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...members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training camp of Al Fatah, the largest fedayeen group, killing nine men, its leaders alerted 7,000 armed fedayeen to stand by to move in on Amman...
...Cabinet's truckling, a furious Hussein privately spoke of dismissing Talhouni and the Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware that his grandfather, King Abdullah, was cut down by an extremist...
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...
Home from Algiers. No one knew for sure how much El Fatah's terrorism would harden Israeli opinion against any diplomatic peace efforts by the government. Foreign Minister Abba Eban last week scored a diplomatic success of sorts by gaining the release of an Israeli Boeing 707 that had been skyjacked by El Fatah agents and held in Algiers with twelve passengers since July 23. Since in this case Israel had little bargaining leverage, it had to make a reciprocal gesture: the release of 16 imprisoned Arab terrorists...