"feed back to increase anti-Semitism."" Furthermore, ""those claiming that there is no connection between antisemitism and hostility toward Israel are wrong."" In October 2014 the controversial opera ""The Death of Klinghoffer"" was staged in the Metropolitan Opera in New-York. The opera tells the story of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists, and the killing of Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. Some of the opposed to the opera claims it's partly antisemitic and glorifies the killers, as American writer and feminist Phyllis Chesler, an opera aficionado, wrote: The Death of Klinghoffer also demonizes Israel—which is what"
"October 7, 1985, four PLF militants hijacked ""Achille Lauro"" off Egypt. The hijackers had been surprised by a crew member and acted prematurely. The Palestinians had hidden their weapons in the gas tank of a car parked in Italy in preparation for boarding the ship. Their smuggled weapons still with gasoline residue on them, gave off a smell that the crew had noticed but had not acted on. A cabin steward, with the hijackers' stateroom in his responsibilities, surprised the four Palestinians (as they were trying to use a hairdryer to clean the residue off their weapons) by entering the"
"Achille Lauro hijacking The ""Achille Lauro"" hijacking happened on October 7, 1985, when the Italian MS ""Achille Lauro"" was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking sparked the ""Sigonella Crisis"". Several events before the October 7, 1985 hijacking provide a context for what took place. Since being driven out of Southern Lebanon by Israel in 1978 and out of Beirut in 1982, Palestine Liberation"
"MS Achille Lauro MS ""Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS ""Willem Ruys, a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd, she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. In other incidents, she also suffered two serious collisions (in 1953 with the and in 1975 with the cargo ship ""Youseff"") and four onboard fires or explosions (in 1965, 1972, 1981, and 1994). In the last of these, in 1994, the ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean off Somalia. Ordered in 1938 to replace the"
"circumstances. Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a 1990 American-German-Italian-French made-for-television action-drama film starring Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint, and is based on the 1985 ""Achille Lauro"" hijacking. The film was directed by Alberto Negrin. 1985, Alexandria. A group of Palestinian terrorists of the PLO embarks on the Italian cruise ship ""Achille Lauro"" with the purpose of reaching Haifa and perform a suicide mission against Israel. However, when they're found out during the trip, they decide to hijack the ship and take all passengers in hostage: Among them are Mr."
"her under a charter arrangement in 1985, shortly before the hijacking. On 7 October 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the liner off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard. The ship then headed back towards Port Said, and after two days of"
"negotiations, the hijackers agreed to abandon the liner in exchange for safe conduct and were flown towards Tunisia aboard an Egyptian commercial airliner. This plane, however, was intercepted by US fighter aircraft and directed to land in Sicily, where the hijackers were to be tried for murder, but could not be extradited. The hijackers were later given passage to Yugoslavia after being paroled by the Italians and escaped. The ship continued in service; she was reflagged in 1987 when the Lauro Line was taken over by the Mediterranean Shipping Company to become StarLauro. On 30 November 1994, she caught fire"
"sought his extradition. Following the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, the Klinghoffer family founded the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation, in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League. The ""Achille Lauro"" hijacking has inspired a number of dramatic retellings: Achille Lauro hijacking The ""Achille Lauro"" hijacking happened on October 7, 1985, when the Italian MS ""Achille Lauro"" was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking sparked"
"Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. ""Nimitz"" deployed for a fifth time on 8 March 1985. On 14 June 1985, two Lebanese gunmen hijacked TWA Flight 847, which carried 153 passengers and crew and included Americans. In response, ""Nimitz"" was deployed to the coast of Lebanon, where it remained until August 1985. The embarked Airwing 8 flew continuous sorties for 67 days, bombing several sites in Beirut including the runways of Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport. The ship returned to Norfolk on 4 October 1985. ""Nimitz"", again with CVW-8 embarked, departed Norfolk for its sixth and final Mediterranean deployment on 30"
"Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a 1990 American-German-Italian-French made-for-television action-drama film starring Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint, and is based on the 1985 ""Achille Lauro"" hijacking. The film was directed by Alberto Negrin. 1985, Alexandria. A group of Palestinian terrorists of the PLO embarks on the Italian cruise ship ""Achille Lauro"" with the purpose of reaching Haifa and perform a suicide mission against Israel. However, when they're found out during the trip, they decide to hijack the ship and take all passengers in hostage: Among them are Mr. Leon"
"home by Samir Kuntar. Throughout the 1980s, the PLF launched attacks on both civilian and military targets in the north of Israel, across the Lebanese border. In 1985 he masterminded the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship ""Achille Lauro"". During the hijacking, 69-year-old wheelchair-bound American Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer, was shot dead and thrown overboard. The four hijackers, fearful of United States military intervention, surrendered to Egypt in return for safe passage out of Egypt, based on the pretext that they had done no harm to any of the passengers. Four F-14 aircraft from the U.S. 6th Fleet intercepted the"
"Trieste and Izmir, results in view of a more tight collaboration in between MSC and Messina Line. Following an engine room explosion and subsequent fire on 30 November 1994 the MS Achille Lauro was abandoned and eventually sank on 2 December 1994. Several years earlier, in October, 1985, the Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists while cruising off Egypt. One passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, who was confined to a wheelchair, was deliberately murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard with his wheelchair. ""MSC Napoli"" operated by MSC under charter from its owner, had to be abandoned in the English Channel"
"AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping. 1985: Italy: On October 10, 1985, U.S. Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking. 1986: Libya: Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986), on March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported on March 24 and 25, U.S. forces, while engaged in freedom"
"leading to the arrests of those involved in the hijacking but made no military response. Later press reports linked Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah to the hijackings. On 14 June 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome. One of the demands of the hijackers was the release of the 17 prisoners held in Kuwait. On 5 April 1988, Kuwait Airways Flight 422 was hijacked from Bangkok to Kuwait with 111 passengers and crew aboard, including three members of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Six or seven Lebanese men (including Hassan Izz-Al-Din, a veteran of the TWA 847 hijacking)"
"termed ""hijackers"". An example is the hijacking of the Italian civilian passenger ship ""Achille Lauro"" by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1985, which is regarded as an act of piracy. A 2009 book entitled ""International Legal Dimension of Terrorism"" called the attackers ""terrorists"". Modern pirates also use a great deal of technology. It has been reported that crimes of piracy have involved the use of mobile phones, satellite phones, GPS, machetes, AK74 rifles, Sonar systems, modern speedboats, shotguns, pistols, mounted machine guns, and even RPGs and grenade launchers. Under a principle of international law known as the ""universality principle"", a"
"eastern Mediterranean. She was transferred to South America in November 2012, before returning to the eastern Mediterranean for the summer 2013 season. On 18 March 2015, ""Costa Fascinosa"" was in port along with ""MSC Splendida"" in Tunis when gunmen opened fire on tourists at the Bardo National Museum, including several on a tour bus from the ""Costa Fascinosa"". Five passengers from the ship were killed, eight passengers were injured. At the invitation of Costa Cruises, Apostleship of the Sea -the Catholic Church's mission that provides pastoral care for seafarers- held a Mass on board the ship on 21 March 2015"
"who was shot down by the ""Luftwaffe"" while on a mission with the Italian Co-belligerent Air Force and was honored with the Gold medal of Military Valor. On the night of 10 October 1985, there were tense hours on NAS II when the Italian Carabinieri, Italian Air Force, and the US Army's Delta Force came close to firing upon one another following the interception by Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters of an Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, which had been commandeered by members of the PLO on 7 October. The hijackers"
