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The Lod Airport Massacre Japanese Terror Strikes Israel The Lod Airport Massacre The world was shocked in 1972 when a Japanese terror group (trained by Arab terrorists) carried out an attack in Israel’s Lod International Airport, indiscriminately killing more than two dozen and wounding many more. For Israel and the world, it was another example of how low the haters of civilization could descend. For some citizens of Japan, it was even worse: a severe wound to their national pride. For the father of the one surviving terrorist, it was such a stain on his pride that he begged the authorities to execute his son rather - Shimon Rosenberg than merely imprison him for life. 72 | ZMAN • October 2011 ZMAN • Tishrei 5772 | 73 Air France Flight 132 children. His father was a respected school —Rome to Tel Aviv principal. They were taught that each person correct way to use revolutionary tactics. to prevent them from reaching it. Arrests is unique and that nobody deserves to be Apparently,must first learn they from taught the Norththe nine Koreans Japanese the tooka specific place target only whenand the the police regulations would unitewere Monday night, May 29, 1972 mistreated. Some of his children, however, a lesson, because in 1971 they appeared broken. took these otherwise noble ideas to the before the press to state that although they One of the reasons why the system of The passengers on Air France Flight 132 extreme and became involved in radical, left- still believed in revolution they admitted regulated violence was permitted to last for were happy as the airplane prepared to take wing movements. One of Kozo’s brothers, that the hijacking was a mistake. off from the airport in Rome en route to Tel Takeshi, joined the Japanese Red Army One of the nine hijackers was Kozo’s weapons like guns and knives in Japan, and Aviv. Most were looking forward to their older brother, Takeshi. as long as it did was that it is difficult to obtain upcoming vacation in Israel. youngest brother, Kozo, in as well. the same time, both the police and students (JRA)The terror JRA wasgroup, one eventually of the most drawing extreme his areeven trained many policein judo officers or other are martialunarmed. arts. At of the passengers belonged to a group of 120 of the many groups founded around the Japan Tolerates devoutThere Christians were few from Jews Puerto on this Rico flight. who wereMost world during the turmoil of the 1970s “Regulated Violence” do not have the upper hand in mass protests on a 10-day pilgrimage. Having visited Rome, and 80s. The members of the Red Army andThis themeans only that means law ofenforcement maintaining officials some they were now on their way to the Holy Land. semblance of control is by having both sides attack, however. In the ensuing years the stick to a set of prearranged rules. with them, none of the other passengers paid Jewidentified from themselvesa religious withbackground the radical who views had RedThe Army 1970 carried hijacking out direct was attacks just the against first Obviously, with such strict discipline muchWhen attention. three OrientalsA glance boardedat their passportsthe plane studiedof communist as a child Leon in Trotskya cheder (incidentally, a the wealthy as well as against senior police required of them, even when they were Marxist ideas included a world uprising on protesting against the government, some Japanese citizens, but not much more. The the part of the working class). Hisagainst typically the were not outstanding in any way, mirroring students sought opportunities to break the knowledgewould have that clarified they werethat membersthe three ofwere the upper class that enslaved them. The Red similarofficers. Forincidents the most involvingpart, these studentattacks rules and turned to organizations like the Japanese Red Army would also have meant Army believed that extreme brutality was protesters in America and other lands. JRA who advocated unrestrained violence. little to most people, who would have necessary to free the working class from the The 1960s were a time when many But the JRA suffered from one critical assumed they belonged to a secret Japanese clutches of the upper class, and it planned a students were disillusioned with society and drawback: its members did not have even military unit. series of shocking terror attacks. joined various radical and leftist movements, The plane took off at last, pointing its including some that tried to use violence to real terror. And the reason is that weapons 1970. Nine members of the group hijacked achieve their goals. Japan was also swept up arethe inmost severe basic shortage knowledge in that of howisland to nation. inflict and comfortable. The three Japanese sat in JapanThe Airlines first attack Flight by 351the JRAon itstook way place from in in the wave of student protest movements, Even Japan’s “Self Defense Forces” are silencenose toward throughout Israel. theThe trip.flight The was momentroutine Tokyo to Fukuoka, forcing the pilot to divert but—and here the curious Japanese severely restricted when compared to they landed in Lod, however, they rushed to communist North Korea. That incident mentality comes into play—the violence was other armies, and recruits go through what off the plane and headed straight for the involved no physical attacks. Nobody was sanctioned by Japanese authorities so long would be considered a comically low level of carousel where their baggage would appear. injured and the terrorists agreed to free as the students did not cross certain clearly training in other lands. It was now 10:15 PM on May 30. Kozo all 122 passengers and 7 crewmembers in Okamoto and his two companions waited exchange for a couple of largely symbolic law. for their suitcases to appear. As soon as all hostages. definedAnd boundariesthe police, thatfrom were their set side, down also as three had claimed their baggage, they pulled After releasing some of the passengers maintained set discipline as to how they out from the suitcases large automatic in the Fukuoka Airport and others in the responded to these protests. Both sides guns, grenades and other weapons. The Kimpa Airport in South Korea, they landed wore protective gear such as helmets and other passengers, claiming their packages in Pyongyang, North Korea, where they or streaming toward customs, broke out in declared at a press conference that the any item that could potentially serve as a shouts of hysteria and panic. hijacking had been carried out to show their weaponeven shields, could butnot firearms,be used byexplosives either side. or solidarity with North Korea and to protest Only materials such as wood or plastic, the economic sanctions America, Japan and Kozo Okamoto South Korea had placed on North Korea to not result in fatalities, could be used. and the Red Army oppress the working people there. whichStudents can inflict and police harm worked but would in tandem, likely The North Korean authorities warmly with everyone waiting for a prearranged Kozo Okamoto was born in 1947 to welcomed the “revolutionaries” and offered signal before the protesters turned an upper class Japanese family, one of six them political asylum, but insisted that they violent. The students would unite to attack An Air France airplane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. 74 | ZMAN • October 2011 ZMAN • Tishrei 5772 | 75.
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