Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hijacking of one El Al airliner, the shooting up of two others, the bombing of the Tel Aviv central bus station and a Jerusalem supermarket, and the blowing up of the Aramco pipeline-its most recent exploit. It is led by left-leaning Dr. George Habash, 44, a Palestinian Arab from Lydda who long ago turned from medicine to the violent practice of Palestine politics. Last week, in a rare interview, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs talked with Habash in PFLP headquarters in Amman and heard a typical fedayeen voice-fanatical, boastful, uncompromising. Some questions and answers...
...Palestinian, and this phrase shocked me: "The Palestinian children were being taught as their primary subject hatred for Israel." It's not true. I am 20 years old now, and from the time my father left Tiberias in 1948 until the 1967 war, we never spoke of Israel in our house. If I am thinking of joining the fedayeen now, it's not because I hate Israel, but because I love my country...
...fedayeen draw their main strength from the 1.3 million Palestinian refugees, and have the political power to endanger any peace agreement that does not include an offer that the refugees would consider, finally, just. The Palestinians are among the bitterest people in the world, and with reason. In the wake of the 1948 war, they scattered throughout the Arab lands. Educated, intelligent, some of them staff the ranks of governments and the faculties of Arab universities. But the majority were herded into squalid camps, fed by the United Nations on 7¢ a day and used as pawns by Arab politicians...
...imperialism. Some diplomats believe that it would help if the Israelis at least stated their willingness in principle to withdraw from the occupied territories, provided that their other legitimate security needs were met. It would also help the situation if they made a substantive recognition of the plight of Palestinian refugees...
...REFUGEES. Jordan's King Hussein conjectures that few Palestinians are willing to return to a Jewish state. Nevertheless, the U.S. urges a plebiscite offering a choice of return or compensation. The fedayeen would doubtless make the outcome meaningless by turning out a sizable yes vote in order to prove that the Palestinian issue is still volcanic, and threaten to overwhelm Israel with Arabs...