Word: beit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the worst incident occurred at Beit Jala (pop. 8,200), five miles south of Jerusalem. One day last week, residents reported, about 50 Israeli troops rolled up in trucks and surrounded a school. Headmaster Louis Rabbo complained that he was "shoved rudely" by the soldiers when he tried to protest. The troops ordered the pupils, all in their early teens, to close their windows, then hurled beer-can-size canisters of U.S.-made CS antiriot gas into the packed classrooms. One student, Mohammed Azzeh, 13, was studying Arab literature in a second-floor classroom when a soldier appeared, ordered...
...nearby Beit Sahur, where the local mayor said a similar assault occurred, the schoolchildren were luckier; their school had no second floor, so no students were injured as they tried to escape the gas fumes. A few miles away at all-Palestinian Bethlehem University, where a handful of students were protesting the Lebanon invasion by throwing stones over the wall to the street beyond, Israeli troops hurled gas canisters into the buildings. Of 150 students present, 26 were rounded up arbitrarily and fined $500 apiece...
...territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example: in the Latrun finger, a spit of land that juts out between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Arab villages of Beit Nuba, Emmous and Yalu, with all their 1,800 houses, were bulldozed to the ground. East of the present Jerusalem-Nablus road, meanwhile, the Israelis are linking their major settlements overlooking the Jordan Valley with a new two-lane highway called the Allon Road (named for Israel's present Foreign...
...illusions were shattered in the first days of the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, when the Israelis razed the Arab villages of Yalo, Emmaus and Beit Nuba...
...insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican Army terrorist operations and was thus...