Nadene Goldfoot
1. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after killing two of them.
The hostage-takers demanded the release of 234 Palestinians and non-Arabs jailed in Israel, along with two West German insurgents held by the West German penitentiary system, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, who were founders of the West German Red Army Faction. The hostage-takers threw the body of Weinberg out of the front door of the residence to demonstrate their resolve. Israel's response was immediate and absolute: there would be no negotiation. Israel's official policy at the time was to refuse to negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances, as according to the Israeli government such negotiations would give an incentive to future attacks.
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg fought the intruders, who shot him through his cheek and then forced him to help them find more hostages.
Weightlifter Yossef Romano, a veteran of the 1967 Six-Day War, also attacked and wounded one of the intruders before being shot and killed. In its publication of 1 December 2015, The New York Times reported that Romano was castrated after he was shot.
The gunmen were left with nine hostages. They were, in addition to Gutfreund, sharpshooting coach Kehat Shorr, track and field coach Amitzur Shapira, fencing master Andre Spitzer, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer, wrestlers Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, and weightlifters David Berger and Ze'ev Friedman.
Berger was an expatriate American with dual citizenship; Slavin, at 18 the youngest of the hostages, had only arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union four months before the Olympic Games began. Gutfreund, physically the largest of the hostages, was bound to a chair (Groussard describes him as being tied up like a mummy); the rest were lined up four apiece on the two beds in Springer and Shapira's room, and bound at the wrists and ankles and then to each other.
Romano's bullet-riddled corpse was left at his bound comrades' feet as a warning. Several of the hostages were beaten during the stand-off, with some suffering broken bones as a result.
Palestinian groups that have been involved in politically motivated violence include the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Abu Nidal Organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas. The PLO officially renounced terrorism in 1988, and Fatah says it no longer engages in terrorism, although the Authority continues to provide stipends to the families of Palestinians killed or arrested by Israel through the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund, payouts that according to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs take up 7% of the Authority's national budget.
2. PFLP Hijacking A Plane:
Entebbe Raid Operation: 27 June, 1976, an Air France Airbus A300 jet airliner with 248 passengers had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) under orders of Wadie Haddad (who had earlier broken away from the PFLP of George Habash), and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers had the stated objective to free 40 Palestinian and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages. The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, was diverted after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. The Ugandan government supported the hijackers, and dictator Idi Amin, who had been informed of the hijacking from the beginning, personally welcomed them.
On July 4, 1976, after releasing most of the non-Israelis, they held 102 passengers and crew. The Israeli air force planes landed after a journey of 2,500 miles in order to rescue Israelis being held hostage. They stormed the airport and released the passengers ad crew, taking them back to Israel. The leader of the group was Benjamin Netanyahu's brother, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, who was the only one killed in the process.
3. Ma'alot Massacre of Safed, Israel Children on Field Trip: They were students from a high school in Safad, which was nearby Ma'alot.85 students and several teachers were held hostage. The students were forced to sit on the floor at gunpoint, with explosive charges between them.
The Ma'alot massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred in May 1974 and involved a two-day hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, which ended in the murders of 25 hostages and six other civilians. It began when three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) entered Israel from Lebanon. Soon afterwards they attacked a van, killing two Israeli Arab women while injuring a third and entered an apartment building in the town of Ma'alot, where they killed a couple and their four-year-old son. (5 killed)
From there, they headed for the Netiv Meir Elementary School, where they took more than 115 people (including 105 children) hostage on 15 May 1974, in Ma'alot. Most of the hostages were teenagers from a high school in Safad on a Gadna field trip spending the night in Ma'alot. The hostage-takers soon issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants from Israeli prisons, or else they would kill the students.
At 10 am, 27 year old Sylvan Zerach, at home on leave from the army, stood near the base of the tall concrete water tower not far from the school building to get a closer view of what was going on. One of the terrorists opened fire on him, hitting Zerach in the neck. Zerach later died in the hospital.
On the second day of the standoff, the Sayeret Matkal stormed the building. During the takeover, the hostage-takers killed children with grenades and automatic weapons. Ultimately, 25 hostages, including 22 children, were killed and 68 more were injured.
Three examples of the many terrorist acts that have been executed upon Israelis. by the PFLP, DFLP, and Black September. It seems like Arafat's PLO keeps vying for leadership and these have developed from it. It's true that most PA officials belong to the PLO or Hamas.
PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) started in 1967 by George Habash and Ahmad Sadat and follow Marxist/Leninist/Revolutionary ideals.
The PFLP split in 1968, leading to the formation of the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) headed by Secretary-General Nayef Hawatmeh.
DFLP: (The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiyah.)
Black September: The Black September Organization was a Palestinian militant organization founded in 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi. They had attacked Jordan.
Other acts, such as:
1. Suicide bomber attacks at the Tel Aviv Station in 2006.
2. Palestinian suicide bomb explosion on Israeli bus on March 5, 2003. 17 people murdered and 63 injured.
Terrorism Against Israel
September 28,2000---December 31, 2005
25,770 terrorist attacks
147 suicide bombings (causing 47% of all deaths)
1,084 killed
7,454 injured
82% of dead and wounded were civilians (2000---2004)
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27alot_massacre
Israel 101, produced by StandWithUs 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine
i remember all of these :(
ReplyDeleteyou brushed me up on some details in parts of this article but i have never forgotten.
sick and wrong ..to this day...