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The Israeli retaliatory campaign against Shi'ite guerrillas in southern Lebanon, known as the "iron fist" policy, came painfully close to America's TV screens last week. As Israeli forces stepped up their attacks on Shi'ite villages, two members of a CBS News camera crew were killed and a...
That statement reflected the view of French Journalist Marine Jacquemin, who had been standing near the CBS crew. She said that the Israeli tank crew "saw me, and I have long blond hair; I couldn't have been Lebanese." She continued: "They saw we were journalists. We were filming and...
The first step toward bringing the U.S. into the arena was taken in February by Jordan's King Hussein, who wooed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat into an ambiguous agreement to pursue peace with Israel. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is working to thaw the "cold peace" with Israel by...
A crucial question is Israel's attitude. So far the Arab initiatives have not "gone far enough to galvanize a positive Israeli response," says one U.S. official. As the leader of a fragile coalition government, Peres may have trouble bargaining with the Arabs. The conservative Likud adamantly opposes territorial exchange...
The pattern of attack and counterattack was as relentless as it was bloody. Many in Israel consider the adventure in Lebanon a disastrous and costly mistake, and the national unity government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres is determined to get the I.D.F. out of Lebanon by summer. The I.D.F.'s...