Page 6-The Canadian Jewish Ne.ws, Thursday, October 10, 1985
Accumulated incidents strike a nerve
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SHELDON kiRSHNER
: - Last week's Israeli air rjiid on PLO headquarters near Tunis. though reportedly in retaliation for the Ypm Kippur killing of three Israeli civilians in Cyprus by the PLO, was really anactof retfibutioh by Israel for a year-long series of terrorist incidents by the Palestiriians. .
Despite the fact that Yasser Arafat's faction of the PLO has signed an agreement with Jordan which calls for a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the PLO has not given up its military option.
It never has.
On- April 7, the Voice of . Palestine bniadcast a report in which the following, statement was., made: '"Armed struggle is the primary form of the Palestinian struggle and is the firm strategy for realizing the 'national objective of our people."
Arafat., in his heart of . hearts.' knows that the Palestinians cannot attain their goal of self-determination solely through military means.
In 1982. Israel destroyed his military ba.ses in . Lebanon, And in. 1983 rebel Palestinian forces,, assisted by Syria,, drove Arafat and his men out of Tripoli.
Thirteen years earlier, in a bloody civil w:ar, the Arab Legion closed down Arafat's operation in. Jordan.
: However. Arafat has not abandoned  what Israel
describes as terrorism and what Palestinians refer to as armed struggle.
The PLO general command, which is under the authority of Arafat, has claimed responsibility for 81 incidents, both within Israel and in the occupied territories, in a 5-month period from Feb. 11 to July 11. Israel has acknowliedged 28 of them.
Since mid-July. Israel has been hit by additional terrorism.
Israel proper was the ob-. jeet of some Of the most serious incidents between February and July. •
In April, iheisraeli navy broke^ up a scaborrie. at-teriipt; by the PLO to infiltrate men and explosives equipment'into Israel. In May, the. Israelis sank -a rubber dinghy near the Lebanese portof Tyre, killing five Palcstiniaii.s jic^ding for Israel. A month- later, eight were killed and 20 were captured when their . boat wa.s destroyed by Israel about 100. miles from its. coastline.
In land-related incident.s, remote-controlled .'cx-. plosive charges went off in several Israeli towns and cities, and an army patrol was machine-gunned in Jerusalem.
\\ \s unclear why Israel did not confirm PLO-alleged incidents such as an/ explosion in an Ashkelon hotel, the shelling of Metulla, the derailing of a train between Tel Aviv and Haifa and the grenade attack against a. Tel Aviv restaurant:
The Name Game
There's a story in almost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZ-MAN has been researching their origin over the past few years.
In a series of artists Mr, Catzman reports on his research. If you have any information relating to the origin and meaning of your surname, please pass it along to Fred M. Catzman, c/o The Canadian Jewish News, 562 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto M4P1P1.
BARKIN - BELISHA
We have observed that patronymic surnames — riame^ after the father —- end. in "son'-' in: English (like Richardson, Jacobson) — "ovitch" in Russian (bavidovitch) — in Polish with "ski" . (like Simonski).
The Hebrew words for son are Ben and Bar, which gives us naniies like. Ben Zion (son of Zion), Ben Gurion (son of the Lion — Loewesohn) and Bar Kochba (son of the .star).
Many such names are acrpnymic — the first letters of the Hebrew patronym.
Barkin — Bar Kohen (son of the priest)
Bard. Barth — Ben fteb David .; Baron— Ben Reb Nachman ■   Basch:, Bfasch — Ben Reb Shimon
The well known British statesman. Hoare-Belisha adopted the name Hoare .from his non-. Jewish stepfather, but retained his patronymic Jewish surname Belisha (Ben Elisha); HERMAN - DUBIN
Ah important segment of the Jewish population in Easte'n Europe lived in the Ukraine. The names of its cities, towns and villages are familiar to U.S as the surnames of many Jewish families in Canada, several of which are listed below:
Baiter, Bolter, Balta; Barsky, Barsky; Belsky, Belsky, Belskij; Briinher, Bruenn; Dubin, Dubner, Dubinsky, Dubno; Gaison, Gaisin.
Grusheff, Grushevskij; Herman, Hermann; —Kaminker, Kamenka; Komarner, Komairm); Krivy, Kriever, Krivoyc; Malin; Malinsky, Malin;   Ncmeroff,   Nemiroy; Samborsky,. Sambor. '
Perhap.s they never happened. The PLO has been known to lie, distort of exaggerate. ;
Two mOnth.s. ago, Israel's navy intercepted in international waters; two boats full of armed Palestinians on their way tolsrael via Sidon, Lebanon.
On Aug. 24, e.ight Palestinians aboard the . vessel Casselredit were ap-i, : prchendcd before they, could reach Israel. Seven days later, an undisclosed number of Palestiriians were captured ofTthe Gan-da, a yacht owned by an Australian and American who are now in Israeli custody.
The Palestinians on the Ganda were .said to belong to Force 17,. the elite PLO :forcc which, allegedly murdered the three Israeli.s in Larnaca.
In recent years there have been about a dozen attempts by the PLO to land in Israel by sea. The last succes.sful one, in 1979, took place in Nahariya. In March of 1978, Palestinians landed near Haifa and hijacked a civilian Egged bus. More than 30 Israeli civilians were slain in a subsequent shootout.
As a result- Israel invaded southern Lebanon, ending it.s occupation in June.
Observers 'believe that the PLO has taken to the sea because Syria and Jor-dhn refuse to permit the Palestinians to carry out raids from their territory
Several Jewish passersby and two Arabs were killed in this, blast in Tel Aviv six years ago. Israel today faces an upsurge of terrorism. PPPA photo]
and because it has become extremely difficuh for them to infiltrate from Lebanon,
It is believed that .some or all of the Palestinians caught by Israel ia the Mediterranean were train-.ed in Algeria.
Israeli officials appear uncertain who planned and carried out a series of incidents within Israel last month:
On-Sept. 2. six Jewish civilians waiting, for a bus-
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near. Jerusalem were injured when a bornb exploded. The blast leveled the_ bu.s shelter.
On Sept. 23, a homemade bomb went off in Acre, slightly injuring a woman. And in Jeru.salem, a booby-trapped vehicle was .safely dismantled in Mea Sheari'm, Jeru.salem's ultra-Orthodox
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Two persons were wounded on.Sept. 26 when a.bornb exploded behind a
■bus stop on Mt. Scopus, site of a Hebrew Universi-. ty campus and the old
;Hadassah Hospital. • On the.same day. five Jews and two Arabs were, injured when a bus en route to the West Bank .settle-ment. of Ki ryat A rba was tired upon. :
As October dawned, two blasts shook Haifa, hurting five people.
The accumulated acts of . terrorism and guerrilla warfare.against Israel since la.st winter ha-s obviously struck a nerve. Otherwise ^ Israel would not have gone to such lengthsas to attack the PLO in. a; country as distant as Tunisia.
In the view of analysts, there will be no letup in the attacks by iPalesti-nians as long as a negotiated Middle Eastern settlement is so remote, as it is noVv.
It may be harder for the PLO to strike at Israel in the wake of the civil war in Jordan and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. But op(erational obstacles will probably not deter the PLO in the future.
A new round of violence .seems to have begun in.the Middle East.
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