"part of the Attica Group, an Athens-listed holding corporation. In 2009 he was kidnapped. Pericles Panagopoulos Pericles Panagopoulos (born 1935) is a Greek shipping magnate. In 1972 in partnership with Barney A. Ebsworth, he formed Royal Cruise Line. The m/s Golden Odyssey was the company's first cruise ship. Built in Helsingor Shipyard and delivered in 1974, she was designed to carry 450 passengers as this was the capacity of the 747 Jumbo Jet airplane. The company grew with the addition of the 850-passenger Royal Odyssey in 1982 and the 1000-passenger Crown Odyssey in 1988 before getting acquired by Kloster Cruises"
"of the suspects were later convicted of piracy, while the other two were acquitted. Another pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden occurred 12 days before the assault on the ""Carré d'As IV"", when the Iranian-owned cargo ship MV ""Iran Deyanat"" was hijacked on August 21 by 40 pirates and held for 50 days; the ship and its 25 crew were released in November after the IRISL Group allegedly paid $2.5 million in ransom. On September 2, 2008, the , twin-masted yacht ""Carré d'As IV"", which had been sailing from Australia to La Rochelle, France, was attacked and captured by"
"""Paris Match"", which wrote, ""in a few years, this Syrian merchant became one of the most powerful businessmen in the world."" The Spanish government alleges that in 1985, al-Kassar sold arms to the hijackers of the ""Achille Lauro"" cruise ship, and that afterwards he flew the hijackers' leader, Abu Abbas, to safety in one of his private airplanes. Al-Kassar has denied the charge. In 1987, investigations into the Iran-Contra scandal found that al-Kassar had been paid 1.5 million pounds by someone in the U.S. government to sell arms to Nicaraguan Contras; according to an article in ""The New Yorker"", the"
"being relatively unheard of at the time, the cruise line did little else for security besides checking passports at Genoa. No one's luggage was checked, and this was seen as normal procedure at the time. (It was reported by the ""New York Times"" at the time of the hijacking that the ship had security personnel but it could not determine if they were armed.) This lax security occurred in the same year that a spate of terrorist incidents within Europe and the Middle East had already occurred, including the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 where hostages were taken and one"
"MV Horizon-1 ""This article is about the Turkish cargo ship MV Horizon-1. For the cruise ship MV Horizon, see MV Pacific Dream. The MV ""Horizon-1"" is a dry bulk cargo ship owned and operated by the Istanbul based Turkish company Horizon Denizcilik İç ve Dış Ticaret A.Ş. (Horizon Maritime Trading Co.). On July 8, 2009, the ship was captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. At the time of the seizure, the ""Horizon-1""s crew consisted of 23 Turks including a female third officer. The vessel had experienced a hijacking attempt on March 19 the same year in that"
"fight against terrorism. On 7 October, members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise liner ""Achille Lauro"". When the ship arrived in Syria the hijackers made their way to Egypt where they were promised free passage to Tunisia in return for the hostages' lives. The terrorists boarded an Egypt Air Boeing 737 on the night of 10 October. But based on US Intelligence, president Ronald Reagan ordered the Sixth Fleet to take action, to force down the 737 to Sigonella where US Special Forces could capture the hijackers. Four F-14s and an E-2C Hawkeye launched from Saratoga."
"1984 and during the first half of 1985. On 2 July 1985, she made the brief voyage to Morehead City where she embarked Marine Corps units and their equipment for another tour of duty with the Sixth Fleet. The amphibious transport dock arrived in Rota, Spain, on 13 July and entered the Mediterranean Sea the following day. While the problems in Lebanon continued, direct American military involvement there had ceased. The Austin was involved in the hijacking of the Achilles Lauro Italian cruise ship..did 45 days underway, Thus ""Austin"" accomplished her 1985 Mediterranean deployment in a more routine fashion. It"
"Yantai in February 2014, and was renamed Chinese Taishan. Chinese Taishan MS ""Chinese Taishan"" is a cruise ship that was sailing for Costa Crociere and was formerly owned by Royal Olympic Cruises and Ibero Cruises as ""Grand Voyager"". On 14 February 2005, the MV ""Grand Voyager"" was struck by a freak wave during a mistral storm while operating in the Mediterranean. A 40 to 50 foot tall wave knocked out a window on the bridge and ingressing water disabled the ship's engine controls. Dramatic video of the ship helplessly adrift and rolling to extreme angles was captured by rescue helicopters."
