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Almost unanimously, Israelis seemed to agree. Despite some urgings for restraint from the U.S. and from Sadat, the Israelis were in no mood to turn the other cheek. Leaders of all Israeli political parties agreed to a Knesset statement declaring that terrorist organizations must be attacked and "exterminated." The occasion called forth a volley of extremist oratory; a small nationalist sect headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane, for instance, openly demanded the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel, including the 574,000 who are Israeli citizens...
...might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation. While 34 Israelis died in the terrorist raid, many more would surely be killed during the Israeli foray into Lebanon. Indeed, by any accounting of their 30 years of eye-for-an-eye retaliation, the Israelis are far ahead of the Palestinians. Though terrorists have taken 143 Israeli lives since the 1973 war, Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed some 2,000 Arabs...
Once the fighting is over, the Israelis would probably withdraw some combat troops but leave a large enough force to secure the buffer zone in an effort to reduce the number of terrorist raids from the north. Later, they would probably be prepared to give way to Christian Lebanese soldiers (who oppose the Palestinians), or to U.N. peacekeeping forces, or to a combination of the two. But actually, the Israelis have declared de facto control over a strip of southern Lebanon, and it looks as if they intend to retain some kind of presence. As an Egyptian foreign ministry official...
TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott talked to dozens of Palestinians in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and found not one who disapproved of the terrorist raid that precipitated the Israeli invasion. "Good, good," declared a hotel doorman. "Three times more, that's what we need...
...tell how he will react?" Practically without exception, Israelis approved of the military action. Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who has bitterly criticized Menachem Begin's handling of the peace negotiations in the past, said he thought the government had done the only thing it could in response to the terrorist raid. Another Begin critic, former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, concluded that the invasion took place ''at the right time, in the right place, with the right method." Jerusalem would "try to see to it" that its forces did not long remain in Lebanon, declared Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...