Word: beirutization
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...commitment to morality even when it hundred then immediate goals Conscience forced Israeli tank drivers to halt along routes where the PLO had placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared the swiftness of full-scale bombardment Perhaps not praise but respect for Israel's laudatory restraint...
That Begin and Sharon remain in positions of authority in spite of their complicity in the Beirut massacre shows that Israel believes belligerence, self-righteousness and indifference to the plight of non-Jews are the only paths to survival...
...claim of a "very active complicity in the [Beirut] massacres" by the Israelis is directly countered by inquiry evidence which holds the Christian Phalangists solely responsible, and finds that no conspiracy or plot existed beween Israelis and Phalangists "with the aim of perpetrating atrocities in the camps." Where is Mr. Bisharat's condemnation of the Lebanese government's paralysis in conducting its own investigation in light of such damning evidence? Further, there was a reason to enter Sabra and Shatila. Contrary to Arafat's written guarantee, the PLO left about 2000 terrorists and large stocks of weapons in these West...
...killed [in Lebanon] the better, because of the tactical advantage it gives to the Palestinian cause" (Times, Aug. 6). A Voice of Lebanon broadcast from July 9 said, "Palestinian gunmen are trying by every means to keep the various roads cut off in order to keep civilians in [West] Beirut," even though the Israelis exhorted them to leave through the dropping of leaflets. Certainly, civilian casualties would have been far smaller had the PLO not held civilians hostage, nor placed their forces in non-military areas...
...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...