Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in July 1972. Israel reportedly considered him more dangerous for his ideas than for armed activity, targeting the influential writer and editor because his work gave powerful voice to the Palestinian national movement.
"Why won't your organization engage in peace talks with the Israelis you don't mean exactly peace talks you mean? Capitulation surrendering why not just talk Talk to whom? Talk to the Israeli leaders That's kind of conversation between the sword and the neck you mean Well, if there are no swords and no guns in the room you could still talk No, I haven't been I had never seen any Talk between a colonialist case and a national liberation movement But despite this why not talk talk about what? Talk about the possibility of not fighting fighting for what? Not fighting at all. No matter what for people usually fight for something and they stop fighting for something So you can't tell me even why should we speak about what will stop fighting or? Talk about stop fighting why talk to stop fighting to stop the death and the misery the destruction the pain The misery and the destruction and the pain and the death of whom of? Palestinians of Israelis of Arabs of the Palestinian people who are uprooted thrown in the camps living in starvation killed for 20 years and Forbidden to use even the name Palestinians. They're better that way than dead though Maybe to you but to us it's not to us to liberate our country To have dignity to have respect to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself"
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Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in July 1972. Israel reportedly considered him more dangerous for his ideas than for armed activity, targeting the influential writer and editor because his work gave powerful voice to the Palestinian national movement.