'Cowardice' of Arab Attack on El Al Passengers
In Munich Assailed; Retaliation Is Demanded
TEL AVIV (JTA)—"An act of
cowardice perpetrated by people
who are incapable of fighting on
or within the frontiers of Israel."
These bitter words from Gen. Ezer
Weizman, minister of transport.
summed up Israeli reaction Wed-
nesday to Tuesday's Arab terrorist
attack on El Al passengers at
Munich Airport, which took the
life of a 32-year-old engineer from
Haifa and injured 23 other persons,
four of them seriously.
The three Arab attackers, two
of them hospitalized under police
guard, face murder charges.
The West German government
announced that it "most em-
phatically condemns this Arab ter-
rorism," the third fatal attack on
El Al at foreign airports since
1968.
Israeli newspapers Wednesday
demanded retaliatory strikes at
Damascus because Syria was re-
putedly the home base of the ter-
rorists. A foreign ministry spokes-
man said the attack should "re-
awaken governments and interna-
tional bodies to put an end to
criminal lawlessness by taking all
necessary steps to insure freedom
of civil air travel."
But Gen. Weizman. a former air
force commander who joined the
cabinet last year, said he didn't
put much faith in international
measures. "There is no harm in
going through the motions, but I
doubt if anything will come of it.
We have to defend ourselves," he
said.
Munich police reported that
the Arab terrorists hurled hand
grenades and fired submachine
guns at a bus carrying pas-
sengers from the Munich air-
port terminal to an El AT Boeing
707 jet that was preparing to take
off for London.
Arye Katzenstein, a refrigera-
tion engineer from Ilaifa, was kill-
ed. His father Heinz, 57, was
among the wounded passengers.
Also wounded and in critical con-
dition in a Munich hospital was
Ilanna Maron, 46, a popular Is-
raeli stage and screen actress.
Twenty-four-year old Assaf Dayan,
the actor son of Israel's defense
minister, Moshe Dayan. was a
passenger on the bus. He was un-
hurt.
Some reports from Munich said
that he was the target of the ter-
rorists. But other sources said that
Tuesday's attack, like the two pre-
vious ones, was indiscriminate and
intended to inflict casualties at ran-
dom on passengers and crew
members of El Al.
A police officer said one of the
attackers was standing next to
Dayan and could have shot him
easily.
Capt. Uriel Cohen, commander of
the flight, was slightly wounded.
According to eye-witness accounts,
he wrestled a grenade-wielding
Arab to the ground while the others
were firing on the bus.
Officers arrested four Arabs
following the attack and shootout
with police, but released one after
determining that only three ter-
rorists were involved.
Preliminary murder warrants
were filed against Abder Raman.
21, and Hadidi Mohamed, 28, both
of Jordan; and El Hanafi Mo-
hamed. 24, of Egypt. One was
wounded when a grenade went off
in his hand and shattered his right
arm. The arm was amputated. The
other suspect was injured when he
jumped off a balcony and crashed
through a skylight in an attempt
to flee.
(The New York Times said in
an editorial comment on the
Guatemala Jewish VIP
Murdered; Name Cited
GUATEMALA CITY (JTA)—Po-
lice are investigating the mysteri-
ous murder of Isidore Zarco, 57,
Munich attack that "the end re-
subeditor of the newspaper Prensa
I N CORPORATED
sult of Arab failure to move de-
Libre and a prominent member
cisively against the instigators
of Guatemala's Jewish commu-
and perpetrators of these as- nity.
saults on defenseless planes,
His funeral was attended by
crews and passengers almost
President Montenegro, who made
surely will be a retaliatory cut-
a posthumous presentation of the
off of commercial air traffic to
r tistry
country's highest civilian decora-
and from the Arab nations.")
tion, the Order of San Salvador.
Israelis registered some surprise Cardenal Casariegos, high govern-
when credit for the attack was ment officials and members of the
; claimed by the Democratic Popu- foreign diplomatic corps were
lar Front for the Liberation of among the mourners.
