The influential daily Le Monde, stresses today that “such desperate actions as those perpetrated last night at Lydda Airport will not help return to the Palestinians their rights and dignity.11 In a front page editorial, Le Monde added that the “horrible massacre has Just reminded the Big Powers and the interested states that they have the duty not to let a situation decay, a situation which If allowed to perpetuate itself, can only engender violence.” The editorial said that the dead and wounded have been added to the long list of victims of attacks committed blindly by terrorists claiming to be the Palestinian resistance movement.
“How can the PFLP affirm with such lightness that the tourists who ‘arrived In Lydda Airport were not Innocent, because they chose our occupied land to visit,1” Le Monde wrote adding that the majority of the passengers were Puerto Rican pilgrims. Such an affirmation does not correspond to the humanist Arab tradition, the newspaper said. Le Monde asked if the PFLP will finally realize that blind violence never helped a cause. U recalled that the North Vietnamese never took civilian airline passengers as targets for machine-gunning Americans.
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