Ahmad al-Shukeiri (January 1, 1908 – February 26, 1980) (أحمد الشقيري) also transcribed al-Shuqayri, Shuqairi, Shuqeiri, Shukeiry, etc.), was a long time agitator and the first Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, serving in 1964–67. Used to preach defamation of Jews already in the early '50s. Incited for Jihad in thev1960s. Infamous especially for his genocidal calls pre- 1967 Six-day war. Less famous, his pro Hitler and pro Nazi activities.
Early life
Shukeiri was born in Tebnine, south Lebanon then Ottoman Empire to a Turkish mother and an Arab father, As'ad Shukeiri (1860–1940) (who was elected to the Ottoman Parliament in 1908 and 1912.
At the age of 19, while at American University in Beirut, in 1929 he was deported from Lebanon for agitating against the British at the university.[1][2]
With the Grand Mufti / assassination of his brother
He allied himself with his father's enemy, the radical Grand Mufti of Jerusalem since the 1930s, till 1959.
In 1939 he helped the Grand Mufti's gang to assassinate his moderate brother Dr. Anwar Shukeiri.[3] Ahmad Shukeiri said of it: "He had it coming, this traitorous dog."[4]
Pro-Nazi during WW2 & post the Holocaust
In 1940 Ahmed Shukeiri and all his surrounding cheered and prayed for the victory of the Nazis over the Allies.[5][6]
From 1941, as the Communists began fighting Hitler, he and his Mufti's gang left the Communists and helped Hitler against the Jews.[7][8][9][10][11]
In 1946, together with Jamal Husseini, have justified the Holocaust.[12][13]
Pre-esrablishment of State of Israel
In 1946, he joined the Arab Higher Committee. Shukeiri declared that negotiations or dialogue with the Jews were out of the question.[14] And threatened that there would be violence the like of which the land had never seen before.[15][16]
After November 30-1947, he threatened that "every word of the UN would be erased with the blood of the Jews,"[17] and from that day on, anti-Jewish Arab violence did gain momentum.
Anti-Semitic incitement since the early 1950s
1956: Palestine just southern Syria
At the UN
Shukeiri was a member for hire. First of the Syrian delegation to the United Nations from 1949 to 1951. He then became assistant Secretary General for the Arab League from 1950–56, Saudi ambassador to the United Nations from 1957 to 1962. At the 1964 Arab League summit (Cairo), Egypt's Nasser asked him to head the PLO.
Slander - legacy
As debates and conversations of apartheid in South Africa were continuing at the UN, Shukeiri came up with the idea to slander Israel with such a comparison. The legacy of his slur continues till today. He uttered it in October 17, 1961,[22][23] also in the context of his objection to Adolf Eichnann to be tried in Israel.[24]
Promoting Nazis and being fired
In November 30, 1962, Shukairy promoted the Neo Nazi storm troopers citing the New York Times which explicitly stated its Nazi nature.[25] Stating that the UN should adopt this movement and that he hopes its ideology spreads.[26][27][28][29]
The very gang who guarded Adolf Eichnann and a few months earlier has attacked Jews, including tortured a 19-yr old Jewess, carved on her body a swastika as a revenge for eliminating Eichnann.[30][31][32][33] This was too much even for Faisel of Saudi Arabia who removed him from the post at the UN around mid-December 1962.[34][35][36]
His later attempts to claim he supposedly "wasn't" aware was not accepted. [37]
Chairman of the PLO and genocidal calls
In May 1964, he was elected the first Chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization).
In 1964, the Egyptian Nasser appointed him chairman of the PLO]][38]
Ahead of the 1967, Six-Day war, Ahmed Shukeiri expressed his genocidal aims, including predicting that no one will survive.[39][40][41][42]
Post 1967 war and his genocidal calls
Shukeiri was forced to resign after the Six-day war - Arab humiliating defeat. He was succeeded as Chairman of PLO by Yahya Hammuda in December 1967.
