Leila Khaled: Hijacker
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- 2006
- 58 min
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The woman over there,
with the cases, is a terrorist.
With two hand grenades
taped to her waist
and a pistol tucked
into her panties
ever to hi-jack an airplane.
That's why she became my idol.
Supposing during any of these
operations she was killed
your own sister?
Yes, I would feel proud for that she is...
she's one of a freedom fighter...
for their own land and
for their own country...
There is no way how to use
terror against civilians.
You can't justify it.
There is no way.
They trained for it and
went for it.
And I don't think it has helped
them at all, to tell you the truth.
has helped them at all.
From a distance you
could tell that they were young.
She especially was
young and attractive.
I mean, she was a striking individual
that you wouldn't associate
with a hijacking.
A not unattractive girl, the Palestinians feels
she gives the movement a touch of glamour.
War is war.
We have to fight our enemy
until we go back to our country.
Our demands and
conditions are very clear:
The release of comrade Leila Khaled.
What are they going to do...
when they'll be free?
This young lady will go to a convent?
She will get married and raise children?
If it does good for my cause,
I'll be happy to accept death.
begins in Haifa.
An lsraeli port
on the Mediterranean Sea.
She was born here
on the 9th of April 1944.
At that time, Haifa
was part of Palestine.
This is the earliest photo
of Leila Khaled.
She's the one to the left
of her brothers and sisters
standing in front of the family
home on Stanton Street.
Far away from
what's going on in Europe...
Just one month
after this photo was taken
Leila turns four and becomes a refugee.
Palestine becomes lsrael.
The victims of the Holocaust have,
after years in exile,
a country they can call their own.
Journey's end.
The first of ten thousand Jewish
refugees arrive at Haifa.
Reunions between long lost relations
now write a happy ending to a tragic story.
But the situation in
the new nation is untenable.
These men are members of
known as the Stern Gang,
best known for the assassination
of Folke Bernadotte,
On Leila's fourth birthday,
they kill hundreds of people
in the village of Deir Yassin.
The Palestinian population
is in panic.
Leila's family does
what everybody else does.
in fear of their lives.
Leila's father stays in Haifa to fight
in the Arab-lsraeli war,
to get his home back.
The rest of the family flees to Lebanon.
Life in Lebanon is about endurance.
And waiting.
Everything will be fine
if they can Just return.
It's one of the few photos
Maybe because she has just
packed her bags
and bought a one-way ticket to Haifa.
She's convinced she will at last return.
This is the man who raised her hopes.
The Egyptian president,
Gamal Abdel Nasser.
He has promised that
the Palestinians will return.
Today, the President said:
if lsrael threatens war, we are ready.
At last he has come, the leader
that would demand their return.
To many outside Egypt he became
a symbol of resistance
to western colonialism and imperialism.
powerful allies in the West.
And Leila Khaled believes him.
Exile will soon be a distant memory.
The time has come.
On June the fifth lsraeli planes struck
the Egyptian air force on the ground.
Hero today of the Jewish people,
general Mosche Dayan, defense minister
and architect of the swiftest, most
overwhelming victory of all times.
The dream is smashed to pieces.
lsrael occupies the rest of Palestine.
The mighty leader's
promise meant nothing.
It is now Leila realizes;
no one else is going to help them.
She'll have to do it herself.
Nice day, nice Mediterranean day.
Clear weather. We just passed
the Italian port of Brindisi
and one of the flight attendants had asked
permission to come in to the cockpit.
When she opened the door, the gentleman
who was accompanying Leila
trust her aside and came in.
"This is the Palestinian movement
taking over your airplane."
And he was armed with a pistol.
You Just looked at them and:
"What's going on?"
She was very fashionably dressed,
all in white...
A white floppy hat, white tunic and
white trousers and also a...
she had a man with her as well.
They were both wearing
sunglasses, I think.
She took out a hand grenade which
she took the pin out of
to demonstrate that it was a real weapon
and if we decided to overtake her
it would of course detonate and would
probably have severe consequences.
I think the captain first said,
"We have been hijacked."
We sort of looked at each other and,
you know, is this real or not?
Then they told us all
to sit in our places
with our hands behind our heads.
to feel uncomfortable and
some started crying.
Mom turned to us and calmed us
down and gave us rosaries.
I forgot that until she mentioned it,
but I do remember holding the rosaries
that we had gotten in Rome.
And we said, "What do you want to do?"
"Well just fly."
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