Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat expressed his fears in almost identical terms. After the Palestinian raid on Israel, in which 34 Israelis were killed and 78 injured as a hijacked bus careened wildly southward along the highway between Haifa and Tel Aviv, Sadat denounced the episode as "tragic and irresponsible," and added sadly. "Let us break this vicious circle of action and reaction, because it will lead to nothing...
...might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation. While 34 Israelis died in the terrorist raid, many more would surely be killed during the Israeli foray into Lebanon. Indeed, by any accounting of their 30 years of eye-for-an-eye retaliation, the Israelis are far ahead of the Palestinians. Though terrorists have taken 143 Israeli lives since the 1973 war, Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed some 2,000 Arabs...
...Israeli drive into Lebanon was not merely a powerful gesture of revenge. It was a calculated maneuver to strengthen Israeli security in the north, and the P.L.O. raid only gave Israel the excuse it needed to move decisively. As one Western diplomat analyzed it, the Tel Aviv incident was "just what the Israelis had been waiting for, because they have been wanting to take over south Lebanon for a long time." Last week the Israelis proceeded to do just that as they established a buffer strip along the entire border. That leaves the Palestinians precious little breathing room between...
TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott talked to dozens of Palestinians in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and found not one who disapproved of the terrorist raid that precipitated the Israeli invasion. "Good, good," declared a hotel doorman. "Three times more, that's what we need...
...will react?" Practically without exception, Israelis approved of the military action. Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who has bitterly criticized Menachem Begin's handling of the peace negotiations in the past, said he thought the government had done the only thing it could in response to the terrorist raid. Another Begin critic, former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, concluded that the invasion took place ''at the right time, in the right place, with the right method." Jerusalem would "try to see to it" that its forces did not long remain in Lebanon, declared Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. But he added: "As long...