Arab newspapers today gloated over yesterday’s terrorist bombings in Tel Aviv. They touted them as a “major victory” for Arab commandos and tried to create the impression that Israelis were in panic, according to dispatches reaching here.
A newspaper headline in Iraq said “Zionist authorities lose nerve, arrest 100 Arabs.” Beirut newspapers carried front-page photographs of people fleeing the scene of the bombing over the caption, “Commandos strike heart of Tel Aviv.” The papers also carried accounts of subsequent attacks by Jews on Arabs. The incident prompted an extreme left-wing columnist in Cairo to write in the newspaper Al-Gomhoria that the only solution to the Middle East crisis is a “peoples war of liberation” against Israel in the style of the Viet Cong. In Damascus, it was reported, units of the “peoples army” staged exercises to foil a mock Israeli paratroop attack which. Damascus radio said, were “very successful.”
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