When Shukairy admitted calling to 'throw the Jews into sea' [Shukeiri, Shuqayri - PLO]

Submitted by Roberto (United States), Jul 27, 2020 at 19:49

When Shukairy [Shukeiri, Shuqayri] admitted calling to throw the Jews into sea

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 ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=RmYeAAAAMAAJ&q=shukairy+jews+into+sea

'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 as had the Arab press...

https://books.google.com/books?id=CFYBAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Apologia

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