Word: habib
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There were few grounds for optimism last week. Lebanese, Israeli and U.S. negotiators held their 26th meeting to discuss the conditions under which Israel would withdraw its 35,000 troops from Lebanon. They made no substantial progress, and on Thursday U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib flew back to Washington for consultations. Administration officials charged privately that Israel was stalling in order to thwart any prospect for broader peace talks. Apparently frustrated by Israeli intransigence, and perhaps to give King Hussein some timely encouragement, President Reagan said last week that the U.S. would continue to hold up delivery...
...ignorance of international law, let me inform him that legally justifiable use of force according to the terms of Article 51 must be preceded by an "armed attack." No such "armed attack" from the Palestinian side had occurred since the July, 1981 ceasefire agreement which U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib had succeeded in negotiating between the PLO and the Israeli government. On the other hand, the U.N. Forces in Lebanon and Western journalists had reported several Israeli attacks and numerous other attempted provocations by the Israel forces (such as massing troops and equipment along the borders...
Israel's preoccupation with its domestic maelstrom has momentarily turned attention away from another topic that has been consuming the country's passions and energy: the ever growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib discovered for himself last week just how absorbed Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in his own troubles. When the peripatetic troubleshooter showed up in Israel to discuss a new U.S. plan for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, Begin found only 45 minutes for him. Said an Israeli official: "Nothing of substance came up at the meeting...
...Reagan and Habib push hard, the Administration will probably be able to forge an agreement on Lebanon over the next few months. Israeli reasons for remaining there diminish daily. The occupation is not politically popular at home, the casualty list is growing, however slightly, and the cost-both economic and moral-is high. But when Reagan presses for his peace plan, tempers are sure to flare again...
...torn country and in the Arab states whose support Lebanon badly needs, notably Syria and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the U.S. has opposed Israel's request for at least three early-warning stations in southern Lebanon, to be manned by some 750 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib is said to have told the Israelis that the proposed stations would make a "mockery" of the Lebanese demand for a complete withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces...