Word: aftermath
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...these general conventions. The theft of the 25,000 volume library of the Palestine Research Center violated a specific convention relative to the protection of cultural property in times of war of which both Israel and Lebanon are signatories. The destruction of Palestinian camps and other property in the aftermath of active hostilities to "relocate" (disperse) the Palestinian population violated principles of the laws of warfare which strictly bar the destruction of property except for reasons of immediate military necessity...
...aftermath of last week's explosion, inquiries will be conducted, reports written, concern shown. Rioters and police will have their respective apologists...
...Jerusalem, Prime Minister Begin avoided all public comment, thereby drawing a rebuke from the Jerusalem Post. The paper regretted that Begin, "whose sensitivity to anti-Semitism and communal animosity is well known, should choose to remain silent." Once again, as in the aftermath of the Beirut massacre last September, it was left to President Yitzhak Navon to address the nation's conscience. Navon, a Sephardic Jew, called for an investigation and at the same time denounced the "criminal exploitation" of the tragedy...
Congressional committees have voted repeatedly to increase aid to Israel. After the 1973 Yom Kippur war, for example. Congress almost doubled the amount of assistance the Nixon administration had requested. In the aftermath of Lebanon, political experts predicted the Begia government would have trouble getting U.S. funds because of increased resistance from Congress. Ironically, though, the White House is proving the stumbling block...
...aftermath of the disaster, many Israelis felt a renewed urge to get their country's forces out of Lebanon. One Cabinet member, Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, proposed that Israel undertake a unilateral withdrawal from certain parts of Lebanon in order to test Syrian and Lebanese intentions. Such a move would be welcomed by the Lebanese, who increasingly resent the continued Israeli occupation. Many of them blame the Israeli presence for the sporadic factional fighting between Christians and Muslims in the hilly Chouf and Aley regions a few miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese...