Word: yasser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only ones car rying the fight to Israel. The guerrillas provide an outlet for the fierce Arab resentment of Israel and give an awakened sense of pride to a people accustomed to decades of defeat, disillusionment and humiliation. In the process, the Arabs have come to idolize Mohammed ("Yasser") Arafat, a leader of El Fatah fedayeen who has emerged as the most visible spokesman for the commandos. An intense, secretive and determined Palestinian, he is enthusiastically portrayed by the admiring Arab press as a latter-day Saladin, with the Israelis supplanting the Crusaders as the hated-and feared...
...state within a state. They occupy the Jordan River's East Bank and defy government requests that camouflage-uniformed fedayeen stay off the streets of Amman. When a Bedouin army unit tried to disarm a group of commandos at a checkpoint outside the capital last week, Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat rolled up two jeeploads of commandos and threatened to shoot his way through. The army backed down...
Helicopter Pursuit. Arab delegates protested the raid at the United Nations, and Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who escaped the Salt attack unscathed, swore that "we shall strike back harder than ever." The Israelis replied in kind. Two days later they used helicopters to track a fleeing band of commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously...