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...many more readers. Five covers recounting the fighting in Lebanon brought 2,461 letters. It soon became clear that events had triggered a sharp shift away from the support TIME readers have traditionally given Israel. More than 700 wrote after the Oct. 4 cover story on the Beirut massacre, "Israel, a Shaken Nation." Sentiment was 3 to 1 against the Israelis. "My sympathy for Israel's struggles is wearing thin. I am revulsed beyond sympathy," said one. Another agreed: "The underdogs have become the dogs of war, and we have unleashed them...
Israel's use of phosphorous bombs, other incendiary weaponry, and anti-personnel cluster bombs in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas of Beirut and other Lebanese cities violated numerous provisions of international conventions relative to the protection of civilians in times of war. Extensive looting and vandalism of residences and public institutions by Israeli troops also violated 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...
When the Israelis first learned of Amin's determination to send his army into East Beirut last week, they objected to delaying the move, saying that it must be coordinated with the Israeli Defense Forces. Lebanon's Foreign Minister, Elie Salem, a Christian, replied that the Lebanese army had "instructions to shoot and not to negotiate with outlaws." The Israelis did not press the argument, but on the day after the Lebanese army deployment, an Israeli tank patrol drove straight through a Lebanese army barricade in East Beirut, despite protests from the Lebanese soldiers on duty. Two days...
...gathering at the Club des Pins, a seaside oasis outside the Algerian capital, was the first by the P.L.O.'s unofficial parliament-in-exile since the organization's military defeat by Israeli forces and the subsequent evacuation of its fighters from Beirut last August. Amid the tearful reunions, there was a defiant sense of triumph that the meeting was taking place at all, a public affirmation that the P.L.O. had not been destroyed by Israeli military might. Declared P.L.O. Spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman: "This meeting is an open message to the Arab world, to the U.S., and above...
Having won the day beforehand, Arafat patiently sat back and let the radicals speak their minds. For many delegates, however, the trauma of Beirut was enough to ensure their loyalty. Said a Palestinian delegate: "He was surrounded for 80 days in Beirut and as far as I am concerned, he won. We are all with him." Perhaps the most telling moment of the meeting came when Habash delivered a ringing denunciation of the "shameful and disgraceful Reagan plan." Said he: "We did not pay the price of blood in Beirut to record an American diplomatic victory." But then, turning...