Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian terrorism and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon did not wreck the Sadat peace initiative entirely, they may have diverted it toward the very thing the Palestinians most fear: a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Sadat is more isolated from his Arab brothers than ever, and probably angrier too; he was enraged almost beyond reason by the Palestinian murder of his friend Editor Youssef Sebai in Cyprus last month, and he fully recognized the effect of recent P.L.O. terrorism on his peace initiative...
There had never been any doubt that Israel would respond hard to the latest Palestinian terrorism. Premier Begin had vowed as much when he gravely told the Knesset early last week: "We shall do what has to be done. Gone forever are the days when Jewish blood could be shed with impunity. The shedders of innocent blood shall not go unpunished...
...meantime, commandos were attacking the southern Lebanese coastline. Missile boats strafed the port of Tyre, and air force planes bombed the Palestinian strongholds at Damur, Tyre and Ouzai. Frogmen landed at several points along the coast and attacked Palestinian command posts, killing several officials. In most cases, however, the Palestinian leadership had already left. In Beirut, top P.L.O. leaders had learned...
Farther south in Tyre, all that remained of a population that once numbered 45,000 was a few hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate...
...invading Israelis were greeted with enthusiasm in towns populated by Christian Lebanese, who hate the Palestinians and view them as occupying forces. At the same time, Israeli intelligence made contact with Christian Lebanese leaders in the north and asked them not to seize the occasion of the fighting in the south to launch new attacks against the Syrian army and Palestinian fighters in Beirut and the north; if they did, it might force Syria to respond to the Israeli invasion. The Syrians were disinclined to do so, since their forces are no match for the Israelis', but at week...