He thought terrorism meant freedom until the real oppressors showed up
Mohammed Massad served as a cell commander in the PLO and then spent two years in an Israeli prison. But he soon discovered that his liberators were in fact a regime of brutality, murder, crime and evil.
Today, he’s an Israeli citizen, still working toward his dream of bringing a level of self-determination to the Arab sector, yet warning whoever will listen that the murderous and deadly PA isn’t the answer
One day in the middle of the First Intifada a little over three decades ago, a teenage PLO terrorist named Mohammed Massad left his house in Burkin, a village near Jenin, intending to kidnap Israeli hitchhikers.
“I set out in a car with two friends,” he recalls of the mission that would define his red lines of right and wrong. “We hit Route 675 that crosses from Megiddo to Beit She’an, slowing down near hitchhiking posts, looking for soldiers or civilians trying to thumb a ride. I’d been a terrorist-in-training since I was eight years old, was already head of a local terror cell, and a pretty good marksman and a slingshot expert, and we were proud that this particular mission would help bring the Palestinian struggle to the fore of the public agenda and make us into national heroes.”
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