Word: beirutization
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...awake all night crying and despairing. What will become of us? What is happening to us?" That plaintive question could easily have come from a Palestinian woman grieving for her lost family following the massacre of Arab men, women and children in the Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut. In fact, the anguished speaker was an Israeli woman in Jerusalem who the night before had watched the television pictures of the aftermath of the killings by the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militiamen. In Lebanon, even as Amin Gemayel was inaugurated as the new President in the place of his slain...
Israel's newspapers reflected the mood. For the Jerusalem Post, this year's Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) would be remembered as "the Rosh Hashanah of shame," for "we have all been made accomplices to the horrible massacre in West Beirut." The conservative Ma'ariv observed: "By our presence [in West Beirut] we have become indirectly responsible for the awful pogrom committed there." As the left-wing Al Hamishmar saw it, "This slaughter has made the war in Lebanon the greatest disaster to befall the Jewish people since the Holocaust...
...Israeli relations (see following story). In Washington, Ronald Reagan, by instinct a warm supporter of Israel, reflected that in the public perception, Israel had been transformed from the "David" to the "Goliath" of the Middle East. Reagan was already angry that the Israelis had moved into West Beirut two weeks ago, thereby breaking a promise they had made to the U.S., and he was horrified that, having occupied the Muslim sector of the Lebanese capital, the Israelis had not only failed to protect the lives of the Palestinian civilians within their jurisdiction but were deeply implicated in the events that...
Backing party loyalty against the national interest, the Knesset, dominated by Begin's Likud coalition, twice supported the Prime Minister last week: it refused to condemn the Israeli invasion of West Beirut, and it refused to call for a formal commission of inquiry. Only after days of rising protest did Begin agree to ask Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan to conduct an investigation. If he undertakes the assignment, Kahan will probably not have the power to subpoena witnesses, which will surely hamper his probe. By appointing Kahan to the task, Begin quieted some of his foes and bought himself...
...said. A Communist Party member shouted, "Who sent the murderers? Who sent the murderers?" In a 90-minute speech, during which he was frequently interrupted by hecklers, Sharon insisted that leaders of the government did not imagine "in our blackest dreams that hundreds of innocents would be massacred in Beirut." But he admitted that the Israeli army had helped the Christian forces to plan the operation and had allowed them to enter the refugee camps in order to clean out any remaining Palestinian guerrilla resistance there. The Christian forces were given permission to enter, said Sharon, after pledging...