> I think Said underestimates the long-run effect of the hijackings of
> the early 1970s: the images of hijacked airplanes in the Jordanian
> desert, the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes at the Munich
> airport in 1972, Entebbe--these are very powerful images that have
> shaped the international response to the Palestinian cause, images
> that return to the mind's eye of everyone who passes through an
> airport metal detector.
>
> I suspect that when historians look back, they will find these
> episodes of "propaganda of the deed" to have been decisive in shaping
> at least the American view of the conflict.
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Yet nobody now remembers the Zionist terrorism of the 30's and 40's which
*at the time* was highly publicized and shocked the world. For example, the
assassination of the Swedish UN mediator Count Bernadotte.
Somehow all that was forgotten the moment Israel became a useful ally...
Seth