"""Pacific Princess"" was impounded by police in Piraeus, Greece after 25 kg of heroin was found on board, smuggled by Filipino crewmen. According to police sources quoted in the BBC report at the time, there was evidence the ship had become a major tool for drug smugglers in the Mediterranean. ""Pacific Princess"" was sold in 2001, but was leased back and continued to operate as part of the Princess fleet until 2002, when the former Renaissance Cruises ""R3"" replaced her and took her name. ""Pacific Princess"" made her final voyage with Princess Cruises in October/November 2002, sailing from New York"
"the conditions during it. The ""Achille Lauro"" embarked from Genoa, Italy on Thursday, October 3, 1985 with an itinerary for an eleven-day cruise with ports of call in Naples and Syracuse in Italy; Alexandria and Port Said in Egypt; Ashdod in Israel; Limassol in Cyprus; Rhodes and Piraeus in Greece; and returning to Italy for a stop at Capri before finishing back in Genoa. The fares for a double-berthed cabin were between $955 and $1,550. The ship had become the physical property of the Italian government when its previous owner Costa Lines went bankrupt and the vessel was seized by"
"War. Monday, October 7, 1985, the day of the kidnapping on the Achille Lauro (occurred at 13:15), already late in the evening 60 Col Moschin raiders arrived at the military base of Akrotiri, on the island of Cyprus, made available by the British government , ready to intervene following a plan developed together with the COMSUBIN. The sixty operators should have carried out a ""saturation like wildfire"" and the rescue of the hostages, while COMSUBIN operators would have carried out the initial raid. The situation evolved differently and the diplomatic line prevailed. Mafia assassinations of top Italian magistrates in 1992"
"the Mediterraneo Byblos Festival in 2001 and shortly after became an international success in the Arab world later being staged again in Egypt and Qatar. Elefteriades also composed, wrote and arranged the song ""The Beast"" for Roussos and directed the video for it. In June 1985, Roussos was among the passengers of TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome, which was hijacked, by members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, but he was released along with four other Greeks after five days while most of the other hostages remained there for 17 days. He spent his 39th birthday on the plane"
"Silco incident The Silco incident involves the kidnapping of the Belgian-French family Houtekins-Kets by the Libyan government from their yacht ""Silco"" in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on August 1, 1985. The Belgian part of the family was held for almost five years of captivity in Libya, but were freed after the release of Said Al Nasr (who was convicted in the early 1980s for throwing a hand grenade into a group of Jewish children in Antwerp in the 1980 Antwerp summer camp attack) for the family, in Cairo, Egypt, on January 12, 1991. The French part of the"
"that year, arriving on 25 November at Aliağa, Turkey for scrapping. MV Avrasya Avrasya is a Ro-Ro ferry that was hijacked in the Black Sea hostage crisis of 1996. Originally built in 1953 as the passenger ship Lazio, she was converted to a Ro-Ro ferry in 1967. In 1979, she was sold to Greece and renamed Sant Andrea. A sale in 1984 saw her renamed Makedonia, followed by a chartering in 1985 which saw her renamed Summer Star. A sale in 1986 saw her renamed Corfu Diamond and after a further sale in 1988 she was renamed Larnaca Rose. In"
"a pleasure cruise departing from Alexandria, was hijacked by terrorists from the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF). After tense negotiations and the killing of an American tourist, the hijackers went ashore at Port Said. Egyptian authorities made hasty arrangements for the terrorists to depart the country. They boarded an Egypt Air 737 jetliner at the Al Maza Air Base, northeast of Cairo. On orders from President Ronald Reagan, seven F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 ""Bedevilers"" and the VF-103 ""Sluggers"" were launched from the ""Saratoga"". Supporting the Tomcats continuously were VA-85 Grumman KA-6D air tankers and E-2C Hawkeye of VAW-125. Off the"
"presence in Hollywood in the mid-1990s and even assisted in the capture of Abu Abbas, the terrorist behind the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985. Sands arranged for Abbas to be interviewed in Baghdad for a book and movie deal, and then gave the interview and Abbas's contact details to the FBI and CIA. US Special Forces captured Abbas in 2003. In 2011 Sands was approached by the Utah family of Wassef Ali Hassoun over a $1m book and movie deal about the Marine corporal charged with desertion who allegedly faked his own kidnapping in Iraq. On"