Shukairy defeat

June 13, 1967
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Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida · 9

What Is Future Of Palestine Liberation Forces?
BEIRUT, Lebanon.
The Arab defeat in the Middle East war leaves a big question mark over the future of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its firebrand leader leftist Ahemd Shukairy.

Shukairy narrowly escaped capture by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and many of his "Liberation Army" are now prisoners of the Israelis. "We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," Shukairy declared two days before the war broke out June 5.
He vowed to lead the vanguard of his troops into the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and set up a "purely Arab government'' there for all of Palestine.

The 60-year-old former lawyer was seen briefly in Amman and Damscus in the last stages of the fighting wearing a khaki battle uniform.
Persons who saw him said he looked fatigued and dejected. His army of 15,000 guerrillas had moved into some of the Sinai and Gaza Strip positions evacuated by the U.N. Emergency force before the fighting began. Several thousand of them are believed to be in Is raeli hands with most of their arms and equipment. 
Most of the equipment for Shukairy's force came from the Soviet bloc and Red China, and he boasted that he had the support of the Chinese leaders.
Egypt and Syria gave him strong support, but Jordan and other pro-Western Arab countries objected to his ultra-leftist leanings and his campaign to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan.
Jordan never allowed the Liberation Army to operate on its territory, which would have been the logical springboard for an attack on Israel. Last December, the Jordanian government ordered Shukairy to close his office in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. Shukairy and Hussein made up publicly when the king signed a defense alliance with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the Israeli victory ended that..
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June 13, 1967
The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia · Page 4

Palestine Liberation Group Badly Mauled
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -

The Arab defeat in the Middle East war leaves a big question mark over the future of the Pafestine Liberation Organization and its firebrand leader -leftist Ahemd Shukairy. Shukairy narrowly escaped capture by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and many of his "Liberation Army" are now prisoners of the Israelis. 

"We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," Shukairy declared two days before the war broke out June 5. He vowed to lead the vanguard of his troops into the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and set up a "purely Arab government" there for all of Palestine. 

The 60-year-old former lawyer was seen briefly in Amman and Damscus in the last stages of he fighting wearing a khaki battle uniform. Persons who saw him said he looked fatigued and dejected. His army of 15,000 guerrillas had moved into some of the Sinai and Gaza Strip positions evacuated by the U.N. Emergency Force before the fighting began. Several thousand of them are believed to be in Israeli hands with most of their arms and equipment. Most of the equipment for Shukairy's force came from the Soviet bloc and Red China, and he boasted that he had the support of the Chinese leaders. 

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The Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1967, p.28

Shukair to Step Down 

It might be Said that Terror is his middle name.

"We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," warned Ahmed Shukairy last June. As head of the clandestine Palestine Liberation Organization for the past four years, Shukairy has been responsible for the murders of dozens of Israeli men, women and children in bloody midnight raids across the borders of Jordan and Syria. A Jowly,, heavy-lidded Haifa lawyer, he fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you."..
- Israel and the Jews have by no meahs been Shukairy's only targets.
- He hates the United States nearly as much
and isn't 'terribly fond of Jordan either. With characteristic temperance he once said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces."
He once described Jordan's moderate king as the "tyrant of Amman, Hussein; who betrayed Allah, the Prophet and Palestine" . . He Has Some Inflaence. But Shukairy is hardly the petty rabble-rouser, he sounds like.
- Indeed, many authorities said he and shis PLO were single-handedly responsible for the outbreak, of the June war between Israel and the Arabs.
It was his threats that mobilized public opinion in Israel behind government elements which sought a preventive war, and it was his constant prodding that drove  each Arab nation to try to get more militant than the other.
- Shukairy resigned as PLO chief -'last week.. It was hardly his own idea. More perceptive Arab leaders resented the foolish image he gave them by speaking loudly and carrying a small stick. Lebanese cartoonists habitually caricature him with an enormous tongues.. His replacement, however, is not expected to be a more peaceable man.. 
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