After Dalal al-Maghribi's operation in March 1978, the fedayeen in southern Lebanon faced the problem of being removed from the borders of occupied Palestine for more than 15 kilometers, which made their confrontation with the Zionist enemy army seem very difficult, so new means of resistance had to be taken, and the idea came from a simple soldier in the ranks of the Palestinian fedayeen, and its implementation was supervised by Fares, the son of General Globe Pasha.
Godfrey, son of Lieutenant General John Globe, was born in Jerusalem on October 4, 1939, and it was his father, Globe Pasha, who founded and commanded the Jordanian Arab Army during the reign of King Abdullah I bin Hussein. When he was 18 years old, he converted to Islam and took the name "Fares", and after joining the Palestinian fedayeen he was nicknamed "Abu al-Fida". Al Jazeera Documentary screened a film about his life titled "Knight Globe... rebel."
Knight Globe. A Briton who fought in the ranks of the guerrillas
Mufid Abu Nader, a member of the Palestine Liberation Front, said about him: Many of the members of the Front were not comfortable with the presence of this British among us, and they used to say that he may be planted among us by the Zionist enemy, but this is not true, as he was committed to guerrilla work more than others.
Globe Pasha, commander of the Jordanian army, with King Abdullah I
In this context, the writer Dr. Nadia Saad El-Din says: There has been a great controversy about the personality of Knight Globe, in terms of his British origin, and in terms of his political orientations in favor of the Palestinian cause.
Dr. Aref Hamo, an academic and political activist, said: "Fares did not like to be asked about his father, and if he had to talk about him, he would say that his loyalty was to the British crown, not to Zionism.
Darina, daughter of Knight Globe, said: "My grandfather is John Globe, or Globe Pasha, a lieutenant general of the Jordanian Arab Army, and my father was born in Jerusalem in 1939, and his name was "Godfrey" at birth. He lived most of his life in the Arab world, starting in Jordan, where he grew up with the Bedouins and the army.
Darina, daughter of Knight Globe
Ali Aziz, the official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Front, said: "Fares" chose his name carefully, as the relationship of this name with the Arab culture and environment is deep and deep-rooted, and by choosing this he challenged what he was raised in his English family, from the power of the British occupation forces and their racist practices against oppressed peoples in the world, especially in the Arab countries, with Palestine at the heart.
"I was raised among the problems of this region"
In an audio recording, Fares Globe speaks for himself: "I was raised among the problems of this region, especially the tragedy of Palestine, and I remember the scenes of the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land during my childhood, and the establishment of the racist Zionist state on their usurped land.
Faris Globe wearing Jordanian military uniform under his father, army commander
His daughter Darina talked about his childhood, she said: My father studied primary school in Jordan, and his family sent him to a boarding school in Britain during high school, and he did not like the school, so he ran away from it, and his family had to transfer him to a boarding school in Switzerland, and there he finished high school and returned to Britain to complete his university studies at the "School of Oriental and African Studies" in London.
On his support for oppressed peoples, Ali Aziz said about him: In the prime of his youth, he stood in Switzerland and Europe in solidarity with the Algerian revolution against the French occupation, and he had special stands against the apartheid government in South Africa, as he was aware of the close twinning relationship between that racist regime and the Zionist entity in Palestine.
Monitoring Battalion. The beginning of the path of resistance
His daughter Sarah says about his conversion to Islam: He had many questions, and he found that Islam answers these questions, so he converted to Islam at the age of 18. When he was 20 years old, he visited Al-Azhar Mosque, and in 1963 he became an English teacher in the schools of the Jordanian town of Wadi Al-Seer, and had a close relationship with the royal family in Jordan, and in contact with the Palestinian cultural and political movement, and has a distinguished activity in it.
Knight Globe was the owner of the idea of developing gliders to surprise the Zionist enemy
Fares Globe began his guerrilla activity in Fatah's monitoring battalion while it was in Jordan, then joined the PFLP-GC, and when the General Command separated from it, he joined the Palestine Liberation Front, and underwent an intensive military course during the mid-seventies. He then moved with the guerrilla action to Lebanon after the events of Black September.
