Word: fedayeen
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Like armed commuters, Israeli patrols struck the Arqub region of southern Lebanon for six successive nights last week. They had been stirred up by Palestinian guerrillas who had ambushed an Israeli halftrack, which had been patrolling the frontier hoping to knock out fedayeen before they could mount raids on Israeli settlements. The incident eventually provoked some of the heaviest fighting on the border in two years. In the village of Kfar Chouba, on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, fedayeen fought the Israelis stubbornly. During the past week, four fedayeen were killed and 12 wounded; the Israelis suffered 15 wounded...
...afflicted it since last spring. The basic reason was the absence of any fresh movement toward a peace settlement, and the reluctance of the principals to negotiate boldly toward achieving that end. The symptoms were a spate of new incidents of border righting between the Israelis and the fedayeen and a disturbing rise in the reckless rhetoric...
Terrorist Bomb. The Israelis were back attacking Lebanon last week, this time destroying houses in the village of Majdal al Zoun and taking Lebanese prisoners back to Israel with them. Hours later, the fedayeen retaliated by staging a rocket and grenade attack on an Israeli border kibbutz in eastern Galilee. At week's end, a terrorist bomb exploded in a police car in downtown Jerusalem, wounding 13 people...
Whether or not the Israelis were responsible for the attack, the fedayeen quickly acted. The day after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews. The Bet She'an raid chillingly reinforced the conviction of most Israelis that there is no hope of compromise with the fedayeen groups. At the U.N., a spokesman for the P.L.O. -whose ranks include the group that made the raid on Bet She'an-asserted that his organization did not "feel any embarrassment" for the attack. Israel's Premier, Yitzhak Rabin, stated his government's position succinctly...