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There had been a cessation of hostilities between the P.L.O. and Israel under an agreement brokered by our special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, and Saudi Arabia. Begin interpreted the cessation of hostilities as universal and regarded any terrorist attack anywhere in the world, as well as the violation of any Israeli frontier, as a breach of the agreement meriting retaliation...
...June 8, Habib was asked by Begin to carry a message to President Hafez Assad of Syria: if P.L.O. artillery in the Syrian lines was pulled back to the 40-km mark, there would be no need for Syria
...Israel to fight. The next day, while Habib was in Damascus waiting to deliver this message, a second message arrived from Begin to Assad, warning that the Syrians should withdraw the additional surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries that the Israelis claimed were being brought in to reinforce Syrian positions. Habib had delivered the Israeli warnings to the Syrian government but was still waiting to see Assad when the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian SAM sites in the Beka'a Valley, destroying them all and shooting down 23 Syrian MiGs while losing no Israeli aircraft. This sudden attack...
...time we returned to Washington from Europe on Friday, June 11, Habib was shuttling between Damascus, Tel Aviv and Beirut, and urgently needed new instructions. I called Clark and told him that I would draft Habib's instructions and send them over the next day for the President's approval. Clark then told me he would immediately "Datafax" the paper to Camp David, where the President was resting. That evening Clark phoned and reported that the President had seen the draft instructions but had not approved them, judging that the issues were of such import that there should...
...Habib Bourguiba, 80, declared a state of emergency...