Said al-Sabeh was a Palestinian politician who fought in the 1948 war. In the 2020 opening, Wikipedia said he fought in the 1948 war, and was the commander of Holy Jihad Brigade in the vicinity of Qalqilya during the British colonization. Today's opening states only his name, dates, and that he was a Palestinian politician, with his command of the Holy Jihad Brigade gone, though jihad survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that al-Sabeh commanded the Holy Jihad Brigade near Qalqilya during the 1948 war.
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Said al-Sabeh also spelled Said al-Sabi ( ; 27 November 1926 – 30 June 1995) was a Palestinian politician. He was born in Qalqilya , in British Mandatory Palestine in 1926. He studied in Qalqilya , Palestine, he fought in 1948 war, and was the commander of Holy Jihad Brigade in the vicinity of Qalqilya during the British colonization. After the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam , British forces stormed into his father house Nimr Alsabi and arrested him along with his son Ahmed and his brother Abdul Raheem Alsabi charging him with association of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam group. This incident was Said political starting point which was a major shock as he was only 7 years old. Said grew to hate the British ruling even after joining the Jordanian Arabic Army many years later. He proceeded to completely nationalize the Jordanian Army and expel John Bagot Glubb out of Jordan . In 1957, he was accused of plotting a military coup against the Jordanian Monarchy in 1957 and was sentenced to death, however he managed to escape to Syria , then to Egypt after both countries have ended their short union. He was targeted for assassination numerous times by the Israeli mossad which they all have failed. He was the first director of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Sudan and Algeria .1
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Palestinian Political Said al-Sabeh also spelled Said al-Sabi ( ; 27 November 1926 – 30 June 1995) was a Palestinian politician.
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Palestinian Political Said al-Sabeh also spelled Said al-Sabi ( Arabic : سعيد السبع ; 27 November 1926 – 30 June 1995) was a Palestinian politician.
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