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...Meir ["illuminates"], joined the Histadrut, the Jewish Labor Federation, and swiftly rose to its executive committee. When the first Arab-Israeli war loomed in 1948, she undertook her first major diplomatic mission: crossing the border disguised as an Arab woman to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman. The mission failed, and on the way back her Arab driver refused to take her to the border. Accompanied by an aide, she walked by night two miles to the Jewish lines...
...Britain intends to sell tanks to Israel, reports that London declines to confirm or deny. Another bomb went off in the marketplace of Lydda, wounding an Arab grocer. In Jordan, fedayeen leaders took to moving from camp to camp, fearing assassination by Israeli infiltrators. King Hussein temporarily closed down Amman airport, and Egypt's Nasser declared a state of emergency...
...Outside Amman, children, aged eight to twelve, from the Baq'aa refugee camp, are trained in commando techniques. They are given rigorous calisthenics and obstacle-course training, taught to handle rifles and machine guns, and instructed where the larynx, heart, liver and intestines are located, the better to thrust a dagger in the right place. Daughters of dead fedayeen are sent to schools run by the "Martyr Family Welfare Service," where they are taught to chant: "I have broken mv chains. I am the daughter of Fatah! We are all commandos." Refugee women are trained in first...
...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...
...Embarrassingly for the guerrillas, two rival groups claimed credit, but the Fatah man, a burly, mustachioed Arab dressed in dungarees and a dirty white sweater, told the more convincing story, and the fedayeen council granted the glory to El Fatah. Arriving back at Arafat's headquarters in suburban Amman, he related that he wore a stolen Israeli policeman's uniform, drove a small, British-built delivery van to .the market, and parked it while armed terrorists covered him from nearby hiding spots. The van was loaded with 300 Ibs. of TNT, 30 Ibs. of gelignite and several cases...