Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article about press coverage of recent events is Lebanon contains one unfortunate error. Blinken rightly criticizes the press for using casually figures released by an organization headed by Yasser Arafat's brother. The name' of the organization, however, is not the Lebanese Red Cross, as Hlinken writes, but the Palestinian Red Crescent, which--as an arm of the PLO--is not affiliated with the International Red Cross Society. Jerome S. Forlinsky...
...several occasions, the panel, headed by Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, questioned Sharon on the wisdom of the original plan to send the Lebanese Forces into the camps of their enemies, the Palestinians, in order to clean out any remaining pockets of Palestinian guerrilla resistance. Had the Israeli officials involved not realized that such a massacre of civilians might take place? they asked. Replied Sharon: "I would say that no one thought the Lebanese Forces would behave like us. I didn't think so. Our I.D.F. has its own moral code. But it is a very far cry indeed from...
...telephone call from Chief of Staff Eitan at about 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 17, informing him of irregularities in the Lebanese Forces' operation. This was already some 24 hours after the massacre in the camps had begun. Sharon said Eitan told him that the Lebanese Forces had harmed Palestinian civilians "more than had been anticipated." Added Eitan: "They went too far." Accordingly, Sharon testified, Eitan and the northern front commander, Amir Drori, had prevented additional Christian forces from entering the fighting areas and had ordered the Lebanese Forces out of the camps by 5 a.m., Sept...
...already upset that the diplomatic outcome of the war in Lebanon had proved to be so inconclusive, the wait will be long. Meanwhile, the government's demand for a secure northern border remains entangled in a complex process of negotiation for a mutual withdrawal of Syrian, Israeli and Palestinian guerrilla forces from Lebanon...
Beirut, slowly, is coming back to life. It is a remarkable feat, considering what the city has endured. For most of the summer Beirut was a bloody battleground for Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas. By the time both sides finally withdrew, there was no euphoria, only relief that it was over. No one knows how badly Beirut was damaged, but one Lebanese businessman places the cost of rebuilding the city at more than $10 billion. Though it is possible to drive safely from East to West Beirut, passing only the occasional Lebanese army checkpoint, the years of division have left...