Word: lebanons
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...will the accord affect your negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan...
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin stopped off in Morocco for an unprecedented meeting with King Hassan II; diplomatic relations may follow. Jordan and Israel signed an agreement laying out the framework for their own peace discussions. But Rabin lambasted Syria for allowing anti-Israel guerrillas to continue to operate in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip three Israeli soldiers were ambushed and killed and a Palestinian blew himself up in a botched attack on an Israeli police station...
Arafat's last practical experience as the ruler of anything was in the refugee camps of Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion. Some of his opponents argue that Arafat's prolonged exile in Tunis has left him detached from the day to day problems faced by Palestinians still living in the West Bank and Gaza. The Intifadah, a significant force behind Israel's decision to negotiate with the P.L.O., began locally and spontaneously--not as a strategy handed down from the leaders of the P.L.O. And as the P.L.O.'s financial resources dwindled in the aftermath of its support...
...Lebanon is the third of the Arab neighbors with which Israel has been at odds. Israeli military forces still occupy a self-proclaimed security zone in southern Lebanon that they seized during the 1978 invasion. Guerrillas there killed seven Israeli soldiers in early summer, touching off escalating exchanges of artillery and rocket fire and eventually Israeli air strikes; when the smoke cleared, about 300,000 Lebanese refugees had been driven northward to escape the conflict. Lebanon, however, has become a satellite of Syria in everything but name; if Israel can negotiate an agreement with Damascus, Beirut should follow quickly...
...arrested hundreds of Hamas activists and deported four of their leaders. Hamas proceeded to increase its attacks, using guns and knives and an occasional roadside explosive charge. Israel retaliated against the escalating violence last December by deporting 415 leaders and supporters of Islamic movements, particularly Hamas, to wintry southern Lebanon. But their banishment brought them attention from all over the world and made them heroes at home...