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 | | As a consequence, his allies the Israelis, who had invaded Lebanon and had effected the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the large bulk of its guerrillas from the Western, Muslim area of Beirut under international supervision, invaded the West of the city, in violation of American-arranged agreements. |
 | | But the difference between 1982 and 2002 is that the Palestinians have wounded their enemy; that their struggle is now inside Israel and on Palestinian land that Israel' s governments seem unable to contemplate relinquishing, not a threat over a frontier; that a peaceful solution has been tried, and has failed. |
 | | In 1982, Ariel Sharon waited for an excuse to pursue and vanquish the PLO in its Lebanese fastness, and a fringe Palestinian group gave him his opportunity when it tried to kill the Israeli Ambassador in London in the first days of June, 1982; he took that as a casus belli; now Mr. |
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