Dr. Aref Hamou, an academic and political activist, said: "I got to know him through journalistic and media work, as he used to write for a number of Lebanese newspapers, and he had an article in Al-Qaeda newspaper, and we used to host him in lectures on the Palestinian cause and the Zionist movement, and he was my roommate in some periods.
Guerrilla balloons. A Briton atones for the sins of his country
His daughter Darina talks about his relationship with the Palestinian cause, saying: "His commitment to the Palestinian cause was clear and focused, and this may be due - according to my personal interpretation - a kind of responsibility he placed on his shoulders, as a Briton who feels that his country was directly responsible for the Nakba and displacement of the Palestinian people.
Mufid Abu Nader, a member of the Palestine Liberation Front, said: In a meeting with the fedayeen, we discussed the difficulties facing our fighters in reaching enemy lines, and one of the simple fighters put forward an idea that appealed to us, and the field command picked it up, saying: Comrades, why don't we use the balloon? Hence the idea of using paragliding in our combat operations.
Fares Globe adopts guerrilla training on paragliding
He continues: We entrusted to the Knight Globe "Abu Al-Fida" the issue of securing the supplies for the processing of balloons "balloons" and gliders, so he bought them from Britain, and brought in a trainer to train fighters to fly them. The idea was that these balloons would carry gliders behind enemy lines, and then separate from the airship, since there were no heights in the area for gliders to take off.
Assassination attempts. A man from the resistance under the eyes of the Mossad
This firm belief in the Palestinian cause and hard work for it made Fares vulnerable to a number of assassination attempts, and he was always receiving threatening messages, so his sense of security was very high, and he took great precautions for his own safety, and he feared the most that he would be assassinated by a traffic accident.
A traffic accident in Beirut causes Fares Globe to lose his memory and sit in bed for a while
In 1975, he was involved in a traffic accident while on his way to Beirut, and suffered many fractures, and lost his memory for a while, during which he was raving hallucinations about his book, in which he links Nazism and Zionism with a close bond, and that book was issued under the title "The Star of David and the Swastika ... Zionism in the footsteps of Nazism."
Fares traveled for medical treatment in Britain, during which time gliders transported fedayeen to engage the Zionists inside the occupied Palestinian territories. The Palestine Liberation Front took the lead in using sails, followed by other Palestinian factions such as the Popular Front – General Command – and other formations.
Knight Globe's book "Star of David and the Swastika Cross"
After the Zionist invasion of Lebanon, Fares Globe left Beirut in 1982, and went with the fedayeen to Tunisia based on the agreement concluded by the UN envoy Philip Habib with Yasser Arafat, and Fares stayed for a while in Tunisia, then went to Cyprus, and worked for the magazine Al-Ofoq published there.
After Cyprus, he tried repeatedly to return to Beirut, but compelling circumstances prevented him from returning, so he went to Kuwait, where he worked for the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Abu Al-Fida. A mysterious traffic accident concludes the story of the struggle
Fares Globe became Muslim at the age of 18 and joined the Palestinian resistance
His daughter Darina says of his death: On April 3, 2004, my father called from his office at work, and told me that he was going home, an hour or two passed and he did not arrive, during which I was trying to call him without receiving a response, and hours later I received a response from his phone but it was not his voice, it was a policeman who told me that my father had a car accident and is in the Amiri Hospital now.
It later emerged that a deaf 19-year-old man was driving too fast when he hit Fares while crossing the street. But the idea of the accidental accident did not appeal to many of Fares's friends, some of his family members and those close to him, so he did not imagine that the life of an important and dangerous man with a delicate sense of security would end as a result of a regular traffic accident, but investigations did not prove any of these hypotheses.
Fares Globe dies in an accidental traffic accident in 2004 in Kuwait and is buried in Jordan
Fares had written in his will that he be buried in Jerusalem, where he was born, but security and political conditions prevented his family from obtaining the approval of the occupying Zionist authorities to bury him where he wanted, so his family members obtained a fatwa that he should be buried as close as possible to Jerusalem, and thus buried in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
We conclude with this phrase that describes his deep faith: All man can do is live his life according to God's teachings, and he hopes through his actions and actions to facilitate miracles, with the full certainty that only God can perform miracles.