Andrew Zimmern

The woman turns to us, the person who was really the driving force that started this whole thing, and says, would you come home to my house?

My husband would like to meet you.

We said, sure.

As we're getting into the vans, several of our security details said to me, do you know who her husband is?

I said, I have no idea.

And she said her husband is, I think it was Abu Abbas.

He was the head of the PLO's propaganda machine when Arafat was in power.

He was the person famously for people who are a little bit older and remember these sort of things in the news.

And I think it was in the late 70s or early 80s, Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, put a bomb inside a book that he opened.

And it it failed.

All of the explosives didn't go off.

So he lived.

But the gunpowder streaked his face with streaks of gray and black into his skin.

And the Israelis had had found him confined, confined him to house arrest.

Hence the tanks on the hill.

And I was very eager to meet him and talk to him.

And I say this is as someone who I mean, I'm Jewish and in the entertainment business in America.

I mean, I'm exactly what this guy has has spent his life doing.

you know, rallying against.

And, but I was eager to meet him because I, I, I wanted to see what he was all about.