Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westerners, the Palestinian stance may seem hopelessly wrongheaded and self-destructive. After all, a return to terrorism by the P.L.O. tends to undermine Sadat, even though he has maintained steadfastly that he would make no deal with the Israelis without a provision for some sort of Palestinian homeland on the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians simply do not believe him, apparently, and their present view is born of a rising desperation. "They are running out of space," reports Correspondent Brelis. "Having been expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in the early 1970s, they find themselves no longer welcome...
...Palestinians perceive the situation, by charging into Lebanon the Israelis have lost whatever chance they had of gaining Arab recognition beyond what they have already received from Cairo. If Israeli retaliation against Palestinian terrorism grows more ruthless, the Palestinians argue, Jerusalem will gradually lose its remaining Western support...
After the Palestinian raid, the U.S. counseled Israel that whatever response it decided to make should be measured and selective and should be aimed at military rather than civilian targets. The White House was advised of Israel's invasion of Lebanon only minutes before the operation was launched, though it had a pretty clear idea of what was going on. In any event, the White House felt that too much airpower was used, resulting in too many civilian casualties. The U.S. also concluded that the Israeli response was too massive for the situation...
...thing, until the latest raid, Palestinian terrorist activity inside Israel had not been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
...Operation Stone of Wisdom progressed, more details emerged about the Palestinian terrorist raid that triggered the Israeli drive into Lebanon. Interrogating the two captured guerrillas of the 13-member terrorist squad, Israeli intelligence agents learned that the Palestinian attack had not gone at all as planned. The original landing zone, daringly enough, was supposed to be the beach at Tel Aviv itself. The raiders-part of an elite, college-level group trained relentlessly in terrorist doctrine and tactics-had planned nothing less than the takeover of a large Tel Aviv hotel and the holding of its occupants as hostages, much...