationalist Movement but was cut short due to his disillusionment with its Pan-Arab agendas, which blurred and scattered the Palestinian identity in the process of creating a unified Arab geographical and political continuum.
It is by becoming a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967 and especially helped by being the founder/editor of the widely circulated weekly Al-Hadaf, that Ghassan Kanafani transcended Arabism to Palestinianism.
Note : he was also the author of some of the very early FPLP posters (1968/69/70) & Paintings - Drawings
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Fedayeen #Art #Poster #AlHadat #Press #Journalist #Author #Writer #Artist #Culture #Resistance
Kanafaniโs revolutionary journey began with the Arab Nationalist Movement but was cut short due to his disillusionment with its Pan-Arab agendas, which blurred and scattered the Palestinian identity in the process of creating a unified Arab geographical and political continuum.
It is by becoming a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967 and especially helped by being the founder/editor of the widely circulated weekly Al-Hadaf, that Ghassan Kanafani transcended Arabism to Palestinianism.
Note : he was also the author of some of the very early FPLP posters (1968/69/70) & Paintings - Drawings
#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Fedayeen #Art #Poster #AlHadat #Press #Journalist #Author #Writer #Artist #Culture #Resistance