Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dark side of his reputation perhaps unfairly clouds the elder statesman's very real history of achievement. During service in virtually every major Cabinet post, Peres built Israel's military industry from scratch, initiated development of its nuclear bomb program, extracted the country from its disastrous war in Lebanon and crushed hyperinflation...
...whole thing. I believe that with the establishment of a Palestinian state, tactical cooperation between the P.L.O. and Hamas--their fight-and-talk strategy, similar to what the Vietnamese did with the U.S.--will break down, and you'll have a civil war between the Palestinians and Hamas, a Lebanonization of Palestine. The Syrians would use this kind of unrest and violence as an excuse to move in, as they did in Lebanon, to "restore order." Israel would have to react, and this could set the stage for a serious outbreak of armed hostility that other Arab states would...
Netanyahu agrees that he wants to pursue the peace process, but he has different conceptions from those who had prevailed. Hitherto the U.S., Israel and the Arab parties were in agreement that it is necessary to "complete the circle of peace" by bringing in Syria and Lebanon and completing the Oslo accords. Netanyahu's analysis is that the Golan is not so important for Assad; much more important for Assad is establishing good working relations with the U.S. and legitimizing his position in Lebanon. Netanyahu believes the U.S. should tell Assad, "You make peace with Israel, we normalize relations with...
...months ago and seen what the devastation of the Israeli-American peace process has wrought on the Palestinians, I came to the painful conclusion that better a crude and brutal Netanyahu than a posturing--but also crude and brutal, judging by his actions in the territories and in Lebanon--Peres...
...pronouncements and Monday-morning quarterbacking as to their roles in Southeast Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased to exist. Yugoslavia too had gone a long way toward evolving into the Switzerland...