Word: beirutization
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...Marine casualties heightened the confusion over the precise role and duration of the U.S. peace-keeping mission. At his Washington press conference last week, the President astounded aides by intimating that the Marines would not leave Beirut until all Israeli and Syrian forces had withdrawn from Lebanon. Officials at the State Department and White House subsequently issued elaborate clarifications of what Reagan really meant. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg insisted that the withdrawal of foreign troops was a goal but not "a criterion" for a U.S. departure. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of State Nicholas Veliotes...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
Although Israeli democracy will surely survive its shattering ordeal intact, the Begin government may prove less enduring. Both the Prime Minister and Sharon have said that they were prepared to take personal responsibility for Israel's role in the Beirut massacre, implying that they will step down if the inquiry reveals any Israeli complicity. But neither appeared ready to give up easily. At an acrimonious, closed-door session of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Begin bristled at an opposition demand that he resign. Shouted the embattled Prune Minister: "Who should resign? I, with...
Begin has so far rejected suggestions that he suspend the controversial Sharon while the commission does its work. For his part, the Defense Minister has steadfastly refused to step down. Sharon said last week that he accepted the principle of ministerial responsibility, but blamed the world for exploiting the Beirut killings "to massacre Israel's moral image." He appealed to Israelis to put an end to this dispute over who was to blame. "Have we as a nation decided to commit suicide?" he asked. "Can we not stop this hatred among brothers?" for Sharon the question had great personal...
...country and beyond. David Ben-Gurion once remarked that the I.D.F. was perhaps his nation's most successful achievement. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year rated the Israeli military as the fourth most powerful in the world. Yet today, in the wake of the Beirut massacre, many among the I.D.F.'s 172,000 regulars and 504,000 reservists are deeply demoralized...