Leila Khalid speaks on prospect for peace in Palestine

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 10:02 by Tom Lonergan - IPSC tomlon777 at eircom dot net

Leila Khalid, a member of the Palestinian National Council, which is the equivalent of the Palestinian Parliament, will speak in Buswells Hotel in Dublin on Thursday August 4th at 7-30pm.

Having been refused a visa for the UK, Leila Khalid was granted a temporary visa to speak in Ireland. Leila is now aged 61 and is a respected politician and leader among the Palestinian people. She is a Palestinian refugee from 1948 now living in Jordan and is coming here to talk about and to learn about peace building.

She is is a former member the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), part of the secular, leftwing Palestinian rejectionist front.

Khaled came to public attention for her role in a hijacking in 1969 and a second attempted one in 1970 to try and bring the injustices in Palestine to world attention. The failed attack was one of a number of simultaneous hijackings carried out by the PFLP that triggered the expulsion by King Hussein of Jordan of the PLO from that country, with the loss of between 5,000 and 10,000 Palestinian lives, in what came to be known as Black September.
All are welcome to attend