Word: fedayeen
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...Fedayeen on both sides of the Litani seemed particularly bitter about the French troops. 'They came in thinking this was Algeria," complained a young commander of the P.F.L.P., "and that they could knock people around as they pleased." For their part, the French, whose headquarters are just south of Tyre but who are not permitted by the Palestinians to enter the city itself, spoke bitterly about what they called "the lies" being spread about them. Clearly, the French paratroopers have been stunned by the serious wounding of their commander, Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, in a fight with a Palestinian...
...they regretted the incident too. They said that none of their regular forces participated. I told them we should have a telephone line direct to their headquarters so we could communicate if there were future attempts to infiltrate our position. They agreed. I now have direct communications with the fedayeen command in this area...
...might recall the fright of innocent southern Lebanese villagers during the Israeli incursion into Lebanese Arqub area, a four-day attack in February and March 1972. That Israeli retaliation to fedayeen raids brought the largest military operations to date against Lebanese villages--which caused even the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Israel. Again, heavy civilian Lebanese casualties were sustained the following June when the Israelis staged air attacks on Lebanese villages following a renewal of fedayeen activity...
...They are calling for blood donations," said a Palestinian doctor with satisfaction as he hunched over a radio tuned to an Israeli station during a dinner party in Jordan's capital, Amman. As he passed on to the other Palestinian guests the news about the fedayeen attack near Tel Aviv, he exclaimed: "What courage those boys and girls have...
That problem is how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for some form of nationhood. They remain a homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee...