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Goldberg insisted there be an immediate cease-fire. He informally suggested that the cease-fire be coupled with a pullback of Israeli and Arab forces (Syria, Jordan and Iraq had also begun operations against Israel). I advised Fedorenko to try to influence the Arabs to accept. He agreed, but El- Kony was adamant. I thought the Arabs were making a terrible mistake. They seemed to be quickly losing...
...military course. By a 16-to-6 count, the Cabinet voted in favor of a unilateral, step-by-step withdrawal of an estimated 22,000 Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, with the first phase to get under way within five weeks. Other stages in the planned three-phase pullback will occur at Cabinet discretion, but the decision left little doubt of the ultimate intent. Said a senior official: "Israel will be out of Lebanon in nine months...
...unity government, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, thus putting a heavy strain on the coalition. Moreover, the decision to leave Lebanon is fraught with uncertainties and hazards. It marked a victory of sorts for Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has opposed a negotiated pullback agreement between Israel and Lebanon. But, above all, Jerusalem's move shifted a new and perhaps unbearable burden onto the frail government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: the maintenance of peace and order in southern Lebanon after the Israeli departure. If the weak Lebanese Army, which has been unable to guarantee...
...terrorism issue that caused the Cabinet split over withdrawal. Shamir and other Likud members argue that the possibility of P.L.O. attacks should remain a paramount concern in Jerusalem: a pullback without firm security guarantees from the Gemayel government will simply allow P.L.O. guerrillas to filter back into southern Lebanon. That, in Shamir's words, would amount to "abandoning the Galilee...
...could lead to a bitter struggle between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni Muslim and Christian minorities, not to mention the remaining Palestinian civilian population. In recent weeks, Shi'ite radicals have killed more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias following Israel's September 1983 withdrawal from the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed and more than 100,000 were left homeless...