The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

DOCUMENT Letter from Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar to the UN Secretary-General APRIL4, 2006 His Excellency Mr. Kofi ...

Mr. Secretary-General, Israel, the occupying power, still continues to move forward with its illegal settle- ment policies, seiz ...

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CHAPTER 4 Lebanon and Syria CHAPTER 4 DOCUMENTS Overview 327 Part I: Civil War and Foreign Intervention, 1975–1990 Lebanese Civi ...

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CHAPTER 4 Overview O f the countries in the Middle East, Lebanon is one of the smallest, weakest, and arguably the most fraught ...

power, matching their dominance of the economy. Under the agreement, Lebanon’s president would be a Christian, the prime ministe ...

vasive than that of Israel. Damascus sent its army into Lebanon in 1976 to help quell the violence. Later that year, Syria’s pre ...

Israeli missiles and bombs killed at least 200 Hizballah fighters and destroyed numer- ous Hizballah military positions, but the ...

Lebanese Civil War DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Two developments in the late 1960s set in motion a series of events that led to the unrav ...

Apparently fearing that Israel would invade Lebanon to prevent a takeover of the country by Muslim groups aligned with the PLO, ...

A ceasefire and an end to all hostilities throughout Lebanese territory and by all parties in a final manner, as from 6:00 a.m. ...

b) The media are to be directed towards the consolidation of the cease-fire, the establishment of peace and the propagation of a ...

headed by Abu Nidal. The declared intent of the invasion—Operation Peace for the Galilee, launched on June 6—was to establish in ...

Lebanon Army. Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon would last for nearly eigh- teen years, until 2000 (Israeli Withdrawal fro ...

Its members likely were responsible for the October 1983 bombings that drove U.S. and French peacekeepers from Lebanon. During t ...

gets in the Galilee. What a characteristic phenomenon, they are protected, completely immune to these terrorists. Only at the ci ...

Mr. Speaker, from time to time our nation has an encounter with history. And so, our soldiers are now in Tyre. We recall Ezekiel ...

near-impossibility of achieving that goal in the immediate future, Reagan said the inter- national troops would begin by deployi ...

DOCUMENT Reagan on the Multinational Force for Lebanon SEPTEMBER20, 1982 My fellow Americans: The scenes that the whole world wi ...