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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...
...government or party work to Begin. It is about the survival of a people. He recently listed the five most important things he had accomplished as Prime Minister. They were: 1) the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, 2) the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, 3) the annexation of the Golan Heights, 4) Project Renewal, a nationwide slum rehabilitation program, and 5) the establishment of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza...
...Camp David came at a certain period of time. We don't fault it for what it accomplished. But we fault it for what it did not accomplish. It did not accomplish a solution regarding the Palestinian problem, regarding the occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza, the Golan, regarding the territories occupied in June 1967 and the rights of [the Palestinian] people to self-determination. We wish the two principles that were applied in the Falklands crisis had been applied here: the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the right of self-determination. This should...
...with previous surprises by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin-the destruction of Iraq's nuclear reactor in June 1981, the bombardment of Beirut one month later, the annexation of the Golan Heights last December-the Reagan Administration was presented with a distasteful decision and left to piece together a hasty solution to the regional turmoil. This time, the invading Israelis had simply swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier...
...around a proud union in a drive for more bread and more freedom. Under Soviet direction, the Communist establishment responded with quick and bloody punishment. The Israelis bravely surrendered the Sinai as the last provision of their peace with Egypt but simultaneously stepped up a dangerous expansion into the Golan Heights. Arab nations continued their policy of constant confrontation, and neither side moved toward the adoption of joint responsibility for the Palestinians. The United States, meanwhile, set forth no clear foreign policy other than that of threatening renewed American military might, with which we will presumably recapture the world...