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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (23479)4/4/2002 4:13:05 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
What makes you think the plug is so easily pulled? West Beirut was shelled for two weeks, and that was right at the end of operation "righteous sword" or whatever the '82 deal was called. I remember a story about poor embattled envoy Phillip Habib, on a 3-way call from Beirut to Washington and Jerusalem. Dialog something like this:

Habib: Stop the shelling.

Jerusalem: We're not shelling.

Habib sticks phone out the window.

I doubt W remembers much about that deal. I'm sure Sharon remembers it all very well.
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