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...ensued, unfortunately, may have been as much the result of Israeli incompetence as Palestinian menace. Every one of Israel's surveillance and emergency reaction systems failed during the landing and deadly ride of the terrorist raiding party from Kibbutz Ma'agan Mikha'el to the Tel Aviv Country Club, where the bus and its passengers were halted in a storm of gunfire and flame...
...spot. But Israeli naval and air patrols of the long shoreline failed miserably, perhaps in part because of a heavy sea that fouled radar reception. Even so, the terrorists lunched on the beach at high noon and rested for an hour before beginning their bloody hitchhike to Tel Aviv. No one disturbed them. They encountered a woman, Gail Rubin, taking pictures on the beach. After learning from her where they were, they killed...
...moreover, the usual Israeli talent for inventive tactics seemed somehow to collapse. There were no smokescreens laid across the highway, and only one feeble attempt was made to force the hijacked bus to stop. Not until the captured bus hit a stretch of highway seeded with nails outside Tel Aviv were the terrorists and their hostages stopped by a blockade hastily erected by police who had been alerted to the hijacking...
...calling for blood donations," said a Palestinian doctor with satisfaction as he hunched over a radio tuned to an Israeli station during a dinner party in Jordan's capital, Amman. As he passed on to the other Palestinian guests the news about the fedayeen attack near Tel Aviv, he exclaimed: "What courage those boys and girls have...
...Palestinians most of all, however, is the endless battle against Israel. By now the fight has become almost a mockery of itself: the typical Palestinian longing for the orange groves of Jaffa has become ludicrous in a time when Jaffa itself has disappeared before the encroachments of Jewish Tel Aviv, and whatever orange groves remain are almost blotted out by industrial development. But the Palestinian dream has been kept alive, thanks to sophisticated political work by Arafat and other Palestinian leaders and the willingness of Arab governments to support (however grudgingly) a nearly lost cause...