The PLO's Secret War: Yasser Arafat’s Early Years

This episode shifts focus from the public face of the Palestinian resistance to its covert, formative years in the mid-1960s. We explore how Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir built Fatah in the shadows, operating out of Kuwait and Jordan while launching the first Fedayeen raids into Israel. The conversation examines the tension between traditional Arab state politics and the new guerrilla ideology, detailing key operations like the Nahariya attack that put Palestine on the global map. We also look at the ideological fractures with George Habash’s PFLP and the brutal internal purge known as Black September in Jordan. Through specific accounts of early recruits, secret communications, and the strategic dilemmas of cross-border warfare, this episode reveals how a marginalized movement became a central player in Middle Eastern geopolitics, setting the stage for decades of conflict.

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