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Faculty members yesterday criticized Israel's Tuesday bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunisia as unjustifiable, although the United States government has condoned...
...bombing at Borj Cedria, twenty-one miles south of the capital city of Tunis, virtually wiped out PLO headquarters. Different reports list between 30 and 60 civilian and PLO deaths...
Haggard also questioned the justification that the bombing was in self-defense, saying it is still not known whether the PLO was responsible for slaying the three Israelis...
...claim of self-defense may just have been a ploy used by Israel to mask other intentions, suggested Haggard. Even if Israel didn't know for sure that the PLO committed the slayings, it may have wished to send, not only to the PLO but to the whole Arab world, a threatening message "we will strike back in any situation...
...summer 1982 resulted in some 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinian deaths and countless more injuries, and could hardly be justified as an act of self-defense, as Mr. Kahn seems to want to do when he says that Israel "is certainly not an instigator." Despite the fact that the PLO had fully honored an American-sponsored cease-fire that had been negotiated in July 1981, and not a single incident had occurred across the Lebanese-Israeli border since the agreement was reached, Israel initiated its aggressive and devastating invasion of Lebanon...