Word: fortressed
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...more Israeli naval commandos set off on the two-mile trip to the island. Silently, they scaled the walls, killed the sentries and then, after a brief but vicious firefight that cost at least six Israeli dead, blew up all the artillery and fire-control installations within the fortress. Shortly after they withdrew, Egyptians on the far shore opened a two-hour artillery barrage on the island, evidently acting in the belief that the Israelis meant to hold the fortress for some time to come-and effectively completed the wrecking process...
...Tournier has done. The beautifully translated result, though, is far more than a Cartesian blueprint fleshed into creaky fiction. Like Crusoe I, but more elaborately in Tournier's version, Crusoe II shakes off despondency by creating a makeshift England, complete with fertile fields, full storehouses, a church, a fortress and an elaborate code of law and punishment with which to govern himself...
...Fortress Israel...
...country is under almost daily attacks that all the Israeli retaliation strikes have not been able to still. In their cafes and kibbutzim, Israelis, too, talk of a fourth round?while disparaging the Arab "war propaganda" as designed only to frighten the big-power diplomats. Within what they consider Fortress Israel, the Israelis regard with deep suspicion any outside attempt to bargain away the occupied territories that provide them with a measure of security, if not of peace...
...atmosphere is so ominous that the News now presents a fortress face to its public. Windows in the pressroom have been sealed off by brick and steel...