Word: zaatar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before. In 1970, when Assad was Defense Minister, he prevented the Syrian air force from coming to the aid of Arafat's commandos in Jordan. During the 1975-76 civil war in Lebanon, Assad ordered his army to help Christian militiamen obliterate the Palestinian refugee camp of Tel Zaatar in Beirut, killing 3,000 Palestinians. When Assad failed to have Arafat deposed at a P.L.O. central committee meeting in August (Arafat actually received a nearly unanimous vote of confidence), Assad decided to resort to force...
...Palestinians." He pauses and runs his hand through his glossy black hair. Like many Lebanese Christians, the President does not consider that Lebanon ever had a civil war. He mentions two great disasters of the 1975-76 war, the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp at Tel Zaatar and an equally horrifying massacre at Karantina. Then he continues: "Now it is much more difficult. We have foreign armies here: the Israelis, the Syrians and the P.L.O., always the P.L.O. It has been a year of 'to be or not to be.' We have to face two very strong...
...sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim forces during the civil war. "Every place I've lived is gone," he says. "Next time we want to go to Palestine...
...evade responsibility for the massacre. During the Knesset debate two weeks ago on whether to conduct an official inquiry, the Defense Minister hinted that when the opposition Labor Party was in power in 1976 Israeli officers took part in a massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp near Beirut. Sharon clearly was sniping at Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who was then Defense Minister, and not at the army, but I.D.F. officers familiar with the matter issued angry denials...
...always carries a pistol, a knife and a hand grenade on his belt, Hobeika was the most feared Phalangist in Lebanon. He had taken part in the Tel Zaatar massacre and in attacks on the rivals of Bashir Gemayel. The Israelis knew Hobeika and his followers as ruthless, brutal security men, and knew they did not constitute a disciplined military force...