Word: shemona
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...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...
...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...
...which three Japanese terrorists killed 27 people and wounded 80. More ominously, it threatened to touch off another violent round of reprisals and counterreprisals in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, in fact, Israeli army units carried out retaliatory raids on six Lebanese villages across the border from Qiryat Shemona. They blew up houses and installations that they claimed had been used by terrorist organizations and took about ten suspected terrorists as prisoners. The Israelis said there were no casualties, but a Lebanese official claimed that a woman and her 10-year-old daughter had been killed...
Credit for the attack on Qiryat Shemona was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command-a small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...