Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government in the world would tolerate such a massive arms buildup as the PLO engaged in Southern Lebanon. That these weapons might never have been used against Israel is irrelevant. The mere threat they posed, along with repeated PLO rocket attacks and terrorist incursions, caused a massive depopulation of northern Israeli border towns. Farouk Kaddowni of the PLO called this psychological warfare, one way (albeit in stages) to "liberate Palestine...
...Israeli government, as any responsible government would, had a duty, indeed a right, to protect its citizens, under Article 51 of the UN Charter. The 1978 Litani operation failed to prevent subsequent PLO terrorism, so the government was entitled to use whatever means necessary to eradicate the northern threat once and for all. The massive PLO infrastructure necessarily required that the Israelis proceed further than their originally stated 25 mile limit...
...Bisharat's accusations that Israel destroyed Palestinian homes, attempted to relocate the population, and conducted arbitrary arrests of Palestinian men are better directed at the Lebanese government which, subsequent to the PLO's evacuation, rounded up thousands of Palestinian civilians, bulldozed homes and refugee camps, and fought against Israeli attempts to construct pre-fabricated homes for the refugees. Would that Mr. Arafat or other Arab leaders have shown such concern for the refugees as the Israelis...
...latter words meant to suggest that the only satisfactory remedy for him is, as Arafat wants, a Nuremburg-type tribunal to judge the complicity of Israel in "war crimes?" If so, and if an unbiased tribunal were to be convened, then surely he would agree that Arafat and his PLO colleagues would be, as Alan Dershowitz has said, the first defendants because of their systematic killings of civilians over more than a decade, and their continued mockery of all standards of international law and decency. However, Mr. Bisharat, in his great concern for these lofty principles, cannot seem to find...
...Morality, March 5) writes from a stance of moral irreproschability while suggesting that justice in Israel has been "mocked rather than vindicated. "I would suggest that suggest that justice is "mocked" when in the same week that Israel declares her guilt before the nations of the world, the PLO, meeting in Algiers, pledges itself to the continued pursuit of terrorism against Israel I would suggest that justice is "mocked" when Israel is accused of "looting and vandalism" against the citizens of Lebanon without even a cursory glance at the record...