Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bloody massacre that ensued, unfortunately, may have been as much the result of Israeli incompetence as Palestinian menace. Every one of Israel's surveillance and emergency reaction systems failed during the landing and deadly ride of the terrorist raiding party from Kibbutz Ma'agan Mikha'el to the Tel Aviv Country Club, where the bus and its passengers were halted in a storm of gunfire and flame...
...terrified traffic cops, and their wild fusillade when the bus was finally halted probably killed more hostages than did the terrorists. Worse, it may have driven some of the terrorists to commit suicide-and to take as many passengers as possible with them. According to an intelligence report, each Palestinian commando wore an explosive belt, and he was expected to blow himself apart if capture seemed to be imminent...
...They are calling for blood donations," said a Palestinian doctor with satisfaction as he hunched over a radio tuned to an Israeli station during a dinner party in Jordan's capital, Amman. As he passed on to the other Palestinian guests the news about the fedayeen attack near Tel Aviv, he exclaimed: "What courage those boys and girls have...
Indeed, however the rest of the world may regard their bloody deed, the 13 young Palestinians involved in the suicide mission against Israel were sorely needed heroes to most of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians dispersed around the world. Even in what a majority of Palestinians regard as the heart of their lost homeland, the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, Palestinian schoolchildren defied Israeli orders against political demonstrations by parading in tribute to the Sabbath terrorists and against the Begin regime's incursion into Lebanon. Says Mahmud Abu Zalaf, 53, editor of the West Bank Arabic...
That problem is how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for some form of nationhood. They remain a homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee...