Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three killed and six wounded, while killing 19 Egyptians and taking 62 prisoners; they added that two Egyptian torpedo boats-which normally carry 20 men each-had been sunk without a trace of survivors. In the 20-hour attack on the Jordanian badlands the Israelis reported killing five Al-Fatah commandos without suffering any casualties. In Amman, however, estimates of Israeli deaths ranged from twelve...
...week of Israeli military successes ended in tragedy. At the Red Sea port of Eilat, an ammunition truck exploded, killing 18 and injuring 42. Though Al-Fatah claimed credit for the explosion, Israeli officials said that it was an accident, not sabotage...
...take back hundreds of thousands of refugees means to invite a civil war in Israel itself, because they would be a fifth column. Even if you gave the refugees the freedom to choose between repatriation and compensation, they would not be free to accept compensation. I am sure the Fatah would see to it that each refugee-even if he did not want to return-would be forced to say that he did want to come back. All of a sudden Israel would be forced into a situation where its internal security would be threatened...
...Portuguese Jewish banker was seized and ransomed for $250,000 in Geneva by masked bandits who said it was for "our brethren in Winterthur." Last week British newspapers printed accounts of an Arab plot to kidnap wealthy British Jews for ransom. According to the reports, representatives of Al-Fatah hired members of the London underworld to drug the victims and smuggle them out of Britain to the Middle East. The list of proposed victims included Charles Clore, chairman of Selfridge's department store, and Lord Sieff, president of Marks & Spencer, a large retail chain. Fantastic? Perhaps, but many Britons...