Word: ariels
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Barrow's timing was a bit odd. Marines were indeed attacked last week, as were French and Italian members of the 5,200-man multinational force in Beirut, but not by Israelis. Most of the examples of Israeli harassment occurred when Ariel Sharon was still Defense Minister. His apparent motive: to ensure that Israeli rather than American or other foreign troops would guard the Lebanese side of the border once a troop-withdrawal agreement had been signed. Such confrontations have diminished since Sharon's replacement as Defense Minister by Moshe Arens. Many of the events Barrow referred...
...promulgated, it was done so by revenge seeking victors of a terrible war--the Israelis submitted themselves to this type of scrutiny voluntarily). The fact that the Phalangist butchers who slaughtered their own Arab brethren have not even been named, let alone punished, did not prevent the removal of Ariel Sharon from the Defense Ministry, or the forced retirement of two generals...
Safire has two seemingly all-but-blind loyalties. One is to Israel, for which he admits to being an unyielding apologist, though he called for the resignation of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon within days of the September 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Israeli-supervised camps in Beirut. The other devotion is to his Nixon White House colleagues, on whose behalf he has unabashedly likened Watergate to comparatively trivial scandals that he rechristened Lancegate, Billygate, Franklingate, Rheingate and even, in a term that some might use to describe his own rhetoric once in a while, Doublebillingsgate...
...meantime, the Begin government announced two more part-time jobs for Ariel Sharon. Following the recommendations of the commission of inquiry that investigated the Beirut massacre, Begin removed Sharon from the Defense Ministry and made him a Minister Without Portfolio. Last week the government added that at Begin's insistence, Sharon would retain seats on two Cabinet committees, one dealing with national security and the other with the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. An aide to the Prime Minister said that while Sharon would no longer maintain direct contacts with Lebanese officials, the government valued his expertise on Lebanon...
What made the defeat particularly bitter for the commanders was that the Druze had succeeded because the Israelis had prevented Christian reinforcements from reaching Aley. The Christians' relations with the Israelis have been in decline for some time, particularly as the result of Ariel Sharon's heavyhanded treatment of Phalangist elders, including Party Chief Pierre Gemayel, during a meeting last month. For their part, the Israelis are angry with Amin Gemayel for refusing to sign a peace treaty with them, and are trying to show him that he needs their support. But Gemayel is convinced that to sign...