Word: bankes
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...over south Lebanon for a long time." Last week the Israelis proceeded to do just that as they established a buffer strip along the entire border. That leaves the Palestinians precious little breathing room between the Israeli zone and the Litani River, with the Syrian forces on the north bank, and it is by no means clear that the Israelis will not make occasional raids into what remains of the Palestinians' sanctuary...
...Palestinian stance may seem hopelessly wrongheaded and self-destructive. After all, a return to terrorism by the P.L.O. tends to undermine Sadat, even though he has maintained steadfastly that he would make no deal with the Israelis without a provision for some sort of Palestinian homeland on the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians simply do not believe him, apparently, and their present view is born of a rising desperation. "They are running out of space," reports Correspondent Brelis. "Having been expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in the early 1970s, they find themselves no longer welcome in Lebanon. Having...
...P.L.O. official in Beirut suggests sardonically that the next step will be Israeli settlements in south Lebanon. "Or it may be an archaeological dig," he adds slyly, referring to the illegal Jewish settlement at Shiloh in the West Bank that the Begin government persists in pretending is there for archaeological pursuits...
Said Hanna Naesser, a physicist expelled from the West Bank by Israel four years ago: "This event has done a great deal to restore the faith of the people in the P.L.O." Sociologist Seri Nasser agreed. "I deplore that there are 34 people dead in Israel, just as I deplore that as a result of the Israeli retaliation there will be ten times as many people dead in refugee camps in Lebanon. But how can you blame us? You say this action is not very noble. Name a course we can take that is in fact noble. We have nowhere...
...noted, however, that Israel is not solely to blame for shattering the fragile status-quo. Moreover, the terrorist attack gives some validity to Israeli fears about negotiating with the PLO at this stage. That is not meant to belittle the necessity of establishing a Palestinian homeland on the West Bank. Nor is it intended to imply that an overall settlement at Geneva--taking account of that necessity--is not the ultimate solution to the problem of peace. It does suggest, though, that perhaps the best way to capitalize on the momentum left over from Egyptian President Sadat's "sacred mission...