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...people of Israel are proud of this phenomenon, and the government is continually cultivating this no-man-is-an-island attitude. A short documentary on life on a Kibbutz was making the rounds in Tel Aviv during the summer. As documentaries go, this one was exciting. The early scenes of mine detection in plowed fields and men going to work with rifles at their sides led to the expectation that something momentous was about to happen. The terrorist attack by night ensured that the expectation was fulfilled. The purpose of the film, according to a young Israeli...
...nationwide. It is not unusual, anywher, to discuss individual personalities in terms of an intricate balance between fear and security, but the Israelis have taken that balance and have collectivized it. The people know what there is to fear, and military exhibitions, paratroop drops on the beaches of Tel Aviv, and the preponderance of soldiers provide the necessary feeling of security...
...attack came at noon, in the form of three gelignite time bombs wrapped in plastic bags and dropped in litter baskets in downtown Tel Aviv. All three detonated within 20 minutes...
...fury, many citizens saw the futility of playing into El Fatah's hands. Some helped police disperse the mob; others gave sanctuary to their Arab neighbors. "The hooligans and inciters to pogroms," said the Tel Aviv Ha'aretz next day, "must be considered active, if unwitting, allies of the Arab terrorists...
...them high school students captured moments after the bombs went off. The students confessed, and police said that they were members of a terrorist gang that set off three bombs in Jerusalem last month, one of which had sparked a similar Israeli rampage against Arabs. In the future, Tel Aviv will be safer, if not so clean: as a precaution, the city's sanitation department removed its metal litter baskets from the downtown streets...