Word: hatzofeh
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...Israel, which had regarded Faisal as an anti-Jewish zealot who financed Arab wars and terrorism, there was neither joy nor mourning but a noticeable sense of relief at the unexpected death of a powerful enemy. "A Jew-hating Arab king," declared the Tel Aviv religious daily Hatzofeh, "has been removed from the stage." Most Israelis obviously hoped that the change in Saudi leadership would create a period of instability for the Arab states, thereby causing them to become more preoccupied with their own problems and less concerned with Israel for a while...
...that the Israelis are likely to go to Geneva to face the P.L.O. Declared Israel's afternoon daily Yediot Aharonot: "War in the region may be considered a danger of the very near future . . . The Geneva conference is dead." Hatzofeh, the daily newspaper of the National Religious Party, which last week agreed to join Premier Rabin's shaky, labor-dominated coalition government, headlined: THE ARABS HAVE OPTED FOR THE SWORD. A bit more calmly, government officials described the summit results as "not good" and negotiations "at an impasse." Rabin said: "There is no one to talk to about peace...
...recriminations that followed the Munich massacre suggest, the answers are far from clear. While Israel's Premier Golda Meir was thanking Bonn for its desperate efforts, other Israelis were vehemently agreeing with the Tel Aviv daily Hatzofeh that the whole tragedy might have been avoided had West Germany not "surrendered" in the past to the demands of terrorists; last February, Bonn delivered a cool $5,000,000 cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained...
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