Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lebanon, Ohio...
...security forces of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority opened fire on Hamas supporters and the Islamic Jihad rioting outside the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City and provoked street battles that killed 13 people and left 200 wounded. A few days later, in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Arafat loyalists were fighting other opponents of the peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert...
Palestinians Clash in Lebanon...
Raising fears of a Palestinian civil war, fighters from the P.L.O. battled Muslim fundamentalists in Lebanon's largest refugee camp. At least 10 people were killed and 25 more were wounded in the daylong clash. Loyalists of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat captured much of the camp Friday morning. But after a midday cease-fire for Sabbath prayers, the fundamentalists emerged from mosques fingering the triggers of AK-47s and shouldering rocket-propelled grenade launchers; they soon recaptured all their lost territory...
...underlying cause of the current approach to justice is a result of giving emotions primacy over reason. Emotions became the standard of justice. More emotions were triggered when the media showed the pictures of the 400 deportees homeless in the mountains of Lebanon than by sporadic terrorist attacks and promises of further attacks...