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...surrounding palm trees, Israeli commandos burst in through the rear window and two doors, killing all four hijackers. One passenger died, seven were injured and 31 escaped unhurt. Scarcely three hours later, the Israeli army retaliated by destroying the homes of the dead terrorists, who were Palestinians from the Gaza Strip...
...economy will be one of the most important issues. But we will have other issues: Lebanon, relations with our neighbors, the so-called territories of Samaria and Judea [the West Bank], and Gaza. In all the campaigns in the past we had to face the same issues, except Lebanon...
...Syrian, Israeli, Christian and Muslim areas. Indeed, if the May 17 agreement is formally broken, Israel may withdraw its forces seven miles from the Awali to the Zahrani River, establishing to the south a semipermanent "North Bank" Israeli administration of the type it runs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The one Lebanese outcome that seems almost impossible to imagine is the one the U.S. desires: the emergence of a strong, moderate central government free of all foreign occupation...
Reagan also attempted last week to refocus attention from the immediate problem of Lebanon to his longer-range goal, negotiating a general Arab-Israeli peace based on an "association" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza with Jordan. Reagan first welcomed Jordan's King Hussein to the White House and assured him that the pullout of the Marines from Beirut implied no weakening of U.S. support for Jordan against its unfriendly neighbor Syria. The President then invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who also was in Washington, to join him and Hussein at lunch...
Then came the period of lost opportunity: the failure to impose a diplomatic solution on a war-weary region. The U.S. offered a peace plan for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, but did not press it effectively. Even the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian forces from Lebanon proved unattainable. Secretary of State George Shultz made the mistake of accepting some vague assurances from the Syrians that they would leave Lebanon if the Israelis did too. After months of U.S. diplomatic shuttling around the Middle East, Shultz got his Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal agreement. But the pact was worthless...