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...stance with the Palestinians pay off when the P.L.O. changed its charter, removing passages that denied Israel's right to exist. Now, the Prime Minister had a settlement to celebrate on a second front. He and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher were preparing to announce that Grapes of Wrath, the blitzkrieg with which Israel had pounded Lebanon for 16 days, would soon end. A cease-fire agreement had been achieved. "Warren, you did it," Peres said, tilting his glass to the exhausted Christopher. The Israeli leader appeared almost euphoric, and also profoundly relieved...
Peres had good reason for both emotions, especially the relief. Since he launched Grapes of Wrath, the Israeli public had not turned against him; but neither had it rallied to him as he established a new reputation as a tough leader. After bashing Lebanon with artillery, missile boats, F-16 jets and helicopter gunships, Israel had not achieved even one of its military objectives. Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting Israel in Lebanon since 1982, was still sending Katyusha rockets into the Galilee. And despite extensive damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and the death of some...
...would like to comment on your recent opinion piece by Ahmed T. elGaili, Ramy M. Tadros, and Rami A. Thabet ("Israel's Campaign of Terror," April 29, 1996). The piece offers a number of valid and important criticisms of Israel's Operation "Grapes of Wrath" in southern Lebanon. I have very mixed feelings about the operation. I deeply regret the serious loss of life and extensive damage that Israel has caused in Lebanon, and I am overjoyed that a cease-fire seems to have taken hold. This said, I would like to raise two balancing points which I feel...
...Operation Grapes of Wrath, Israeli generals suspended a standing order not to hit any targets within 500 yards of a U.N. facility. Lipkin-Shahak said his troops were also under orders to respond to Katyusha attacks. "We told the U.N. we planned to fire," he said. But when the shelling of Qana began, Time Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe heard a U.N commander radio a panicked Fijian soldier that headquarters had asked Israel to stop the bombardment. The firing continued. Only after several minutes of shelling did Israel officially warn the U.N. it was was targeting Qana...
Operation "Grapes of Wrath," which was continuing at the end of last week, is a series of coordinated Israeli raids against Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting the Israelis in south Lebanon since 1982. The crisis was touched off by two recent Hizballah rocket attacks on northern Israel--both of which were themselves provoked by Israeli episodes involving the death of several Lebanese civilians outside the nine-mile "security zone" that Israel occupies in Lebanon. On Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered three strikes against the Hizballah in Lebanon, including the raid on Beirut in which...