Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the aim of perpetrating atrocities in the camps." Where is Mr. Bisharat's condemnation of the Lebanese government's paralysis in conducting its own investigation in light of such damning evidence? Further, there was a reason to enter Sabra and Shatila. Contrary to Arafat's written guarantee, the PLO left about 2000 terrorists and large stocks of weapons in these West Beirut camps, facts confirmed by Oriana Fallacci in her September Kennedy School address...
...Bisharat also seems confused over interpretations of international law. If he is concerned about "the admissibility of intervention in another state," why not discuss the rape, torture, intimidation, theft, vigilante justice, and enforced conscription of children which the PLO had practiced during its seven year occupation of Lebanon, all of which rendered the Lebanese government impotent? Is that not a most blatant violation of sovereignty? He cannot bring himself to mention it, but this sordid history has been documented through interviews by David Shipler of the Times, among many others...
...addition, surely Mr. Bisharat knows that the PLO placed its weaponry in, on, or near civilian institutions like hospitals, schools, and churches. Why? To quote a senior PLO representative, "the more civilians killed [in Lebanon] the better, because of the tactical advantage it gives to the Palestinian cause" (Times, Aug. 6). A Voice of Lebanon broadcast from July 9 said, "Palestinian gunmen are trying by every means to keep the various roads cut off in order to keep civilians in [West] Beirut," even though the Israelis exhorted them to leave through the dropping of leaflets. Certainly, civilian casualties would have...
...months after the initial attack, the majority of Israelis still approve of the war. For all the questions raised, most recognize the strategic gains won by expelling the PLO from Lebanon. The PLO is, according to its charter, at war with Israel and has vowed to destroy the Zionist nation. Israel went into Lebanon not to conquer a neighbor but to rid itself--and its neighbor--of a dangerous enemy...
...settlement puts greater strain on Jewish-Arab relations. As tempers flare, the government feels forced to take security measures. Arab mayors who sympathize with the Palestinian cause are fired, schools are closed when students voice their discontent and the homes of Arabs believed to be friendly toward the PLO are torn to the ground. Many Jews recognize these injustices. So Israeli society is becoming divided between those whose anti-Arab paranoia demands rule with an iron fist and those who fear morality is being compromised...