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Friday, April 6, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Terror in Jerusalem
Continued from. Page 1
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raeli police and some civilian passersby
began firing at the terrorists.
The owner of a nearby shop told re-
porters, "I saw a terrorist in the middle of
the road with a grenade in his hand. He
was standing about (three feet) away.. I
fired at him. I hit him, in the body or in the
head. As he fell he took out another gre-
nade and then got to his feet."
Eli Cohen, an insurance salesman who
was formerly a paratroop commander,
raced down a flight of stairs from his office,
his Baretta pistol in hand, and gave chase
to the terrorist. The fleeing man was pre-
paring to hurl the grenade through the
window of a stalled bus. ,
Cohen confronted him at the bus but,
at the critical moment, his Baretta jam-
med. He felled the man with the pistol
barrel. The grenade exploded in the street,
harmlessly except for one fragment which
struck Cohen. He was hospitalized but his
wound was not serious. The terrorist died
at the hospital.
Interviewed from his hospital bed,
Cohen made light of his injury and seemed
shy of the hero image. But the bus
passengers credit him with saving their
lives.
The other gunman was captured un-
scathed. Police later arrested a third Arab
in Bethlehem on the West Bank. He was
said to be the driver of the getaway car but
had fled the scene when the firing started.
Although a, major tragedy was av-
erted, Jerusalemites remained nervous
and there were some ugly scenes in the
capital hours after the shoot-out. In several
instances, Jewish hot-heads manhandled
innocent Arabs. But border police inter-
vened to restore order.
In the shooting, 48 Israelis were
wounded. The terrorist incident was the
third such attack in Jerusalem within a
four-month period. Previously, six Israelis
were killed and 40 wounded when a bomb
exploded on a bus in December; 20 Israelis
were injured when a bomb exploded on one
of the city's major streets in February.
Sara Averick, Middle East expert for
the American-Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee, told The Jewish News that two
groups have claimed responsibility for the
attack. Immediately after the attack, the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, a left-wing faction of the PLO,
issued a statement from Damascus claim-
ing responsibility.
Later, Abu Nidal, leader of a splinter .
PLO group, telephoned Israel Radio to
claim responsibility. However, the news
reports stated that Israeli police have not
yet determined to which terrorist group
the captured Arabs belong.
The attack appeared to be a
"kamikaze"-style operation. "One theory is
that these terrorists infiltrated (into Is-
rael) through the Lebanese border," said
Averick.
Several months ago, in exchange for
Israeli prisoners of war being held by Yasir
Arafat's PLO, Israel released some 3,000
Palestinians captured after the Israeli in-
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vasion of Lebanon. At the time of the ex-
change, Israeli military personnel had
warned that terrorist incidents would in-
crease, as indeed they have in southern
Lebanon.
Speculation also centered on the bill
now before Congress to move the United
States Embassy to Jerusalem as a reason
for the attack.
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek ap-
peared to give credence to that argument
when he told reporters, "I think that these
political activities — the proposal to trans-
fer the American Embassy to Jerusalem,
what is still happening in Lebanon and
everybody talking about ties with Jordan
— just leads this group or the PLO to prove
that they are still in business."
Concern was expressed that Kollek's
statement might be used by the Reagan
Administration, which opposes an em-
bassy move.
Moreover, Consul General Yaakov
vehemently disagreed with speculation
along these lines. He asserted, "This (ter-
rorisfattack) is absolutely not connected to
the bill to move the U.S. Embassy."
In Yaakov's opinion, this and the other
recent terrorist attacks occurred in
Jerusalem not because of any debate on an
embassy move but because "partly,
Jerusalem is always a sensitive spot, and
partly because at the end of March the
Palestinians celebrate what they call
`Land Day' and they create a lot of digtur-
bances. I also see this in connection with
the approach of Passover and Easter, when
you have lots of tourists in Jerusalem."
Averick also discounted the embassy
move as a reason for the terrorist attack.
She said, "I'd be reluctant to pin it on one
thing, especially if the groups which
claimed responsibility said nothing about
Jerusalem. They are generally known to
say what they think."
But whatever the reason or reasons for
the attack in Jerusalem, Averick main-
tained, "American policy can't be held hos-
tage to Arab terrorists. Some people might
want to attribute it to the U.S. bill (on
moving the embassy) but the main cause is
the existence of the state of Israel.
"We have had terrorist acts since
1949, before there was any controversy
over an embassy in Jerusalem. The PLO
remains committed to the destruction of
the Jewish state and terrorism is part of its
strategy," she said.
After the attack, Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Yitzhak Shamir told reporters, "We
will do everything so that such attacks are
not repeated. The perpetrators, and their
dispatchers, will be punished to the full
extent of the law."
In the press, Shamir's words were
called a "thinly-veiled threat of retalia-
tion" agains the Syrians and the PLO
groups under their protection. Consul
General Yaakov took exception to this
label.
He observed, "We never 'veil' our
threats. It was not just a threat. There is no
question there will be retaliation. We're
going to intensify the measures 'we have
been using for 30 years."
The economy called Israel's
`greatest battle for survival'
New York (JTA) — Eli
Hurvitz, president of the Is-
rael Manufacturers Asso-
ciation, told the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organ-
izations last Thursday that
Israel was facing "its
greatest battle for survival
since the War of Indepen-
dence in 1948."
In a briefing on Israel's
current economic scene, the
Israeli industrialist under-
scored the need to keep a lid
on unemployment during
the current fight against in-
flation.
Hurvitz, who returned to
Israel immediately follow-
ing his appearance before
the Presidents Conference,
said he remained "optimis-
tic" that the country would
be able to resolve its eco-
nomic difficulties. But he
emphasized that every
major group in the country
— labor, management and
government — must make
sacrifices if the country's
economic problems are to be
solved.
Hurvitz said Israel's
reputation for advanced sci-
entific research and de-
velopment and for high-
technology products was
well deserved, but he said
Israel was "relatively
weak" in marketing. "We
need the skills of American
Jewish businessmen to
teach us how to market our
products," the Israeli indus-
trialist said.
He added, "We also need
investments in our
ecomomy by American
Jewish businessmen — not
as charity but to make pro-
fits. And profits can be
made."
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