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...Israelis who live along the new border have become resentfully resigned to their endless occupation. Residents of Majdal Shams, a Druze town under snow-capped Mount Hermon in the north, are outspoken about their feelings. "Syria is our mother," says Sheik Mahmoud Safadi with patriarchal scorn. "Israel is our stepmother." One complaint appears to be that the Israelis are trying to collect taxes. "We never paid the Syrians, and we won't pay the Israelis," a Druze shopkeeper said indignantly. Yet Arabs are quietly making their own accommodations; they have little choice. In the Gaza Strip, where production...
...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
MIDDLE EAST Flybys and Superspies Israel celebrated the 23rd birthday of its potent air force last week with flowery words and impressive flybys. The words came from the air force commander, General Mordechai Hod: "We breathe the air of the summit of Mt. Hermon, our wings trace the tranquil waters of Mirfatz Shlomo [Sharm el Sheikh] and the reaches of Sinai, and our jets embrace the skies of Jerusalem, which has become a united whole." Then at Hod's order came phalanxes of Phantoms, Skyhawks, Mirages, Mysteres and Ouragans, of Sikorsky helicopters and Noratlas, Dakota and Stratocruiser transports...
...Hermon, a large school lacking the protection of tradition and endowment, is suffering so badly that it has resorted to the sure sign of desperation-advertising for students in the Harvard Alumni Builetin...
From Mount Hermon, the border road winds down the Golan Heights. Until 1967, Syrian troops used the heights as an artillery platform against kibbutzim in the northern Galilee valley below. Now the heights are largely deserted. Kuneitra, which once had a population of 20,000. has only 300 today, most of them members of an Israeli kibbutz that operates a coffee shop selling apple strudel, beverages, and busts of Golda Meir. Moshe Dayan and David Ben-Gurion. Smaller Syrian villages are being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats...