Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly the provocation had been severe: an Arab terrorist strike at El Al, Israel's vital air link with the rest of the world. The pair of Palestinian terrorists who shot up an El Al Boeing 707 about to take off from Athens airport had also killed one passenger-and might well have killed everyone aboard if one of their incendiary grenades had ignited the liner's loaded fuel tanks. Israel accused Lebanon, which had served as the gunmen's point of departure, of harboring the terrorists. At a meeting in Jerusalem, senior cabinet ministers split over...
Cast suddenly on the diplomatic defensive, Premier Eshkol said in Jerusalem that "we could not but exercise our right of self-defense. Any tourist knows where to find the terrorist organization in Beirut. International law clearly says that a country that harbors aggressors is an aggressor...
...elect Richard Nixon to pursue a more even-handed policy in the Middle East, if he should so decide. In what might almost have been a preview of such a policy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week called on the Arab states to "do their utmost to restrain terrorist activity," and on Israel "to recognize that a policy of excessive retaliation will not produce the peace that Israel surely desires...
...years of lack of understanding and duplicity on the part of Britain, France and then the U.S., culminating in the partition of Palestine, the Arabs have given up hope of equitable treatment by the West. In desperation they are resorting to tactics similar to those used by the Israeli terrorist groups over 20 years ago. Those of us who have actively fought anti-Semitism ought to be able to recognize injustice when it is directed toward others...
...goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors are undergoing training to learn how to take precautions against bombs. In a treatise on El Fatah to be published next month by London's Institute for Strategic Studies, Yehoshafat...