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...Jewish leadership. Throughout Israel's history, the few individual soldiers who have taken upon themselves to attack Arab civilians have been court martialed and imprisoned by the Israeli government. Compare this Zionist position to the praise of PLO, Syrian, and Saudi Arabian spokesmen for the recent PLO terrorist rampage on the Israeli coast, and to the cavalier attitude toward Palestinian lives which is symbolized by the PLO's placement of terrorist military bases in the midst of civilian population centers, a policy ensuring civilian casualties in any attack on PLO military targets...
...responsible governmental or organizational parties. As Feldstein sympathizes with helpless kibbutzniks who have been the occasional targets of Palestinians who are incensed by a hard-line and expansionist Israeli government policy, so too have defenseless Palestinian refugee camp dwellers and southern Lebanese villagers been the victims of Israeli terrorist action and military incursions initiated in retaliation to PLO commando action...
...message is simple: The Palestinians are not just "PLO lunatics," but are embittered refugees who have resorted to terrorist warfare out of mounting frustration. Although it might seem not only brutal but futile for the Palestinians to resort to terrorist action directed toward helpless Israeli kibbutzniks, one must realize that many Palestinian commandos have sadly concluded that 30 years of international neglect have made such terrorist action necessary to cry out their cause...
...applaud the 1970 hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the 1972 Munich incident, or the recent Fatah terrorist action, but one must try to understand what harsh realities have motivated some PLO groups to take such a course. Thirty years of refugee life and four fruitless wars have made the Palestinians feel they must cry out louder with more audible means to make their cause heard, and to exert pressure that will guarantee that any future-settlement will consider the Palestinian population as a primary factor to reckon with...
...summarizing, then, we see that terrorism exists on both sides--one could go into the entire history of such Israeli terrorist organizations as the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group that have collaborated with the official armed forces of the Jewish Agency (Haganah and Palmuch) and committed atrocities in which many innocent Palestinian civilian lives have been taken. The same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological...