Word: beirutization
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...France the Israeli embassy has gone so far as to accuse the press of being antiSemitic. One all too human reason for the zeal with which Israeli attacks have been reported may be that many correspondents were actually in targeted West Beirut. In addition, Nigel Hawkes, foreign news editor of London's The Observer, acknowledges that there may be "a sort of double standard-we may not have the highest expectations of Iran or Iraq, but Israel is perceived as being a Western nation and is expected to conform to Western standards...
...press, but it's not a worse press than they had a right to expect." Israel's real problem was neither the bias of correspondents nor poor propaganda packaging, but something far more serious: the lack of a readily convincing justification for the onslaught on West Beirut...
Israel's blitz into Lebanon and its brutal stranglehold on Beirut have aroused doubt, controversy, criticism and apprehension in the U.S. and within Israel itself. But one side effect of the episode is likely to be received as good news in both Washington and Jerusalem. Whatever damage it has done to the long-term interests of the U.S. and Israel, the crisis already seems to have increased the isolation of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi...
Gaddafi is not only angrier and more implacable than ever toward Israel and the U.S., he is disgusted with the Palestine Liberation Organization for even entertaining the idea of leaving Beirut, with the neighboring Arab states for accepting the Palestinians, and with the Soviet Union for not somehow preventing the U.S. from letting Israel get away with the invasion...
...disaster that has befallen the civilians [of Lebanon] and this threat to international peace. I believe the current leadership [of the Palestinians] has lost the justification for its existence. Out of this whole situation will perhaps come a new leadership that will be able to undo the disaster in Beirut, one that will be able to take over from the old leadership now that it has been defeated and discredited...