Terrorism feels like such a part of our lives it’s hard to believe that we can actually pinpoint when it took on its modern form.
The face of modern terrorism was born on July 22, 1968, when members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of the smaller member groups within the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, hijacked an Israeli El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.
While hijackings had happened before this event, they weren’t specifically focused on creating a media spectacle. The symbolic power of taking over an Israeli…
