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...companion on the trip, an Israeli reserve officer, started by placing a 9-mm. pistol on the ledge under the dash of our Ford Cortina. His gesture seemed symbolic of the atmosphere along much of the border. We began at Mount Hermon, the snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...
Beneath Mount Hermon, dozers are shaping a road along which Israeli patrols can roll. The patrols keep an eye on "Fatahland," the corner of Lebanon from which the Arab guerrillas have launched destructive attacks on Israel...
...Arab fronts, where there was still no ceasefire in effect. Israeli farm settlements in the Jordan valley were under almost nightly Katyusha rocket attack, and fedayeen commandos killed two soldiers in an army outpost on the Lebanese border. Israel sent bombers against fedayeen positions on the foothills of Mount Hermon and in Jordan. It also dispatched troops on a short foray into southern Lebanon, where the raiders blew up three houses suspected of serving as fedayeen bases...
...southern command of Israel's defense forces, is so fond of the Hebrew couplet that he has hung it over the entrance of his Beersheba headquarters. But the exuberant confidence that once made it so fitting has disappeared in Israel. A note of doubt is creeping in. From Mount Hermon down to the Red Sea, Israel dispatched her Arab foes with relative ease in three wars. But now there is a new unknown to cope with in the form of Russia's dramatically increased presence in the Middle East, and it is an ominous one. Said one Israeli last week...
...Volunteers. The confrontation between Israelis and guerrillas generated new trouble for Lebanon. At week's end 650 Syrian guerrillas, members of the Al-Saiqa group, suddenly appeared in the Mount Hermon area aboard Syrian army vehicles. Lebanon's President Charles Helou, after a helicopter visit to the area, angrily informed his Cabinet: "Syria has violated Lebanon's sovereignty. The presence of Syrian forces no doubt provides Israel with an excuse for fulfilling its ambitions in Lebanon. It will involve Lebanon in a war it is unable to bear." Lebanese lawmakers approved an increase in the army...