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...primary reason for the invasion, Begin insisted, was to deny southern Lebanon to the guerrillas, though he added that real freedom from terrorist attacks could come only through a peace settlement. The motive was not revenge, he said, because "there cannot be any retaliation or retribution for the blood of innocent citizens." The newly named Chief of Staff, General Raphael Eitan, echoed the same theme when he quoted a line from Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik: "Revenge for the killing of a small child has not yet been invented by Satan...
...thing, until the latest raid, Palestinian terrorist activity inside Israel had not been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
...puts it, "the main topic may be 'Get out of Lebanon.' " Carter will once more urge Begin to show more flexibility (over 242, for instance, and the question of Jewish settlements) and will undoubtedly express some serious reservations about the size and nature of the Israeli response to the terrorist attack. For his part, Begin will defend the venture in Lebanon as a vital security measure, and he will make a strong pitch to Carter to change his mind and refrain from selling F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-5Es to Egypt. On that sensitive issue, Begin has been...
...Operation Stone of Wisdom progressed, more details emerged about the Palestinian terrorist raid that triggered the Israeli drive into Lebanon. Interrogating the two captured guerrillas of the 13-member terrorist squad, Israeli intelligence agents learned that the Palestinian attack had not gone at all as planned. The original landing zone, daringly enough, was supposed to be the beach at Tel Aviv itself. The raiders-part of an elite, college-level group trained relentlessly in terrorist doctrine and tactics-had planned nothing less than the takeover of a large Tel Aviv hotel and the holding of its occupants as hostages, much...
...bloody massacre that ensued, unfortunately, may have been as much the result of Israeli incompetence as Palestinian menace. Every one of Israel's surveillance and emergency reaction systems failed during the landing and deadly ride of the terrorist raiding party from Kibbutz Ma'agan Mikha'el to the Tel Aviv Country Club, where the bus and its passengers were halted in a storm of gunfire and flame...