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...moral judgment must take into account the alternative. Israel cannot stand alone, and if it is abandoned by its friends for not meeting Western standards of morality, it will die. What will replace it? The neighbors: Syria, Jordan, the P.L.O., Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Ahmed Jabril, Abu Nidal (if he is still around) or some combination of these -- an outcome that will induce acute nostalgia for Israel's human-rights record...
...Lebanon. "We must have commanders and leaders of the terror organizations," he said. "Only when they are in our hands can we move ((them)) to exchange prisoners." Jerusalem has not hesitated to resort to kidnaping in the past. In 1983 Israeli troops in Beirut kidnaped the nephew of Ahmed Jabril, head of the P.F.L.P. --General Command and later the suspected mastermind of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Two years later Israel swapped the captured nephew -- and 1,150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons -- for three Israeli soldiers held by Jabril...
Israeli authorities presumably believed they had caught a big fish: George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P. general command, or perhaps even Sabry Khalil Bana, better known as Abu Nidal, chief of the self-styled Fatah Revolutionary Council and the suspected mastermind behind countless terrorist attacks. But when the Israelis ordered passengers and crew to disembark from the commandeered craft, they discovered only a group of Syrian and Lebanese officials aboard. In what appeared to be a notable failure of Israel's highly vaunted intelligence services, the big fish had managed...
...Palestinian and other Arab organizations had been called together for a meeting at Gaddafi's stronghold, the Bab al Azizia barracks. The purpose: to demonstrate radical Arab support for Gaddafi in the face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation of suicide squads for commando attacks against American targets in the U.S. and elsewhere "if the U.S. should dare to launch an aggression against Libya or any other Arab country." Added the joint declaration: "He who sets...
...delegates had left early aboard the Libyan executive jet, but Habash, Jabril and other leaders of pro-Syria Palestine Liberation Organization factions had remained behind or left by other means. Once the news of the Israeli seizure reached Tripoli, Jabril angrily threatened to avenge the interception with attacks on Israeli and even American airliners. Summoning journalists to a press conference, he declared: "Tell the world not to board American or Israeli planes. From this day onward, we will not respect civilians who take such planes...