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...Israel as an aggrieved nation has been transformed into that of an avenging juggernaut. Newspapers in Paris have termed Begin a "fascist" warmonger. The West German press, which has traditionally gone out of its way to avoid criticism of Israel, has begun to criticize Begin's belligerency. Die Zeit has decried the Israeli "bloodbath" as going beyond what could be justified as the "eye for an eye" justice of the Old Testament...
...people as well, and were shocked by the failure of Arab states to come to their aid. The daily newspaper Al-Qudus, published in Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed the university for three months. They also dismissed the mayor of Gaza, the patrician Rashad al Shawwa, 73, who thus became the sixth Arab mayor to be fired this year in the Israeli drive to curb Palestinian nationalism in the occupied territories...
Israel's decision to fire Tawil provoked further unrest in the West Bank. Already outraged by Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights last December and the closing of Bir Zeit University last month, local leaders called a three-day general strike that shut down all stores and schools. Late last week, after a series of stonethrowing incidents by youths in El-Bireh, the protests culminated in tragedy. Israeli troops fired on the demonstrators, killing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth and wounding two teen-age girls. Later the same day, Israeli soldiers lobbed tear gas canisters...
Since Brandt launched his Ostpolitik (policy looking to the East) in 1970, West Germany has become more closely involved with the U.S.S.R. Says Countess Marion Donhoff, publisher of the liberal Hamburg weekly Die Zeit: "We once again assumed our traditional place in the center of Europe. As a result, Bonn must to a certain extent take into account the reactions of the East...
West Bank residents were under standably outraged by the shootings. Said Bir Zeit University Professor Sari Nusseibeh...