Palestine, an obscure Marxist
No motive was given for the
group based in Syria. While sup-
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porting Palestinian guerrillas, that murder and no clues were report-
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ed.
group in the past has repudiated in-
Zarco was well known as a jour-
' dividual acts of terrorism. A rival
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claim was made by the so-called nalist at home and abroad. He was
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Action Organization for the Libera- the recipient of another high deco-
tion of Palestine in Amman, Jor- ration, the Order of Qetzal.
dan.
Israelis observed that whenever
a new terrorist outrage is per-
ESCORTED • CULTURAL • CO-ED
petrated, several guerrilla groups
scramble for the credit.
On Dec. 26, 1968, an El Al air-
liner was attacked by Arab ter-
Separate departures for select groups of
rorists at Athens airport. One pass-
enger, an Israeli marine engineer,
TEENAGERS • COLLEGIATES • YOUNG ADULT
was killed and a stewardess was
injured. On Feb. 18, 1969, Arab
attackers machine-gunned an El
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wounding an Israeli pilot trainee.
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Soviet's Declared Policy
on Occupied Territories
Lends Support to Israel
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — An official
Soviet document was cited at Lon-
don's Fabian Society by a mem-
ber of Parliament, Dr. Morris Mil-
ler, as condoning Israel's policy in
the occupied Arab territories, ac-
cording to a dispatch filed by the
Israeli paper Davar's correspond-
ent in London.
The Soviet text, publicized in
Moscow and issued in connection
with Russian "occupation" of var-
ious countries declares: "Any
state confronted with the danger
of invasion, or having once repel-
led an invasion still faces the peril
of renewed assault, and in the
course of self-defense having oc-
cupied certain territories, is fully
justified to remain in these oc-
cupied areas."
The Soviet policy declaration was
cited by Dr. Miller as proof that
Israel is entitled to stay in the
Arab territories that were occupied
during the Six-Day War—accord-
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Back to Austerity if Necessary
in Fight for Life, Mrs. Meir States
NEW YORK (JTA) — Premier year ago for about $300,000,000.
Golda Meir of Israel said that her The contract called for two thirds
country would return to the aus- of the amount in cash and the rest
terity conditions of the early 1950s in the form of credit for five years.
if necessary to pay for the addi-, When she visited Washington last
tional Phantom jets and other wea- 1September, Mrs. Meir asked for
pons requested from the United more Phantoms and Skyhawks and
States. She made that statement for U.S. financial aid to help pay
in an interview in Tel Aviv with for them.
In the course of the interview,
James Reston, a vice president of
the New York Times, and the Mrs. Meir expanded on a state-
paper's Israel correspondent, ment that she has made frequent-
ly in the past—that there is no
James Feron.
Mrs. Meir emphasized that her such thing as a Palestinian nation
country's request for additional or Palestinian people. "People
arms was a matter of life-or- talk about a Palestinian state,"
death. "We never asked for equal- she said. "You know, the United
ity with the Arabs in arms. We Nations in 1947 divided what was
don't even dare ask for that. We west of the Jordan River, in what
never said plane for plane and tank was then called Palestine, into a
for tank, but there is a certain Jewish state and an Arab state.
point where the imbalance is such We accepted because this was
after the second World War, with
that it is suicide," she said.
thousands of Jews in those Nazi
Mrs. Meir also made the point camps and we would do anything
that nobody gives planes and to get the keys to Haifa and Lydda,
other weapons to Israel. "Give to bring them in. So we set about
isn't the word," she said. Israel setting up our state and the Arabs
pays hard cash. "We'd like to set about attacking us. And they
negotiate the old contract under never set up their state."
which we bought the first Phan-
Mrs. Meir asked rhetorically,
toms," she said. "It would be
impossible to buy more under why the Arabs who remained on
those terms. I say 'impossible'— the West Bank of the Jordan did
but we'll do it if it means that not set up a Palestinian state. She
we have to go back to a pro- observed that they accepted Jor-
gram we had in 1950, of auster-
ity, we'll do that too, because the danian citizenship, voted for the
question is to live on austerity Jordanian parliament and some
or not to live at all."
even served as members of the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, February 13, 1970
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