Word: lebanonization
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...ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...
Each attempt to find a solution to the exiles' predicament -- or at least to provide them temporary relief -- was going nowhere. France offered to dispatch doctors to check the health of the men, who were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no. Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even allowed...
Still, the group managed to scrape by, thanks to food and fuel supplies smuggled to them by sympathetic villagers in Lebanon. Meanwhile Israeli officials admitted that they had expelled 10 of the men by mistake, but added that nine would face charges should they return. Reiterating that they would not take the exiles back, the Israelis suggested that the men be resettled in a third country, perhaps in Europe or the Arab world. A number of deportees said they would stick it out in their camp until they were allowed home. But the snow was piling up. (See related story...
Though "we could have made [Asaad] pay to join [the coalition]," according to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Barbara Lerner, Baker and the State Department "gave him a cynical, senseless and deadly bribe, winking at his annexation of Lebanon, turning a blind eye to the terrorist networks he controls and letting him export Bekaa Valley opium with impunity...
ISRAELI AUTHORITIES NEVER IMAGINED WHAT MEDIA stars they would make of 415 alleged Palestinian militants when they deported the lot to Lebanon two weeks ago. But celebrities they have become. The Lebanese government refused to grant asylum to the deportees, so the group spent the week shuffling through freezing weather between a checkpoint manned by the Lebanese army and another, three miles away, guarded by the Israelis and their proxy militia, the South Lebanon Army. At least two exiles were injured when the S.L.A. fired warning shots and mortars at the group as it approached Israel's proclaimed "security zone...