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...larger explosion of violence was probably still to come-either in Europe or in the Middle East. In the wake of the massacre at Tel Aviv airport two weeks ago, when three Japanese gunmen killed 24 people-among them 17 Puerto Rican pilgrims-Israel vowed revenge. The question was when and where the Israelis would strike back. Blaming Lebanon and Egypt for supporting the Arab terrorists who had sent the three Japanese on their deadly mission, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week warned that "there is nothing easier for Israel than to paralyze air communications if countries such as Lebanon...
Matityahu Peled, a political commentator and Arab studies specialist at Tel Aviv University and the army's quartermaster general in the war, calls the survival argument "a bluff which was born and developed only after the war." Says Peled of the crisis five years ago: "When we spoke of the war in the General Staff, we talked of the political ramifications if we didn't go to war -what would happen to Israel in the next 25 years. Never of survival today...
...unassuming young Japanese carrying Rimbaud's memoirs in his pocket-as police discovered later-was elaborately polite as he debarked with two companions from Air France Flight No. 132 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last week. "Where are you from?" an elderly woman asked. "I am from Japan, madam," was the reply, "and I am very excited about my trip to the Holy Land." The woman answered: "I hope you have a pleasant stay." Minutes later, both were dead, along with 24 others, and 78 persons were wounded in one of the most callous and grotesque...
...were looking for new ways to carry out their goal of global revolution; their organization has lost appeal and prestige in recent years. The Palestinian fight was an attractive alternative. The P.F.L.P. also insisted that the hired killers were not on a kamikaze mission. Palestinians living in Tel Aviv, they said, were supposed to help them escape. How the escape could occur through aroused Israeli police and guards, they did not explain...
...could three Japanese have flown from Rome to Tel Aviv with a suitcase full of submachine guns and hand grenades undetected? The answer is that they apparently discovered a new flaw in airline security...