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DESPITE a winter of unremitting violence in the Middle East, it seemed last week that both the Israelis and the Arab fedayeen commandos were mounting spring offensives of strike and counterstrike. Israeli jets pounded guerrilla bases in Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change...
...stepped up their war, as weather improved. The fedayeen planted a package of explosives outside the British consulate in Jerusalem, presumably in response to reports that Britain intends to sell tanks to Israel, reports that London declines to confirm or deny. Another bomb went off in the marketplace of Lydda, wounding an Arab grocer. In Jordan, fedayeen leaders took to moving from camp to camp, fearing assassination by Israeli infiltrators. King Hussein temporarily closed down Amman airport, and Egypt's Nasser declared a state of emergency...
...parade and shell it with rockets and mortars. Our forces destroyed a number of tanks that were seen to go up in flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv's Lydda Airport in October, El Fatah promptly took credit for setting it. The Israelis insist that the blaze was started accidentally by a welder's torch...
Later he introduces me to a friend who was born in Lydda, near Tel Aviv, and who wants his house back. He lost it when he and his family left because of the war of '48. Would he be content with a reasonable financal settlement, I ask. "No, he wants his house and his land. No money...
...incidents along the Jordanian border. Then the Jordanians suddenly stepped up the violence. Sporadic artillery duels sent kibbutz dwellers in Galilee scurrying for cover and killed 17 Arabs in a refugee camp near the Allenby Bridge. Three mortar shells exploded in Jerusalem. Bazooka shells landed near the airport at Lydda...