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...also declared that he and his army are ready to "serve under any Rhodesian government"-presumably including one headed by blacks. Meanwhile, though, he is determined to hunt down the guerrillas with all the resources available to him. "My task," he says, "is to protect Rhodesians against terrorist attacks...
...understandable reasons, Israel has cracked down hard on potential terrorists and on P.L.O. sympathizers in the West Bank. The means are not gentle. For example, it has long been government policy to impose communal punishments for individual crimes to discourage terrorist activity. Thus when one member of a family has been caught as a security risk, the house where he lives, perhaps with a mother, father, brother or sister, has been either blown up or, in more recent years, sealed up. Last year seven houses were cemented shut in this fashion. Sometimes curfews are imposed on whole towns...
Menachem Begin (rhymes with Fagin) has been anything but that to his numerous antagonists. To the British in the 1940s, he was Public Enemy No. 1 in Palestine, with a $30,000 price on his head. To the Arabs, he was a ruthless terrorist responsible for the massacre of innocent Palestinian villagers. To Israel's first Premier, David Ben-Gurion, he was a dangerous fascist who threatened to overthrow the newborn nation's fledgling government...
...BEING CALLED A TERRORIST. I don't give a damn what I'm called. I'm used to it. Let me explain. In the '40s, the Germans were killing our brethren. No Jews were allowed to come into this country. We begged the British, "Open the gates; let them come in." What did we do? We started to fight, to open the gates and allow our people to be saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said...
...changed his name to Aerbel and now lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also...