Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down an Arab-owned jet last week, the principle behind the act already has been legally established -at least to Israel's satisfaction. No one knows that better than Faik Bulut, a 23-year-old Turk. Last February Bulut was captured during an Israeli raid on an Al-Fatah camp in northern Lebanon, 100 miles from the Israeli border. He was brought to Israel where he was indicted as a civilian for endangering the security of the nation. Last week Bulut was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...
...Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the high-pitched, Arabic-accented voice of El Kassar (a pseudonym) came on the air again and again, sometimes describing the terrorists as belonging to the Japanese Red Army, sometimes as Palestinian commandos. (In Beirut, spokesmen for the Palestinian guerrilla organization Al-Fatah denied that its members were involved...
Show of Unity. How long the settlement might last was another question. The fact that the various fedayeen organizations-including the extremist Popular Democratic Front-made an uncharacteristic show of unity during the negotiations suggests that the relatively moderate and conciliatory views of Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat may be less heeded in the future. Some officers of the frustrated 16,000-man Lebanese army, which suffered surprisingly heavy losses, believe that the government cost them casualties by refusing to authorize all-out assaults. "If it starts again, there'll be no holding some of my units," warned...
...shooting apparently started near a refugee camp between the city and the airport. By midmorning it had spread to other camps around Beirut and to various sections of the city itself. Nada Khaled Yashruti, 33, the widow of a former Al-Fatah leader, was fatally riddled with twelve bullets as she entered her home in the well-to-do district of Raouche. She had just come from trying to help negotiate a cease-fire with Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh. A Lebanese newsman was killed when soldiers raked the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a nearby area...
...Israelis, attacks on fedayeen camps and stray assassinations of Palestinian envoys are legitimate acts of self-defense designed to convince Arab fanatics that their war of vengeance makes no sense. The Israelis' calculated campaign of attrition may or may not ultimately discourage the implacable zealots of Al-Fatah or Black September. On the other hand, there is ample proof that the most recent displays of belligerence have discouraged Arab moderates. Many feel that the Israelis are hell-bent on a course of Zionist aggression and are beginning to think that maybe the Palestinians were right all along...