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...with the pent-up frustrations of both groups cannot be ignored. After years of training and supplying each group with weapons, nothing but stupidity could have prevented the Israeli army leaders from properly predicting the likelihood of bloody revenge if the opportunity was given them, especially after the recent Gemayel assassination. Surely Begin knows that allies do not always act as their benefactors would like, a lesson he has been foisting on the U.S. for years...
...Israel is to avoid trauma at home, it must also avert a debilitating guerrilla war abroad. Three months after the "Peace for Galilee" venture began, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is still in Lebanon. After the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel two weeks ago, the IDF marched into West Beirut to "maintain order." There was logic to this move. The Lebanese army was in no shape to prevent anarchy, and the multinational peacekeeping force had already left Lebanon. But by taking control of West Beirut, the IDF implicitly shouldered responsibility for the area and hence, to some degree...
...Gemayel alienated the whole Arab world by openly going to Israel for help during the civil war, and his frank intention was to have close, friendly relations between Lebanon and Israel. But he intended to do it only on the basis of national consensus. He meant to go slowly rather than leave behind those he needed in order to govern...
Probably no one elected President of Lebanon had ever prepared himself better than Gemayel. He envisioned a Lebanon with a streamlined administration, a meritocracy rather than a bureaucracy of patronage, and he intended to have an army strong enough that Syrians or Israelis or U.S. Marines would not have to come into his country regularly. He would guarantee that Lebanon no longer would be a launching pad for terrorist acts against Israel or other neighbors of Lebanon. But he had no time to achieve even a portion of his ambitions, and his death brought a new wave of terror...
DIED. Bashir Gemayel, 34, President-elect of Lebanon; of injuries sustained in a bomb blast; in East Beirut (see WORLD...