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...profound and irreparable that the very nature of the organization has changed. Except in parts of Lebanon, such as the Bekaa, where they still undertake occasional commando attacks against the Israelis, the P.L.O. fighters have been neutralized, and even in the Bekaa they operate under restrictions imposed by the Syrian army. Though Chairman Yasser Arafat rarely visits it, his only headquarters today is an isolated resort hotel in Borj Cedria, Tunisia, 15 miles from the capital of Tunis and almost 2,000 miles from the Palestinian homeland...
Arafat's most outspoken opponent is Syrian President Hafez Assad. Arafat is determined to preserve the P.L.O.'s independence, while Assad is seeking to dominate the organization. Assad's great fear is that the Palestinians will reach an agreement with Israel over the West Bank and Gaza, leaving the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and has since annexed, in Israeli hands. In an effort to strengthen the P.L.O.'s hard-line factions, Assad has encouraged criticism of Arafat's diplomatic maneuvers and placed frustrating restrictions on P.L.O. fighters within...
Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus chronicles the rise of the revolutionaries to save the Hebrews from Greek and Syrian interlopers in post-Biblical times, it's also a momentous enough piece to knock a chorus and audience out for the rest of the night, what with trumpets bells, and victory chants...
...appeared to be stalled. Last week, impatient that so little progress was being made on even the relatively simple matter of troop withdrawal, the Administration dispatched its chief Middle East negotiator, Philip Habib, back to the area. The U.S. had hoped that the 45,000 Israeli soldiers, 30,000 Syrian troops and 7,000 Palestinian fighters still in Lebanon would be gone by the end of the year. Now the Administration will be satisfied if the withdrawal has begun by then...
...aftermath of the disaster, many Israelis felt a renewed urge to get their country's forces out of Lebanon. One Cabinet member, Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, proposed that Israel undertake a unilateral withdrawal from certain parts of Lebanon in order to test Syrian and Lebanese intentions. Such a move would be welcomed by the Lebanese, who increasingly resent the continued Israeli occupation. Many of them blame the Israeli presence for the sporadic factional fighting between Christians and Muslims in the hilly Chouf and Aley regions a few miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese...