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December 31, 1967 The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California, 28 Shukairy Steps 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 means 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 fri...

Ahmad  al-Shuqayri / Shukeiri / Shukairy (ash-Shuqayri) is best known for his statement ahead of the 1967 six day war to "throw the Jews into the sea."  1   2 As printed in 1970, Shukairy didn't deny it, but explained that this was the official Arab outlook as a while. Not just his alone. This statement by Shukairy, makes most sense: The New Middle East, Issues 16-39 - New Middle East 1970 - p.4 Mr Shukairy claims that when in his days of glory he publicly advocated the liquidation of Israel and “sweeping of the Jews into the sea”, he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war of 1967.  Mr Shukairy is indignant that such extremism should be fathered on him alone ...  https://books.google.com/books?id=RmYeAAAAMAAJ&q=shukairy+jews+into+sea As reported by Swiss journalist, historian J. Kimche who made trips to the middle east, written in article titled: Does anyone really want peace? –An attempt at...