of false charges hurled here this afternoon, I will respond, for the sake of brevity, to only a few choice morsels. I believe, however, that they capture the essence of the larger slander that is being perpetrated here today. Several repre- sentatives have attempted to draw a picture of a mighty Israel attacking defenceless Palestinian Arabs. The oppo- site is true. It is defenseless Israeli civilians who are being remorselessly attacked by PLO Arab territories. Now, if 8 these attacks were confined exclusively, or even in the main, to military targets, that would be one thing. But they are not. They have been directed with murderous precision against defenceless children and women and men. 91. In fact, the PLO has instructed its agents to seek out such targets and has boasted of its responsibility for the assaults on them. What kind of targets? A cab driver on his way home, a couple on a picnic, a woman school- teacher on a drive, a utility man making a delivery, and, as always, the PLO’s perennial favourites since the massacre at Maalot: children, specifically five children as young as eight years old, stabbed in the face and in the neck repeat- edly in the heart of downtown Jerusalem. / 92. The more innocent and unwary the victim,‘the better; the further removed he is from the military or from the source of conflict, the better. For the goal of the PLO terrorist is to terrify, and that is best achieved by assaulting innocent civilians. This is not an incidental activity of the PLO but one that relates to its very purpose. Indeed, it defines it. Because the PLO’s business is terror, not mil- itary confrontation, not even guerrilla war-which is also directed against soldiers-but pure, sheer terror, which 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a speech or statement made by a representative of the Israeli government or a pro-Israeli organization, in response to false accusations made against Israel. The content is focused on the conflict between Israel and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), with the speaker highlighting the attacks on Israeli civilians and the PLO's tactics of terrorizing innocent people. The text does not mention any specific policies, programs, or initiatives related to economic development, natural resources, or other categories.

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