Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risked the whole thing being explosive, but we felt it would be superficial to talk about anything other than the situation in Lebanon," said Tadros...
...P.L.O. changed its charter, removing passages that denied Israel's right to exist. Now, the Prime Minister had a settlement to celebrate on a second front. He and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher were preparing to announce that Grapes of Wrath, the blitzkrieg with which Israel had pounded Lebanon for 16 days, would soon end. A cease-fire agreement had been achieved. "Warren, you did it," Peres said, tilting his glass to the exhausted Christopher. The Israeli leader appeared almost euphoric, and also profoundly relieved...
Peres had good reason for both emotions, especially the relief. Since he launched Grapes of Wrath, the Israeli public had not turned against him; but neither had it rallied to him as he established a new reputation as a tough leader. After bashing Lebanon with artillery, missile boats, F-16 jets and helicopter gunships, Israel had not achieved even one of its military objectives. Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting Israel in Lebanon since 1982, was still sending Katyusha rockets into the Galilee. And despite extensive damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and the death of some...
Peres needed to find an exit from Lebanon before stalemate became disaster, and he was looking to the Americans to provide it. The U.S. recognized that Grapes of Wrath seemed out of proportion to the attacks that provoked it; though Hizballah had fired missiles at civilians in the preceding weeks, they killed no one. Yet even when Israeli artillery destroyed a U.N. outpost near Qana that sheltered Lebanese refugees, killing 109 people, Clinton and his aides refused to condemn Israel. To Clinton, Peres is the keystone for Israel's effort to reconcile with its Arab neighbors. And as such...
...Jerusalem. His objective was to put a stop to the killing immediately, and then lash together a new, written version of the 1993 ground rules governing the low-level war the Israeli army and Hizballah are waging in and around the "security zone" that Israel occupies in south Lebanon...