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Chapter 2 Global wave – The end of
colonial era and the emerging two super powers (24)
062 Guerilla
combatant or refugee? Wandering Palestine (3/4)
PLO did not quit guerrilla attack
against Israel after relocating to Beirut. Palestinian refugees were overflowed
by Israeli fierce counterattacks. Huge Palestinian refugee camps appeared in
southern Lebanon. The impatient Palestinian extremists invited foreign militant
organizations that were in tune with their movements. PLO developed terrorist
activities against Jews abroad and on the other hand foreign terrorist attacked
Jews inside Israel.
As a result, two major incidents
occurred in 1972. At the Tel Aviv International airport, the Japanese Red Army
opened fire of automatic rifles and killed 26 people in May 1972. Japanese
terrorists indiscriminately attacked ordinary citizens and one terrorist
committed suicide with grenades. It was the unbelievable incident in the Muslim
world. Muslim terrorist had never committed suicide because Monotheism such as
Islam, Christianity or Judaism did not allow suicide. Human life is left to the
hand of God (or Allah), and it is not allowed to die on his own. However, the
Japanese who came from the Orient thought that it was the high-faith ideal to
die for his belief. Japanese suicide bomber might think in his mind about
famous author Yukio Mishima who committed Hara-kiri suicide two years ago. It
was a shocking incident in Muslim world. It was the forerunner of suicide
bombings. Suicide bombings occurred frequently in decades later.
In three months, Palestinian
extremist group called "Black September" killed nine Israeli athletes
in Munich during the Olympic Games in August 1972. PLO was chased by Israel. In
addition, civil war in Lebanon made the situation complicate and worse. PLO was
kicked out from Beirut and moved to Tunisia in 1982.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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