In 1970 he complained that his calls of
"sweeping of the Jews into the sea” was blamed on him alone, as he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war.[43]
And in 1971 he justified his calls of throwing the Jews into the sea.[44]
Baby tigers
In 1969, Shukeiri, with Yassir Arafat and George Habache, established child soldiers.[45]
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Outspoken Arab Orator; Ahmad Shukairy - The New York Times. Nov. 5, 1960. THIRTY-THREE years ago, a 19-year-old Arab under-graduate was seized at the American University in Beirut for making an over-zealous speech. He was hauled into court as a political agitator and ordered out of Lebanon. https://www.nytimes.com/1960/11/05/archives/outspoken-arab-orator-ahmad-shukairy.html
- ↑ "Ahmad Shukeiri - the servant of many masters." By Haim Raviv. Davar, December 3, 1965
- ↑ Arye Disenchick, 'Night at House of Shukairy in Acre.' Maariv, Oct. 21, 1949, p.11: "Further investigation revealed that the hand of his brother, Ahmad Shukeiri, was involved in the murder of Dr. Anwar Shukeiri." http://jpress.org.il/olive/apa/nli_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=MAR/1949/10/21&id=Ar01101
- ↑ "Ahmad Shukeiri - the servant of many masters." By Haim Raviv. Davar, December 3, 1965
- ↑ The Truth About the War of Independence: Poor Preparations - Chapter 19... News 1, March 13, 2015. Chapter Nineteen of Dr. Uri Milstein's research / book on the poor preparations for the War of Independence. In the chapter: Israeli Arabs sympathized with Nazi Germany in World War II.. The Palestinians sympathized with the Nazis. During World War II, most of the leaders in Palestinian society supported Nazi Germany. The ideological and strategic conflict in the world had no meaning in their eyes. Their sympathy for the "Axis" countries expressed their desire to get rid of the British, the French and the Zionists, or at least to see the fall of the British. Ahmad Shukieri testified: "Our sympathy was with the Axis Powers. Hitler led from victory to victory. We prayed for the victory of Germany and its allies and the defeat of Britain and its allies. When the British government announced the establishment of an Eretz Israel military force for the war effort, our young men were instructed: 'Do not join this force' and almost everyone obeyed it. The German and Italian air forces arrived in Palestine. And in September 1940 their planes bombed targets in Tel Aviv and Haifa. The joy and excitement in our circles was indescribable. So happened that an Italian bomb fell in Acre in the neighborhood where my house was, it dug a large pit but did not cause any damage. The assistant governor in Acre visited me and said that the governor jokingly told him that this bomb was intended for Ahmad Shukeiri. I said: "Excellent. Upon me and all my enemies!"
- ↑ [1], Vol. 28, Mifleget po'ale Erets-Yiśra'el, 1972, pp.225-6
- ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, United States. Congress, 1965, p.456: "Ahmed Shukairy... a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II."
- ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 110, Part 22. United States. Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. Page 525: "Shukairy has had a remarkable history... he worked with the Nazis in the Middle East."
- ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Volume 107, Part 24, United States Congress 1961, p.5735:
Warmongering in the U.N. Extension of Remarks Of Hon. Lester Holtzman Of New York. In the House of Representatives. Wednesday, July 26, 1961... Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists led by the ex-Muftl... when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler.
- ↑ The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967. Page 9:
'Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy.
In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday's New York Times, Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West.
Recalling the pro-Hilter activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
Dr. Simard said, that the Arab terrorist leader "also played a most active role in keeping tensions white hot in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West." - ↑ Ahora, Issue 95; Issue 101; Issue 119; Issue 124; Issue 133; Issue 136; Issue 143; Issue 162; Issue 186 - Publicaciones !Ahora!, 1965 - p.9: 'La guerra o la paz en el Madio Este puede depender en gran parte de éstos dos árabes: El Presidente Nasser, de la República Árabe Unida, y de Ahmad Shukairy, quien no encabeza a ningún país pero...dirigir a una fuerza de guerilla ...Shukairy cooperó con el Partido Comunista de Palestina, dirigido por Moscú antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, después que Hitler atacó a Rusia y a los comunistas en todo el mundo cambió posiciones, el feroz e impredeclble Shukairy se alineo con Hitler por sus programas contra los judios.' [Translated: War or peace in the Middle East may depend largely on these two Arabs: President Nasser of the United Arab Republic and Ahmad Shukairy, who does not lead any country but ... (can) lead a guerilla force... Shukairy cooperated with the Palestinian Communist Party, led by Moscow ahead of the Second World War. However, after Hitler attacked Russia and communists around the world changed positions, the fierce and unpredictable Shukairy aligned himself with Hitler for his anti-Jewish programs.]
