Word: lebanonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artillery was, to be sure, directed by modern U.S.-made counterbattery radar, which artfully tracked the trajectory of Hizballah's Katyusha rockets raining onto the soil of northern Israel and spotted the exact place in Lebanon from which they had been fired. But in this case, by the time the Israelis had aimed their guns and let fly from less than six miles away, the Shi'ite guerrillas and the Katyusha launcher had gone. Instead the shells slammed down across the area and exploded inside the compound of a battalion of Fijian peacekeepers, where more than 600 refugees had been...
Blue Helmets in Lebanon reserved their strongest criticism for the shelling of Qana. Polish General Stanislaw Wozniak, commander of the U.N. force, rejected Peres' claim that army units "weren't aware that there were civilians" at the Fijian camp. "They knew we were sheltering civilians in this U.N. post," Wozniak said. "Simply, you don't attack civilians. You don't attack U.N. positions." U.N. officials insist Israel realized that some 5,000 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks at several peacekeeping posts. "I don't want to believe it was deliberate," Captain Lindvall said of the slaughter...
...agreed to a proposal for direct negotiations with Israel last year, but Peres suspended them in February after a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings made peace talks a political liability. Israelis and Syrians alike assumed the talks would begin again after the May 29 election, but the mess in Lebanon has raised doubts on all sides. Is Assad really interested in a peace agreement? If so, shouldn't he being keeping Lebanon quiet to avoid causing problems for Peres, who is more interested in peace treaties than opposition candidate Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud? Does this outbreak mean...
...necessarily. Western and Arab observers agree that it is not certain how well Assad controls Hizballah, even though it operates on his turf in Lebanon. The Shi'ite guerrilla force was founded in the early 1980s by radical Iranians. Assad, a secular politician who crushed his homegrown fundamentalists, did not publicly embrace Hizballah; he entrusted relations to his intelligence chiefs. The group has grown less extreme in recent years, sending delegates to the Lebanese parliament, but Hizballah is still closely tied to Tehran and remains as determined as ever to fight Israel. Yet it also seems to pay attention...
...Middle East peace process goes on--and not even the bloodshed in Lebanon stopped Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from agreeing last week to start negotiating next month on a final settlement--Iran or Syria may have been growing uneasy. Some Syrians suspect Iran had concluded that Assad was about to sign a treaty with Israel and cranked up Hizballah to delay the process. Other analysts think Assad is worried about what disruption peace with Israel might bring to Syria's tightly controlled society and has decided to stall...