Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's 2.2 million inhabitants are Palestinian) to overthrow King Hussein and create a Palestinian state less threatening to Israel. The Sharon plan also envisioned uniting the forces of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Israel's Lebanese surrogate who is encamped with his forces in a 600-sq.-mi. buffer zone along the Israeli border in southern Lebanon, with the Christian Phalangists in the north. The combined Christian forces, in Sharon's scheme, would take over the central government and restore what Sharon calls "a free Lebanon." This government would presumably get the Syrians to withdraw...
...notable breakdown: from 1956 until 1967, a force helped maintain an uneasy calm between Israel and Egypt, only to be ordered out of Egyptian territory by President Gamal Abdel Nasser shortly before the Six-Day War. One notable success: since 1964, U.N. troops have served as a buffer between the antagonistic Greek and Turkish populations on Cyprus...
...Yehuda Blum told the Security Council last week that his country's forces would not withdraw from Lebanon until "concrete arrangements" were made to "permanently and reliably preclude all hostile action against Israel's citizens." In practice, that would mean the establishment of an effective buffer zone in southern Lebanon to prevent the return of P.L.O. forces capable of shelling settlements in northern Israel. But Israel's stated intentions concealed some far more ambitious goals. Ideally, Jerusalem would like to restore sovereignty to an independent-and friendly-Lebanese central government. That, in turn, would require a total...
...considerably less sanguine in its assessment of the situation. It realizes that an independent Iran, even an Islamic republic run by Khomeini, is the most reliable buffer between the Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf. Washington therefore will do nothing to push Iran into the Soviet orbit. On the other hand, the U.S. strongly favors the survival of Saddam Hussein, who in his quest for Western support has steadily moderated his anti-Israeli and anti-American radicalism. The U.S. probably welcomed Saddam Hussein's thrust into Iran in September 1980, believing it would increase the pressure on Khomeini...
...Cairo, anxious to see that no last-minute hitches would prevent the Sinai withdrawal from taking place on schedule. The event was a momentous one, poignant for the Egyptians, frightening for the Israelis. The Sinai, captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War, had given the Israelis a buffer against a traditional enemy and had provided a new frontier for adventurous young settlers. Under the terms of Camp David, the Israelis had agreed to surrender the Sinai in three stages in return for a peace treaty with Egypt. It was a good bargain for both sides. But in the weeks...