Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat has said that unless you follow his lead, there will be bloodshed in south Lebanon and Syria. Do you agree...
...steady tirade of abuse directed against him by radical Arabs. Still, he was in the dilemma of a host who had called a party to which most of the essential guests would not come. Israel immediately accepted the invitation to the Cairo conference.* Syria, the P.L.O. and Lebanon, almost as immediately, said no, and the Soviets soon after responded in kind. Playing it close to the vest, Jordan's King Hussein said that he would go to Cairo if all other invited parties went; he added that he would go to Tripoli if every Arab state, including Egypt, showed...
...machine is rundown and short of parts. Nonetheless, another Arab war against Israel would be possible only if Egypt joined in. Jordan has little air support for its small (85,000-man) but well-trained army. Roughly half of Syria's forces are either keeping the peace in Lebanon or guarding the tense frontier with Iraq. Libya and Iraq have plenty of Russian equipment to offer the confrontation states, but neither country borders on Israel. As for the Palestinians, their only option is sporadic terrorism directed against 1) moderate Arab states or 2) Israeli border communities. The latter choice...
...will show up later on. Washington, after top White House and State Department policymakers spent their Thanksgiving holiday digesting extensive reports by Ambassadors Hermann Eilts in Cairo and Samuel Lewis in Jerusalem, began to tinker with a new formula for a pre-Geneva "preparatory conference"-comprising Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviets, if Moscow wished-that would keep a comprehensive multilateral Geneva conference going until Syria and the Palestinians decided to join. Meanwhile, the Eilts-Lewis cables were relayed to U.S. Ambassador Richard Murphy in Damascus; Murphy was instructed to use them to convince Assad that Sadat...
...diaspora would have the right, in principle, to join their 1.1 million brother Arabs who live in the West Bank and Gaza. Many experts predict that no more than 500,000 of these Palestinians-in-exile would do so. One reason is that thousands have established solid roots in Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and elsewhere. Another is that for many Palestinians, the "homeland" is not the West Bank but Jaffa, Galilee and other areas of what is now Israel...