The Cairo press voiced support for the terrorist attack on an El Al airliner in Zurich, but the Beirut press indicated some disapproval of it.
Al Ahram, the semi-official Cairo newspaper, said the attack showed that the “Palestine resistance is determined to chase the enemy on all fronts. There is no force on earth which can prevent Palestinians from fighting for their legitimate right to national existence.”
Al Gomhouria declared that the attack underscored the “Palestinians’ decisive refusal to accept mass extermination, injustice and suppression that they confront daily,” apparently in a reference to the occupied territories.
Two right-wing Beirut newspapers voiced disapproval. One said the raid was an “embarrassment to commandos” and the other saw it as providing Israel with an opportunity to disseminate its “propaganda.”
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