Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Palestinian raid, the U.S. counseled Israel that whatever response it decided to make should be measured and selective and should be aimed at military rather than civilian targets. The White House was advised of Israel's invasion of Lebanon only minutes before the operation was launched, though it had a pretty clear idea of what was going on. In any event, the White House felt that too much airpower was used, resulting in too many civilian casualties. The U.S. also concluded that the Israeli response was too massive for the situation...
...thing, until the latest raid, Palestinian terrorist activity inside Israel had not been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
...Egyptian President have seriously increased, even as the chances have diminished that he will be able to fulfill his role as catalyst for a comprehensive settlement embracing all the Arab nations that remain in a state of war with Israel. Some observers are convinced, however, that the P.L.O. raid and the Israeli reprisal are part of an inevitable chain of events that is pulling Sadat toward making a separate peace with Israel...
...Egyptians have retained the hope that the peace process can be salvaged, that Israel and Egypt may yet agree to a declaration of principles and invite some other Arabs?such as Jordan's King Hussein and some of the moderate Palestinians?to join the talks. But the raid along the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway indicates that in the last analysis the P.L.O. will throw its weight on the side of blocking negotiations rather than supporting them. If Sadat wants peace, and he wants it desperately, he may have to go it alone...
...Operation Stone of Wisdom progressed, more details emerged about the Palestinian terrorist raid that triggered the Israeli drive into Lebanon. Interrogating the two captured guerrillas of the 13-member terrorist squad, Israeli intelligence agents learned that the Palestinian attack had not gone at all as planned. The original landing zone, daringly enough, was supposed to be the beach at Tel Aviv itself. The raiders-part of an elite, college-level group trained relentlessly in terrorist doctrine and tactics-had planned nothing less than the takeover of a large Tel Aviv hotel and the holding of its occupants as hostages, much...