Word: beirutization
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...received the assurance "in writing from Habib." In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asserted, "I have in hand a document" containing the guarantee; he said he had received it as a condition for agreeing to pull the P.L.O. fighters out of Beirut. In a speech in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, Arafat charged, "I was tricked...
...weeks ago, Peter McPherson, 41, was breakfasting in Beirut when there was a shattering explosion in the air. He leaped to his feet to watch a plummeting Syrian MiG. The reality of his job as Reagan's Special Representative for Relief and Reconstruction in Lebanon came home. Raised on a Michigan farm of 500 acres, McPherson now tends U.S. aid in 60 countries round the globe...
...killings in the camps of West Beirut assumed a profound significance in the moral thinking and rhetoric of the world. Why? Because of the Israelis. In part, they were being judged by the old double standard. But there was more: the Israelis were actually parked there, just outside the camps, with all of their tradition, with all the edifice of Jewish morality. The Christians blasted away for a night and a day and a night, and the Jews with the guns averted their gaze...
...hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel ranks fourth among the military powers of the world. The deepest question framed by the massacre in West Beirut was this: Has Israel yet managed to formulate a morality that squares its worldly power with the individual consciences of its people...
Given the customary alertness of the Jewish conscience, the Israeli behavior in West Beirut is nearly inexplicable. It seems almost impossible to absolve the Israel Defense Forces of something a good deal uglier than incompetence there. In any case, the civilized do not make contracts with beasts and give them guns and send them out to do a little messy surrogate killing. The beasts will eventually come to inhabit the soul of their sponsor...