Said Hammami

Said Hammami

Said Hammami (Arabic سعيد حمّامي) was a Palestinian politician, diplomat and journalist. He was assassinated in his office in London on January 4, 1978, where he was serving as the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the United Kingdom.

Born in Jaffa in 1941, Said Hammami fled Palestine with his family upon the breakout of hostilities which preceded the creation of the State of Israel on Palestinian soil in 1948.

After a brief stop at a refugee camp in Egypt, his family moved to Lebanon and then settled in Jordan, where his father re-established himself as a fruit and vegetable trader. After attending high school in Jordan, Said Hamami moved to Syria for university education. It was in Damascus that his interest in politics took shape, as he joined the Arab Ba'th Party while still at college studying English Literature. After his graduation from university, he worked as a journalist in Damascus and then traveled to Saudi Arabia where he found a job as a school teacher. His stay there was not to last long, as his devotion to the Palestinian cause took him back to Syria, where he soon quit the Ba'th Party to join the recently established Palestine National Liberation Movement, better known as Fatah.

His elequence, fluency in English, and bravery, as well as a mixture of soft spokenness and bullish attitude, saw him climb the ranks of Fatah fast and become a member of the Palestinian National Council at the young age of 30.

It was Yasser Arafat who appointed him to be the first diplomatic delegate of the PLO to the UK in 1973, heading the PLO Office in London. There, he began to promote co-existence between the Palestinians and Israelis, calling for a two-state solution to the Question of Palestine, which would eventually merge into one democratic, secular state. In London, he also established contacts with British politicians and journalists, as well as building relations with Israeli peace activists, most notably Uri Avnery, who wrote a book about him after his assassination, which he entitled "My Friend the Enemy".

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