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May 22, 1974: PLO’s Maalot massacre sees 21 schoolchildren killed in a hostage crisis in Israel, highlighting their brutal tactics against vulnerable targets. (15/20)

May 8, 1970: PLO’s Avivim school bus massacre in Israel kills 12, including 9 children, with gunfire & grenades. (14/20)

Oct 29, 1972: Black September hijacks a Lufthansa plane as it’s flying from Beirut to Ankara, demanding the release of the 3 Munich attackers. The terrorists were later freed, showing a weak global response. (12/20)

A thread on Palestinian terrorism after the Six Day War of 1967 Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Palestine was associated with international terrorism. These are just some of the hijackings, bombings and shootings they carried out: 🧵⬇️ (1/20)

June 5th, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant who couldn’t tolerate the democratic victory of a pro-Israel candidate. (2/20)

Aug 29, 1969: PFLP hijack TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting it to Damascus. There are no fatalities, but 2 hostages are held for 2 months in exchange for two Palestinian criminals held in Israel. One of the hijackers is a woman, Leila Khaled. We’ll hear about her

Feb 21, 1970: In revenge for operating flights to Tel Aviv, PFLP-GC simultaneously bombs Swissair Flight 330 - killing all 47 aboard - and Austrian Airways Flight 901, which manages a miraculous safe emergency landing. (6/20)

Sep 6, 1970: The PFLP hijacks 3 flights, bound from London, Frankfurt, and Zürich, to New York. BOAC Flight 775, TWA Flight 741 & Swissair Flight 100 are diverted to Jordan, where 300 hostages are initially held. The PFLP identify 56 Jewish passengers and use them as bargaining

May 30, 1972 - The Lod Airport Massacre: The PFLP recruits help from the Japanese Red Army in order to give the Palestinian cause credibility as an internationalist cause. The groups throw grenades around and fire indiscriminately into crowds at Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion),

September 1970: fed up with being used as a base for Palestinian terrorism, King Hussein of Jordan expels the PLO from his country. They form the Black September group, named after this blow, and start by assassinating Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal in Cairo. (9/20)

1980s: The PLO’s exile to Tunis after the 1982 Lebanon invasion reduced attacks, but groups like PFLP-GC continue to run guerrilla operations and weapons smuggling rackets. By the late 1980s, the First Intifada starts, resulting in a new era of Palestinian terrorism. (20/20)

1968-1976: Over the course of hijacking 16 planes, attacking El Al offices & other aviation targets, Palestinian terrorist organisations killed at least 20 U.S. civilians and incurred an inestimable cost on global airport security. (19/20)

Mar 11, 1978: The PLO’s Coastal Road massacre kills 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, in a bus hijacking and shooting. (17/20)

June 27, 1976: The PFLP hijacks Air France Flight 139 while flying from Tel Aviv to Paris and divert it to Entebbe, Uganda. An Israeli rescue operation subsequently frees hostages, but 4 civilians and one Israeli special forces soldier die in the crisis. The Israeli soldier is

You know what else Israelis helped build? Entebbe Airport. The one hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in the 1976 hostage crisis. Palestinian terrorists have a habit of converting civilian infrastructure for terrorist purposes and destroying anything they touch.

As a side note, Netanyahu’s brother was later the sole Israeli military casualty of the Entebbe rescue. A hundred Israeli commandos flew to Uganda to rescue passengers on another hijacked flight. They rescued 102 passengers after taking out all of the terrorist hijackers and

Israel was condemned for violating Uganda’s sovereignty when it rescued hostages from Entebbe, and for violating Argentina’s when it captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This is more of the same. Literally nothing changes.

Conclusion: These activities show how PLO and affiliated groups often destabilized host countries through militancy and alliances. The arrival of large numbers of Palestinians resulted in serious conflicts. 🧵 20/20

In Italy and elsewhere in Europe, Palestinian groups conducted hijackings and bombings in the 1970s-80s, like the Achille Lauro ship hijacking in 1985, affecting multiple nations. 🧵 19/20

Additional interference: In Germany, the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre by Black September killed 11 Israeli athletes, disrupting the games and international security. 🧵 18/20