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Through the Orange Groves. Israel's revenge came as no surprise. Four days before the invasion, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the Arabs were preparing for a "new wave of terror," which Israel would take steps to contain if King Hussein of Jordan could not. Premier Levi Eshkol told the Knesset much the same thing, and Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah on the same day filed two complaints with the United Nations against the Arabs' "repeated acts of aggression." The stage was set for retaliation...
...captured. The ones who do get through, however, do enough damage to keep Israeli life thoroughly on edge-such as last week's bombing of ; busload of children and even attacks on coastal Tel Aviv. It is an open secret that Asifa has marked Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for assassination and has sent a top agent into Israel to do the job. And, if the organization's leaders are to be believed, they will soon have enough available guerrilla power to stage sustained attacks on small Israeli army units...
Coming as it did from Jordan, the country that had been most weakened by the June war, the latest round of provocations proved difficult for the Israelis to understand. "There is something absurd in Jordan's approach," Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told the Knesset. "At times it behaves along the border as though we lost...
Making a Point. Israel hoped, said Dayan, to "teach Jordan that a ceasefire is a cease-fire and that it applied to both Israel and Jordan." The Arab terrorist organizations, which have been responsible for starting most of the trouble, announced from the safety of Damascus that they would continue their raids, but King Hussein got the Israeli message. In a broadcast over Radio Amman, he promised to try to keep the terrorists from using Jordan as a base. "As of today," he said, "I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." Whether...
...that Dayan, the one-eyed hero of the war, wants to give back any part of the lands before the Arabs agree to make peace-if they ever do. What he was telling his countrymen was that the occupation, although necessary, has hardened the fears of Arab leaders that Israel is bent on conquest and has made them, if anything, more determined than ever to destroy the Jewish state. The occupation, Dayan warned, is therefore likely to last a very long time...