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...latest conflict, therefore, threatens to throw Middle East settlement attempts even farther off course. More tragic still, is that this battle for control of the PLO is being waged in Lebanon, where death and violence are in no short supply. Long plagued by internal conflicts between Druse and Syrianbacked Christians, Lebanon has become a battleground for external disputes as well. It was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer and subsequent partial withdrawal this year that touched off the latest round of Christian-Drund warfare. Now the Syriann that once supported Arafat are backing his opponents in Tripoli, even...
Clearly the tangle of alien armies in Lebanon cannot hasten a solution in the Middle East, only more violence. The Lebanese must build on the dialogue (albeit stormy one) established at Geneva to quickly work toward both a settlement between warring Christians and Druse, and a removal of Israeli, Palestinian and Syrian forces from the country...
...date American policy has sent the U.S. running in circles in the Middle East. A chief U.S. policy objective has been to check Syrian efforts to fuel conflict between Christians and Druse, just as they are fanning the flames of the internal PLO dispute. However, relying on the strictly voluntary cooperation of Syrian President Assad, who is eager to claim Lebanon as "rightful" Syrian territory, would not appear to be the most effective course of action...
...case as unique and see local causes and particular circumstances. In El Salvador, look at land tenure and understand the role of the army as a way for middle-class men to get rich by killing the poor. Lebanon? The 1943 national pact now underrepresented Shiite Moslems and the Druse, hence they are unhappy. With this sort of perspective, foxes see hedgehogs as ideologues likely to waste lives and money in immoral adventures. Hedgehogs see foxes as blind to the ever-present danger and willing to give away the candy store, the debate is as old as the Cold...
...YEAR of crisis after crisis in Lebanon, from last fall's Sabra and Chatila massacres to the Druse ravages this month, has ironically dulled the Western panic nerve. Once, every new incident chilled observers with the thought that an international free-for-all was around the corner; now, as casualties mount in the "interim" Marine peacekeeping force, and as Marines fire back, violence has come to seem almost like stability...