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Since October 7, many Israelis have been shocked by the pro-Palestinian stances prevailing in the West. In reality, this astonishment stems from the short memory of the media
In the summer of 1970, chaos erupted at a Fatah training camp in Jordan. One of the volunteers training there in shooting and grenade-throwing insisted on wearing tight velvet pants during the exercises and refused to change them even during crawling exercises. The rebellious volunteer was not Palestinian, but German: Andreas Baader, leader of the leftist underground group known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Red Army Faction. He had arrived at the camp shortly before, after escaping from prison in Berlin together with his comrades Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin. They fled to East Berlin and from there flew to the Middle East. Even before that, they had established contact with Palestinian activists in Berlin and agreed on cooperation.
