Word: beirutization
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...guns were relatively silent in Beirut last January when TIME published "Children of War," a memorable cover story by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt about children who grow up not in playgrounds but on the battlefields of the world. When Israel invaded Lebanon six weeks ago, Rosenblatt returned to Beirut to try to find the children he had interviewed. What he discovered during his search appears in the form of a seven-day journal, part of this week's cover story...
...much to be dismayed-even horrified-about. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent civilians killed, and thousands more made homeless. Evasions, even lies, by the Israeli government, which at first claimed to seek a 25 mile "buffer zone" cleansed of the PLO only to march all the way to Beirut. And the siege of the Lebanese capital itself, trapping civilians as well as Palestinian guerrillas without food and water...
...alleged Israel brutality in Lebanon, a large dosage of myth is mixed in with a small portion of fact. While the siege of Beirut can be deplored, the military did drop leaflets on the city for days prior to the encirclement warning civilians of the imminent danger and suggesting that they leave. Nor should it be overlooked that the PLO builds its military bases in areas with the highest concentration of civilians. Or that Arafat and Co. use schools and the United Nations-sponsored refugee camps as weapons depots and training camps for terrorists. As a PLO official once explained...
...have left the impression that these are bad people doing bad things to journalists when, in fact, they are pretty good." Acknowledges ABC's Arledge, "It is true, there is a double standard. We criticize the Israelis for not allowing us to get some footage of Beirut, whereas we do not criticize people who do not allow us to get stuff out at all. That is because Israel has always proclaimed itself a model of democracy and has been...
...Anchorman Dan Rather notes that, ironically, Israel would probably have suffered less criticism if it had simply refused to open its transmission facilities from the start. (Indeed, last week Israel realized it had stumbled into a no-win situation and withdrew its transmission services for all foreign bureaus in Beirut.) Sums up CBS's Sauter: "We are subject to far more serious censorship in many places around the world, but it is often subtle and hard to demonstrate. The Israelis are direct. When we have to submit to the process that Israel imposes, we owe it to our viewers...