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...further evidence of how fragile the situation in Lebanon remains, Israeli and Syrian forces engaged in sporadic artillery duels in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where both sides have been bolstering their forces. The Soviets have sent substantial reinforcements to Syria, whose army is now in better shape than it was a year ago. Prime Minister Begin denied a charge by Moscow that Israel was planning a "piratic raid" on Syria. Said he: "All these threats have a totally artificial basis...
...P.L.O. leader was expected in Amman on March 27 to meet with Hussein. But instead Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia and then to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Arafat's aim was to shore up Arab support before making any commitment to King Hussein. Arafat did not see Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is strongly opposed to Jordanian participation in peace talks, but he did deliver a fiery speech to a large throng of supporters in Damascus. The next day Arafat arrived in the Jordanian capital in a silver Mercedes after a three-hour drive from Damascus...
...signed a five-year agreement on economic, scientific and cultural cooperation. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, informed Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that he would pull his forces out of Lebanon whenever the Lebanese government requested it. (Previously, the P.L.O. had said it would withdraw only when Syrian forces did.) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Jordan's King Hussein and Arafat, who had ostracized Egypt when President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel...
Israel's inquiry has, thankfully, ended. Yet countless more remain: -- Where is the Syrian inquiry into last year's slaughter of 10,000 of her own people in the fifth largest city. Hama? -- Where is the Jordanian investigation of the September 1970 Black September Massacre of 10,000 Palestinians? --Where is the Somalian account of the October 21 massacre of 500 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia...
...Bisharat also neglects to mention that Israeli support for the Phalangists stemmed from continued Palestinian and Syrian atrocities committed against Lebanese Christians, such as the 1976 Damour massacre. While the world looked on with calculated indifference, it was Israeli support which guaranteed Christian survival during the Lebanese Civil...