Gad Saad

She got the father involved.

He reached out to Yasser Arafat, who was the head of the PLO back then.

As I understand the story...

Yasser Arafat said, well, I don't even know whether they're with one of our groups.

Let me make some calls.

But at the time, there was sort of a battle between Yasser Arafat and Abu Nidal.

And he said, if it's the Abu Nidal gang that took him, good luck.

And it was the Abu Nidal group.

But I'm guessing there was some money that was exchanged.

My parents were freed.

When my father returned, he had a...

a temporary facial paralysis akin to when you have a really severe stroke and your face is completely disfigured and asymmetric.

Guillain-Barre.

Is that what it's called?

Yeah.

But it got resolved.

And so for about, I don't know how long it was, maybe a month or two, his face was completely asymmetric, probably due to the things that happened to him.

And actually, I mean, some of the stuff I may have previously mentioned on this show, but here's a part that I'm almost certain I didn't mention.

At one point, the militia group was trying to get my parents to sign a confession letter that they are Israeli spies, which if you met my parents, you would know that that's not a very likely reality because it turns out that if they signed that,

then they could legally execute them.