> On May 10, 8:35 pm, Cazador yahoo.com> wrote:

>> "Foremost among Israel's objectives in its 1982 invasion of Lebanon
>> was the destruction of the PLO as a political threat to permanent
>> Jewish control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. At the height of
>> Israeli confidence soon after the war began, Chief of Staff Rafael
>> Eitan offered an unabashed confirmation of his intention. 'Our stay in
>> Beirut,' he declared, 'is a part of the struggle over the Land of
>> Israel, a war against the main enemy that has been fighting us over
>> the Land of Israel for one hundred years.'" (Aronson, 1987)

> Any your point is...?