Word: lebanonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab capitals the results were greeted with varying degrees of indifference, dismay, anxiety, bitterness, resignation. "We don't differentiate between Peres and Netanyahu," said Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, noting that "a few weeks ago, it was Peres who was bombing civilians in Lebanon." But Netanyahu's ascendance was grim news to most Arabs. "We in the Middle East are in trouble," said Nawaf Salam, a law lecturer at the American University of Beirut. "Only Peres was willing to offer something the Arabs could accept. With him, Israel had a real possibility of reconciliation with the region. Now all this...
...Washington is worried that Netanyahu could pay a high price if he kisses off meaningful Syrian talks. That peace deal is the prerequisite for snuffing out the Hizballah campaign in Lebanon, where Damascus exerts significant influence over the Shi'ite guerrillas fighting against Israel's occupation. Those Arab enemies already demonstrated the day after his victory that they are not cowed by a Netanyahu government, when they exploded two remote-controlled roadside bombs that killed four Israeli soldiers--a telling reminder that securing Israelis against violence will be just as difficult for the hard-nosed Netanyahu as for his softer...
Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic...
...authors' characterization of Israel's presence in Southern Lebanon as an "occupation" is strongly misleading. Strictly speaking, Israel indeed occupies the region, yet the use of the term "occupation" implies long-term interest in settling the area, much as has been the criticism of Israel's ambivalent approach to the "occupied" West Bank. Yet unlike in that region, Israel has no designs on settling Southern Lebanon; it maintains a presence in the area strictly to ensure the security of its Northern citizens. Hence, the use of the phrase "legitimate act of resistance" is also unjustified. The Lebanese people...
Blaming Israel for defending itself against attacks from an elusive attacker (of which 12, not six members were killed) and not impugning Syria (whose 35,000 troops have occupied and controlled Lebanon since 1976) or Iran for promoting the attacker is putting the cart before the horse. Israel did not disrupt the peace process by its attacks; on the contrary, its refusal to allow terrorism to rule the region actually advances the movement to achieve a comprehensive agreement between the nations in the region. Once terrorism ceases, there will no longer be any need for "occupation" or self-defense. --Michael...