Word: fatah
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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...
Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...
...modern Sidon, hundreds of them have left to take jobs in Saudi Arabia and such oil-rich sheikdoms as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, sending part of their paychecks back to their families. Several hundred others have gone by secret mountain trails into Syria, where they undergo training with El Fatah or one of the other terrorist groups that send commandos into Israel to avenge their fathers' sufferings by murder, arson and sabotage. At least four of the camp's sons died in raids last month alone. This activity is a source of fierce but guarded pride among...