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Word: harakat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Storm Troopers | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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