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...intervals unless the Maltese agreed to refuel the plane. Meanwhile, in response to an appeal from the pilot, the hijackers agreed to release eleven women, including the seven Filipino dancers and four Egyptians. Then they asked any Israeli women to identify themselves. Thinking she too would be released, Tamar Artzi, 24, rose from her seat. One of the hijackers aimed his pistol at her head and pulled the trigger. At the last second Artzi turned her head; miraculously, the bullet only grazed her cheek. Thinking her dead or mortally wounded, the gunmen threw her out of the plane onto...
...seat when the hijackers began searching for her, but they managed to identify her from her passport photo. With her hands tied, she was dragged to the open doorway, where she too was shot in the head and thrown onto the runway. Beneath the plane, the wounded Artzi crawled toward her friend's body, but one of the hijackers saw her and shot her in the hip. "They shot us as a sport," she said later, "as though they were shooting dogs." Mendelson never regained consciousness, and three days later was pronounced clinically dead...
...White Salmon, Wash. Baker remarked later that one hijacker, upon first seeing the young American's passport, had smiled and said in English, "Welcome." To himself Baker thought, "Welcome to my nightmare." Like the Israeli women, Baker was shot in the head and dumped onto the runway. But like Artzi, he received only a superficial wound. He pretended to be dead, waited for the hijackers to go back inside, and then escaped. The next victims were Rogenkamp, a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force in Greece, who was shot and killed, and another American woman, Jackie Pflug...
...Noah Ben Artzi Palosof, the granddaughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was invited by organizers of the "Author Series" earlier this year...
...American Jews who are already sympathetic to Israel, the other is that mass of Americans and Europeans whose idea of Israel has been formed by the horrifying TV images of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising. Hoping to capitalize on the reserves of sympathy she created with her eulogy, Ben Artzi-Pelossof paints a humane picture of Israel and its people. She repeatedly explains her and her friends' desire for peace, their integration into Western culture (MTV and McDonald's pop up frequently), their intimate experiences with war and the army and their respect for democracy. By the same token...