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...dramatic demonstration of how hateful the Israeli occupation is to West Bankers, could easily have been avoided. Two weeks ago Israeli General Danny Matt, the military administrator of the occupied territories, called Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a, 48, into his office for a chat. Next day the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz published a partial account of the purported conversation; according to the newspaper version, Shaka'a implied that he approved of a 1978 bus attack by Palestinian terrorists in which 34 Israelis were killed...
...sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas and to bolster Arab claims to territory that...
...security jeopardized by a new civil war." The Israelis are unhappy with the occupying role Syria plays in Lebanon. They also fear that any troops recalled from Lebanon could be used to reinforce Assad's forces on the Golan Heights. Last week military officials in Tel Aviv were concerned over reports that Assad had returned from Moscow with the promise of at least 200 more Soviet T-72 tanks and an unknown number of MiG-25 interceptors...
Squads of mobsters and meanies never ruffled one tossed hair of Farrah Fawcett's head in all her years as one of Charlie's Angels. But Israeli shoppers are something else. Making a promo appearance in a Tel Aviv department store, Fawcett was mobbed so enthusiastically by fans who have followed her exploits by means of Hebrew subtitles that it took four bodyguards to whisk her to safety in an elevator, where she calmly blew bubbles with her bubble gum. But the jostling aggravated an ailing leg, and Fawcett was forced to hobble on crutches to watch...
Though Henry Kissinger's diplomatic passport (No. X 104601) carries the entry "A Former Secretary of State," his hosts last week treated him as if he still held that office. Anwar Sadat sent him from Cairo to Tel Aviv in an official Mystere jet; King Hussein of Jordan dispatched a helicopter to carry him from the Allenby Bridge to Amman; the Saudis sent a Gulfstream II executive jet (with closed-circuit TV) to fly Kissinger, his wife Nancy and his son David, 17, to Riyadh. "What we're doing for Henry," said one Egyptian official, "we normally...