Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's sessions, which alternated between Khalde, a Lebanese seaside resort south of Beirut, and the Israeli border community of Qiryat Shemona, the two sides found little to agree on. The head of the Lebanese delegation, Antoine Fattal, declared that Lebanon had never wanted to be a source of hostile action against Israel and was neither "responsible nor accountable" for the longtime presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization within its borders. David Kimche, director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and head of his country's delegation, replied that Lebanon's signing...
Such a response to one's own hatred is, of course, rare; and it is not the rule among Israeli children either. Nor, on the other hand, is the frantic bigotry expressed by two teenage girls in Qiryat Shemona, another besieged northern town. Both girls are chatty and friendly, except when it comes to Arabs: "They have terrible eyes. Oh, terrible! And mustaches!" When you ask if they would ever consider marrying an Arab, they erupt like hens: "Are you crazy?" The attitudes of most Israeli children fall somewhere between the extremes of Hadara and those girls. The majority deal...
...alot in 1974, three Arab terrorists attacked a school and held 88 children hostage, 23 of whom were killed when the building was stormed. In Qiryat Shemona that same year, terrorists made an assault on an apartment house; eight children died in the fighting. There have been dozens of such incidents in recent years?sudden death visited upon an otherwise tranquil area. Black goats feed on scrub. Trees crop up in spurts. Cows graze in fields stained brown where the rockets have seared them...
...families and education for the 313 children who lost their parents in the Tel Zaatar massacre of 1976. A year before that, 27 Palestinian residents of the Tel Zaatar camp were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists as they returned by bus from a rally celebrating a terrorist attack on Qiryat Shemona. In 1976 the Phalangists used 75-mm and 155-mm howitzers for a seven-week siege of the camp in which 3,000 died. Tel Zaatar was demolished...
...selection of Qiryat Shemona as a target had a special significance for Israelis, who remember the Palestinian attack of 1974 on the settlement that left 18 Israelis dead, including eight children. In the recent election campaign, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had vowed: "Never again shall Katyusha rockets hit Qiryat Shemona." When he learned of the latest attack, Begin, who is on the verge of forming a new government with the help of three small religious parties, is said to have reacted with great emotion. "He was angry, tough and vicious," a Foreign Ministry official said later. Clearly the Israeli response...