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Diplomatic offensive or no, the Palestinians still take military training seriously. TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, visiting the Rashidieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, found 16 boys between the ages of eight and 16 engaged in a sort of small-arms training. Wrote Stewart: "They marched across a tiny parade ground, presented arms with mock Kalashnikov rifles and offered an openhanded salute. In unison, they broke into Biladi, Biladi (My Country, My Country), a patriotic song. The scene is repeated every day in this windswept corner of Rashidieh and in every camp in Lebanon. Ahmed Abu Karim...
...When I last visited Rashidieh in 1974," Stewart continued, "the mood was one of fortitude and resolution. But several years of tangible success have raised expectations. There is a realization that much of the world no longer sees them as just refugees but as a people. Recognition is a form of justice, and for many in Rashidieh it is deeply satisfying...
...reason for edginess was that both sides were still suffering the emotional aftermath of the Ma'alot raid, in which 27 Israelis were killed, and the Israeli reprisals on Palestinians in Lebanon that killed at least 50 more civilians. Last week Israeli gunboats, protected by aircraft, shelled the Rashidieh refugee camp near Tyre, killing seven Palestinians and wounding 13. Later Israeli jets bombed Lebanon's mountainous Arqub region near the Israeli border killing at least three more. Palestinian guerrillas threatened to avenge those attacks with suicide raids inside Israel...
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