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Even before the Beirut massacre, many Israeli soldiers felt that the I.D.F. was beginning to forget its middle name. For the past 15 years, the I.D.F. has been mainly an army of occupation, with thousands of troops tied down in the restive West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. Israeli soldiers last April were forced to perform the anguishing task of evicting Jewish settlers from the northern Sinai town of Yamit as part of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. When Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon last June, many soldiers expected that campaign to last only a few days. Four...
...entourage consider what to do next, there are promising hints of change among Palestinians in the West Bank. Even some of the more radical P.L.O. supporters have reacted favorably to President Reagan's initiative of five weeks ago proposing Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan...
...Palestinian autonomy, the central question in the Middle East, will have to be addressed. Begin rejected the Reagan peace plan in large part because it put the U.S. closer than ever before to those who have been insisting that Israel must restore Arab sovereignty to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As long as Begin refuses to budge on that point, a lasting Middle East peace will remain elusive...
...detail. Sadat used "Palestinian" to mean the Arab dwellers throughout what had been Palestine under the British Mandate, many of whom were now refugees or living under Israeli occupation. Begin exclaimed, "Palestinians! This is an unacceptable reference. Jews are also Palestinians. He must mean 'Palestinian Arabs.' " "Conquered territory! Gaza was also conquered by Egypt," Begin continued. I pointed out that Egypt was not claiming sovereignty over Gaza. "Sinai settlements! There is a national consensus in Israel that the settlements must stay!" This claim was to become the most serious problem of all. Sadat was insistent that all Israelis must leave...
...partly bombed building, later related how he had peered through a small shrapnel hole while militiamen barged into a small shop across the street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken around a corner and shot. Later, the killers identified another male nurse as a Palestinian. He too was shot...