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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been defeated on the battlefield against the Syrians and Christians, but the organization has simultaneously won a political victory over the other important Palestinian groups. The once powerful Syrian-backed Al Saiqua group has practically been eliminated. Because of this organization's collusion with the Syrian army, many of its leaders have been arrested. And most of the members abandoned the movement when they discovered the Syrians' real intentions. The PLO and its leader, Yasser Arafat, have emerged victorious in their power struggle against the Palestinian "rejection front" --a front that opposes any kind of settlement with Israel...

Author: By Dani Kaufmann, | Title: The Palestinian Issue and an Israeli Proposal: An Hallucination? | 11/16/1976 | See Source »

...main problem in Cairo was that too many of the Arab states distrust each other's intentions in Lebanon. Specifically, many of the leaders were unhappy about the 21,000-man Syrian force that President Hafez Assad had dispatched to Lebanon; initially sent to impose an armistice between the warring factions, the Syrians later sided with the rightist Christians in battles against the Moslem leftists and their Palestinian allies. In Riyadh, the Arab leaders agreed that some or all of the Syrian troops would be part of the new peace-keeping force, which is to be bankrolled largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Behind the Scenes, a War About Peace | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

That plan ran into difficulty in Cairo as soon as the meeting was brought to order. Iraq's Foreign Minister Saadun Hammadi, whose government had sent 2,000 troops into Lebanon on the Palestinian side, demanded the full withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country. He denounced the Riyadh pact authorizing them to become part of the post-armistice force. Hammadi's demands plunged the first major Arab summit in two years into a bitter dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Behind the Scenes, a War About Peace | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...Syrian Uniforms. In the end, however, the clout of the leading moderates won out-sort of. Egypt, which is the overwhelming political power in the region, Syria, which currently has the military strength, and Saudi Arabia, which has the money, hung together to insist on ratification of the Riyadh agreement. Syria's President Assad, who until the Riyadh meeting had been at odds with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, spoke glowingly of "this good land of Egypt" and praised "my brother Sadat." Lebanese Delegate Najib Dahdah attacked Hammadi for interfering in the internal affairs of his country-ignoring the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Behind the Scenes, a War About Peace | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Bitter Defeat. The agreement was not only a victory for Assad but a bitter defeat for Arafat, whose fighting units are now all but immobilized. Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Syrians Win and Palestinians Lose | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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