and now in june one thousand nine hundred the palestine liberation front struck again. a unit of its commandos landed on a television beach intending to kill israelis the attack was quickly forty. years later the group's leader admitted the operation was aimed at the railing the negotiations. any. one of the political goals of the operation was to stop the palestinian american dialogue which we felt was an insult to the palestinian evolution and tell us tinian is in general. the americans wanted the p.l.f. punished out of fact refuse. truck. i felt if he was the american requests because he felt that the palestinians had gained nothing from the dialogue with america which wasn't supposed to be about the a.b.c.'s of the palestinian issue but about something more substantial his message to the americans was if you want me to hold military operations then you have to move on the political level. i told our father that if punishing us would help restore the national rights of the palestinian people then he should go ahead and do it he refused and said he wasn't going to be

and now in june one thousand nine hundred the palestine liberation front struck again. a unit of its commandos landed on a television beach intending to kill israelis the attack was quickly forty. years later the group's leader admitted the operation was aimed at the railing the negotiations. any. one of the political goals of the operation was to stop the palestinian american dialogue which we felt was an insult to the palestinian evolution and tell us to nias in general. the americans wanted the p.l.f. punished out of fact refuse. truck. out of forty five's the american requests because he felt that the palestinians had gained nothing from the dialogue with america which wasn't supposed to be about the a.b.c.'s of the palestinian issue but about something more substantial his message to the americans was if you want me to hold military operations then you have to move on the political level. i told our father that if punishing us would help restore the national rights of the palestinian people then he should go ahead and do it he refused and said he wasn't going to be

. >> the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the plfp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinatedn. >> the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. it's occupying arab land. and they don't believe that israel should be there. that's the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain or problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things to convince the world. >> to the palestinians, they thought they had to choice but turn to violence because no one's listening to them. >> the american girl here, can she tell us how the passengers are. >> we're very crowded. and i think the women and especially the children are very restless. >> the terrorists certainly used the media. this was an event that was maximized for its global attention. and it provided an opportunity to really illuminate the terrorist cause. >> you rolling? what the palestinians say is why do americans have so much pity on these in the desert when for so many years they had no pity for our 2.5 million in the desert. >> the hijackers have