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...Praise. One apparent beneficiary is a fellow Moslem, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of Uganda, whose army and air force were trained by Israeli military advisers, and whose country has received $25 million worth of Israeli aid and credits. Two months ago, after a fruitless mission to Tel Aviv in search of $10 million additional cash aid, Amin stopped off in Tripoli-aboard an Israeli-provided executive jet. Big Daddy emerged from conferences with Gaddafi to praise "the just struggle of the Palestinian people." After reportedly receiving a promise of $26 million from Libya once the Israelis were...
...comes up over Israel, the steward makes an announcement: "You are now over Tel Aviv. Blessed be your coming." The 707 wheels, dips and lands lightly; as it does, the passengers burst into applause and patriotic Hebrew songs. "God bless Golda Meir," shouts an exuberant Georgian. Gershon Mazin sings an old Zionist song, Peace to you, O Jerusalem...
...could live an entire lifetime in, say, Tel-Aviv or Haifa, and never be set upon by hostile Arabs, never hear a shot, not the least gunfire, and one's closest brush with death would in all likelihood be on the roads, where cars are driven with the same reckless excitability that seems to grace the entire population. It is indeed true that, as the Israelis never tire of saying, "You are a great deal safer anywhere in Israel than on the streets of New York." But this confidence in day-to-day security, this state of ostensible normalcy, does...
...ambitions. Today the U.S. and many other nations formally recognize neither Israel's right to control Jerusalem nor the claims to the Old City made by Abdullah's grandson, Jordan's King Hussein. To stress the point, 33 nations maintain embassies 35 miles away in Tel Aviv rather than in Jerusalem, which is now Israel's capital...
ASSAULT FORCE SINCE D-DAY,*and SYRIA LIKELY TO JOIN FRAY. The first nationwide test of air-raid sirens since the Six-Day War of 1967, added to the scare. Premier Golda Meir, addressing Labor Party leaders in Tel Aviv, warned: "We cannot permit ourselves to carry on with the attitude of business-as-usual with Sadat saying to his people not that he will win, but that he will take them into battle...