5
Shared Docs
5
Same-Page
5 / 5
Mentions
led all 224 passengers.) Lebanese: 'We convey our cond=lences to [our) brother, the people of Lebanon for the explosion in the De=iyeh district of Beirut." (i.e., double suicide bombing that killed over 4=.) Jordanians: "We do not=forget to convey our condolences to our brothers in Jordan as well, f
t. 16, 2015) &nbs=; This justification of murder by Abbas may also explain why P=0 Executive Committee member Mahmoud Ismail said that the murder of=Eitan and Naama Henkin in front of their four children was fulfilling Pale=tinian "national duty <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001konfUMPfu3hbNWeZ-q=9cPAx
ted plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boosting visits from Beirut — to assassinate him. My immediate superior, the army’s head of operations, was all for our doing it. But the chief of military intelligence said no.
point in shooting back. We didn’t need to fight, and it was clear that the Egyptians didn’t really want to. Shortly before dark, Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan brought our column to halt. The road we were on cut through tall sandunes on either side. We knew there 90 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011561 were still Egypti
te within a state” and deliberately weakening his government. Now, they were doing much the same in Lebanon. Their headquarters buildings in southern Beirut were spawning hiyackings or terror attacks. From bases in southern Lebanon, the Palestinians were also firing Katyusha rockets into Israel. One of t
hem agreed Israel needed a specially trained commando force. But not everyone felt Sayeret Matkal could, or should, take on that role. Rafael “Raful” Eitan was perhaps the most strident. He had fought with the Palmach in 1948. He was an officer in Unit 101 and a commander of the parachutists’ Battalion 8
ted plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boosting visits from Beirut — to assassinate him. My immediate superior, the army’s head of operations, was all for our doing it. But the chief of military intelligence said no.
e point in shooting back. We didn't need to fight, and it was clear that the Egyptians didn't really want to. Shortly before dark, Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan brought our column to halt. The road we were on cut through tall sandunes on either side. We knew there 90 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027938 were still Egyptia
te within a state" and deliberately weakening his government. Now, they were doing much the same in Lebanon. Their headquarters buildings in southern Beirut were spawning hijackings or terror attacks. From bases in southern Lebanon, the Palestinians were also firing Katyusha rockets into Israel. One of th
hem agreed Israel needed a specially trained commando force. But not everyone felt Sayeret Matkal could, or should, take on that role. Rafael "Raful" Eitan was perhaps the most strident. He had fought with the Palmach in 1948. He was an officer in Unit 101 and a commander of the parachutists' Battalion 8
Entities connected to both Beirut and Eitan

Lebanon
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSONLeon Black
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Stephen Hawking
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION