Israel Bomb Attack on Terrorist Bases Alarms Arabs

forces Sunday in a battle in the man also announced that three
fenses were very weak and that of guards were on duty at the two Jordanian wilderness south of the Arab saboteurs were killed in two
camps.
It
coincided
with
the
pres-
the Syrian capital was extremely
encounters with Israeli patrols in
LONDON—Arab capitals appear- vulnerable.
ence in Damascus of Yasir Arafat, Dead Sea which developed when the southern Golan Heights. Three
commander of El Fatah and newly Jordanian regulars provided cov- saboteurs were killed in the same
ed to be suffering from a severe
Israeli
officials
would
not
char-
case of jitters Tuesday in the
appointed head of the Palestine ering fire for a band of escaping
acterize the Syrian raids as re-
region on Friday.
aftermath of Israel's heavy bomb-
Liberation Organization, an um- Arab saboteurs. A military spokes-
taliation for the Zurich airliner at-
ing attack on two terrorist camps
brella group that is supposed to co- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, 'February 28, 1969-5
tack. They noted that the El Ham-
in Syria Monday.
ma and Mesaloun camps were ordinate the activities of the vari-
The semiofficial Cairo newspaper headquarters of El Fatah. The ous Palestinian terrorist bands.
Al Ahram announced Tuesday Zurich terrorists were members of
Some reports said Arafat was
that Egypt was on a "maximum a rival organization, the Popular
at El Hamma at the time. An
alert." It reported that the peo- Front for the Liberation of Pale- Israeli spokesman said, "I hope
ple's militia, civil defense systems,
•
he was." Damascus Airport was
stme.
hospitals, fire departments and
shut down during the raid and
The British newspaper, the Daily
On The Beautiful New
public utilities were being manned I
for some time afterward. Am-
Telegraph, in a dispatch from
on an "emergency basis."
man Airport was closed briefly.
, Beirut, called the raid a retalia-
MARK
III
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CONTINENTAL - MARQUIS
A Damascus report said the Is-
Observers here said the alert ' tort' strike for the attack in Zurich.
was probably
prompted
by fear
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Israeli
air strikes
on The
paper said that the dead num- raeli jets scored a direct hit on a
of further
bered 150 and that over 100 were refrigerator factory employing 500
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persons shortly after the morning
Arab territory to retaliate for ' hospitalized for wounds.
shift reported for work.
the terrorist attack on an El Al
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The Daily Mail said Turiday
A mining incident occurred
airliner in Zurich last week and
that Israel could field 3 0,000 earlier south of Timsah on the
last Friday's bombing of Jeru-
men if a new Middle East 'war
east bank of the Suez Canal. A
salem's largest supermarket, in
broke out, compared to 260, 000- civilians bus carrying 50 laborers
which two young men were kill- 280,000 in the Six-Day War. T
The
to work at the mineral baths at El
ed.
Arnold 1. Feuerman, President
paper said that since the June
Hamma (no relation to the Syrian
Israeli jets blasted Jordanian war, Israel's strategy has shift-
El
Hamma)
in
preparation
for
the
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gun emplatements Tuesday oppo- ed from a defense in depth to
forthcoming tourist season, was
site the Neve Urr area of the Bei-
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semi-static defense lines because ambushed as it traveled a road
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san Valley after a heavy exchange
Israel now has a vast territory
alongside
the
Yarmuk
riverbed
fire
across
the
border.
Arab
of
to defend.
which is the Israel-Jordan border
guerrillas aimed shells at Prime
According to the Daily Mail, mil-
Minister Levi Eshkol's summer lions of dollars have been spent in the region.
Two bazooka shells were fired
home in Degania, south of the Sea building the Bar Lev line of forti-
of Galilee. Israeli authorities made fications running along the Suez but missed. The vehicle was pep-
pered
with machine-gun bullets as
no mention of damage. The prime Canal. The paper said that Israeli
minister, who died Wednesday of military leaders believed Egypt it sped away. Israeli forces arriv-
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a heart attack, was in Jerusalem was planning a major showdown ing on the scene engaged the Jor-
PUBLICATION OF THE FAMED
danians
briefly.
The
bus
was
the
at the time.
toward the end of this year on the
Two Israeli Air Force jets assumption that by then Israel will first civilian vehicle attacked along
the
Yarmuk
River
road.
streaked low over Jordan Tuesday have felt the full effect of the
Two Israeli soldiers were injured
to blast guerrilla positions near the French arms embargo, and the
With Translation and Commentary in English by
in separate sniping incidents along
deserted village of Manshieyeh.
American F-4 Phantom jets will the Suez Canal Monday. The first
(A Jordanian spokesman said on not have arrived.
was hit by a sniper's bullet fired
Amman Radio that the Israeli jets
El Hamma and Masaloun were from the west bank of the canal
attacked twice, dropped napalm
near Port Tewfik. The second was
the
main
training
and
logistical
and strafed the villages with rocket
and machine-gun fire. He said centers for Arab saboteurs. Vir- hit in the same area VA hours
A MOST SUITABLE GIFT VOLUME!
tually all terrorists captured in later. Port Tewfik is near the
there were no casualties.)
An Israeli military spokesman Israel recently admitted having canal's southern entrance.
Israeli armored units and air-
said Israeli forces laid down a passed through the camps en
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heavy barrage Monday against route to their sabotage missions. craft engaged Jordanian ground
El
Hamma
was
also
the
site
of
the
NAME
saboteurs . who attacked in the
Berman Valley with Katyusha rocket El Fatah command for Syria and
ADDRESS
Lebanon and a recruiting center
launchers.
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Observers believe that Monday's and supply depot for terrorists
CITY
dawn air raid on the El Fatah coming from Egypt and Algeria.
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nese border, marked a new phase seeing large fires. The strike was
1500 long, short in
the
first
Israeli
air
action
over
of Israeli strategy which is to
styles for weddings,
strike directly at terrorist head- Syria since the June, 1967 war.
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apparently been instructed to tell
at
dawn
when
a
minimum
number
questioners that the attacks on the
Syrian camps represented Israel's
defense in a war that has been de-
clared on it by Arab terrorists.
Sasson told the Knesset Monday I
that Israel could not allow Arab
terrorists to continue their attacks
on innocent civilians. He said Is-
rael would take "self-defense"
nieasures in keeping with its esti-
mate of the situation. "We will
reach out and get them wherever
they are," Sasson said.
Gen. Herzog said on Jerusalem
Radio Monday that the Arab gov-
ernments were responsible for ter-
rorist acts because they harbored
the guerrillas. "Israel has no op-
tion now but to strike in depth
and create a situation which will
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be intolerable for the host Arab
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The battle Tuesday between
tions through the years.
Israeli and Jordanian forces oc-
curred three miles south of the
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Sea of Galilee. A Jordanian
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spokesman in Amman blamed
Israel for starting the shooting.
signed—Jerry Stutz
Israel, meanwhile, suspended all
permits for Arabs in Jerusalem
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who want to visit Jordan pend-
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ing completion of the investiga-
Jerry Stutz, U. of M., Ann Arbor
tion into Friday's supermarket
bombing.
Sidney Stutz, Oakland U., Rochester
The air raid Monday on the
Syrian camps reportedly did heavy
Benji Stutz, Roper Bloomfield
damage.
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Israel said all its planes return-
ed safely and that two Syrian
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