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...kibbutzniks ran over a terrorist mine in the soggy underbrush of a Beisan valley banana plantation. Four men were killed, including the 53-year-old founder of the kibbutz, and four others wounded. Three hours later, the Israeli army opened up with light machine-gun fire on the Jordanian side of the valley. The Jordanians fired back, and the battle was on. Israeli artillery pounded an evacuated village, and Jordanian 155-mm. Long Toms zeroed in on seven kibbutzim. As the duel spread south toward Jericho along a 65-mile front, the Israelis called in their jets, sending waves...
Cinemascope Production. Israeli farmers got a panoramic view of the battle from slit trenches near the river. They called it "a Cinemascope production." The broad Beisan valley, green with ripening winter crops and blossoming trees, was painted with countless columns of rising black smoke. Israeli planes dive-bombed Jordanian positions, then wheeled west into the sun to confound the aim of Arab anti aircraft gunners. The village of Tel el-Arbain, an El Fatah commando base, was in flames. A Jordanian oil dump near the river burned an ominous red far into the night...
...claimed to have knocked out four guerrilla bases and much of Jordan's ar tillery. The battle was, declared Chief of Staff Haim Bar-lev, "a blow greater than the one of Feb. 15"-when Israel unleashed a similar assault. But it is hardly likely to stop the Jordanian terrorists, who are now the heroes of the Arab world, from continuing their own destructive blows against Israel. Since the Israelis have threatened to answer each new terrorist raid with an attack on Jordan, there is every likelihood that the battle will be joined again and again, with...
...easily overran the three tiny towns of San, Feifa and Dahal, and some 20 guerrillas were reported killed. But the main Israeli attack on the onetime refugee camp of Karamah north of the Dead Sea proved to be another matter. When they were no more than a mile into Jordanian territory, the Israeli armored columns were met by Jordanian tanks, which gave fierce battle and pinned down half of the Israeli force. The other half raced ahead toward Karamah, across the river flats, through groves of oranges, olives, blossoming almond trees, across fields of young wheat and vegetables...
...would like you to know that our Jordanian Arab army sustained very minor losses during the serious outbreak of fighting with Israel [Feb. 23]. Our losses were mostly among civilians-victims of Israeli bombardment. It also seems that you are not aware of the statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Amman-that neither the ambassador nor the embassy had received a request from any Jordanian quarter to help arrange a ceasefire and that the embassy denies all knowledge of any such request...