Israel must use “new methods” to combat Syrian sabotage and Arab efforts to divert the headwaters of the Jordan River, Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, chief of staff of Israel’s defense forces, stated here in an interview in the army weekly, Bamahne, issued today.
Without specifying the type of new actions needed, Gen. Rabin compared the present situation along the Syrian border, where there have been frequent infiltrations into Israel by gangs of saboteurs, with the conditions along the Egyptian border in 1955 and 1956. At that time, Egyptian sabotage gangs, called fedayeen, made so many raids into Israel that Israel was forced to take action to wipe out the fedayeen bases in the Sinai Peninsula by opening the military campaign in the Sinai.
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