Word: fedayeen
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Moral Cynicism. But officially, Jerusalem still bristled because the U.S. had assented rather than abstained* on a one-sided United Nations censure of Israel for raiding suspected fedayeen hiding places in Lebanon following the massacre at Qiryat Shemona. Pickets carried signs outside the King David Hotel, where the Secretary of State was staying, attacking "Mohammed Ivanovich Kissinger." "This was moral cynicism," said one Cabinet-level Israeli diplomat angrily, "the sort of action we would expect from the French." To Israelis, the vote was a symptom of the new U.S.-Arab friendship, which Kissinger is constructing, they fear, at Israel...
...first step toward reclaiming land now held by the Israelis, including Gaza and the Jordan West Bank. Sadat also persuaded the Palestinians and Jordan to accept another resolution, specifying that both would get back territory captured by the Israelis. For the Jordanians, who have usually rejected the fedayeen's claims to the West Bank, this was a rare accommodation...
More dangerous insofar as progress goes, are the Palestinians on the Arab side and the right-wing opposition in Israel's parliament. Much to the embarrassment of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Egypt at the time, a rump session of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee last week passed a resolution proclaiming "no to American peace and victory for the Palestinian people." A renewed campaign of terrorism could touch off Israeli reprisals, destroying Mrs. Meir's policy of accommodation...
...across the message that it would be helpful if they were willing to negotiate the point. Israel also understood that it has veto power over any other delegations to be seated at the conference table. Thus the Israelis can oppose recognition of a separate Palestinian delegation led by Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, unless it is part of the Jordanian contingent. The Israelis object to Arafat because they accuse him of guiding terrorists like those who carried out last week's attack in Rome (see following story...
...deracinated cosmopolitan. In the last years of his retirement in Sde Boker, a kibbutz collectively engaged in making the Israeli desert bloom, Ben-Gurion still tried to see both sides of every question. If he'd been a young Arab, he remarked privately, he might have joined the fedayeen...