Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frozen grip on the Soviet Union, and Yuri Andropov, the cold-eyed ex-chief of the KGB, took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which Argentina tested the decline of European power by seizing...
...Beirut. They bombed Muslim-dominated West Beirut for most of the summer, contending that they were merely trying to flush P.L.O. guerrillas out of densely populated civilian areas. In what Begin called a "great, huge blow" to the P.L.O., the Israelis succeeded in driving more than 11,000 Palestinian fighters out of Lebanon, but at a terrible price: 462 Israeli soldiers had been killed, 2,218 had been wounded, and Israel remained caught in a military adventure that was tarnishing the nation's image around the world...
...agreement, both parties displayed unusual flexibility. The P.L.O. for the first time lined up with a single Arab state, one that had forcibly expelled it from its territory in 1971. Indeed, Arafat may have gone well beyond what some P.L.O. hard-liners will accept. He thus proposed that the Palestinian residents of the Israeli-occupied territories vote on the outcome of any negotiations...
...postpone consideration of Reagan's broader plan, which the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin opposes. Any delay in addressing Reagan's Sept. 1 plan would also enable Israel to proceed with the expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, thereby gradually making any form of Palestinian sovereignty more difficult to accept...
...toll taken on Israel by the Palestinian presence is not only one of an imbedded fear of violence. It runs much deeper than that, and is bound up with both the ethical problems of being an occupying power and the difficult reconciliation of an inherited victim complex with the present reality of being an unmatched military force in the Middle East. As is becoming increasingly clear, the invasion of Lebanon solved nothing, and it is now obvious to most people within and outside Israel that getting rid of some terrorists provides no resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...