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Despite the diversion caused by the skyjacking, Israelis still smarted over the U.N. censure. Said Prime Minister Golda Meir: "We have nothing to be ashamed of. Let those who censure us be ashamed-I am sure in their hearts they know we are right...
...convicting Bulut, the judges supported the legal underpinnings claimed for the new law. Israel's Attorney General Meir Shamgar says the new law amplifies the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction, present in Palestine law since the Ottoman Empire and an integral part of legal systems derived from the Napoleonic Code. Thirteen European and South American countries have a law similar to Israel's, notes Shamgar. The main difference, he says, is that Israel lacks regular extradition procedures with its Arab neighbors, and the Arabs are reluctant to prosecute terrorists themselves...
...agony and outrage over the murder of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Israeli government organized a 15-man group of killers to liquidate the leadership of Black September. As Prime Minister Golda Meir bluntly announced: "We would do all we could to strike at the terrorist organizations and their bases wherever we could reach them." In a series of chillingly executed missions, the counter-terror squad has since gunned down at least 13 Arab conspirators in such cities as Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm and Beirut. The team has also aborted, by its estimate, 37 plots against Israel...
With Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir running for a second full term this fall, the bruising battle for succession between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has been postponed. As far as Dayan is concerned, it is just as well: he probably would have lost. Still, at 58, Dayan has relinquished none of the brash assertiveness that earned him a reputation as the Young Turk of the Labor Party...
...military man, Dayan's main concern in reaching a long-term settlement with the Arabs is that Israel re mains militarily superior. His view of an acceptable border settlement is not new and coincides essentially with that put forth by Mrs. Meir: he feels that Is rael must stay in the Golan Heights to protect its border with Syria, but he would be willing to withdraw from all areas essential to Egypt for its "daily life and security" - the Suez Canal and the Suez Gulf. "Sharm el Sheikh," he added, "is not essential in any way for Egypt...