- ↑ "Behind the British Conspiracy." B'nai B'rith Messenger. 12 July, 1946, p.6: ...Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab office, who restituted in his conversation the words of Goebbels, justified the murder of six million Jews of Europe "because Hitler could not be all wrong." I met Jamal el Husseini; he issued the same warning as Shukeiri (he being Shukeiri's chief) ... and reiterated his justification of the mass murder of six million Jews "for Hitler couldn't be all wrong . . . https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47
- ↑ The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July 12, 1946, p. 7. "British Actions in Palestine". By Bernard Lerner. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49964532/
- ↑ [2], Vol. 28, Mifleget po'ale Erets-Yiśra'el, 1972, pp.225-6
- ↑ Moshe Sharett and his Legacy. Anglo-American Commission... Ahmad Shukeiri - who threatened that if the committee decides on a pro-Jewish solution, there will be an unprecedented bloody massacre in the Land.
- ↑ John B. Judis, "Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict," Macmillan, 2014, p. 217. ... Ahmad al-Shukeiri, who staffed the Arab League's Jerusalem office, warned that "if it is a question of degree of violence, the Arabs are prepared to break the record."
- ↑ Second answer to the professors - from (A.) Dov Ben Meir's desk. June, 2007:
The war against the Jewish community began on November 30, 1947 (and not on May 15, 1948). It started a day after the UN resolution and the statement of the Palestinian representative at the UN - Ahmad Shukeiri, that every word included in the UN resolution will be erased with the blood of the Jews.
On that day, seven innocent Jewish citizens traveling on a bus near the city of Lod were killed. Since then, until the date of the tragic event in Deir Yassin (April 1948), thousands of Jews were killed by Palestinians - in attacks on Jewish settlements, Jewish neighborhoods and road transportation.
This was an irregular civil war on the part of the Palestinians, in which the villagers took part and Arab urban youth - in the form of hundreds of organized groups that launched attacks on their Jewish neighbors. - ↑ Ahmad Shukeiri with Nikita Khrushchev Heruth, May 22, 1964:
... often used quotations ... to base his assumption on the "negative" [so-called, supposedly] character of the Jewish people [so-called, supposedly] "greedy" who love "opinion and money" ...
I also followed him in the session of the following year. He did not officially represent any Arab state in that session, but served as an advisor to all Arab delegations. It was December 1953. That day came the news of Ibn Saud's death. But the Saudi envoy could not conquer his passion even that day, at the very least, to pretend to be mourning, and deliver a slanderous speech that surpassed those of his friends. He often quoted Israeli and Jewish sources, in order to beat us with them. Shukeiri "edited him this speech" - everyone said then, and said that since Syria no longer needs him, because she has her own "Balaam", the Dr. (Farid) Zineidin, who knows the craft like him. Shukeiri will surely move to serve Saudi Arabia. And so it was.
Then I found him, in 1954, at a Dorothy Thompson's conference "The Association of American Friends of the Middle East," the editor of a Catholic weekly in Africa "Commonville" spoke at that conference, causing the organizers a little discouragement. He said: I think that as an American my job is to take care of peace, and not to support only one side. And let me say frankly, that I have no respect for a person who agrees with the words of the King of Saudi Arabia on the destruction of Israel ("I am willing to sacrifice 10 million Arabs for the destruction of Israel"). "A man who applauds the words Ibn Saud's son, will stand in the street and applaud Hitler as well."
Like snake bites, the Arab delegates jumped off their seats. And began to shout. Shukeiri surpassed them all, remarking to Professor H.T. From Friedstone (also of Arab descent) because he made a mistake that he did not stop the speaker and allowed him to utter these "unfortunate things." Professor Hitti, embarrassed, "In America" - he replied to Shukeiri and his friends - "there is freedom of speech for every individual." - ↑ SYRIA SAYS IN U.N. PALESTINE IS HERS; History Cited by El-Shukairy --Eban Derides Arguments and Sees Bid for Israel. Special to The New York Times. June 1, 1956. Page 3 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May 31--Ahmad el-Shukairy of Syria insisted today that history, law and cultural heritage supported his claim that Palestine "is nothing but southern Syria." https://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/01/archives/syria-says-in-un-palestine-is-hers-history-cited-by-elshukairy-eban.html
- ↑ June 1, 1956. Daily News from New York, New York, p. 45: 'Syria Demands: Talk On Pre-lsrael Basis.' By Peter Wallenberg. Syria demanded in the UN Security Council yesterday that everything the United Nations had done in the Palestine question,... the political aspects of the Palestine dispute. Shukairy tore into the British resolution that is backed by the U. S. and France and which would empower Hammarskjold to continue bis efforts toward "a peaceful settlement on a mutually acceptable basis." "The establishment of Israel, its membership in the UN and all other resolutions will have to be revoked," Shukairy said. "Then, and only then," he added, "the United Nations can look forward to a solution on a mutually acceptable basis." Israel's envoy, Abba Eban, take ever Israel and quoted Shukairy's word that Israel was just a part of southern Syria.
