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...refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried out by Force 17, a commando unit from the Fatah branch of the P.L.O., a claim the organization denied...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the raid had been a response to a recent increase in P.L.O. terrorism. Said he: "It was an act of self-defense. Period." The Yom Kippur murders at Larnaca had shocked Israelis and intensified the pressure on Peres to take decisive action. But ! in the Arab world last week, the view was that Israel's real aim had been to torpedo the peace process...
Israel said the bombing was a retaliation for the murder of three Israeli yachtsmen last week on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. The American government called the attack one of self-defense, supporting the Israeli action...
Also what he did not say is that Israel virtually did no business with South Africa before the Yom Kippur war. After 1973 the Arab oil countries pressured almost all of the Black African countries to close the Israeli embassies (source: Naomi Chazan, Israeli Foreign Office, guest speaker at the African Studies seminar in December, 1984 at Coolidge Hall, Harvard...
...authority from Congress to continue spending money. The legislators had fixed a second deadline: they agreed to strive for adjournment Thursday so that they could go home and campaign full-time for reelection. Religion posed a third deadline: Congress decided not to legislate past sundown Friday, the beginning of Yom Kippur, in deference to its Jewish members...