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Bloody violence broke out once more last week across the border between Israel and Lebanon. From bases below the Litani River, Palestinian fedayeen launched a series of attacks with Soviet-made Katyusha rockets on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya. Three Israelis, one a 35-year-old mother of two, were killed and five wounded...
Infuriated by the casualties, Palestinians again unleashed scattered new rounds of Katyushas, most of which hit around Kibbutz Yir'on near the border. That led to a second Israeli bombing raid. The fedayeen were ordered to cease firing by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Earlier in the week, Arafat had been present at an extraordinary nationally televised address to the Egyptian parliament by President Anwar Sadat, who did not even mention the air raids that had just taken place in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to their...
...P.L.O. with a view to statehood has set up the Palestine National Council, a 293-person parliament whose members range from fedayeen and delegates from refugee groups to students and intellectuals. The council includes such disparate personalities as Abu Daoud, accused of masterminding the 1972 Munich massacre, Father Ibrahim Ayad, a Roman Catholic priest, and Edward Said, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian forebears who is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Between the National Council sessions, the P.L.O. gets strategy guidance from a 40-member Central Council, which is also notorious for rancorous disputes...
...strategy of terror that led to the murder of innocent civilians at Munich and Ma'alot. If Israel were to permit the creation of a Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank and Gaza -something it is not prepared to do -there is a clear danger that the fedayeen would use those enclaves for further attacks on Israel proper. Moreover, the P.L.O. is hopelessly divided in its leadership; even if a Palestinian ministate was formally bound by treaties to live in peace with Israel, there is no guarantee that rejectionist guerrillas would obey the rules...
...Beirut that not even a token force of Palestinians is permissible in southern Lebanon. In the midst of last week's fighting, the Israeli government pointed out, Palestinian Katyusha rockets from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back off, however, the U.S. is bound to lose a bit of credibility among the Arabs. Explained an American diplomat involved in the situation...