Word: beirutization
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...were to take the highly improbable step of suspending all military and economic aid to Israel, the cutoff would sap Israel's military strength, but only in the future. Thanks to past American generosity, Israel has enough made-in-U.S.A. weapons to maintain its siege of Beirut almost indefinitely...
...understand you Americans backing Israel," Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin told Lyndon Johnson in 1967. "There are 80 million Arabs and only 3 million Jews. Why do it?" Johnson shot back: "Because it's right." Yet, as Ronald Reagan's anger over Israel's siege of West Beirut demonstrated last week, that "right"relationship can sometimes confound, even infuriate, the two nations...
...across West Beirut, hour after hour, came the shattering detonations in crowded city streets, the crump, crump, crump of exploding bombs and shells, and then, after the brilliant flashes of red, the rising clouds of destruction...
...Israeli government insisted that it was not "the real thing"-the long-threatened Israeli invasion of the battered enclave of the capital by the sea. But to the 500,000 residents of West Beirut, as well as to the 6,000 Palestinian fighters hidden among them, it was as close to total onslaught as anyone could imagine. Twice last week the Israelis staged attacks on the besieged western areas of Beirut that in sheer destructive power, though not in casualties, wreaked devastation that stirred memories of the punishment inflicted on European cities during World War II and recalled the fate...
Lebanese authorities announced that the Israeli attacks on West Beirut, where only one in about 80 people is a Palestinian guerrilla, had killed 400 to 500 civilians and wounded 1,000 more, the heaviest casualty toll since the invasion began on June 6. After a brief ceasefire, some 10,000 Lebanese streamed out of the target area, wending their way through streets filled with debris and smoldering ruins, and found refuge in East Beirut or outside the city. The Israeli attacks, which aroused wide opposition around the world, came just as U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib reportedly...