Israel's Sacred Terrorism
Israel's Sacred Terrorism Israel's high-tech terror campaign in Lebanon is just the latest chapter. Israel invented air hijacking in 1954. Israel's terror campaigns are in fact a "drive for lebensraum". Sam Husseini Israel’s high-tech terror campaign using pagers in Lebanon — and some of the excited Western reaction to it — brought to mind the phrase “Israel’s Sacred Terrorism” which shows some of how deep the roots of this go. Back in 1992, I got this letter into the New York Times — Contrary to your report on the brouhaha in France stirred by medical aid for George Habash (news article, Jan. 31), Mr. Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was not "the first group to hijack aircraft in the late 1960's." Israel originated the practice in 1954. On Dec. 8 of that year, five Israeli soldiers were captured in Syria, apparently retrieving eavesdropping equipment. On Dec. 12, Israeli jet fighters intercepted a Syrian civilian airc...