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It begins with her childhood in Haifa, her forced separation, and her return in 1969 during an expropriation mission, framing exile and oppression as central forces. The narrative ties personal awakening to the broader history of Palestinian resistance, highlighting legendary figures like Izz Edeen Kassam and the 1936 uprising as a foundation for her generation’s mission to continue the struggle.","My People Shall Live (1971)  \nLeila Khaled  \nDigitalized by  \n RevSocialist  \nfor  \n SocialistStories  \nPrefatory Note  \nON DECEMBER 16, 1970, I MET LEILA KHALED FOR THE first time. It was a brief encounter; I only had the opportunity to ask what she was doing. \"I am a Palestinian Arab soldier,\" she said proudly. She had read about my radical activities in North America and asked what I was doing. I answered: \"I am painting wings of freedom on my shackles !\" We met again on January 4, 1971-I asked if she'd consider writing her memoirs with me. \"What memoirs?\" she replied, laughing. I insisted that many people would be interested in her experiences. \"I'll think about it,\" she promised. I saw Leila again on July 23, 1971, and we talked for more than thirty hours over a five-day period. We collected her notes and looked over the published and unpublished material about her. During the following September and October, I wrote this book as told to me by Leila Khaled.  \nOCTOBER 30, 1971, GEORGE HAJJAR, DEPT. OF INTEGRATED STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, WATERLOO, ONTARIO.  \nPART ONE  \nThe Badge of Infamy-Deprivation and Discovery  \n1 The Staircase  \nI COME FROM THE CITY OF HAIFA, BUT I REMEMBER LITTLE of my birthplace. I can see the area where I played as a small child, but of our house, I only remember the staircase. I was taken away when I was four, not to see Haifa again for many years. Finally I saw my city twenty-one years later, on August 29, 1969, when Comrade Salim Issawi and I expropriated an imperialist plane and returned to Palestine to pay homage to our occupied country and to show that we had not abandoned our homeland. Ironically, the Israeli enemy, powerless, escorted us with his French and American planes.  \nWhat I knew about Haifa had come from my parents and friends and from books. Now I saw Haifa from the air and formed my own cherished image of my home. Haifa is caressed by the sea, hugged by the mountain, inspired by the open plain. Haifa is a safe anchor for the wayfarer, a beach in the sun. Yet, I, as a citizen of Haifa, am not allowed to bask in its sun, breathe its clear air, live there with my people. European Zionists and their followers are living in Palestine by right of arms and they have expelled us from our homeland. They live where we should be living while we float about, exiled. They live in my city because they are Jews and they have power. My people and I live outside because weare Palestinian Arabs without power. But we, the graduates of the desert inns, we shall have power and we shall recover Palestine and make it a human paradise for Arabs and Jews and lovers of freedom.  \nI love Haifa, as does my family and all Palestinians. At the outset my love for Haifa was sentimental, achild's love for a dream land. As I grew older and began to read and think for myself, I discovered that I have historic roots, that my people have a history of struggle, that my nation is the equal, if not the superior, of other nations. Above all, I learned that my class, the working people, the unemployed, the refugees, the oppressed everywhere could liberate mankind from the shackles of superstition and backwardness. I had to forget what the colonial school system had endeavoured to instill in me-that I had no history; that there was no Palestinian people, no Arab nation. In my search for freedom, I discovered some of our legendary heroes and the golden age of Arabism and realised how \"historians\"have skillfully belittled our achievements and consigned us to oblivion.  \nI knew that I had a role to play: I realised that my historic mission was as a warrior in the inevitable battle between oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited. 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