- ↑ Vochenblatt - Jun 7, 1956, p. 1. Vol.16, No. 814: 'Now That The a shooting Has Stopped.' By Charles Law. Arab Intrasingency. Ahmed Shukairy, the most vehement in his opposition to sections in the British resolution, described Palestine as "nothing but the southern part of Syria" and "part and parcel of the Arab homeland."
- ↑ Yitzhak Oron, "Middle East Record," Volume 2, 1961, p. 188
- ↑ 'History's Worst Serial Abusers.' The Canadian Jewish News, December 8, 2014. ... Ahmad Shukairy, Husseini’s former aide, was the next leader of the Palestinians. In 1964, the Arab League appointed him to head the newly created Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Lebanese-born Shukairy was the first to hurl the apartheid slander at Israel even as he tirelessly advocated “driving the Jews into the sea.” “We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants, and as for the survivors – if there are any – the boats are ready to deport them,” Shukairy sermonized in Jerusalem on June 1, 1967.
- ↑ A response to David Grossman Amnon Lord, Israel Hayom, 08-05-2018. ... the first person to accuse Israel of being an apartheid state was Ahmad Shukeiri, a U.N. diplomat, in 1961 in the context of the Eichmann trial. Grossman remembers that Shukeiri was the founder of the PLO, and served as head of the group prior to Yasser Arafat. Shukeiri was also a fervent supporter of the Nazis. Shukeiri is what links the Arabs' support for the Nazis and the use of the terms "Nazis" and "apartheid" against Jews, who were victims of the Nazis.[3]
- ↑ Argentine Youths in Nazi Group Salute and Cry: 'Hail Tacuara!'; Anti-Semitic Organization, Said to Be Growing, Asserts It Fights 'Zionism, Capitalism and Communism' Tells About Drills He Doubts Charges. Sept. 16, 1962. Page 30: BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 15 (AP)--The fuzzy-faced 15-year old boy flushed with pride as the roomful of teen-agers fixed their gaze on him. Standing erect, he raised his arm in the Nazi salute and shouted, "Hail Tacuara!" https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html
- ↑ 'Facts,' Volumes 15-17, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1963, p. 424: During his various tenures as a delegate to the United Nations, Shukairy demonstrated virulent hatred of Israel and Jews ... In 1962 at the U.N., Shukairy even went so far as to praise the militant, anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi storm-troop gang in Argentina know as Tacuara...
- ↑ "[https://thisworld.online/1962/1318 This World," Issue # 1318 - December 12, 1962, Page 7 (15 Kislev 5723)): Argentina's Nazis have been in the news again for the past week. At the UN General Assembly, Saudi Arabia's representative Ahmad Shukeiri welcomed the Tacuara organization and demanded that the UN take it under its wing. In Buenos Aires itself, 500 Nazis, in the brown uniform of Hitler's Storm Troopers, marching downtown. While from New York came the news that the American Fuhrer, Lincoln Rockwell, organizes of a Nazi convention International, to be held in Buenos Aires, 1963.
- ↑ Year 24 (Vol. 27) Cheshvan-Kislev, 5723 Booklet II (234):
'The debate over refugees and the Black International'.
By Yitzhak Abadi.
The debate over Arab refugees, still in full swing on the UN stage, came as no particular surprise this year. Except for one typical line. Though it is not new to us, this time was highlighted: the line of full partnership and brotherhood, to the point of complete identification, between Representatives of Arabia and the Dark-International, the Nazi-Fascist International, already discussed its nature in a previous article.
In this regard, we should be grateful to Mr. Shukeiri, the professional Palestinian refugee. Serving as King of Saudi Arabia's pilgrimage to Moscow, worshiping Mecca and the Kremlin alike, he pays tribute to Tacuara in Buenos Aires to [Colin] Jordan in London and [George Lincoln] Rockwell in Washington, D.C., all in the name of Arab unity and hatred unrestrained to Israel and the Jews.
