Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced goal of El Fatah, the Arab terrorist organization, is to provoke Israelis into a pogrom of Arabs living in Israel and thereby shatter all Israeli hopes for peaceful coexistence in their occupied territories. Last week, in the latest of a series of bomb attacks, Arab terrorists struck for the first time in Tel Aviv and succeeded in rousing an angry Jewish response...
Unwitting Allies. As El Fatah had evidently hoped, a crowd of angry Israelis pounced on and beat every Arab it could find in the vicinity. As police, aided by soldiers on leave, rushed to protect Arab passersby, the mob surged into neighboring Jaffa's Arab quarter, smashing Arab shops as it went and finally gathering around the police station, where 400 Arabs were being held in protective custody...
...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...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
Helicopter Pursuit. Arab delegates protested the raid at the United Nations, and Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who escaped the Salt attack unscathed, swore that "we shall strike back harder than ever." The Israelis replied in kind. Two days later they used helicopters to track a fleeing band of commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously...