Ahmad Shukeiri
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Ahmad al-Shukeiri (January 1, 1908 – February 26, 1980) also transcribed al-Shuqayri, Shuqairi, Shuqeiri, Shukeiry, etc.), was the first Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, serving in 1964–67.
Early life
Shukeiri was born in Tebnine, south Lebanon then Ottoman Empire to a Turkish mother and a Palestinian father, As'ad Shukeiri (1860–1940) (who was elected to the Ottoman Parliament in 1908 and 1912). Ahmad acquired the Turkish language from his mother. After studying law in the British law college in Jerusalem, he became a prominent lawyer in British-Palestine and a member of the Independence Party. In 1945 he went to Washington, D.C. to establish a Palestinian office and in 1946 joined the Arab Higher Committee.
Political career
Shukeiri was a member of the Syrian delegation to the United Nations from 1949 to 1951. From 1950–1956, he was Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations from 1957 to 1962. He was given a mandate to begin contacts aimed at establishing a Palestinian entity at the 1964 Arab League summit (Cairo).
In December 1962, when he represented Saudi Arabia, he told the United Nations General Assembly's Special Political Committee that the Tacuara movement had been established to combat Zionism and that it might spread in Latin America and its United Nations values. After hearing reports about Tacuara from the Argentina and Chilean delegations, he backed down, acknowledging that Tacuara was a nationalist movement but arguing that comparing Tacuara to Israel was more appropriate.
He was elected the first Chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) in May 1964 with the help of Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. In December 1967, he resigned in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in June. His detractors and allies used him as a scapegoat. Shukeiri and 396 nominated representatives from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza strip, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, and Iraq attended a Palestinian Conference from May 28 to June 2, 1964 (The First Palestinian National Council in East Jerusalem). Delegates were wearing badges carrying a map of Palestine and the words "We will return." Following King Hussein of Jordan's introduction, Shukeiri told delegates that "Palestinians had suffered 16 years of suffering and it was time they trusted themselves and liberated Palestine from the Israelis." The PLO's chairman, as the representative of the Palestinian Arabs, was announced at the conference. Shukeiri and his colleagues announced the establishment of the Palestinian National Fund in Alexandria, as well as the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Army, the second Arab Summit Conference.
Shukeiri was reported to have threatened to "throw the Jews into the sea" prior to the Six Day War, and he said, "Whoever survives will remain in Filastin, but not in my opinion no one will live." These remarks attracted little attention at the time, but they were used as part of the Israeli government's justification of their participation in the conflict. Shukeiri has consistently denied making such a remark; his dennial was not published in most Western newspapers, but it was announced on French radio in September 1967: he had a French radio show in September 1967.
Moshe Shemesh argues that he intended to bring the European Jews by sea to Europe, although his second statement had a genocidal meaning.
Shukeiri was appointed Chairman of PLO by Yahya Hammuda in December 1967.