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...Middle East peace settlement that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been stitching together suddenly threatened to unravel last week. In a horribly familiar sequence, three Palestinian fedayeen slipped into Nahariya (pop. 21,000), a seaside resort in the Lebanese border area where 48 Israelis had been killed in three earlier fedayeen raids (see map). This time four Israelis died, as well as the three commandos. Israel's initial response was to shell selected targets in southern Lebanon. The raid and the reprisal touched off charges and countercharges, threats and anti-threats around the Middle East that...
...last week's night attack on Nahariya, the Palestinians landed on the municipal beach in a small dinghy and sneaked into town in civilian clothes. They were soon discovered by one of the civilian patrols that have been organized in border settlements as a result of the recent fedayeen raids on Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Shamir kibbutz. Shooting started, and the Palestinians ducked into an apartment house for protection...
...must be decided, as President Nixon had been warned in his recent tour of the area, before peace would be possible. Last week's events also showed that the Palestinian issue had become so overriding that moderate Arab leaders were wary about even appearing to be against the fedayeen cause. Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry announced that he was commuting the life sentences passed on the eight fedayeen who killed U.S. Diplomats George C. Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Belgian Guy Eid in a raid on Khartoum (TIME, March 12, 1973). The men are now to serve seven...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...
...other relatively moderate leaders of the P.L.O., Arafat leans toward an interim settlement that would establish a mini-Palestine out of Gaza, the Hemmeh region beside the Sea of Galilee, and the West Bank, formerly part of Jordan, where 700,000 Palestinians live fairly peacefully under Israeli occupation. But fedayeen extremists demanded that such a government be a "fighting authority" and that establishing a mini-Palestine be considered only the first step toward recovery of all of old Palestine. As a result, Arafat apparently shifted Fatah to the attack at Nahariya...