Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordanian town of Salt one midmorning last week, the townspeople paid scant heed. Though Salt is only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest...
...very rapid technological change, the sense of identity is not only threatened but shattered over and over again." There are one or two rather provocative notions. The murder of Bobby Kennedy, postulates McLuhan, resulted from a breakdown between the new and old world of communication. In suggesting arms for Israel, Kennedy "spoke from a spacious and underpopulated world of highly fragmented, individualist culture-but he was also speaking straight into the ear of a highly tribalized corporate culture...
...hijacking of U.S. airliners for unscheduled trips to Cuba has become so commonplace that a virtually automatic routine has evolved for the prompt release of planes and passengers. The matter was far more serious last week when three well-dressed Arab passengers seized Israel's El Al Flight 426 an hour out of Rome and forced it to divert its course from Tel Aviv to Algiers. What the Arabs wanted from their skyway robbery was not a free trip but bounty and hostages to use against Israel...
...Israel at once started dealing through diplomatic channels for the return of the plane, its male Israeli passengers and crew. It may take a while. Algeria formally declared war on Israel a year ago and rejected the cease-fire that ended the six-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Because El Al carried military cargo in the war, Algeria considers it a paramilitary organization. Furthermore, there is local precedent for long detention of unexpected guests. When a private plane carrying former Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe was hijacked to Algiers in June of last year, the Algerians took three months to release...
...diplomatic efforts fail, Israeli retaliation seems inevitable. Israel has often mounted punitive raids to redress alleged Arab wrongdoing. Air Algerie flights call regularly at Cairo, which is not far from Israeli airspace. It would be a relatively simple matter for Israeli fighter-interceptors to force one to land at Tel Aviv for use as a bargaining weapon...