Kyle Pettine
November 16, 2015
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Abu Nidal
Sabri Khalil al-Banna hails from a very wealthy family and had 25 half-siblings and siblings. Sabri and his family were displaced from their home many times in his life. He was displaced in his childhood and early adult years because of a conflict between Arab and Jewish forces. This developed a hatred of Israel for Sabri, which led him to take up the alias of “Abu Nidal” and become the leader of one of the most feared and dangerous terrorist groups, the Abu Nidal Organization. Sabri Khalil al-Banna was born in May 1937 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine. This was the time period when Britain owned Palestine. His father, Hajj Khalil al-Banna, was a very wealthy merchant. He owned 6,000 acres of land that were used to grow orange groves, which is the business he dealt in. Sabri’s bother said in an interview: …show more content…
was the richest man in Palestine. He marketed about ten percent of all the citrus crops sent from Palestine to Europe – especially to England and Germany. He owned a summer house in Marseilles, France, and another house in İskenderun, then in Syria and afterwards Turkey, and a number of houses in Palestine itself. Most of the time we lived in Jaffa. Our house had about twenty rooms, and we children would go down to swim in the sea. We also had stables with Arabian horses, and one of our homes in Ashkelon even had a large swimming pool. I think we must have been the only family in Palestine with a private swimming pool.
Their father had 13 wives, 17 sons, and 8 daughters. The al-Banna lived in a beautiful three story house, which is now used as an Israeli military court. Sabri had been born from a disapproved marriage between his father and the maid. This led to Sabri’s siblings shunning him for the early part of his life. In 1944, his father sent him to a French Roman Catholic mission
November 16, 2015
HONR238R
Abu Nidal
Sabri Khalil al-Banna hails from a very wealthy family and had 25 half-siblings and siblings. Sabri and his family were displaced from their home many times in his life. He was displaced in his childhood and early adult years because of a conflict between Arab and Jewish forces. This developed a hatred of Israel for Sabri, which led him to take up the alias of “Abu Nidal” and become the leader of one of the most feared and dangerous terrorist groups, the Abu Nidal Organization. Sabri Khalil al-Banna was born in May 1937 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine. This was the time period when Britain owned Palestine. His father, Hajj Khalil al-Banna, was a very wealthy merchant. He owned 6,000 acres of land that were used to grow orange groves, which is the business he dealt in. Sabri’s bother said in an interview: …show more content…
was the richest man in Palestine. He marketed about ten percent of all the citrus crops sent from Palestine to Europe – especially to England and Germany. He owned a summer house in Marseilles, France, and another house in İskenderun, then in Syria and afterwards Turkey, and a number of houses in Palestine itself. Most of the time we lived in Jaffa. Our house had about twenty rooms, and we children would go down to swim in the sea. We also had stables with Arabian horses, and one of our homes in Ashkelon even had a large swimming pool. I think we must have been the only family in Palestine with a private swimming pool.
Their father had 13 wives, 17 sons, and 8 daughters. The al-Banna lived in a beautiful three story house, which is now used as an Israeli military court. Sabri had been born from a disapproved marriage between his father and the maid. This led to Sabri’s siblings shunning him for the early part of his life. In 1944, his father sent him to a French Roman Catholic mission