Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harmon said that it is "no accident" that the thrusts of this terrorist raid and the one at Qiryat Shemona on April 11 were directed at children...
...Qiryat Shemona [April 22] is another senseless page in the bloody history of the Middle East. The present Arab governments may at last be willing to officially accept the existence and territorial integrity of the state of Israel. But not until they stop harboring, condoning and supporting the terrorists morally and financially, not until they start treating them for what they are -common criminals-can there ever be a true and lasting peace in the area...
Moral Cynicism. But officially, Jerusalem still bristled because the U.S. had assented rather than abstained* on a one-sided United Nations censure of Israel for raiding suspected fedayeen hiding places in Lebanon following the massacre at Qiryat Shemona. Pickets carried signs outside the King David Hotel, where the Secretary of State was staying, attacking "Mohammed Ivanovich Kissinger." "This was moral cynicism," said one Cabinet-level Israeli diplomat angrily, "the sort of action we would expect from the French." To Israelis, the vote was a symptom of the new U.S.-Arab friendship, which Kissinger is constructing, they fear, at Israel...
...Council, the U.S. and twelve other members condemned Israel for a reprisal raid on suspected Palestinian guerrilla hideouts in Lebanon. Then by a vote of 7 to 6, the Council rejected a U.S. amendment to censure the Palestinians as well for their attack on the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona, which took 18 lives and precipitated the Israeli reprisal...
Last week, in response to the attack on Qiryat Shemona two weeks ago hi which rampaging guerrillas killed 18 Israeli civilians, there were violent incidents in which Jews attacked Israeli Arabs in a frustrated attempt to revenge the deeds that other Arabs had committed. Such outbursts only helped to make the Middle East situation, as Henry Kissinger descends on it again, about as frosty as the snow atop Mount Hermon...