Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive of the commando groups, had its operations headquarters in a half-acre grove of fig and olive trees just outside Salt. The Israeli jets were out to destroy it in the heaviest Israeli air raid against the Arabs since...
Waves of Mirage, Mystère and Skyhawk fighters swooped in on Salt, plastering the El Fatah headquarters with rockets and napalm, strafing other suspected El Fatah installations near by and setting asphalt blacktop boiling on roads for miles around. Citrus fruit sizzled on branches in neighboring orchards. When the planes let up briefly, the people of Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli...
Probably not since the Children's Crusade has there been such a combination of revolutionary ardor and disorder. There were Trotskyites with their red flags, anarchists with their black ones, pro-Chinese with Maoist banners. Joining the French student groups were Cuban militants in black berets, El Fatah Arab nationalists, Spanish and Portuguese revolutionaries, Dutch Proves, sympathetic British Leftist students-even an unlikely Arab-Jewish committee of the committed...
...broad Beisan valley, green with ripening winter crops and blossoming trees, was painted with countless columns of rising black smoke. Israeli planes dive-bombed Jordanian positions, then wheeled west into the sun to confound the aim of Arab anti aircraft gunners. The village of Tel el-Arbain, an El Fatah commando base, was in flames. A Jordanian oil dump near the river burned an ominous red far into the night...
...least halt dozen independent fedayeen organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...