Word: lebanonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1980s, Hizballah had a dark reputation; it was notorious for seizing Western hostages, setting off car bombs and nurturing groups like Islamic Jihad, which blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. But it sought Arab approval by deploying its thousands of fighters to harass Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon...
...million Serbs, Croats and Muslims are to be shoved around as the multiethnic country is rearranged along ethnic lines. More than 1.5 million Bosnian Muslims are to be jammed into wretched "safe areas" that will resemble, at best, the Gaza Strip or, at worst, the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon. The Muslim enclaves drawn on Milosevic's map will depend for survival on the power of the West and the mercy of the Serbs and Croats -- qualities in desperately short supply. Analysts are fearful of further attempts to drive the Muslims out by strangling their havens. "It would be another...
...else places like Somalia have to be handled in the old way. Not post-cold war, but again pre-cold war: given over in trusteeship to some great power willing and able to seize and rule it, as France once ruled Lebanon. Third World nations don't like that idea because it smacks of colonialism. And so it does. It is colonialism. But no one has come up with a better idea for saving countries like Somalia from themselves. Trusteeship means unified authority imposed by a real army taking orders from a single capital. That is certainly better than...
Israel today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...
...NEGOTIATING IS JUST GETTING to the table. Egypt and Israel engaged in some behind-the-scenes discussions last week in an effort to keep this week's Middle East peace talks on track. According to a Western diplomatic source, the Egyptians learned of Israeli Defense Force plans to enter Lebanon for a week-long siege on Hizballah bases. Egyptian officials believed that if the Israelis went through with such a plan, it would strengthen Arab opposition to the peace talks and derail negotiations. Late Wednesday night Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's troubleshooter and confidant, arrived in Israel...