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...doubtful that Hussein would go that far. Since the Six-Day War, the Palestinian guerrilla movement has spread widely and Jordan has been particularly affected by it. It was to Jordan that Palestinian Arabs fled in 1948 when Israel won its war of independence and established a Jewish state: in 1967. tens of thousands more Arabs fled across the Jordan River after Israel occupied the West Bank. Those who could afford to, settled in Jordanian communities; the penniless have been housed in vast refugee camps that are now practically independent city-states and hotbeds of Palestine nationalism. Both groups...
...will probably continue to refuse to replace planes lost in actions against Lebanon or Jordan. It will also urge Israel to drop its demand for direct, unconditional talks with the Arabs and to indicate a readiness to part with at least some of the territory acquired during the Six-Day War. Even so, Arab reaction to the decision is bound to be severe. Libya is expected to sever diplomatic relations with the U.S. and may also crack down on U.S. oil companies operating there. Hostile demonstrations are certain to be staged against U.S. embassies, not to mention American diplomats, businessmen...
...would deny that Israel's air force is the best in the Middle East. Arab air forces were largely decimated during the Six-Day War and are still being rebuilt by Russia with new MIGs and Sukhois. Qualified pilots are more difficult to come by. Egypt has 415 planes, but it has also lost perhaps a quarter of its pilots; the ratio of planes to pilots presently seems to be about 4 to 1. As a result, Egyptian flyers have been offering far fewer challenges since last September, sometimes bailing out after only minor damage to their planes...
...tense days before the Six-Day War erupted, the 2,700,000 people of Israel were concerned but confident. When the war ended with a swift and resounding victory, their morale soared. But last week, on the third anniversary of the war, their mood was souring into one of gloom and uncertainty, and they were beginning to wonder whether they had really won a war, or merely the opening skirmish of a war. Frontier terrorism, constant clashes on the Suez Canal and anxiety about Soviet intentions have created a profound political and psychological malaise...
...their 1948 War for Independence, Israeli Jews adopted a phrase to hearten one another no matter how gloomy a situation appeared. "Yihye tov," they would say in Hebrew, meaning "It will be good." The words gradually became a talisman against any troubles, and they were invoked frequently during the Six-Day War -whose third anniversary comes this week. Now, however, the phrase has been amended. "Yihye beseder" or roughly, "It will be O.K." The difference seems slight, but it is not. Confidence has given way to a nagging note of uncertainty. Things may be O.K., but they will...