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Persuading Israel to deal with the P.L.O. as currently constituted could be still more difficult. Begin regards the P.L.O. as a terrorist gang bent on Israel's extermination; it will take more than words to change that opinion. Indeed, his government launched the invasion of Lebanon largely to destroy the P.L.O. as a force in Middle East politics. Seeing the organization emerge from the wreckage of Beirut with new respectability would thus, in Jerusalem's view, amount to letting a brilliant military victory turn into a galling political defeat. There is a worldwide suspicion, too, that Begin...
...Salinger years ago enforced Connolly's game upon himself, vanishing into a weird silence that for those who love his work has always felt like a small, sharp loss. Thomas Pynchon dwells somewhere in an aloof privacy in deep cover making metaphysical devices in his basement, like a terrorist who has gone into the fireworks business...
...Sharon: "Beginning with the cease-fire last July, the P.L.O. began preparing for the climactic stage in its war, open warfare. Everyone who visits southern or central Lebanon and learns of the artillery network of hundreds of units established there, of the huge weapons stores, can understand that the terrorist P.L.O. [intended] to bring great casualties to Israel...
...think we should negotiate with the Israeli, barbarian, savage, terrorist military junta in Israel, with their
...Lebanon as a base from which to launch rocket attacks and terrorist missions on Israel is also conveniently over-looked. Critics of the Israeli invasion claim that the PLO has adhered to last year's cease fire. Yet several PLO commando raids have since been thwarted. More important, Israeli military strategists were shocked at the number and sophistication of weapons held by Palestinians captured in Lebanon...