Israel kills authors and poets simply because they put words on paper. Israel like Khomeini did Salman Rushdie issued a Fatwa to have Kanafani an author assassinated and Mossad the State Agency dutifully carried it out. Even Iran didn’t a State execution and they even withdrew their Fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority.)
On July 8, 1972, Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani walked out of his apartment in a Beirut suburb, got into his Austin 1100, and turned the ignition. A grenade containing a three-kilo plastic bomb, planted behind the bumper by Mossad agents, detonated, shaking the entire neighborhood. Kanafani was incinerated instantly, together with his seventeen-year-old niece, Lamis Najim. He was only thirty-six.
His death was orchestrated by the very forces that had dispossessed him.
Kanafani fought with his pen, both as a writer and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was, as one obituary put it, “a commando who never fired a gun.” A revolutionary writer who was born on the eve of the Great Palestinian Revolt, Kanafani championed Palestinian resistance and liberation. This ultimately put him in the crosshairs of Mossad agents, who tolerated no resistance.
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