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![Leila Khaled - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 217Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Khaled details the events of August 29, 1969 when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism internationally by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her house arrest and later release in Syria, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP, the prominence of women in leadership, and the cooperation of Palestinian resistance movements operating in the occupied territories. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and Israeli targeted killings of Palestinians.
![Leila Khaled - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 219Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Khaled details the events of August 29, 1969 when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism internationally by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her house arrest and later release in Syria, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP, the prominence of women in leadership, and the cooperation of Palestinian resistance movements operating in the occupied territories. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and Israeli targeted killings of Palestinians.
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