Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literally a Soviet creation. If Moscow threatens to stop arms shipments to Damascus, President Assad would be forced to negotiate. And in fact, some Mid-east observer consider the Hayley's reduce of Syrien efforts against Arafat crucial in bringing about the partial--though short lived-cease fire between PLO factions in short, what the U.S. can only hope to accomplish with guns and blooded--get the Syrians out of Lebonon--the Soviet can do through coercion...
This is the strength of the book. It presents a simple truth which Israel has tried to hide from the rest of the world: that disagreement exists over the war in Lebanon, over the annexation of territory, over the fate of the PLO, and, more basically, over the justification of the existence of a pre-Messianic Jewish state. Oz ruthlessly removes any illusions about Israeli unity...
...Israeli public at the time of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon two summers ago soon turned into outright opposition among some factions. Even the excuses which then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his ultra-religious coalition offered for the invasion at the time--the need to clear out the PLO-infested areas on the Israeli-Lebanon border to ensure safety for Northern Israeli communities--seemed weak to a country accustomed to almost daily serious threats to its existence...
...want another losing war for U.S. imperialism, the SYL says Vietnam was a victory! For Marines, "our boys" were the Vietnamese who defeated U.S. imperialism on the battlefield and overthrew capitalist rule. This is act the case in Lebanon whose no side is fighting imperialism. On the contrary, she PLO. Jumblait and Germayel are all jockeying for sponsorship from one imperialist power or another...
Along the campaign trail, King has made some major and minor political gaffes, all of which have drawn attention away from Flynn's positions. King told a group of Jewish leaders, for instance, that he would welcome embattled PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Boston "with open arms" if he recognized Israel's right to exist. After the comment drew harsh criticism from the Jewish community, King swallowed his whole leg by trying to extricate himself from the situation...