But anyone who thinks that the Shukeiri man is an exception and that the other representatives and statements of Arab countries at the UN are less extreme, is bitterly mistaken. Representatives of Egypt and Iraq, Syria and Lebanon supported this position full support. And even the representative of King Hussein of Jordan, a wretched king whose kingdom does not exist except mainly because the IDF separates him and Nasser's troops by force of threat, because Israel will not stand in the way if they invade the Jordan to the east - even he followed suite, in the crown of supreme Arab patriotism, which means, in theory and in fact, hatred of Israel to the point of full cooperation with the Nazis of all kinds in all parts of the world.
It was found that, ostensibly, nothing had changed in the position of the majority of Arab statesmen from the same *mass murderer* in the early 1930s and Holocaust years of World War II.
At the time that the dark masses of the Arab world and their leaders prayed for the victory of the "axis" and even helped its agents as much as they could, out of the foolish assumption that in his victory - they had a victory!
The hatred of the Jews and the hostility to democracies in general, and to Britain and France in particular, then put the Arab peoples on track, who did not deviate from them except ostensibly, near the end of the war, when it was already apparent that Hitler and Mussolini's game was aost game.
Now, as began to rise again in the sweltering field of an embarrassed and confused and turbulent world, the weeds of Nazism and Fascism, Arab statesmen, their kings and tyrants, began to cling to these weeds as a rescue-straw on the assumption that they might be saved from the "natural alliance" between the Dark-International and the Arab world - in the name of the brotherhood of hatred of Iarael and united - thirst for Jewish property and blood.
- ↑ Knesset Divrei - Knesset Website - Home Page. Meeting 226, 8 Adar 5723 (March 4, 1963) - Budget Law for 1963/64 (Kesse, Idelson, Unna) - .. Shukeiri's defamation and scandal speeches ... and even sent a greeting to the fascist movement in Argentina "Tacuara", which engraved on its banner "Extermination of the Jews of Argentina"...
- ↑ Lev Bezymenskiĭ, "Tracing Martin Bormann," 1966, pp.149-150: Eichmann was under Tacuara protection. Dr. Mengele, before he left for Paraguay, lived on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in a house guarded by Tacuara members. Tacuara has lately become extremely active. One of its new leaders is Horst Eichmann, son of Adolf Eichmann. He walks about in the black SS uniform with a swastika on his sleeve. Tacuara is not the only nazi organisation in Argentina...
- ↑ Mordecai Schreiber, "The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia," Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011: Argentina... following in 1961 in Jerusalem. On June 21, 1962, the antisemitic movement called Tacuara kidnapped a 19 years-old Jewish girl, Graciela Sirota, tortured her and scarified her with Swastika signs.
- ↑ "Current Anti-Semitic Activities Abroad: A Survey." Institute of Human Relations (American Jewish Committee) 1963. p. 24: On June 21, a Jewish university student , Graciela Sirota , was kidnaped and driven to an isolated place, where swastikas were carved on her body.
- ↑ Sebastian Klor. "Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967," Wayne State University Press, 2017: [Chapter 2] The most vocal of them was the radical nationalist and anti-Semitic Tacuara movement. The gravest of the thirty incidents for which it was responsible took place on June 21, 1962, in Buenos Aires, when three of its members abducted nineteen-year-old G. Sirota while she was waiting for a bus on her way to the university. The young woman was brutally beaten and tortured. Before she passed out from the pain she heard her kidnappers say that their actions were meant as revenge for the hanging of Adolf Eichmann.
- ↑ The National Jewish Monthly, Volume 77, B'nai B'rith, 1962, p. 1:
Review Of The Month.
Anti Semitism at UN.
Arab delegates spouted the most vicious kind of anti-Semitism ever heard in the halls of the United Nations during a debate on the Arab refugee issue in the General Assembly's special political committee.
The worst statement was made by Ahmad Shukairy, of Saudi Arabia. He said, Argentina "should be saluted" because of its violently anti-Jewish youth organization, Tacuara, and added: "Tacuara has proclaimed a crusade... we propose that Tacuara be adopted by the United Nations." This was too much even for Saudi Arabia's king Faisal, who removed Shukairy from his UN post.
- ↑ 'Israel’s Relations with Non-arab Lands in Middle East Irk Arabs.' JTA, September 12, 1963: ... The political committee then decided to invite Ahmed Shukairy, former Saudi Arabian delegation head at the United Nations, to join the body as a Palestine “expert.” Mr. Shukairy was fired from his UN post by the Saudi Arabian Government last winter, after some Arab representatives felt he had gone too far in the diatribes against Israel by calling upon the UN to encourage formation of anti-Semitic organizations similar to the Tacuara movement in Argentina.
