Abu Daoud: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Palestinian terroristmilitant, teacher and lawyer (1937–2010)}}

Oudeh was born in Silwan, East Jerusalem, in 1937.<ref name=tnational/><ref name=jessup>{{cite book|last=Jessup|firstauthor=John E. Jessup|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|locationyear=Westport, CT1998|pageisbn=150978-0-313-28112-9 | url=https://wwwbooks.questiagoogle.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflicbooks?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC|isbnlocation=Westport, }}{{dlCT|datepage=July 2021}}{{ISBN?150}}</ref> He was a teacher by training.<ref name=jessup/> He taught physics and mathematics in [[Jordan]] and [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref name=jessup/> Then he worked at the justice ministry of [[Kuwait]]<ref name=jessup/> and studied law.<ref name=tnational/> He lived in [[Jerusalem]] until the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], when he was displaced after [[Israel]] captured the eastern portion of the city. He resettled in Jordan, where he joined the PLO.

In 1970, Abu Daoud was one of the founders of Fatah. He received military training from the North Korean military.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nknews.org/2021/05/how-north-korea-supports-palestine-and-aided-hamas/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210520132041/https://www.nknews.org/2021/05/how-north-korea-supports-palestine-and-aided-hamas/|archive-date = 20 May 2021|title = How North Korea supports Palestine and aided Hamas &#124; NK News|date = 20 May 2021}}</ref> From 1971 he was leader of the [[Black September (group)|Black September]], a Fatah offshoot created to avenge the [[Black September (Jordan)|September 1970 expulsion]] of the [[Fedayeen]] Movement from [[Jordan]] and carry out international operations. The group gained international notoriety for its role in the [[Munich massacre]] at the [[1972 Munich Olympics]], in which a number of athletes on the Israeli team were taken hostage by Black September. Eleven Israeli athletes and a German policeman were killed by the end of the multi-day stand-off. Documents uncovered in 2012 show that logistical help and support were supplied by two German neo-Nazis, [[Wolfgang Abramowski]] and [[Willi Pohl]]. The connection was made through [[Udo Albrecht]], a neo-Nazi who set up a right-wing German group ([[Volksbefreiungs-Front Deutschland]]) and provided assistance to the Palestinians in return for training facilities in Jordan.<ref>Gunther Latsch and Klaus Wiegrefe. (18 June 2012). [http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/files-show-neo-nazis-helped-palestinian-terrorists-in-munich-1972-massacre-a-839467.html Munich Olympics Massacre: Files Reveal Neo-Nazis Helped Palestinian Terrorists] ''Der Spiegel'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212061415/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/files-show-neo-nazis-helped-palestinian-terrorists-in-munich-1972-massacre-a-839467.html |date=12 December 2013 }}</ref><ref>Daniel andKoehler. "(2017). ''Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The 'National Socialist Underground' and the History of Terror from the Far Right in Germany" by Daniel Koehler,''. Routledge 2017 p. 80</ref>

After the 1993 [[Oslo Accords]], he moved to [[Ramallah]] in the [[West Bank]]. Following a trip to Jordan and the publication of his memoirs, Oudeh was banned from returning to Ramallah. He settled with his family in [[Syria]], the only country that would take him. He lived on a pension provided by the [[Palestinian Authority]] and gave interviews to [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Aljazeera]] and other Arab and international media outlets about his life, the Munich events, and Palestinian politics. Oudeh was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996, so he could attend a PLO meeting in the [[Gaza Strip]] to rescind an article in the PLO charter calling for Israel's eradication.

In 2006, Abu Daoud gave several personal interviews after the release of the Steven Spielberg film ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]'' revived discussions of the massacre. Abu Daoud remained unrepentant regarding his role in the Munich attacks, stating on Germany's ''Spiegel TV'', "I regret nothing. You can only dream that I would apologise."<ref name="cnn"/> In an Associated Press interview, he justified the operation by claiming it was a strategic success, declaring: "Before Munich, we were simply terrorists. After Munich, at least people started asking who are these terrorists? What do they want? Before Munich, nobody had the slightest idea about Palestine."<ref>{{cite news|title=Munich mastermind has no regrets |first=Zeina |last=Karam |author-link=Zeina Karam |newspaper=Seattle Post Intelligencer |agency=Associated Press |date=24 February 2006 |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/olympics/260723_mastermind24.html}}</ref>

In a condolence letter to Abu Daoud's family following his death, the [[Presidentpresident of the Palestinian National Authority|Chairmanchairman]] of the [[Palestinian Authority]], [[Mahmoud Abbas]], wrote: "He is missed. He was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for his people's just causes."<ref name="cnn">{{cite news|title=Suspected Munich massacre mastermind dead, reports say|work=CNN|date=3 July 2010|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/03/munich.mastermind.dead/index.html?fbid=UmPw3wDi82F}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2531|title=Abbas on mastermind of Munich Olympics massacre: "A wonderful brother, companion, tough and stubborn, relentless fighter"|author=Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik|date=6 July 2010|publisher=Palestinian Media Watch|accessdate=6 July 2010|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100711142628/http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2531|archivedate=11 July 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

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