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...same group also boasted three months ago of engineering the mid-air explosion of an Israel-bound Swissair jet in which 47 died. Jebreel wired Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week that the bus attack was revenge for the Israeli air raid at Bahr el Bakr. But Al-Fatah, largest of the Arab commando organizations, criticized the guerrilla group, and declared that its own policy prohibited deliberate attacks on civilians...
Commando Raids. The new arms promised to be of benefit in any renewal of all-out fighting. Last week, however, Israel was concerned with smaller-scale attacks by Arab commandos. On the Jordan frontier, an Israeli unit on night patrol spotted three Fatah scouts. Taking cover, the Israelis held their fire until the Fatah main force arrived to join the scouts. A body count produced 21 claimed dead-the largest number of commandos ever killed in one fight on Israeli territory. Three other major Arab thrusts came from southern Lebanon. Rockets killed a father and daughter in the east Galilee...
...Fatah is rejected as the representative of the Palestinians because although it enjoys wide support. it has never been legitimized by the Palestinian population. "Semehow, there must be elections." someone sighed. "Maybe the Fatah leaders would be elected, but the Palestinian population is in general more moderate." he continued, and many of the Fatah leaders are being discredited as their success makes them more and more bourgeois...
Ultimately, ?one of the dissenters really know what to do. The Israeli Student Union did send a letter to Fatah and received a reply-certainly a milestone, but the content of the answer a complete refutation of everything the students had written, showed the distance that still has to be bridged...
...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...