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...government of Israel will do everything in its power in order to cut off the hands that want to harm a child. Premier Golda Meir, in a TV address last week from Jerusalem...
...attack on the schoolhouse at Ma'alot did not come entirely as a surprise. Last week marked the 26th anniversary of Israel's founding, according to the modern calendar.* With Golda Meir's approval, National Police Chief Shaul Rosolio went on television to alert against possible Palestinian attacks marking the date. Early last Tuesday morning, guards discovered that some commandos had punctured a 10-ft.-high protective fence and crossed over the border from Lebanon north of Ma'alot (which means "heights" in Hebrew...
Premier Golda Meir vowed in an emotional televeision address that Israel "will do everything in its power to chop off the hands that intend to harm a child or an adult in a city or in a village...
...past cases of terrorism, the Israelis have staged retaliatory attacks on guerilla bases in neighboring Arab lands. Meir's remarks were taken as a hint by American observers that another such attack might follow this second terrorist strike inside Israel in a little over a month...
...Kissinger is constructing, they fear, at Israel's expense. Another unsettling point was that last week's meeting came at an unpropitious time. Israel is still undergoing a domestic political crisis resulting from the widespread disenchantment with its leaders' conduct of the Yom Kippur War. Golda Meir is a caretaker Premier; the Labor Party's Premier-designate, Yitzhak Rabin, selected to succeed her two weeks ago, was still trying to form a coalition government. Thus Kissinger's initial discussions involved a strange coterie of old and new Israeli power wielders. They included both Mrs. Meir...