- ↑ The Detroit Jewish News December 07, 1962, p. 1:
Worldwide Expose of Anti-Semitism:
'Bigotry's Internationalization Leads to Tests in UN, Appeal to Wotld to Avoid Resurgence'
... there was a shocking demonstration of bigotry at a session of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations, at which an Arab spokesman resorted to the vilest type of venom against the Jews. So revolting was his speech that even delegates from other Arab nations have begun to favor a move for that bigot's expulsion from the international body.
The move for the recall by Saudi Arabia of its permanent representative to the UN, Ahmad Shukairy, appeared to be under way with Arab diplomats heading the drive. The desire for Shukairy's removal from the UN scene, long contemplated by more moderate Arabs here, gained heavy impetus after the official Saudi Arabian spokesman declared openly a "salute" to the anti-Semitic Tacuara movement in Argentina and proposed that the UN "adopt" the Tacuara movement.
- ↑ Though twisted narrative is pushed by anti-Israel propagandist [4]
- ↑ The Political Economy of the Middle East, 1973-78. A Compendium of Papers. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980. p. 538.
- ↑ Iyunim biTkumat Israel, 11, 2001, pp. 141-132 [Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon]. Moshe Shemesh - Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'?... The fact that in that statement he explicitly spoke of the extermination of Jews strengthened the credibility of the claim. That he called for throwing the Jews into the sea ...[5]
- ↑ The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California, December 31, 1967, p. 28:
Shukairy Steps Down It Might Be Said that Terror is his middle name.
"We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," warned Ahmed Shukairy last June. As head of the clandestine Palestine Liberation Organization for the past four years, Shukairy has been responsible for the murders of dozens of Israeli men, women and children in bloody midnight raids across the borders of Jordan and Syria.
A Jowly heavy-lidded Haifa lawyer, he fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you." Israel and the Jews have by no means been Shukairy's only targets. - He hates the United States nearly as much and isn't terribly fond of Jordan either. With characteristic temperance he once said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces." He once described Jordan's moderate king as the "tyrant of Amman, Hussein; who betrayed Allah, the "Prophet"...
- ↑ Steven Heydemann, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East: 'War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.' University of California Press, 2000, p. 174:
Israel and the 1967 War
Joel S. Migdal
From Doom To Boom
... The dark warnings of Arab leaders about what would happen to Israel if their forces were to triumph had been all too explicit. Only a week before the outbreak of fighting, Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser , had threatened that "this will be a total war. Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel." And the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukairy, had added to the sense of looming tragedy, "Those native-born Israelis who survive can remain in Palestine. But I estimate that none of them will survive."</blockqhit></span> </li>
- ↑ Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222.
Again, Arab leaders began to vie with each other on promising genocide for the Jews of the Holy Land. It was to be a war of extermination in which not a man, woman, or child should be spared, announced Ahmed Shukeiri, the bloodthirsty organizer of commando units in the Arab refugee camps. Nasser promised to place Shukeiri's men in the front ranks when he invaded.
- ↑ The New Middle East, Issues 16-39. New Middle East 1970, p.4:
Mr Shukairy claims that when in his days of glory he publicly advocated the liquidation of Israel and “sweeping of the Jews into the sea”, he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war of 1967. Mr Shukairy is indignant that such extremism should be fathered on him alone ...
- ↑ 'Arab Guerilla Power,' 1967-1972, Edgar O'Ballance, 1973, p.37:
Shukairy sank into obscurity, and later (in May 1971) published his apologia, which he called Dialogues and Secrets with Kings (in Beirut in Arabic).
In it he defended his notorious demand 'to liquidate the state of Israel and throw the Jews into the sea' as being the accepted view then of the Arab heads of state, Arab politicians, who had since turned on him and prised him from office and the Arab press...- ↑ Lewiston Evening Journal. Apr 28, 1969, p.3:
</ol>'The Palestine Arabs can be mobilized only around the issue of fighting.'
'Arab Commando Attacks.'
By Henry J Taylor:
Baby Tigers.
The State Department finds that such leaders as Arafat, Shukairy and Habeche talk of "fighting for 20 or so years." They even have training camps for 12-year-old youths, a expanding cadre called Baby Tigers... - ↑ Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222.