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Perhaps the most important split now is between those who supported the invasion into Lebanon and those who did not Sagiv, who went into Lebanon, believes the operation was necessary. "The PLO was developing an army; they had bunkers of weapons there," he says. But Hadas Enoshi, who was an army social worker at the time of the invasion, disagrees "Some people say that if the aim of war is good, it doesn't matter what the cost is. But I say you have to take the cost into account. And life, because the Palestinians will just build up their...
Lebanon, 1978, 1982, 1983. Again, it is clearly the Israelis' fault. PLO terrorists should have every right in the world to lob mortars, and to stage periodic terrorist runs into the Jewish state. What right does Israel have to invade Lebanon to attempt to halt the waves of mansacal murders? The PLO should be alloweed to blow up any military targets in wants to--especially public buses, marketplaces, passenger planes, Olympic teams, nursery schools...
...nations who cause wars. The Israeli people do not hate the citizens of the Arab and Moslems countries. Nor do the Arabs and Moslems of the religion naturally hate the Israelis. It is the leaders of the countries who teach this overwhelming hatred. It is organizations like the PLO of Yasser Arafat and the "Islamic" Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini that foment this tremendous amount of negative energy. Negative energy and hatred can only lead to war and misery, not to freedom and peace...
Second, the triumph of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and certain PLO factions has emerged as a much more genuine threat than Israel has ever been to the security of the Arab nations. The minority-supported regimes of Jordan and Syria have a real fear of overthrow by their own people, and this has now largely replaced their manufactured fear of Israel. In many ways the illegitimacy of most Arab governments prompted them to try and destroy the young Israel in the first place. Creations of an external enemy can be an excellent method of diverting attention from your own shortcomings...
...stands supreme as a sort of Middle East superpower. Syria did not even try to engage fully with the Israeli military in Lebanon; Jordan and Egypt did nothing, involved in their own problems or unable to do anything anyway; Iraq is busy destroying and being destroyed by Iran; the PLO is shattered, homeless and virtually friendless in the Arab world. Israel's American backing is firm, and in general the country has every right to be satisfied with its present...