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...Numerous American officials have expressed their outrage about the Arab terrorism at Ma'alot. But recently the U.S. voted with other U.N. members to censure Israel for defending itself against precisely such vile acts. That vote places the U.S., in my opinion, in a position supporting the Arabs' cowardly attacks on Israeli civilians. My shame as an American is exceeded only by my bitter anger...
Henry Kissinger's reputation as the miracle worker of the Middle East underwent perhaps its toughest test last week. The Palestinian attack on Ma'alot and the Israeli reprisal raids on Lebanon (TIME, May 27) had appeared to wreck chances for a disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel. Only a few days after those tragedies, however, the U.S. Secretary of State reported "substantial agreement in form and content" as talks went on. But nailing down that agreement, in a stepped-up round of shuttle flights between Jerusalem and Damascus, proved to be an exhausting and frustrating chore...
...talk to us. They seem frightened by the prospect of their own moderation-if it can be called moderation to take back land you lost in a war you started." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, after a Knesset debate over his handling of the Palestinian attack on Ma'alot, stomped out of the Chamber, muttering audibly "I'm fed up with this government...
...reason for edginess was that both sides were still suffering the emotional aftermath of the Ma'alot raid, in which 27 Israelis were killed, and the Israeli reprisals on Palestinians in Lebanon that killed at least 50 more civilians. Last week Israeli gunboats, protected by aircraft, shelled the Rashidieh refugee camp near Tyre, killing seven Palestinians and wounding 13. Later Israeli jets bombed Lebanon's mountainous Arqub region near the Israeli border killing at least three more. Palestinian guerrillas threatened to avenge those attacks with suicide raids inside Israel...
Ignored Fact. After Ma'alot, Israelis took these threats seriously, and patrols were increased. Near the Golan, Israeli soldiers flushed eight guerrillas and killed six of them in a running gun battle. The survivors said they belonged to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was responsible for the Ma'alot raid. They were bound for Kibbutz Ein Gev and Kibbutz Haon by the Sea of Galilee to carry out similar raids in order to free fedayeen prisoners in Israel. In Jerusalem, three Arabs were arrested and accused of setting Katyusha (after the Russian affectionate...