Word: nahariya
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...last week's night attack on Nahariya, the Palestinians landed on the municipal beach in a small dinghy and sneaked into town in civilian clothes. They were soon discovered by one of the civilian patrols that have been organized in border settlements as a result of the recent fedayeen raids on Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Shamir kibbutz. Shooting started, and the Palestinians ducked into an apartment house for protection...
...children, aged 10 and 4, were killed instantly; the mother died a few hours later in a hospital. By then Israeli soldiers had ringed the building and had killed all three intruders; one Israeli trooper died in the fighting. In the wake of the Israeli retaliatory attacks following Nahariya, there was strong Arab reaction. Military leaders scheduled a meeting in Cairo this week to plan joint aid for Lebanon. Egypt and Syria threatened to send planes if Israel continued to hit the Palestinian camps, and Syria reportedly dispatched ground-to-air missiles. General Mordechai Gur, Israel's Chief...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...
...Palestinians live fairly peacefully under Israeli occupation. But fedayeen extremists demanded that such a government be a "fighting authority" and that establishing a mini-Palestine be considered only the first step toward recovery of all of old Palestine. As a result, Arafat apparently shifted Fatah to the attack at Nahariya...
...moment at least, Israel is steadfastly opposing any conciliatory overtures to the P.L.O. Visiting Nahariya last week, Premier Yitzhak Rabin pledged "an epoch of perpetual war against terrorism." Israel's government so far refuses to deal with any Palestinians except those who live in Gaza or on the West Bank, and then only as Jordanian citizens. The Israeli government will not accept the concept of a Palestinian state except as a demilitarized area under Jordanian control...